{
  "abbrev": "GNV",
  "catalog": {
    "id": "01a1621f-dc56-7b0c-b828-a5e7207a07b0",
    "slug": "translations/geneva",
    "name": "Geneva Bible",
    "listing_type": "bible_translation",
    "summary": "The Bible of the English Reformation, translated in Geneva by Marian exiles and published in 1560, with marginal study notes and the first numbered verses. Most reprints carry the 1599 edition; Tolle Lege Press publishes it in modern spelling.",
    "status": "listed",
    "editorial_disclosure": null,
    "facets": {
      "audience": [],
      "faith_relationship": "not_stated",
      "languages": [
        "en"
      ],
      "purpose": [],
      "topics": [],
      "tradition": []
    },
    "facts": {
      "abbreviation": {
        "value": "GNV",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ]
      },
      "availability": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "book_naming_conventions": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "canon_and_included_books": {
        "value": [
          "66 books in the 1599 text at eBible.org and in the Tolle Lege edition on Bible Gateway; neither includes the Apocrypha"
        ],
        "display_value": "66 books in the 1599 text at eBible.org and in the Tolle Lege edition on Bible Gateway; neither includes the Apocrypha",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_canon"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "copyright_and_permissions": {
        "value": {
          "statement": "The 1599 text is public domain; eBible.org hosts it with no copyright restrictions. The 2006 Tolle Lege Press modern-spelling edition on Bible Gateway is copyrighted, all rights reserved, with brief quotations allowed"
        },
        "display_value": "The 1599 text is public domain; eBible.org hosts it with no copyright restrictions. The 2006 Tolle Lege Press modern-spelling edition on Bible Gateway is copyrighted, all rights reserved, with brief quotations allowed",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_licence"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "current_text_revision": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "deuterocanonical_books": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "divine_name_rendering": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "faith_relationship": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "first_published": {
        "value": {
          "statement": "New Testament 1557; complete Bible 1560; the 1599 edition is the text most reprints carry; Tolle Lege Press released its modern-spelling edition of the 1599 text in 2006"
        },
        "display_value": "New Testament 1557; complete Bible 1560; the 1599 edition is the text most reprints carry; Tolle Lege Press released its modern-spelling edition of the 1599 text in 2006",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_first_published"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "full_name": {
        "value": "Geneva Bible",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ]
      },
      "gender_related_language_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "idioms_and_cultural_terms_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "intended_audience": {
        "value": [],
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Existing editorial audience classification; no safety certification."
      },
      "known_format_dependent_differences": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "languages": {
        "value": [
          "en"
        ],
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated listing language; additional languages have not been inferred."
      },
      "made_by": {
        "value": null,
        "display_value": "English Protestant exiles in Geneva: a team led by William Whittingham, assisted by Miles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, John Knox and Thomas Sampson. The 1599 text is public domain; Tolle Lege Press publishes a modern-spelling edition",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_made_by"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "new_testament_textual_basis": {
        "value": "Greek manuscripts and a revision of Tyndale's New Testament, as Bible Gateway describes it; the printed Greek editions used are not named on the pages checked. The text carries the Received Text readings, for example Acts 8:37 and the longer 1 John 5:7 in the main text",
        "display_value": "Greek manuscripts and a revision of Tyndale's New Testament, as Bible Gateway describes it; the printed Greek editions used are not named on the pages checked. The text carries the Received Text readings, for example Acts 8:37 and the longer 1 John 5:7 in the main text",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_nt_text"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "new_testament_translation_method_notes": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "official_digital_access": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "official_translation_principles_source": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "official_website": {
        "value": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated existing official link; not newly fetched or verified."
      },
      "old_testament_textual_basis": {
        "value": "Hebrew manuscripts, as Bible Gateway describes it; no printed edition is named",
        "display_value": "Hebrew manuscripts, as Bible Gateway describes it; no printed edition is named",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_ot_text"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "old_testament_translation_method_notes": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "poetry_and_literary_form_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "previous_and_related_revisions": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "public_domain_or_license_status": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "publisher_parent_organization": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "quotation_and_red_letter_conventions": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "reading_level": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "recommended_age_maximum": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "recommended_age_minimum": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "regional_publisher": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "revision_or_release_year": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "rights_holder": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "sample_passages": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "source_languages": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "specific_affiliation": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "supplied_words_typography": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "textual_variants_and_footnotes": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "tradition_or_perspective": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translation_approach_explanation": {
        "value": "Translated from Greek and Hebrew manuscripts with a revision of William Tyndale's New Testament, as Bible Gateway describes it; no statement of method (word-for-word or thought-for-thought) is published",
        "display_value": "Translated from Greek and Hebrew manuscripts with a revision of William Tyndale's New Testament, as Bible Gateway describes it; no statement of method (word-for-word or thought-for-thought) is published",
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_philosophy"
        ],
        "evidence_note": "Migrated evidence; migration does not verify this claim. Provided by: "
      },
      "translation_classification": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translation_committee": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translation_language": {
        "value": [
          "en"
        ],
        "status": "verification_pending",
        "source_refs": [
          "legacy_metadata"
        ]
      },
      "translation_project_history": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "translator_footnote_examples": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "units_currency_and_measures_approach": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "versification_system": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      },
      "what_it_contains": {
        "value": null,
        "status": "not_researched"
      }
    },
    "sources": [
      {
        "id": "legacy_metadata",
        "url": null,
        "title": "Existing editorial catalog metadata",
        "publisher": "Christian Rated",
        "source_kind": "documentation",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": "content/resources/translations/geneva.yaml",
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_made_by",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "title": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_philosophy",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "title": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_ot_text",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "title": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_nt_text",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "title": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_canon",
        "url": "https://ebible.org/enggnv/",
        "title": "Geneva Bible 1599 at eBible.org, contents",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_grade_level",
        "url": null,
        "title": "Publisher pages checked",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_gender_language",
        "url": null,
        "title": "Publisher pages checked",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_committee",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "title": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_footnotes",
        "url": "https://ebible.org/enggnv/1JN05.htm",
        "title": "Geneva Bible 1599 at eBible.org, 1 John 5",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_licence",
        "url": "https://ebible.org/enggnv/copyright.htm",
        "title": "Geneva Bible 1599 at eBible.org, copyright page",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      },
      {
        "id": "legacy_first_published",
        "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
        "title": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
        "publisher": null,
        "source_kind": "official",
        "fetched_at": null,
        "published_at": null,
        "locator": null,
        "retrieval_result": "not_attempted"
      }
    ],
    "faq_answers": [],
    "relationships": {},
    "maker_claim": {
      "status": "unclaimed"
    }
  },
  "catalog_schema_version": "2.0.0",
  "category": "bibles",
  "edition": "1560",
  "editions": [
    {
      "ID": "01a1765c-ddb7-7f0a-bcac-f53698ad014c",
      "Slug": "1599",
      "Label": "1599 text",
      "Note": "current",
      "Current": true
    },
    {
      "ID": "01a1765c-ddb7-773e-b7f9-8e420ee22879",
      "Slug": "1560",
      "Label": "1560 first edition",
      "Note": "historical",
      "Current": false
    }
  ],
  "facts": [
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "made_by",
      "label": "Made by",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "English Protestant exiles in Geneva: a team led by William Whittingham, assisted by Miles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, John Knox and Thomas Sampson. The 1599 text is public domain; Tolle Lege Press publishes a modern-spelling edition"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "philosophy",
      "label": "Translation philosophy",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Translated from Greek and Hebrew manuscripts with a revision of William Tyndale's New Testament, as Bible Gateway describes it; no statement of method (word-for-word or thought-for-thought) is published"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "ot_text",
      "label": "Textual basis, Old Testament",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Hebrew manuscripts, as Bible Gateway describes it; no printed edition is named"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "nt_text",
      "label": "Textual basis, New Testament",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "Greek manuscripts and a revision of Tyndale's New Testament, as Bible Gateway describes it; the printed Greek editions used are not named on the pages checked. The text carries the Received Text readings, for example Acts 8:37 and the longer 1 John 5:7 in the main text"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "canon",
      "label": "Canon",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Geneva Bible 1599 at eBible.org, contents",
      "source_url": "https://ebible.org/enggnv/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "66 books in the 1599 text at eBible.org and in the Tolle Lege edition on Bible Gateway; neither includes the Apocrypha"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "grade_level",
      "label": "Reading grade level",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Publisher pages checked",
      "source_url": "",
      "status": "not_published",
      "value": "No published figure"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "gender_language",
      "label": "Gender language",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Publisher pages checked",
      "source_url": "",
      "status": "not_published",
      "value": "Not published"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "committee",
      "label": "Committee",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "A team led by William Whittingham with Miles Coverdale, Christopher Goodman, Anthony Gilby, John Knox and Thomas Sampson; the marginal notes were written by Reformation leaders including John Calvin"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "footnotes",
      "label": "Verses in footnotes",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Geneva Bible 1599 at eBible.org, 1 John 5",
      "source_url": "https://ebible.org/enggnv/1JN05.htm",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "None; the Received Text verses are in the main text, for example Acts 8:37 and the longer 1 John 5:7 in the 1599 text at eBible.org. The margins of the 1599 edition carry the Reformers' study notes, kept in the Tolle Lege Press edition on Bible Gateway"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "licence",
      "label": "Licence",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Geneva Bible 1599 at eBible.org, copyright page",
      "source_url": "https://ebible.org/enggnv/copyright.htm",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "The 1599 text is public domain; eBible.org hosts it with no copyright restrictions. The 2006 Tolle Lege Press modern-spelling edition on Bible Gateway is copyrighted, all rights reserved, with brief quotations allowed"
    },
    {
      "fetched": "",
      "key": "first_published",
      "label": "First published",
      "provided_by": "editor",
      "source": "Bible Gateway, 1599 Geneva Bible version information",
      "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/",
      "status": "pending",
      "value": "New Testament 1557; complete Bible 1560; the 1599 edition is the text most reprints carry; Tolle Lege Press released its modern-spelling edition of the 1599 text in 2006"
    }
  ],
  "is_ours": false,
  "kind": "translation",
  "language": "en",
  "links": [
    {
      "disclosure": "",
      "edition": "",
      "enabled": false,
      "enabled_by": "",
      "format": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "kind": "read",
      "label": "Read online at Bible Gateway (Tolle Lege edition, modern spelling)",
      "ours": false,
      "paid": false,
      "region": "",
      "seller": "",
      "seller_name": "",
      "url": ""
    },
    {
      "disclosure": "",
      "edition": "",
      "enabled": false,
      "enabled_by": "",
      "format": "",
      "isbn": "",
      "kind": "read",
      "label": "Read online at eBible.org (original spelling)",
      "ours": false,
      "paid": false,
      "region": "",
      "seller": "",
      "seller_name": "",
      "url": ""
    }
  ],
  "listing_type": "bible_translation",
  "maker": {
    "made_by": "ministry",
    "name": "Geneva Bible translators",
    "source_url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/1599-Geneva-Bible-GNV/"
  },
  "name": "Geneva Bible",
  "primary_category": "bibles",
  "slug": "translations/geneva",
  "stats": {
    "computed_at": "2026-10-26T05:40:51Z",
    "confidence": "few",
    "counted": 0,
    "event_count": 140,
    "log_hash": "1d39701efc13bae6a2521aafddb90f0a819613002d8a05a2f454c9edf374cf73",
    "meters": {},
    "scoring_version": "v2",
    "segments": null,
    "written": 0,
    "yes": 0
  },
  "tags": [
    "canon-66",
    "textual-receptus",
    "public-domain",
    "free"
  ],
  "vetted_stats": {
    "LogSeq": 139,
    "LogHash": "1d39701efc13bae6a2521aafddb90f0a819613002d8a05a2f454c9edf374cf73",
    "ComputedAt": "2026-10-26T05:40:51.321389151Z",
    "Version": "v2",
    "CountedN": 0,
    "YesN": 0,
    "WrittenN": 0,
    "TapN": 0,
    "Share": null,
    "Confidence": "few",
    "Meters": {},
    "Segments": null,
    "VerifiedN": 0,
    "VettedN": 0,
    "NotesN": 0,
    "PublishedN": 0,
    "NotCountedN": 0,
    "RemovedN": 0,
    "RemovedDetail": {
      "mixed": 0,
      "negative": 0,
      "positive": 0,
      "reasons": {}
    },
    "Languages": {},
    "Debated": 0
  }
}