29Aug2023
Today I have come to the end of my Fifth Round of reading the Old Testement.
I started reading the Old Testament for the fifth time on 25Dec22. It took me about 8 months to finish this reading cycle.
Looking back, I embarked on my first round of Old Testament reading in May 2020, just two months into the beginning of the pandemic — it was actually my second round because I first read through the Bible during my university undergraduate years in the early 1980s.
The following list summarises the start and end dates of my Old Testament readings to date:
- 1st OT Cycle: 14May20 – 12Jun21 (13 months)
- 2nd OT Cycle: 13Jun21 – 13Dec21 (6 months)
- 3rd OT Cycle: 13Dec21 – 21May22 (5¼ months)
- 4th OT Cycle: 13Jun22 – 22Dec22 (6¼ months)
- 5th OT Cycle: 25Dec22 – 29Aug23 (8 months)
I will be taking a short break from reading Old Testament, for the remaining months of this year, and will embark on my Sixth Cycle of OT reading when the new year 2024 begins.
For my next round of OT reading, I plan to continue with my present reading pace of about 64 verses a day instead of my previous 128 verses a day. This means I will take the whole of next year to complete my Sixth cycle of OT instead of taking six months as I have done in the past.
Full details of my Bible Reading Cycles can be found at the link below —
