How Long It Takes To Read Each Book in the Old Testament. Each chapter in the Old Testament has a different amount of time to read. Find out how long each book takes.
How Long It Takes To Read Each Book in the Old Testament
The 39 Books of the Old Testament should take total of around 55 hours! (plus or minus)
Genesis – 3.5 Hours
Exodus – 3 Hours
Leviticus – 2 Hours
Numbers – 3 Hours
Deuteronomy – 2.5 Hours
Joshua – 1.75 Hours
Judges – Judges 1.75 Hours
Ruth – 15 Minutes
1 Samuel & 2 Samuel – 4 Hours
1 Kings & 2 Kings – 4.25 Hours
1 Chronicles & 2 Chronicles – 4.5 Hours
Ezra – 40 Minutes
Nehemiah – 1 Hour
Esther – 30 Minutes
Job – 1.75 Hours
Psalms – 5 Hours
Proverbs – 1.75 Hours
Ecclesiastics – 30 Minutes
Song of Salomon – 20 Minutes
Isaiah – 3.75 Hours
Jeremiah – 4 Hours
Lamination – 20 Minutes
Ezekiel – 3.75 Hours
Daniel – 1.25 Hours
Hosea – 30 Minutes
Joel – 12 Minutes
Amos – 25 Minutes
Obadiah – 4 Minutes
Jonah – 8 Minutes
Micah – 20 Minutes
Nahum – 8 Minutes
Habakkuk – 9 Minutes
Zephaniah – 10 Minutes
Haggai – 7 Minutes
Zechariah – 40 Minutes
Malachi – 11 Minutes
However, we shouldn’t read the Bible to just read the Bible. We need to read the Bible to Study It! To hide it in our heart! That means mediate and take our time on it!
Find out how long it takes to read each book in the New Testament!
Books of the Old Testament – Law, History and Poetry
This list comes from Desiring God and the Graphic came from ReasonableTheology.
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