The Bible is originally written in Hebrew (Aramaic). If you can understand Hebrew language, its better for you to read Hebrew Bible, but if you cant, you may resort to reading a Bible translation that is closed or directly translated from the original Hebrew text. There are several translations available.
Another thing that you can do is if you are going to read stories from the Bible, try to read it from 3 different translations if you can. Example is you read from 3 different English translations of the Bible. In that way you can compare the contents if they are the same. Maybe all of the 3 have the same translation or only 2 have similar while the other 1 has a different translation.
Besides, I'm still encourage you to still read the Bible. For an easier way to read the Bible, check this out...
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