Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 24:1 | These are also the diuisions of the sonnes of Aaron: The sonnes of Aaron were Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. |
| 24:2 | But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the Priestes office. |
| 24:3 | And Dauid distributed them, euen Zadok of the sonnes of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sonnes of Ithamar according to their offices in their ministration. |
| 24:4 | And there were found more of the sonnes of Eleazar by the number of men, then of the sonnes of Ithamar. and they deuided them, to wit, among the sonnes of Eleazar, sixteene heads, according to the houshould of their fathers, and among ye sonnes of Ithamar, according to the housholde of their fathers, eight. |
| 24:5 | Thus they distributed them by lot the one from the other, and so the rulers of the Sanctuarie and the rulers of the house of God were of the sonnes of Eleazar and of the sonnes of Ithamar. |
| 24:6 | And Shemaiah the sonne of Nethaneel the scribe of the Leuites, wrote them before ye King and the princes, and Zadok the Priest, and Ahimelech the sonne of Abiathar, and before ye chiefe fathers of the Priests and of the Leuites, one familie being reserued for Eleazar, and another reserued for Ithamar. |
| 24:7 | And the first lot fell to Iehoiarib, and the second to Iedaiah, |
| 24:8 | The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, |
| 24:9 | The fifth to Malchiiah, the sixt to Miiamin, |
| 24:10 | The seuenth to Hakkoz, the eight to Abiiah, |
| 24:11 | The ninth to Ieshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, |
| 24:12 | The eleuenth to Eliashib, the twelft to Iakim, |
| 24:13 | The thirteenth to Huppa, the fouretenth to Ieshebeab, |
| 24:14 | The fiftenth to Bilgah, the sixtenth to Immer, |
| 24:15 | The seuententh to Hezir, the eightenth to Happizzer, |
| 24:16 | The ninetenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Iehezekel, |
| 24:17 | The one and twentie to Iachin, the two and twentie to Gamul, |
| 24:18 | The three and twentie to Deliah, the foure and twentie to Maaziah. |
| 24:19 | These were their orders according to their offices, when they entred into the house of the Lord according to their custome vnder the hande of Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him. |
| 24:20 | And of the sonnes of Leui that remained of the sonnes of Amram, was Shubael, of the sonnes of Shubael, Iedeiah, |
| 24:21 | Of Rehabiah. euen of the sonnes of Rehabiah, the first Isshiiah, |
| 24:22 | Of Izhari, Shelomoth, of the sonnes of Shelomoth, Iahath, |
| 24:23 | And his sonnes Ieriah the first, Amariah the second, Iahaziel the thirde, and Iekameam the fourth, |
| 24:24 | The sonne of Vzziel was Michah, ye sonne of Michah was Shamir, |
| 24:25 | The brother of Michah was Isshiiah, the sonne of Isshiiah, Zechariah, |
| 24:26 | The sonnes of Merari, were Mahli and Mushi, the sonne of Iaaziiah was Beno, |
| 24:27 | The sonnes of Merari of Iahaziah were Beno, and Shoham, and Zaccur and Ibri. |
| 24:28 | Of Mahli came Eleazar, which had no sonnes. |
| 24:29 | Of Kish. the sonne of Kish was Ierahmeel, |
| 24:30 | And the sonnes of Mushi were Mahli, and Eder, and Ierimoth: these were sonnes of the Leuites after the houshold of their fathers. |
| 24:31 | And these also cast lots with their brethren the sonnes of Aaron before King Dauid, and Zadok and Ahimelech and the chiefe fathers of the Priests, and of the Leuites, euen the chiefe of the families against their yonger brethren. |
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.