Reading plan

In the Order It Happened

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The whole Bible in a year, rearranged so the story runs in time order.

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Job is the book this plan moves furthest: read by date it sits with the patriarchs near the beginning, not among the poets.Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

The reading

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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 4.

The whole plan

Days 361–365 of 365

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About this plan

Your Bible is shelved by kind (law, history, poetry, prophecy), not by date. This plan puts it back in the order events happened.

So Job sits with the patriarchs, each prophet arrives in the reign he actually preached in, and Paul's letters land inside the journeys of Acts, at the point in the story where he wrote them. The Psalms come in at the eras their five books belong to.

Two things this plan will not do: it never cuts a chapter in half, and it does not splice the four Gospels into one merged account: where those four should be interleaved is a real argument among scholars, and a reading plan is no place to settle it quietly. You read each Gospel whole.