"Of all the antiquities within the Lodge, the Volume of The Sacred Law is the most important. The Great Light in Masonry, and The Rule and Guide for Masonic Faith and Practice is placed on the Master’s pedestal when the Lodge is opened, where the meetings are conducted in peace and harmony.
Most often, the Lodge Bible is the original that was gifted when the Lodge was first consecrated. But what Bible did Masons use before 1717, the year in which the first Grand Lodge was constituted? Prior to 1611 it is almost certain that the majority of them used the famous Geneva Bible, published in 1560. It was the first issue of the Bible to cut the text into chapters and numbered verses, its costs were low and it was the Bible of the Reformation.
In the Book of Genesis it printed the line
‘made themselves breeches’ instead of ‘made
themselves aprons’ and henceforth became
known as the ‘Breeches’ Bible."
Masonic Bibles: Lodges and Their Bibles by Paul Tronson MQ Magazine Issue 17 April, 2006