Once you have finished doing a survey of the book, you are ready to begin working on smaller parts of the book called units or sub-units. The procedure for doing a survey of the units or sub-units of the book is similar to surveying the book as a whole. There are, however, some differences.
1. This study allows you to give closer attention to the words of the text. In other words, this is not a skimming or scanning of a unit. Rather, it is a closer investigation of the text.
2, Pay closer attention to literary type, identifying the literary type for each paragraph.
3. You can find many more structural laws at this stage, but you should not get bogged down in that step for too long. Just look for the major laws -- laws that seem especially important to the passage.
4. In the case of small units of a book -- say six chapters or less -- instead of giving titles to the chapters, now give titles to the paragraphs as follows:
1:1-7: Israelites Enslaved in Egypt
1:8-15: Pharaoh's Edict to Kill Male hebrew Babies
5. At this stage you can begin to answer the questions you raise in the survey of these units.