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Read the Bible in a Year

Read the Bible in a Year

I’ve been wanting to read the Bible for a long, long time. I’ve read most of the Old Testament over the years and a large part of the New Testament but I never read it from cover to cover. So, here’s my challenge: I’m going to read the Bible in one year - three chapters daily and five on Sundays (thank you, Bibleplan.org!).I have several bibles but will most likely only read the Good News Translation (ISBN 0-00-716656-7) and The Jewish Study Bible: featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation because I’m terribly in love with that book.

I’m not sure if anyone else will be interested by this challenge but if your are, leave your name/website in a comment and I will add you to the list. You don’t have to follow my plan (see below), there are many ways to read the Bible (I’m already thinking of reading it Chronologically in 2009).

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January
From Genesis (”In the beginning, when God created the universe, the earth was formless and desolate.” …) to Leviticus 8 (… “So Aaron and his sons did everything that the Lord had commanded through Moses.”).

February
From Leviticus 9 (”The day after the ordination rites were completed, Moses called Aaron and his sons and the leaders of Israel.” …) to Joshua 3 (… “While the people walked across on dry ground, the priests carrying the Lord’s Covenant Box stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan until all the people had crossed over.”).

March
From Joshua 4 (”When the whole nation had crossed the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, “Choose twelve men, one from each tribe, and command them to take twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, from the very place the priests were standing.” …) to Samuel 24 (… “The Lord answered his prayer, and the epidemic in Israel was stopped.”).

April
From I Kings 1 (”King David was now a very old man, and although his servants covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.” …) to II Chronicles 24 (… “His son Amaziah succeeded him as king.”).

May
From II Chronicles 25 (”Amaziah became king at the age of 25, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 29 years.” …) to Psalms 14 (… “How happy the people of Israel will be when the Lord makes them prosperous again!”).

June
From Psalms 15 (”Lord, who may enter your Temple? Who may worship on Zion, your sacred hill?” …) to Psalms 112 (… “The wicked see this and are angry; they glare in hate and disappear; their hopes are gone for ever.”).

July
From Psalms 113 (”Praise the Lord! You servants of the Lord, praise his name!” …) to Isaiah 14 (… “We will tell them that the Lord has established Zion and that his suffering people will find safety there.”).

August
From Isaiah 15 (”This is a message about Moab.” …) to Jeremiah 49 (… “But later on I will make the people of Elam prosperous again. I, the Lord, have spoken..”).

September
From Jeremiah 50 (”This is the message that the Lord gave me about the city of Babylon and its people: “Tell the news to the nations! Proclaim it!.” …) to Micah 1 (… “Make yourselves as bald as vultures, because your children will be taken away from you into exile.”).

October
From Micah 2 (”How terrible it will be for those who lie awake and plan evil!.” …) to Luke 22 (… “And they said, ‘We don’t need any witnesses! We ourselves have heard what he said!’“).

November
From Luke 23 (”The whole group rose up and took Jesus before Pilate, where they began to accuse him: ‘We caught this man misleading our people, telling them not to pay taxes to the Emperor and claiming that he himself is the Messiah, a king’.” …) to II Corinthians 12 (… “I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the immoral things they have done - their lust and their sexual sins.”).

December
From II Corinthians 13 (”This is now the third time that I am coming to visit you..” …) to Revelation 22 (… “May be the grace of the Lord Jesus be with everyone.”).

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