Société biblique de Genève

The Geneva Bible Society was founded in Switzerland in 1917 by Hugh Edward Alexander, founder of the Églises Action Biblique. The first bookshop opened in Paris in 1925. Others were set up in various countries around the world. In 1943, the Geneva Bible Society was officially registered in Geneva. Her publications include the Segond Bible, the Segond 21 Bible and the New Geneva Edition 1979 (NEG1979).

The activity initially began through missionary bookshops, then called "Depot of the Holy Scriptures". The beginning was first in Geneva in 1917, then in Paris in 1925 under the name "House of the Bible", in Zurich in 1933, and then in several countries on three continents. Since 1997, the head office has been in Romanel-sur-Lausanne. There are currently 20 Bible Houses in France, Switzerland, Italy and Côte d'Ivoire.

After the Second World War, it took over the publication and revision of the Schlachter Bible, which appeared in 1951. A special edition of the New Testament was published as early as 1945, when the Scripture Gift Mission distributed hundreds of thousands of New Testaments among German prisoners of war in British captivity. This edition was based on a slightly edited text of the original miniature Bible by Franz Eugen Schlachter from 1905.

In 1995, the Geneva Bible Society commissioned the third full revision of the Schlachter Bible. In 2003, this revision, generally referred to as "Schlachter 2000", was published as a full Bible; it is now available in various editions. A concordance to the Schlachter Bible is currently in progress.