Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 7:1 | And the sonnes of Issachar were Tola and Puah, Iashub, and Shimron, foure, |
| 7:2 | And the sonnes of Tola, Vzzi, and Rephaiah, and Ieriel, and Iahmai, and Iibsam, and Shemuel, heads in the housholdes of their fathers. Of Tola were valiant men of warre in their generations, whose nomber was in the dayes of Dauid two and twentie thousand, and sixe hundreth. |
| 7:3 | And the sonne of Vzzi was Izrahaiah, and the sonnes of Izrahaiah, Michael, and Obadiah, and Ioel, and Isshiah, fiue men all princes. |
| 7:4 | And with them in their generations after the houshold of their fathers were bandes of men of warre for battel, sixe and thirtie thousand: for they had many wiues and children. |
| 7:5 | And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of warre, rekoned in all by their genealogies foure score and seuen thousand. |
| 7:6 | The sonnes of Beniamin were Bela, and Becher, and Iediael, three. |
| 7:7 | And the sonnes of Bela, Ezbon, and Vzzi, and Vzziel, and Ierimoth, and Iri, fiue heads of the housholds of their fathers, valiant men of warre, and were rekoned by their genealogies, two and twentie thousand and thirtie and foure. |
| 7:8 | And the sonnes of Becher, Zemirah, and Ioash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Ierimoth, and Abiah, and Anathoth, and Alameth: all these were the sonnes of Becher. |
| 7:9 | And they were nombred by their genealogies according to their generations, and the chiefe of the houses of their fathers, valiant men of warre, twenty thousand and two hundreth. |
| 7:10 | And the sonne of Iediael was Bilhan, and the sonnes of Bilhan, Ieush, and Beniamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar. |
| 7:11 | All these were the sonnes of Iediael, chiefe of the fathers, valiant men of warre, seuenteene thousand and two hundreth, marching in battel aray to the warre. |
| 7:12 | And Shuppim, and Huppim were ye sonnes of Ir, but Hushim was the sonne of another. |
| 7:13 | The sonnes of Naphtali, Iahziel, and Guni, and Iezer, and Shallum of the sonnes of Bilhah. |
| 7:14 | The sonne of Manasseh was Ashriel whom she bare vnto him, but his concubine of Aram bare Machir the father of Gilead. |
| 7:15 | And Machir tooke to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, and the name of their sister was Maachah. And the name of the second sonne was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters. |
| 7:16 | And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a sonne, and called his name Peresh, and the name of his brother was Sheresh: and his sonnes were Vlam and Rakem. |
| 7:17 | And the sonne of Vlam was Bedan. These were the sonnes of Gilead the sonne of Machir, the sonne of Manasseh. |
| 7:18 | And his sister Molecheth bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah. |
| 7:19 | And the sonnes of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam. |
| 7:20 | The sonnes also of Ephraim were Shuthelah, and Bered his sonne, and Tahath his sonne, and his sonne Eladah, and Tahath his sonne, |
| 7:21 | And Zabad his sonne, and Shuthelah his sonne, and Ezer, and Elead: and the men of Gath that were borne in the land, slewe them, because they came downe to take away their cattel. |
| 7:22 | Therefore Ephraim their father mourned many dayes, and his brethren came to comfort him. |
| 7:23 | And when he went in to his wife, she conceiued, and bare him a sonne, and he called his name Beriah, because affliction was in his house. |
| 7:24 | And his daughter was Sherah, which built Beth-horon the nether, and the vpper, and Vzzen Sheerah. |
| 7:25 | And Rephah was his sonne, and Resheph, and Telah his sonne, and Tahan his sonne, |
| 7:26 | Laadan his sonne, Ammihud his sonne, Elishama his sonne, |
| 7:27 | Non his sonne, Iehoshua his sonne. |
| 7:28 | And their possessions and their habitations were Beth-el, and the villages thereof, and Eastward Naaran, and Westwarde Gezer with the villages thereof, Shechem also and the villages thereof, vnto Azzah, and the villages thereof, |
| 7:29 | And by the places of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and her villages, Taanach and her villages, Megiddo and her villages, Dor and her villages. In those dwelt the children of Ioseph the sonne of Israel. |
| 7:30 | The sonnes of Asher were Imnah, and Isuah, and Ishuai, and Beriah, and Serah their sister. |
| 7:31 | And the sonnes of Beriah, Heber, and Malchiel, which is the father of Birzauith. |
| 7:32 | And Heber begate Iaphlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shuah their sister. |
| 7:33 | And the sonnes of Iaphlet were Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashuath: these were the children of Iaphlet. |
| 7:34 | And the sonnes of Shamer, Ahi, and Rohgah, Iehubbah, and Aram. |
| 7:35 | And the sonnes of his brother Helem were Zophah, and Iimna, and Shelesh and Amal. |
| 7:36 | The sonnes of Zophah, Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, |
| 7:37 | Bezer and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. |
| 7:38 | And the sonnes of Iether, Iephunneh, and Pispa and Ara. |
| 7:39 | And the sonnes of Vlla, Harah, and Haniel, and Rizia. |
| 7:40 | All these were the children of Asher, the heads of their fathers houses, noble men, valiant men of warre and chiefe princes, and they were rekoned by their genealogies for warre and for battell to the nomber of sixe and twentie thousand men. |
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.