Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 2:1 | These are the sonnes of Israel, Reuben, Simeon, Leui and Iudah, Isshachar, and Zebulun, |
| 2:2 | Dan, Ioseph, and Beniamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. |
| 2:3 | The sonnes of Iudah, Er, and Onan, and Shelah. these three were borne to him of ye daughter of Shua the Canaanite: but Er the eldest sonne of Iudah was euil in the sight of the Lord, and he slew him. |
| 2:4 | And Thamar his daughter in law bare him Pharez, and Zerah: so al the sonnes of Iudah were fiue. |
| 2:5 | The sonnes of Pharez, Hezron and Hamul. |
| 2:6 | The sonnes also of Zerah were Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara, which were fiue in all. |
| 2:7 | And the sonne of Carmi, Achar that troubled Israel, transgressing in the thing excommunicate. |
| 2:8 | The sonne also of Ethan, Azariah. |
| 2:9 | And the sonnes of Hezron that were borne vnto him, Ierahmeel, and Ram and Chelubai. |
| 2:10 | And Ram begate Aminadab, and Aminadab begate Nahshon prince of the children of Iudah, |
| 2:11 | And Nahshon begate Salma, and Salma begate Boaz, |
| 2:12 | And Boaz begate Obed, and Obed begate Ishai, |
| 2:13 | And Ishai begate his eldest sonne Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third, |
| 2:14 | Nathaneel the fourth, Raddai the fift, |
| 2:15 | Ozem the sixt, and Dauid the seuenth. |
| 2:16 | Whose sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sonnes of Zeruiah, Abishai, and Ioab, and Asahel. |
| 2:17 | And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Iether an Ishmeelite. |
| 2:18 | And Caleb the sonne of Hezron begate Ierioth of Azubah his wife, and her sonnes are these, Iesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. |
| 2:19 | And when Azubah was dead, Caleb tooke vnto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur. |
| 2:20 | And Hur begate Vri, and Vri begate Bezaleel. |
| 2:21 | And afterward came Hezron to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, and tooke her when hee was threescore yere olde, and shee bare him Segub. |
| 2:22 | And Segub begate Iair, which had three and twentie cities in the land of Gilead. |
| 2:23 | And Gesthur with Aram tooke the townes of Iair from them, and Kenath and the townes thereof, euen threescore cities. All these were the sonnes of Machir the father of Gilead. |
| 2:24 | And after that Hezron was dead at Caleb Ephratah, then Abiah Hezrons wife bare him also Ashur the father of Tekoa. |
| 2:25 | And ye sonnes of Ierahmeel the eldest sone of Hezron were Ram the eldest, then Bunah, and Oren and Ozen and Ahiiah. |
| 2:26 | Also Ierahmeel had another wife named Atarah, which was the mother of Onam. |
| 2:27 | And the sonnes of Ram the eldest sonne of Ierahmeel were Maaz, and Iamin and Ekar. |
| 2:28 | And the sonnes of Onam were Shammai and Iada. And the sonnes of Shammai, Nadab and Abishur. |
| 2:29 | And the name of the wife of Abishur was called Abiahil, and shee bare him Ahban and Molid. |
| 2:30 | The sonnes also of Nadab were Seled and Appaim: but Seled died without children. |
| 2:31 | And the sonne of Appaim was Ishi, and the sonne of Ishi, Sheshan, and the sonne of Sheshan, Ahlai. |
| 2:32 | And the sonnes of Iada the brother of Shammai were Iether and Ionathan: but Iether dyed without children. |
| 2:33 | And the sonnes of Ionathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the sonnes of Ierahmeel. |
| 2:34 | And Sheshan had no sonnes, but daughters. And Sheshan had a seruant that was an Egyptian named Iarha. |
| 2:35 | And Sheshan gaue his daughter to Iarha his seruant to wife, and she bare him Attai. |
| 2:36 | And Attai begate Nathan, and Nathan begate Zabad, |
| 2:37 | And Zabad begate Ephlal, and Ephlal begate Obed, |
| 2:38 | And Obed begate Iehu, and Iehu begate Azariah, |
| 2:39 | And Azariah begate Helez, and Helez begate Eleasah, |
| 2:40 | And Eleasah begate Sisamai, and Sisamai begate Shallum, |
| 2:41 | And Shallum begate Iekamiah, and Iekamiah begate Elishama. |
| 2:42 | Also the sonnes of Caleb the brother of Ierahmeel, were Mesha his eldest sonne, which was the father of Ziph: and the sonnes of Mareshah the father of Hebron. |
| 2:43 | And the sonnes of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah, and Rekem and Shema. |
| 2:44 | And Shema begate Raham the father of Iorkoam: and Rekem begate Shammai. |
| 2:45 | The sonne also of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Beth-zur. |
| 2:46 | And Ephah a concubine of Caleb bare Haran and Moza, and Gazez: Haran also begate Gazez. |
| 2:47 | The sonnes of Iahdai were Regem, and Iotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph. |
| 2:48 | Calebs concubine Maachah bare Sheber and Tirhanah. |
| 2:49 | She bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheua the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea. And Achsah was Calebs daughter. |
| 2:50 | These were the sonnes of Caleb the sone of Hur the eldest sonne of Ephrathah, Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim. |
| 2:51 | Salma the father of Beth-lehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader. |
| 2:52 | And Shobal the father of Kiriath-iearim had sonnes, and he was the ouerseer of halfe Hammenoth. |
| 2:53 | And the families of Kiriath-iearim were the Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and ye Mishraites of them came the Zarreathites, and the Eshtaulites. |
| 2:54 | The sonnes of Salma of Beth-lehem, and the Netophathite, the crownes of the house of Ioab, and halfe the Manahthites and the Zorites. |
| 2:55 | And the families of the Scribes dwelling at Iabez, the Tirathites, the Shimmeathites, the Shuchathites, which are the Kenites, that came of Hammath the father of the house of Rechab. |
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.