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3747909 No.3747909 [Reply] [Original]

So right now trying to make my way through the entirety of the Bible (New American Bible Revised Edition)

Would you consider it "cheating" if I just skipped over the hilarious long lists of "X begat Y and Y begat Z..."

I'm discovering that this is the only way I'm going to be able to make it through this book within the month.

>> No.3747925

you gonna discover some interesting facts like for example that Jesus is actually descendant of an incest relation

>> No.3747929

If you get New Oxford Annotated you can look at the footnotes and it will tell you when that genealogy begins and ends, what its importance is, etc.

>> No.3747933

Don't worry, any sane person would skip those sections. They also stop with it after the first couple of Old Testament books. They do pop up later but it's not every other chapter like it is in the beginning.

>> No.3747934

>not enjoying going through miles-long lists of the passing of royal tutelage
>being this pleb

I bet you d'ont want to read the part about quantitative food regulation either.

>> No.3747942

>>3747909

>I'm discovering that this is the only way I'm going to be able to make it through this book within the month.

You probably still won't even do that then.

You need to go out and get one of those super-compact, super-thin bibles and read it whenever you get the chance, be it at work, home, etc.. You'll get through the thing within the month, and it's an amazing conversation starter. I was surprised by how many people wanted to talk to me just because I was reading a bible.

>> No.3747981

>>3747909

>English Translation
>Not NKJV

...Okay

>> No.3748017

>>3747942
>mfw I'm about to finish the bible, full catholic version not skipping what protestants deemed "apocrypha" or any of the lists and it's been 13 days

It's like you people read at a second grade level or something.

>>3747981
>NKJV
>not incomplete trash

Shiggydiggy

>> No.3748023

>>3747981

What the hell is the N for.

Get out.

>> No.3750286

>>3747909
Yes, skip the begats. They are there to prove lineage, which I'm sure you don't care about.

>> No.3751176

american version is coauthored by down syndrome patients. What little there is.

>> No.3751691

>>3747909

I would consider it cheating, because there's a lot of stuff hidden between the lines. For example Abraham wasn't lying when he said that his wife was his sister (kind of).

Also a lot of prophecies rely on comparing people or nations to divine events, and a lot of nations are named after the people; and by understanding their relationships to one another, you can have real big "Ah this makes so much sense now!" moments.

You probably wont be able to commit those names all to memory, but its good reading I'd say.