The Bible, that is, the Holy Scriptures conteined in the Olde and New Testament
By: translated according to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages ; with most profitable annotations upon all the hard places, and other things of great importance
Contributors: Camerarius, Joachim, 1500-1574; Loyseleur, Pierre, approximately 1530-1590; Tomson, Laurence, 1539-1608; Junius, Franciscus, 1545-1602; Sternhold, Thomas, -1549; Sternhold, Thomas, -1549
Publisher: Imprinted at London by the Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie
Published: 1599
Place of publication: London]; [i.e., Amsterdam : J.F. Stam]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Other titles: Breeches Bible.
Work titles: Bible. English. Geneva. 1599
Notes: "FEARE YEE NOT STAND STILL, AND//behold the salvation of the Lord, which hee will//shew to you this day. Exod.14.13" and "THE LORD SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU.//Therefore hold you your peace. Exod.14.14."--Scripture citations above and below title vignette (cut of the crossing of the Red sea).

Added t.p., engraved within heart shaped center enclosed by block border with symbols of the twelve tribes in order of age, the twelve apostles and an evangelist at each corner of the title page, Matthew and Mark above, separated by a dove, and Luke and John below, separated by a lamb.

Esther I.1: seven//and twenty provinces; half title of second part has spellings: Proverbes, Jeremiah, Joel and Jonah.

N.T. has special t.p., engraved as above with title: The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ / translated out of Greeke by Theod. Beza: ; with briefe summaries and expositions upon the hard places by the said authour, Ioac. Camer. and P. Loseler. Villerius ; engelished by L. Tomson ; together with the Annotations of Fr. Iunius upon the Revelation of S. John.

"THE ORDER OF TIME,//whereunto the Contents of this//booke are to be referred" (leaf 110b) has 'watched' and 'Jewes' in first line.

The London colophon is used at the end of the second table in the New Testament.

The section containing the Apocrypha is omitted, though it is listed in the contents.

The Geneva Bible and its later editions are often called "Breeches" Bibles from the rendering of "breeches" for aprons in Gen. III:7.

Probably printed at Amsterdam for the use of English Puritains in the Low countries between 1633 and 1640.