The Geneva Bible

All but forgotten today, the Geneva Bible, born out of persecution and bloodshed, was the most widely read and influential English Bible of the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Geneva Bible is unique among all other Bibles. It was the first Bible to use chapters and numbered verses and became the most popular version of its time because of its extensive marginal notes.
These notes, written by Reformation leaders including John Calvin and others, were intended to help explain and interpret the Scriptures for the average reader.