Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 25:1 | Then the Lord spake vnto Moses, saying, |
| 25:2 | Speake vnto the children of Israel, that they receiue an offring for me: of euery man, whose heart giueth it freely, ye shall take the offring for me. |
| 25:3 | And this is the offring which ye shall take of them, golde, and siluer, and brasse, |
| 25:4 | And blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine linnen, and goates heare, |
| 25:5 | And rammes skinnes coloured red, and the skinnes of badgers, and the wood Shittim, |
| 25:6 | Oyle for the light, spices for anoynting oyle, and for the perfume of sweete sauour, |
| 25:7 | Onix stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brest plate. |
| 25:8 | Also they shall make me a Sanctuarie, that I may dwell among them. |
| 25:9 | According to all that I shewe thee, euen so shall ye make the forme of the Tabernacle, and the facion of all the instruments thereof. |
| 25:10 | They shall make also an Arke of Shittim wood, two cubites and an halfe long, and a cubite and an halfe broade, and a cubite and an halfe hie. |
| 25:11 | And thou shalt ouerlay it with pure golde: within and without shalt thou ouerlay it, and shalt make vpon it a crowne of golde rounde about. |
| 25:12 | And thou shalt cast foure rings of golde for it, and put them in the foure corners thereof: that is, two rings shalbe on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side thereof. |
| 25:13 | And thou shalt make barres of Shittim wood, and couer them with golde. |
| 25:14 | Then thou shalt put the barres in the rings by the sides of the Arke, to beare the Arke with them. |
| 25:15 | The barres shalbe in the rings of the Arke: they shall not be taken away from it. |
| 25:16 | So thou shalt put in the Arke the Testimonie which I shall giue thee. |
| 25:17 | Also thou shalt make a Mercie seate of pure golde, two cubites and an halfe long, and a cubite and an halfe broade. |
| 25:18 | And thou shalt make two Cherubims of golde: of worke beaten out with the hammer shalt thou make the at ye two endes of the Merciseate. |
| 25:19 | And the one Cherub shalt thou make at the one ende, and the other Cherub at the other ende: of the matter of the Mercieseate shall ye make the Cherubims, on the two endes thereof. |
| 25:20 | And the Cherubims shall stretche their winges on hie, couering the Mercie seate with their winges, and their faces one to another: to the Mercie seate warde shall the faces of the Cherubims be. |
| 25:21 | And thou shalt put the Mercieseate aboue vpon the Arke, and in the Arke thou shalt put the Testimonie, which I will giue thee, |
| 25:22 | And there I will declare my selfe vnto thee, and from aboue ye Mercieseate betweene ye two Cherubims, which are vpon ye Arke of ye Testimonie, I wil tel thee al things which I wil giue thee in comandement vnto ye children of Israel. |
| 25:23 | Thou shalt also make a Table of Shittim wood, of two cubites long, and one cubite broade, and a cubite and an halfe hie: |
| 25:24 | And thou shalt couer it with pure gold, and make thereto a crowne of golde round about. |
| 25:25 | Thou shalt also make vnto it a border of foure fingers roud about and thou shalt make a golden crowne round about the border thereof. |
| 25:26 | After, thou shalt make for it foure ringes of golde, and shalt put the rings in the foure corners that are in the foure feete thereof: |
| 25:27 | Ouer against the border shall the rings be for places for barres, to beare the Table. |
| 25:28 | And thou shalt make the barres of Shittim wood, and shalt ouerlay them with golde, that the Table may be borne with them. |
| 25:29 | Thou shalt make also dishes for it, and incense cuppes for it, and couerings for it, and goblets, wherewith it shall be couered, euen of fine golde shalt thou make them. |
| 25:30 | And thou shalt set vpon the Table shewe bread before me continually. |
| 25:31 | Also thou shalt make a Candlesticke of pure golde: of worke beaten out with the hammer shall the Candlesticke be made, his shaft, and his branches, his boules, his knops: and his floures shalbe of the same. |
| 25:32 | Six braunches also shall come out of the sides of it: three branches of the Candlesticke out of the one side of it, and three branches of the Candlesticke out of the other side of it. |
| 25:33 | Three boules like vnto almondes, one knop and one floure in one braunch: and three boules like almondes in the other branch, one knop and one floure: so throughout the sixe branches that come out of the Candlesticke. |
| 25:34 | And in the shaft of the Candlesticke shalbe foure boules like vnto almondes, his knops and his floures. |
| 25:35 | And there shalbe a knop vnder two branches made thereof: and a knop vnder two branches made thereof: and a knop vnder two branches made thereof, according to the sixe branches comming out of the Candlesticke. |
| 25:36 | Their knops and their branches shall bee thereof. all this shalbe one beaten worke of pure golde. |
| 25:37 | And thou shalt make the seuen lampes thereof: and the lampes thereof shalt thou put thereon, to giue light toward that that is before it. |
| 25:38 | Also the snuffers and snuffedishes thereof shalbe of pure golde. |
| 25:39 | Of a talent of fine gold shalt thou make it with all these instruments. |
| 25:40 | Looke therefore that thou make them after their facion, that was shewed thee in the mountaine. |
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.