Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 20:1 | Then God spake all these wordes, saying, |
| 20:2 | I am the Lord thy God, which haue brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. |
| 20:3 | Thou shalt haue none other Gods before me. |
| 20:4 | Thou shalt make thee no grauen image, neither any similitude of things that are in heauen aboue, neither that are in the earth beneath, nor that are in the waters vnder the earth. |
| 20:5 | Thou shalt not bowe downe to them, neither serue them: for I am the Lord thy God, a ielous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vpon the third generation and vpon the fourth of them that hate me: |
| 20:6 | And shewing mercie vnto thousandes to them that loue me, and keepe my commandemets. |
| 20:7 | Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine: for the Lord will not hold him guiltles that taketh his Name in vayne. |
| 20:8 | Remember the Sabbath day, to keepe it holy. |
| 20:9 | Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke, |
| 20:10 | But the seuenth day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any worke, thou, nor thy sonne, nor thy daughter, thy man seruant, nor thy mayde, nor thy beast, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. |
| 20:11 | For in sixe dayes the Lord made the heauen and the earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seuenth day: therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. |
| 20:12 | Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy dayes may be prolonged vpon the land, which the Lord thy God giueth thee. |
| 20:13 | Thou shalt not kill. |
| 20:14 | Thou shalt not commit adulterie. |
| 20:15 | Thou shalt not steale. |
| 20:16 | Thou shalt not beare false witnes against thy neighbour. |
| 20:17 | Thou shalt not couet thy neighbours house, neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, nor his man seruant, nor his mayde, nor his oxe, nor his asse, neyther any thing that is thy neighbours. |
| 20:18 | And all the people sawe the thunders, and the lightnings, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountaine smoking and when the people saw it they fled and stoode afare off, |
| 20:19 | And sayde vnto Moses, Talke thou with vs, and we will heare: but let not God talke with vs, lest we die. |
| 20:20 | Then Moses sayde vnto the people, Feare not: for God is come to proue you, and that his feare may be before you, that ye sinne not. |
| 20:21 | So the people stoode afarre off, but Moses drew neere vnto the darkenes where God was. |
| 20:22 | And the Lord sayde vnto Moses, Thus thou shalt say vnto the children of Israel, Ye haue seene that I haue talked with you from heauen. |
| 20:23 | Ye shall not make therefore with me gods of siluer, nor gods of golde: you shall make you none. |
| 20:24 | An altar of earth thou shalt make vnto me, and thereon shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheepe, and thine oxen: in all places, where I shall put the remembrance of my Name, I will come vnto thee, and blesse thee. |
| 20:25 | But if thou wilt make mee an altar of stone, thou shalt not buylde it of hewen stones: for if thou lift vp thy toole vpon them, thou hast polluted them. |
| 20:26 | Neither shalt thou goe vp by steppes vnto mine altar, that thy filthines be not discouered thereon. |
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.