{"id":49,"date":"2009-01-01T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2016-02-06T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:53:32","slug":"how-evenly-distributed-is-your-daily-bible-reading-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2009\/01\/how-evenly-distributed-is-your-daily-bible-reading-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"How Evenly Distributed Is Your Daily Bible Reading Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perfectly evenly distributed Bible reading plan would have you read about 85 verses each day to get through the Bible in a year. The Bible doesn\u2019t break up into nice, logical 85-verse  sections, however, and reading-plan designers have to decide when to vary from a strict 85-verse-a-day schedule. For example, they&#8217;ll often have you read complete chapters in a day, which differ in length.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the distribution patterns for a number of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esv.org\/biblereadingplans\">ESV Bible reading plans<\/a>. (I picked these plans only because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esvapi.org\/\">ESV API<\/a> lets you calculate this data pretty easily.)<\/p>\n<h3>Tight Distribution<\/h3>\n<p>These two plans tend to have you read roughly the same number of verses every day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-every-day.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Every Day in the Bible\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-chronological.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Chronological Bible\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Medium Distribution<\/h3>\n<p>These three plans are somewhat more inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-outreach.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Outreach Bible\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-daily-reading.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Daily Reading Bible\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-through-the-bible.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Through the Bible\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Loose Distribution<\/h3>\n<p>These two plans significantly vary the number of verses you read each day. (At the extreme, on April 29, the Literary \/ ESV Study Bible plan has you reading over 200 verses.) However, as I understand it, the idea behind the Literary Study Bible reading plan is to have you read literary units each day, so this variation could be by design.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-mcheyne.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"M\u2019Cheyne\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-01-literary-study.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"287\" alt=\"Literary Study Bible and ESV Study Bible\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfectly evenly distributed Bible reading plan would have you read about 85 verses each day to get through the Bible in a year. The Bible doesn\u2019t break up into nice, logical 85-verse sections, however, and reading-plan designers have to decide when to vary from a strict 85-verse-a-day schedule. For example, they&#8217;ll often have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}