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The Geneva Bible was a Protestant translation of the Bible into English. It has also been known as the Breeches Bible, after its rendering of Genesis 3:7, "Then the eyes of them both were opened and they knewe that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together, and made them selues breeches."

This was the Bible that was brought to America on the Mayflower and used by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War.

The Geneva Bible was the first English Bible to use verse numbers and an elaborate system of commentary in marginal glosses.

It has been stated by some, that the Geneva Bible was the Bible present at the signing of the U. S. Declaration of Independence and the U. S. Constitution, due to the fact that it was the Bible that the Puritans brought with them to America. However, the U. S. Library of Congress and the Independence National Historical Park both state that they do no know what version/translation of the Bible was present at these signings.

SOURCE: Wikipedia