Reading plan

Four Streams a Day

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Four bookmarks moving through Scripture at once, after the calendar Robert Murray M'Cheyne gave his church in 1842.

Ezra Reads the Law to the People — M'Cheyne wrote this calendar for a whole congregation to keep together, which is the scene Doré engraves: Scripture read aloud to the assembled people.Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

The reading

Day 364 of 365

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The Law and the Histories

2 Chronicles 35

The Prophets and the Wisdom

Malachi 3

The Gospels and the Psalms

Psalms 150

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Where this plan goes

Left to right, with a gap at each division: Law, History, Wisdom, Prophets, Gospels and Acts, Letters, Revelation.

This plan reads all sixty-six books, 1,189 chapters. It reads them out of canon order. The strip shows the ground it covers. The ledger below shows the order it walks. The mark over Genesis is your next reading, Genesis 1 to 2, Ezra 1 to 2, Matthew 1 and Acts 1.

The whole plan

Days 361–365 of 365

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About this plan

You keep four bookmarks instead of one. Every day you read a little from each place, so a single sitting holds a story from the Law, a word from the Prophets, a page of the Gospels, and a piece of a letter.

Reading this way, the parts start explaining each other. The sacrifice you read about on Tuesday morning is the one Hebrews is arguing about on Tuesday afternoon.

The shape comes from Robert Murray M'Cheyne, a Scottish pastor who gave his congregation a four-column calendar in 1842. His version reads the New Testament and the Psalms twice in a year; this one reads the whole Bible through once, so the two shorter streams take a day off here and there rather than doubling up.