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Published in 1560, the Geneva Bible is arguably the most important early English translation of the Bible. With the publication of the New Testament in 1557, and the complete Bible in 1560, the Geneva Bible predates the King James Version by 51 years. Some of history’s most influential men, such as William Shakespeare, Oliver Cromwell, John Milton, John Knox, and John Bunyan, used the Geneva...

Verse 1 a. Called also Darius, who was now the sovereing Monarch, & had ye governemēt of the Medes, Persians and Chaldeans some thinke he was Darius Hystaspis sonne, called also Artaxerxes. b. Daniél chap. 6:1 maketh mēcion but of six score, leaving out the nomber that is unperfit, as the Scripture in divers places useth. Verse 2 c. That is, had rest, and quietnes. * Nehem. 1:1. Verse 6 d. Which they used in those countreis in stead of tables. Verse 7 e. As was beseming for so magnifical
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