14) Geneva Breeches Bible 1599

Description

It is called the Breeches Bible because its wording of Genesis 3:7 reads, “Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves breeches” (instead of the usual translation as aprons).

The Geneva Bible was the first Bible in English to add numbered verses. It was also one of the first to include extensive commentary notes, which were later deemed “seditious” by King James when he banned the Geneva Bible in 1611

The Geneva Bible was at the foundation of the American Colonies. It was the Bible used in Jamestown and the preferred Bible of the early Pilgrim settlers of New England. The Geneva Bible was the Bible of the leading English writers John Bunyan, William Shakespeare, and John Milton.