Some passages are going to confuse you. That’s not a sign you’re doing something wrong.
A lot of the Bible was written for people in a different time, with different assumptions about how the world worked, dealing with situations that don’t map cleanly onto anything you’re dealing with now. Some of it is going to land strangely on a first read. Some of it might never fully click, and that’s fine too.
The instinct is to stop and try to resolve it before moving on. Look something up, find an explanation, figure out what it means before reading the next chapter. That instinct isn’t wrong, but it’s also not necessary here.
You can read something, not understand it, and keep going. The next chapter doesn’t require you to have solved the last one.
Understanding usually builds slowly anyway. A passage that confused you in March might make more sense by August, not because you researched it but because you’ve read more of the surrounding text by then. Context accumulates. You don’t always notice it happening.
So if something doesn’t make sense, that’s allowed. Keep reading.
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