Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 40:1 | And after these things, the butler of the King of Egypt and his baker offended their lorde the King of Egypt. |
| 40:2 | And Pharaoh was angrie against his two officers, against the chiefe butler, and against the chiefe baker. |
| 40:3 | Therefore he put them in ward in his chiefe stewardes house, in the prison and place where Ioseph was bound. |
| 40:4 | And the chiefe steward gaue Ioseph charge ouer them, and he serued them: and they continued a season in warde. |
| 40:5 | And they both dreamed a dreame, eyther of them his dreame in one night, eche one according to the interpretation of his dreame, both the butler and the baker of the King of Egypt, which were bounde in the prison. |
| 40:6 | And when Ioseph came in vnto them in the morning, and looked vpon them, beholde, they were sad. |
| 40:7 | And he asked Pharaohs officers, that were with him in his masters warde, saying, Wherefore looke ye so sadly to day? |
| 40:8 | Who answered him, We haue dreamed, eche one a dreame, and there is none to interprete the same. Then Ioseph saide vnto them, Are not interpretations of God? tell them me nowe. |
| 40:9 | So the chiefe butler tolde his dreame to Ioseph, and said vnto him, In my dreame, behold, a vine was before me, |
| 40:10 | And in the vine were three branches, and as it budded, her flowre came foorth: and the clusters of grapes waxed ripe. |
| 40:11 | And I had Pharaohs cup in mine hande, and I tooke the grapes, and wrung the into Pharaohs cup, and I gaue the cup into Pharaohs hand. |
| 40:12 | Then Ioseph sayde vnto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three braunches are three dayes. |
| 40:13 | Within three dayes shall Pharaoh lift vp thine head, and restore thee vnto thine office, and thou shalt giue Pharaohs cup into his hand after the olde maner, when thou wast his butler. |
| 40:14 | But haue me in remembrance with thee, when thou art in good case, and shew mercie, I pray thee, vnto me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring me out of this house. |
| 40:15 | For I was stollen away by theft out of the land of the Ebrewes, and here also haue I done nothing, wherefore they should put mee in the dungeon. |
| 40:16 | And when the chiefe baker sawe that the interpretation was good, hee saide vnto Ioseph, Also mee thought in my dreame that I had three white baskets on mine head. |
| 40:17 | And in the vppermost basket there was of all maner baken meates for Pharaoh: and the birdes did eate them out of the basket vpon mine head. |
| 40:18 | Then Ioseph answered, and saide, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three dayes: |
| 40:19 | Within three dayes shall Pharaoh take thine head from thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birdes shall eate thy flesh from off thee. |
| 40:20 | And so the third day, which was Pharaohs birthday, hee made a feast vnto all his seruants: and hee lifted vp the head of the chiefe butler, and the head of the chiefe baker among his seruants. |
| 40:21 | And he restored the chiefe butler vnto his butlershippe, who gaue the cup into Pharaohs hande, |
| 40:22 | But he hanged the chiefe baker, as Ioseph had interpreted vnto them. |
| 40:23 | Yet the chiefe butler did not remember Ioseph, but forgate him. |
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
The Geneva Bible is one of the most influential and historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the King James translation by 51 years. It was the primary Bible of 16th century Protestantism and was the Bible used by William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Knox, John Donne, and John Bunyan. The language of the Geneva Bible was more forceful and vigorous and because of this, most readers strongly preferred this version at the time.
The Geneva Bible was produced by a group of English scholars who, fleeing from the reign of Queen Mary, had found refuge in Switzerland. During the reign of Queen Mary, no Bibles were printed in England, the English Bible was no longer used in churches and English Bibles already in churches were removed and burned. Mary was determined to return Britain to Roman Catholicism.
The first English Protestant to die during Mary's turbulent reign was John Rogers in 1555, who had been the editor of the Matthews Bible. At this time, hundreds of Protestants left England and headed for Geneva, a city which under the leadership of Calvin, had become the intellectual and spiritual capital of European Protestants.
One of these exiles was William Whittingham, a fellow of Christ Church at Oxford University, who had been a diplomat, a courtier, was much traveled and skilled in many languages including Greek and Hebrew. He eventually succeeded John Knox as the minister of the English congregation in Geneva. Whittingham went on to publish the 1560 Geneva Bible.
This version is significant because, it came with a variety of scriptural study guides and aids, which included verse citations that allow the reader to cross-reference one verse with numerous relevant verses in the rest of the Bible, introductions to each book of the Bible that acted to summarize all of the material that each book would cover, maps, tables, woodcut illustrations, indices, as well as other included features, all of which would eventually lead to the reputation of the Geneva Bible as history's very first study Bible.