What if the chapter is a genealogy or a law list?
Read it as a list. Notice names or commands that the surrounding chapters pick up. You still do not owe yourself a feeling about every name.
Practice
How to read one Bible chapter slowly
Choose one chapter and read it twice. The first reading is for the scene: who is present, what happens, where it ends. The second reading is for one sentence you could not paraphrase. Write that sentence in your own words, then write what you had to leave out. That gap is the thing to bring back tomorrow. You do not need a second chapter to have studied.
Before you open a note
Read the chapter in the translation you actually have. Switching translations mid-chapter to chase a wording is a different project.
Mark repeated words with a pencil. Repetition is evidence inside the chapter. It does not require a lexicon.
The paraphrase test
Close the book and say the chapter’s event in four sentences. If you cannot, you were skimming. Open it and read the muddy paragraph again.
Only then look at a study note, a sermon page, or a cross-reference. The note should answer the muddy paragraph, not replace the chapter.
Where Scripture Journey fits
A sermon study is this same pace, held on one passage for five days. Day 1 on the web is a start, not the chapter done.
Book studies on this site are outlines of a whole book, split into sittings. Use a sitting. Do not try to finish the outline because the page lists it.
Questions
How many chapters a day is serious?
One chapter you can paraphrase is a finished sitting. A number of chapters is not a measure of attention.