How long did it take you to read the Bible?

So you're a frustrated, freshly rejected incel. No worries, I'm sure the Lord can help you with your temporary butthurt. Welcome to the board, sinner!

Alternating an average of 3 chapters a day (with an occasional 2, 4, or 5 chapters a day), and missing some days for various reasons, it took me about a year to read the OSB Old Testament. Finishing up Matthew now.

My advice? Don't treat reading the Bible as a race for bragging rights. Don't get me wrong: if you have the speed-reading, comprehension and memory capacity to read at a fast rate comfortably, then by all means.

Nevertheless, you should read at a rate that feels comfortable for you. Don't treat the Bible like you haven't eaten in days, and have a Thanksgiving selection laid out in front of you, and you try to scoff it all down in minutes, or like some competitive hot dog eating contest. Treat it like partaking in the spiritual equivalent of a gourmet meal. In other words, take your time; neatly and painstakingly cut it into pieces; chew slowly and deliberately; really partake in the enjoyment of the complex flavors.

Your attitude towards the Bible, overall, should be: "I want to understand this", not "WHOO! I FINISHED THIS IN 5 SECONDS!!!! WHERE'S MY GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS AWARD?!?!?" As such, a study version with copious footnotes is highly recommended.

art thou privy to an fixteen eleven in truth? i haf mine doubtf for left it be marked with none fo fingular a character af the letter 'f' inftead of the letterf 'f' then thou may judge it rightly to be an feventeen fixty-nine, firrah

I try to read 1 chapter a day, but there are chapters that I can't even finish. I go from 1 to 3 hours reading them. It's like that because I read the footnotes and go through the Bible reading other passages that say similar things (the references are on the side of the page). Sometimes I read the whole chapter of the Bible of those referenced passages to understand the message.