4. 1599 “Breeches” Bible--Ellen Chason
My great grandfather, William Hutto, was an itinerant preacher in South Carolina and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and other circuit riders needed a Bible small enough to carry on horseback.
Until the Geneva Bible was published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Bible was referred to as the “Great Book,” and it was often as big as 12” X 18” X 6” thick. The Geneva Bible was small enough (about 6” X 9”) and light enough to be carried from place to place easily, and it was popular with Protestants even after the publication of the King James version in 1611. Mine is dated 1599.
The Geneva Bible was also called the “Breeches” Bible. The King James version says about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: “. . .and their eyes were opened and they saw they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves APRONS.” The Geneva Bible says “. . . and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves BREECHES.”
My Geneva Bible is 407 years old, in good condition, and very rare.
husband, a Civil War veteran and U.S. Marshal. She and her fourteen children probably spent many lonely nights while her husband tried to maintain order in parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
The Bible contains Memory Cards that were to be handed out in Sunday School. The fourteenth chapter of John was read from this Bible at Mary Jane’s funeral.

4. 1599 “Breeches” Bible--Ellen Chason
My great grandfather, William Hutto, was an itinerant preacher in South Carolina and a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He and other circuit riders needed a Bible small enough to carry on horseback.
Until the Geneva Bible was published in 1560 in Geneva, Switzerland, the Bible was referred to as the “Great Book,” and it was often as big as 12” X 18” X 6” thick. The Geneva Bible was small enough (about 6” X 9”) and light enough to be carried from place to place easily, and it was popular with Protestants even after the publication of the King James version in 1611. Mine is dated 1599.
The Geneva Bible was also called the “Breeches” Bible. The King James version says about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: “. . .and their eyes were opened and they saw they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves APRONS.” The Geneva Bible says “. . . and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves BREECHES.”
My Geneva Bible is 407 years old, in good condition, and very rare.
husband, a Civil War veteran and U.S. Marshal. She and her fourteen children probably spent many lonely nights while her husband tried to maintain order in parts of Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
The Bible contains Memory Cards that were to be handed out in Sunday School. The fourteenth chapter of John was read from this Bible at Mary Jane’s funeral.
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