Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 22:1 | If a man steale an oxe or a sheepe, and kill it or sell it, he shall restore fiue oxen for the oxe, and foure sheepe for the sheepe. |
| 22:2 | If a thiefe bee founde breaking vp, and be smitten that he dye, no blood shall be shed for him. |
| 22:3 | But if it be in the day light, blood shall be shed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he had not wherewith, then shoulde he bee solde for his theft. |
| 22:4 | If the theft bee founde with him, aliue, (whether it be oxe, asse, or sheepe) he shall restore the double. |
| 22:5 | If a man doe hurt fielde, or vineyarde, and put in his beast to feed in an other mans fielde, he shall recompence of the best of his owne fielde, and of the best of his owne vineyard. |
| 22:6 | If fire breake out, and catche in ye thornes, and the stackes of corne, or the standing corne, or the fielde be consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution. |
| 22:7 | If a man deliuer his neighbour money or stuffe to keepe, and it be stollen out of his house, if the thiefe be found, he shall pay the double. |
| 22:8 | If the thiefe be not founde, then the master of the house shalbe brought vnto the Iudges to sweare, whether he hath put his hande vnto his neighbours good, or no. |
| 22:9 | In all maner of trespasse, whether it bee for oxen, for asse, for sheepe, for raiment, or for any maner of lost thing, which an other chalengeth to be his, the cause of both parties shall come before the iudges, and whom the Iudges condemne, he shall pay the double vnto his neighbour. |
| 22:10 | If a man deliuer vnto his neighbour to keepe asse, or oxe, or sheepe, or any beast, and it die, or be hurt, or taken away by enemies, and no man see it, |
| 22:11 | An othe of the Lord shalbe betweene the twaine, that hee hath not put his hande vnto his neighbours good, and the owner of it shall take the othe, and he shall not make it good: |
| 22:12 | But if it be stollen from him, he shall make restitution vnto the owner thereof. |
| 22:13 | If it be torne in pieces, he shall bring recorde, and shall not make that good, which is deuoured. |
| 22:14 | And if a man borow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or els die, the owner thereof not being by, he shall surely make it good. |
| 22:15 | If the owner thereof bee by, hee shall not make it good: for if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire. |
| 22:16 | And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, hee shall endowe her, and take her to his wife. |
| 22:17 | If her father refuse to giue her to him, hee shall pay money, according to ye dowry of virgins. |
| 22:18 | Thou shalt not suffer a witch to liue. |
| 22:19 | Whosoeuer lieth with a beast, shall dye the death. |
| 22:20 | Hee that offereth vnto any gods, saue vnto the Lord onely, shalbe slaine. |
| 22:21 | Moreouer, thou shalt not do iniurie to a stranger, neither oppresse him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. |
| 22:22 | Ye shall not trouble any widowe, nor fatherlesse childe. |
| 22:23 | If thou vexe or trouble such, and so he call and cry vnto me, I will surely heare his cry. |
| 22:24 | Then shall my wrath be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wiues shall be widowes, and your children fatherlesse. |
| 22:25 | If thou lende money to my people, that is, to the poore with thee, thou shalt not bee as an vsurer vnto him: yee shall not oppresse him with vsurie. |
| 22:26 | If thou take thy neighbours rayment to pledge, thou shalt restore it vnto him before the sunne go downe: |
| 22:27 | For that is his couering only, and this is his garment for his skin: wherin shall he sleepe? therefore when he crieth vnto mee, I will heare him: for I am mercifull. |
| 22:28 | Thou shalt not raile vpon the Iudges, neither speake euil of the ruler of thy people. |
| 22:29 | Thine abundance and thy licour shalt thou not keepe backe. The first borne of thy sonnes shalt thou giue me. |
| 22:30 | Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen and with thy sheepe: seuen dayes it shall bee with his damme, and the eight day thou shalt giue it me. |
| 22:31 | Ye shall be an holy people vnto me, neither shall ye eate any flesh that is torne of beastes in the fielde: ye shall cast it to the dogge. |
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.