Bible Reading Schedule

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I am including an attached pdf of our family Bible Reading Schedule for those who would be interested in a yearly Bible reading plan.

• The Plan will cover the entire Bible as follows: The Law (Pentateuch) twice a year, the rest of the Old Testament (except Psalms) once per year, and the Psalms, Gospels, and Epistles (including Acts and Revelation) four times per year.
• The Plan has 356 reading days, leaving 9 days of the year without any scheduled readings. This is due to Feast days having their own special readings, but can be used for "catching up" in case you miss some days.
• The schedule can be broken up into morning and evening readings. We read from the Law and the Gospel in the morning, and from the Writings and the Epistles in the evening. The Psalm readings usually have two Psalms, so we use one in the morning reading and the other in the evening.
• Some Psalms are long, and therefore split across the readings. Thus, for example, day 35 calls for Psalm 68. We read half of the Psalm for the morning, and the other half for the evening. Psalm 78 takes two days, so we break it into fourths, reading the first fourth in the morning of day 41, the second fourth in the evening, the third in the morning of day 42, and the fourth in the evening, etc.
• Psalm 119 is very long, but in your Bible it is conveniently divided into 22 sections of 8 verses each, indicated by a Hebrew letter heading (Aleph, Beth, Gimel, etc). We assign 3 sections to each day, with the last day covering the final four sections. So, in the morning, we read 1 and a half sections, then in the evening the other one and a half sections. On the last day we read two sections in the morning, and two in the evening.

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask.