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Bible reading plan 2024 redux

Back in mid-January I wrote about my intentions for Bible reading in 2024.

The basic plan was to read three chapters of the Old Testament a day and one chapter from the New Testament. At that pace I would finish the OT in mid-October and the New Testament in latish September. Furthermore, the plan was to read the Bible in a different order to how it appears in modern western Bibles. Lastly, I was going to read from the Revised Standard Version.

Bible versions

I’ve been reflecting a little on the different Bible versions I’ve bought, tried, used, read, given away or filed away over the years.

The first Bible I ever had or was given was the Gideon’s red public high school edition I received in my first year in high school in the mid-1970s. It was, I believe, the Revised Berkeley Edition. I still have this Bible.

The second Bible I got was a Good News for Modern Man New Testament received, again from memory, for being the ‘prayer monitor’ in my year 8/second form Scripture class. I guess I had to read or recite a prayer at the beginning or end of each weekly Scripture class. I have since disposed on this Bible, but did keep the commemorative insert.

Day 19 - Coonabarabran and the Warrumbungle NP

Day 19 was the last day of photographs on our holiday. Day 20 was spent travelling home. Day 19 saw us visiting the Warrumbungles again after previously visiting two years earlier.

Our day began earlier than expected because it was freezing (literally) outside. We went for a walk around 7:30am to warm up! Later that morning we did a few short walks in the national park. Many of the sights in the park are simply awesome. Later that afternoon we visited Timor Road park by the Castlereagh River just out of Coonabarabran to do some bird watching.

Day 18 - Coonamble and Coonabarabran

Day 18, the third last day of our holiday, involved a drive from Lightning Ridge, through Walgett, Coonamble and Barradine to Coonabarabran.

Emu somewhere south of Lightning Ridge

Coonamble

I think they forgot an air conditioner

Driving east towards Barradine

Neilson Park, Coonabarabran