So I've decided to read the Bible for the first time, but

>>9128217
god did it lol

>>9128217

Get a translation for dummies and ESLs like the Good News one.

>>9128217
Get a copy that has commentaries like the Didache Bible or the Navarre Bible or the Oxford Catholic Study Bible. In the Didache Bible (I have one) for instance gives a outline on the books like which ones are historic, poetic, prophetical, etc.

Try to follow a study or reading guide rather than blast through cover to cover, especially if you've not read it before, aren't Christian etc. The Bible is really a collection of books in many genres, from personal testimony to poetry to genealogical and national history, to theology etc and the more you think of it as such, and approach it as something with spread out connections and themes, the more you'll get out of it.

>>9128217
what made you decide to read it?

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>>9128217
>I'm not really concerned with the "meaning" I'm meant to get out of it, I just have trouble following what is supposed to be going on.
https://youtu.be/NPOb3DlB7WA

>>9128217
whole lie
buy bull

The only thing to learn from any of the millions of version is that it babbling liars and bullpooers.