Textus Receptus Bibles
Geneva Bible 1560/1599
| 35:1 | Then Moses assembled all the Congregation of the children of Israel, and sayd vnto them, These are the wordes which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them: |
| 35:2 | Six dayes thou shalt work, but the seuenth day shall bee vnto you the holy Sabbath of rest vnto the Lord: whosoeuer doth any worke therein, shall die. |
| 35:3 | Ye shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations vpon the Sabbath day. |
| 35:4 | Againe, Moses spake vnto all the Congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, saying, |
| 35:5 | Take from among you an offering vnto the Lord: whosoeuer is of a willing heart, let him bring this offring to the Lord, namely golde, and siluer, and brasse: |
| 35:6 | Also blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine linen, and goates heare, |
| 35:7 | And rams skins died red, and badgers skins with Shittim wood: |
| 35:8 | Also oyle for light, and spices for the anointing oyle, and for the sweete incense, |
| 35:9 | And onix stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brest plate. |
| 35:10 | And all the wise hearted among you, shall come and make all that the Lord hath commanded: |
| 35:11 | That is, the Tabernacle, that pauilion thereof, and his couering, and his taches and his boards, his barres, his pillars and his sockets, |
| 35:12 | The Arke, and the barres thereof ye Merci-seate, and the vaile that couereth it, |
| 35:13 | The Table, and the barres of it, and all the instruments thereof, and the shewe bread: |
| 35:14 | Also the Candlesticke of light and his instruments, and his lampes with the oyle for the light: |
| 35:15 | Likewise the Altar of perfume and his barres, and the anoynting oyle, and the sweete incense, and the vaile of the doore at the entring in of the Tabernacle, |
| 35:16 | The Altar of burnt offering with his brasen grate, his barres and all his instruments, the Lauer and his foote, |
| 35:17 | The hangings of the court, his pillars and his sockets, and the vaile of the gate of the court, |
| 35:18 | The pinnes of the Tabernacle, and the pinnes of the court with their cordes, |
| 35:19 | The ministring garments to minister in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the Priest, and the garmentes of his sonnes, that they may minister in the Priests office. |
| 35:20 | Then all the Congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses. |
| 35:21 | And euery one, whose heart encouraged him, and euery one, whose spirit made him willing, came and brought an offring to the Lord, for the worke of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and for all his vses, and for the holy garments. |
| 35:22 | Both men and women, as many as were free hearted, came and brought taches and earings, and rings, and bracelets, all were iewels of golde: and euery one that offered an offring of gold vnto the Lord: |
| 35:23 | Euery man also, which had blewe silke, and purple, and skarlet, and fine linen, and goates heare, and rammes skinnes died red, and badgers skins, brought them. |
| 35:24 | All that offered an oblation of siluer and of brasse, brought the offring vnto the Lord: and euery one, that had Shittim wood for any maner worke of the ministration, brought it. |
| 35:25 | And all the women that were wise hearted, did spin with their hands, and brought ye spun worke, euen the blewe silke, and the purple, the skarlet, and the fine linen. |
| 35:26 | Likewise al the women, whose hearts were moued with knowledge, spun goates heare. |
| 35:27 | And ye rulers brought onix stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brest plate: |
| 35:28 | Also spice, and oyle for light, and for the anoynting oyle, and for the sweete perfume. |
| 35:29 | Euery man and woman of the children of Israel, whose hearts moued the willingly to bring for all the worke which the Lord had commanded the to make by the hand of Moses, brought a free offring to the Lord. |
| 35:30 | Then Moses sayde vnto the children of Israel, Beholde, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the sonne of Vri, the sonne of Hur of the tribe of Iudah, |
| 35:31 | And hath filled him with an excellent spirit of wisdome, of vnderstanding, and of knowledge, and in all maner worke, |
| 35:32 | To finde out curious workes, to worke in golde, and in siluer, and in brasse, |
| 35:33 | And in grauing stones to set them, and in karuing of wood, euen to make any maner of fine worke. |
| 35:34 | And he hath put in his heart that hee may teach other: both hee, and Aholiab the sonne of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan: |
| 35:35 | Them hath he filled with wisdome of heart to worke all maner of cunning and broidred, and needle worke: in blewe silke, and in purple, in skarlet, and in fine linnen and weauing, euen to do all maner of worke and subtill inuentions. |
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.