1599 Geneva Bible

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When the Pilgrims arrived in the New World in 1620, they brought along supplies, a consuming passion to advance the Kingdom of Christ, and the Word of God. Clearly, their most precious cargo used to be the Biblespecifically, the 1599 Geneva Bible. All but forgotten in our day, this version of the Bible used to be the most widely read and influential English Bible of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A superb translation, it used to be the product of the most productive Protestant scholars of the day and transform the Bible of choice for the various greatest writers and thinkers of that time. Men such as William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, and John Milton used the Geneva Bible in their writings. William Bradford also cited the Geneva Bible in his famous book Of Plymouth Plantation.The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles. It used to be the first Bible to make use of chapters and numbered verses and became the most well liked version of its time as a result of the extensive marginal notes. These notes, written by Reformation leaders such as John Calvin, John Knox, Miles Coverdale, William Whittingham, Anthony Gilby, and others, were included to provide an explanation for and interpret the Scriptures for the common people. Word-for-word accuracy of the 1599 Geneva translation, Brand new spelling, Easy-to-read print, Middle English Glossary, Original cross references, Thousands of original study notes by the Reformers, Includes articles by Gary DeMar and Dr. Marshall Foster at the history of the Geneva Bible,

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