Learn Biblical Hebrew by actually using it

You don't learn Biblical Hebrew for small talk. You learn it to read Genesis and the Psalms in the words they were written in, where the wordplay and the rhythm survive that translation flattens. The classic way in is years of paradigm tables. The faster way is to use the language, because even a language no one speaks at the store sticks better when you produce it, not just parse it.

Hebrew is built on three-consonant roots that repeat across the whole text, so every root you make your own unlocks a family of words. Parlita has you using them in simple exchanges from the start, corrects you in context, and the alphabet comes along in days.

The text you want was written without vowels. The pointing, those dots and dashes under the letters, was added by scribes more than a thousand years later, and it is in every printed edition, so you will learn with it there. Reading right to left stops feeling strange in about a week. The alphabet is twenty two letters and several of them look alike, which is the only genuinely fiddly part of the first month.

Words are built from three-consonant roots, and once that clicks it does an enormous amount of work: the same root gives you the verb, the noun and the adjective, and you can often guess a word you have never seen before. The verb system is the mountain. A root can be put into seven different patterns, each bending the meaning in a regular way, and those are what separate decoding a verse from reading one.