rate difficulty: Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.

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simplify: And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

Then Balaam said to Balak, Did I not say to the men you sent to me,


rate difficulty: Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: But he did not put their children to death; for the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses say, The fathers are not to be put to death for the children, or the children for their fathers; but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Jehovah; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the sons of Ezra were, Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon: and she bare Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.


rate difficulty: Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: in diligence not slothful; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

Presently Jesus said to them: “Take care and be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”


rate difficulty: That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I have madethemknown to thee this day, even to thee.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

while others, to test him, asked him for some sign from the heavens.


rate difficulty: But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; but he walked therein.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.


simplify: And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.


simplify: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

And it is because they have not aimed at these things that the attention of certain people has been diverted to unprofitable subjects.


rate difficulty: If thou hast anything to say, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify thee.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful.

These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.


rate difficulty: The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor in secret. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Asher, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

Forty-one thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Asher were numbered.


rate difficulty: And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.

but Jesus repeatedly cautioned them not to let anyone know of it, and told them to give her something to eat.


rate difficulty: And all bore witness to him, and wondered at the words of grace which were coming out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: and having heard about Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews, beseeching him, that having come he might thoroughly save his servant.

And, hearing about Jesus, he sent some Jewish councillors to him, with the request that he would come and save his slave’s life.


simplify: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel, who is the father of Birzavith.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: I say then, Have they stumbled in order that they might fall? Far be the thought: but by their fall [there is] salvation to the nations to provoke them to jealousy.


rate difficulty: Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And in the hearing of the priests and the prophets and all the people, Jeremiah said these words in the house of the Lord.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.


rate difficulty: See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

And he sent out a dove, to see if the waters had gone from the face of the earth;


rate difficulty: And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, and empty pitchers, and torches within the pitchers.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the store-house two and two.

On the east were six Levites a day, and on the north and the south four a day, and for the store-house two and two.


rate difficulty: whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.


simplify: And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

And those of the children of Israel who were the first to be taken away as prisoners, will have their heritage among the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and those who were taken away from Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will have the towns of the South.


rate difficulty: Who was put to death for our evil-doing, and came to life again so that we might have righteousness.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

But your eyes have seen all the great works of the Lord which he has done.


rate difficulty: And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;


rate difficulty: (as he spoke to our fathers,) to Abraham and to his seed for ever.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand your ground against the stratagems of the devil.


rate difficulty: If, truly, over me ye magnify yourselves, And decide against me my reproach;

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as he that offereth swine’s blood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.


simplify: That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;

Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:


simplify: And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.

And Shebuel, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was controller of the stores.


rate difficulty: Now unto our God and Father be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.


rate difficulty: they shall carry the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of badgers' skin that is above upon it, and the curtain of the entrance to the tent of meeting,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Do not make complaints against one another, friends, or judgment will be passed on you. The judge is already standing at the door!


rate difficulty: And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

At the order of the Lord they were numbered by Moses, every one in relation to his work and to his part in the transport; so they were numbered by Moses at the order of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said, Father, let them have forgiveness, for they have no knowledge of what they are doing. And they made division of his clothing among them by the decision of chance.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: `If a man doth sin against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house--

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we,

But now that faith has come we no longer need a guide.


simplify: By God’sgreat force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.


simplify: I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish.

I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.


simplify: And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door.

Then he said, Send for her. And in answer to his voice she took her place at the door.


rate difficulty: And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,


simplify: for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong drink he may not drink, and of the Holy Spirit he shall be full, even from his mother's womb;

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth,


rate difficulty: Awake, north wind, and come, [thou] south; Blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat its precious fruits.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Abner, son of Ner, head of the host which Saul hath, hath taken Ish-Bosheth, son of Saul, and causeth him to pass over to Mahanaim,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and ye <FI>are<Fi> Christ's, and Christ <FI>is<Fi> God's.

But you are Christ’s and Christ is God’s.


simplify: The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so do they run.

Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.


simplify: For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.


simplify: And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.


simplify: And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.


simplify: and say unto it, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against thee, and I will make thee a desolation and an astonishment.

And say to it, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and my hand will be stretched out against you, and I will make you a waste and a cause for wonder.


simplify: But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

but vainly do they worship me, For they teach but human precepts.’”


simplify: nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

Building no houses for ourselves, having no vine-gardens or fields or seed:


simplify: Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.


simplify: Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy;

See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;


rate difficulty: When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.


rate difficulty: One will say, I am the Lord's; and another will give himself the name, Jacob; another will put a mark on his hand, I am the Lord's, and another will take the name of Israel for himself.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and so make your hearts strong, and your lives pure beyond reproach, in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his Holy Ones.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, and in all thy borders;

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and the peace ofGod, which surpasses every understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts by Christ Jesus.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took Metheg–ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).

So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).


simplify: But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.


rate difficulty: So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? Whither hath thy beloved turned him, That we may seek him with thee?

Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?


rate difficulty: And when all these tests were ended the Evil One went away from him for a time.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If [it be] so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And he left them, and again entering into the boat departed to the other side.


rate difficulty: And I will put my holy House among you, and my soul will not be turned away from you in disgust.


rate difficulty: And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Again the word of the Lord of hosts came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and seventh year, in the first <FI>month<Fi> , in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the soldiers led him away into the hall, called Pretorium; and they call together the whole band.

The soldiers then took Jesus away into the courtyard — that is the Government house — and they called the whole garrison together.


simplify: Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites.

Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.


simplify: Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, you would have sent me away with nothing in my hands. But God has seen my troubles and the work of my hands, and this night he kept you back.


simplify: These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron.


simplify: for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

For we are God’s handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.


rate difficulty: And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding <FI>day<Fi> they were making a clearing,

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Because of winter the slothful plougheth not, He asketh in harvest, and there is nothing.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when it was day, he called his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom also he named apostles:

And the day came and, turning to his disciples, he made a selection from among them of twelve, to whom he gave the name of Apostles;


simplify: Now therefore arise, O Jehovah God, into thy resting-place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Jehovah God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

Up! now, O Lord God, come back to your resting-place, you and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints be glad in what is good.


simplify: The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.


simplify: And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thy handmaid hath hearkened unto thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was in great trouble, and said to him, See now, your servant has given ear to your words, and I have put my life in danger by doing what you said.


simplify: Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius; who received us, and entertained us three days courteously.

Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.


rate difficulty: Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sounded unto Rabbah of the sons of Ammon a shout of battle, And it hath been for a heap--a desolation, And her daughters with fire are burnt, And Israel hath succeeded its heirs, Said hath Jehovah.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.


simplify: Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.

This is what the Lord has said: If the heavens on high may be measured, and the bases of the earth searched out, then I will give up the seed of Israel, because of all they have done, says the Lord.


simplify: And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land.


simplify: For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of Jehovah, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.

For Ezra had given his mind to learning the law of the Lord and doing it, and to teaching his rules and decisions in Israel.


rate difficulty: He that getteth sense loveth his own soul; he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Joshua passeth over, and all Israel with him, from Makkedah <FI>to<Fi> Libnah, and fighteth with Libnah;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: As Jesus finished speaking, a Pharisee asked him to breakfast with him, and Jesus went in and took his place at the table.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.


simplify: `Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask--it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens,

Again, I tell you that, if but two of you on earth agree as to what they will pray for, whatever it be, it will be granted them by my Father who is in heaven.


rate difficulty: For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And on the sixth day, eight bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.

And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.


simplify: And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.


rate difficulty: The children of thy bereavement shall yet say in thine ears, The place is too strait for me; give place to me that I may dwell.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.


simplify: For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah, God of their fathers, sendeth unto them by the hand of His messengers--rising early and sending--for He hath had pity on His people, and on His habitation,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up unto Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

And in this confidence we would gladly leave our home in the body, and make our home with the Lord.


simplify: and with difficulty coasting along it we came unto a certain place called Fair Havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

And sailing down the side of it, as well as we were able, we came to a certain place named Fair Havens, near which was the town of Lasea.


rate difficulty: and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.


rate difficulty: And the king said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, and cause Solomon my son to ride upon mine own mule, and bring him down to Gihon;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

If there is no one able to interpret what is said, they should remain silent at the meeting of the church, and speak to themselves and to God.


rate difficulty: He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.

And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.


rate difficulty: He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.


simplify: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.

And still you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, I will be your judge, giving to everyone the reward of his ways.


simplify: On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:

On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:


simplify: Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

Then Achish said to his servants, Look! the man is clearly off his head; why have you let him come before me?


simplify: And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt?

Seeing through their deceitfulness, Jesus said to them:


rate difficulty: and having been fully persuaded that what He hath promised He is able also to do:

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.

With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;


rate difficulty: Take away the dross from the silver, and there cometh forth a vessel for the refiner:


simplify: Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon.


rate difficulty: And when he had got out of the boat, straight away there came to him from the place of the dead a man with an unclean spirit.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.


rate difficulty: And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his peoples.


rate difficulty: The vine hath been dried up, And the fig-tree doth languish, Pomegranate, also palm, and apple-tree, All trees of the field have withered, For dried up hath been joy from the sons of men.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.


rate difficulty: And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.


rate difficulty: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Is it not certain that the saints will be the judges of the world? if then the world will be judged by you, are you unable to give a decision about the smallest things?


simplify: Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

A man's steps are of the Lord; how then may a man have knowledge of his way?


simplify: So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.

So he got up and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the door of the town, he saw a widow woman getting sticks together; and crying out to her he said, Will you give me a little water in a vessel for my drink?


rate difficulty: And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:


simplify: If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

We accept the testimony of people, but God’s testimony is still stronger; and there is the testimony of God — the fact that he has already borne testimony about his Son.


rate difficulty: How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.


rate difficulty: The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Ezra the scribe standeth on a tower of wood that they made for the purpose, and Mattithiah standeth near him, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right; and on his left Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddana, Zechariah, Meshullam.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He saved others; himself he cannot save. He is the King of Israel; let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe on him.

A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.


rate difficulty: Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear of the Lord came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.

And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.


rate difficulty: So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.


simplify: it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking Jehovah; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised Jehovah, saying, For he is good; for his lovingkindness endureth for ever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of Jehovah,

And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,


rate difficulty: Take away, then, the old leaven, so that you may be a new mass, even as you are without leaven. For Christ has been put to death as our Passover.


simplify: for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely--as it behoveth me to speak.

on behalf of which I am an ambassador — in chains! Pray that, in telling it, I may speak fearlessly as I ought.


rate difficulty: He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.

I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.


rate difficulty: then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

And he went through Syria and Cilicia, making the churches stronger in the faith.


simplify: Then said he unto me, These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and they shall go toward the sea; into the sea shall the waters go which were made to issue forth; and the waters shall be healed.

And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.


rate difficulty: he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:


rate difficulty: but I do not suffer a woman to teach nor to exercise authority over man, but to be in quietness;

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

He was the builder of Eloth, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.


rate difficulty: While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Wherefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him back to see what shall be after him?

So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?


rate difficulty: Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.


simplify: But the word of the Lord abideth for ever.  And this is the word of good tidings which was preached unto you.

But the word of the Lord is eternal. And this is the word of the good news which was given to you.


simplify: He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.


simplify: And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

As he said this, his opponents all felt ashamed; but all the people rejoiced to see all the wonderful things that he was doing.


simplify: For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.

When they come back from the dead, they do not get married, but are like the angels in heaven.


rate difficulty: And the report of him went out straightway everywhere into all the region of Galilee round about.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: and he snatcheth on the right hand, and is hungry, and eateth on the left hand; and they are not satisfied. They eat every man the flesh of his own arm:

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And his brethren, of Eliezer, <FI>are<Fi> Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;


simplify: And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

And Jesus said: “See that you are not led astray; for many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am He,’ and ‘The time is close at hand.’ Do not follow them.


simplify: And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

And they said, Which one of the tribes of Israel did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord? And it was seen that no one had come from Jabesh-gilead to the meeting.


rate difficulty: Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!


rate difficulty: For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

for the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; Otherwise some day they might perceive with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn — and I might heal them.’


rate difficulty: And I will visit you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

And they said to him, Let us be seated, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.


rate difficulty: and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken to them by the hand of Moses.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: What will ye do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Jehovah?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Cornelius said, Four days ago, until this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,


rate difficulty: And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.

And falling at his feet she said, May the wrong be on me, my lord, on me: let your servant say a word to you, and give ear to the words of your servant.


simplify: And Jehovah said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.


simplify: Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied upon Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.


rate difficulty: Joseph <FI>is<Fi> a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, [that] I will visit on the king of Babylon and on that nation, saith Jehovah, their iniquity, and on the land of the Chaldeans, and I will make it perpetual desolations.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

That we should be rescued from the hands of our enemies,


rate difficulty: They were amazed, they answered no more; words failed them.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Moses indeed said, A prophet shall [the] Lord yourGod raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.


simplify: Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.

Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto me, saying,


rate difficulty: Then Samuel said to Saul, Say no more! Let me give you word of what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.


simplify: And thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in the midst of her, that her time may come, and that maketh idols against herself to defile her!

And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!


rate difficulty: But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?


simplify: And the third angel sounded, and there fell from heaven a great star, burning as a torch, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of the waters;

And at the sounding of the third angel, there went down from heaven a great star, burning like a flame, and it came on a third part of the rivers, and on the fountains of water.


rate difficulty: And they tied unto it a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the Lord commanded Moses.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.

Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.


rate difficulty: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood; and the three agree in one.


rate difficulty: for I shall die in this land, I shall not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over, and possess this good land.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And his father saith to him--also his mother, `Is there not among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, a woman, that thou art going to take a woman from the uncircumcised Philistines?' and Samson saith unto his father, `Take her for me, for she is right in mine eyes.'

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, he was teaching,

They walked to Capernaum. On the next Sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach.


simplify: As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing the whirling wheels.

As for the wheels, they were named in my hearing, the circling wheels.


simplify: neither murmur ye, as also some of them did murmur, and did perish by the destroyer.

And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so ‘were destroyed by the angel of death.’


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.


rate difficulty: And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto the great sea.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: At that time, saith Jehovah, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.


simplify: In the six and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, to the intent that he might let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

In the thirty-sixth year of the rule of Asa, Baasha, king of Israel, went up against Judah, building Ramah so that no one was able to go out or in to Asa, king of Judah.


simplify: And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children that have not known, and that have not seen the chastisement of Jehovah your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his outstretched arm,

And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,


rate difficulty: And Abijah strengtheneth himself, and taketh to him fourteen wives, and begetteth twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: `And if ye do not hearken to Me, and do not all these commands;


rate difficulty: The first, [I said] to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.

No one after drinking old wine wishes for new. ‘No,’ they say, ‘the old is excellent.’”


simplify: And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him.

But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.


rate difficulty: And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Then thou seest, and hast become bright, And thine heart hath been afraid and enlarged, For turn unto thee doth the multitude of the sea, The forces of nations do come to thee.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And in <FI>his<Fi> speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Was it not behoving the Christ these things to suffer, and to enter into his glory?'

Was not the Christ bound to undergo this suffering before entering into his glory?”


rate difficulty: and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: lo, Thou hast driven me to-day from off the face of the ground, and from Thy face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it hath been--every one finding me doth slay me.'

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

“Master,” some one asked, “are there but few in the path of salvation?” And Jesus answered:


simplify: I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.


rate difficulty: And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.’


rate difficulty: not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God--to us who did eat with <FI>him<Fi> , and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he brought Aaron’s sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

Then he took Aaron's sons, and Moses put some of the blood on the point of their right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the great toes of their right feet: and Moses put the blood on and round the altar.


simplify: For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:


simplify: And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.


simplify: And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth–horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

And in their flight before Israel, on the way down from Beth-horon, the Lord sent down great stones from heaven on them all the way to Azekah, causing their death: those whose death was caused by the stones were more than those whom the children of Israel put to death with the sword.


rate difficulty: And also Maachah his mother he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol for the Asherah; and Asa cut down her idol, and burned it in the valley of Kidron.


simplify: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

But the fruit produced by the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindliness, generosity, trustfulness, gentleness, self-control.


rate difficulty: Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:


simplify: All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.


rate difficulty: Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of feasting [with] strife.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: and he putteth in Edom garrisons, and all the Edomites are servants to David; and Jehovah saveth David whithersoever he hath gone.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!'

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day

But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:


simplify: And all went to enrol themselves, every one to his own city.

And all men went to be numbered, everyone to his town.


rate difficulty: Also--when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.


simplify: Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:

You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab;


rate difficulty: The gold for things of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and for all manner of work to be made by the hands of artificers. And who then is willing to consecrate his service this day unto the Lord?

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their pastures; and they shall be fruitful and shall multiply.


rate difficulty: And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;


simplify: to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

To him it is that all the prophets bear witness, when they say that everyone who believes in him receives through his name forgiveness of sins.”


simplify: I find, then, the law, that when I desire to do what is right, with me the evil is present,

This, then, is the law that I find — when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!


rate difficulty: Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.


simplify: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.


rate difficulty: So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

and asked him to give him letters to the Jewish congregations at Damascus, authorizing him, if he found there any supporters of the cause, whether men or women, to have them put in chains and brought to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And he discerneth it, and saith, `My son's coat! an evil beast hath devoured him; torn--torn is Joseph!'

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,

For lifting up my hand to heaven I say, By my unending life,


simplify: I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly.

I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.


simplify: And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;


rate difficulty: And he gave to Moses, when he had ended speaking with him on mount Sinai, the two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger ofGod.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.


rate difficulty: And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time.


rate difficulty: or [have smitten him] with any stone wherewith one may die, without seeing him, and have cast it upon him so that he die, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: For it <FI>is<Fi> a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

The Lord is far from sinners, but his ear is open to the prayer of the upright.


simplify: The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.

The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.


rate difficulty: Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

And though they had a desire to take him, they were in fear of the people, because in their eyes he was a prophet.


simplify: His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.


rate difficulty: laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life which is life indeed.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: If therefore thou wilt do homage before me, all [of it] shall be thine.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


simplify: In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

Now late on the Sabbath, when the dawn of the first day of the week was near, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the place where his body was.


rate difficulty: And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.

The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.


simplify: Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?


rate difficulty: People’s hearts will fail them through dread of what is coming upon the world; for ‘the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.’


rate difficulty: In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head and restore thee to thy place, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his cup-bearer.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.


rate difficulty: Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and the suburbs of them shall be for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.


simplify: They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.


simplify: Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?


rate difficulty: If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And three bands of men came out from the Philistines to make an attack; one band went by the road which goes to Ophrah, into the land of Shual:


rate difficulty: When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


simplify: But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

Be on your guard against others, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their Synagogues;


rate difficulty: And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; Make known his acts among the peoples.


simplify: And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal only.

And Jehu, with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal; and he said to the servants of Baal, Make a search with care, to see that no servant of the Lord is with you, but only servants of Baal.


simplify: And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;

And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.


simplify: And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.


simplify: And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

And the man by whom they are burned is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water, and then he may come back to the tent-circle.


simplify: The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.


rate difficulty: Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Chelub the brother of Shuah begat Mehir, which was the father of Eshton.

And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.


simplify: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;


simplify: When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;


simplify: So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.


simplify: And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?

And Saul said, Am I not a man of Benjamin, the smallest of all the tribes of Israel? and my family the least of the families of Benjamin? why then do you say these words to me?


simplify: So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the company.

So the servants with the offerings went on in front, and he himself took his rest that night in the tents with his people.


simplify: And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,

And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands;


rate difficulty: And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.


simplify: Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

And the ruler is not to take the heritage of any of the people, driving them out of their property; he is to give a heritage to his sons out of the property which is his: so that my people may not be sent away from their property.


simplify: I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,


simplify: Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, evenI, will sing unto Jehovah; I will sing praise to Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: who, at once, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them, and they having seen the chief captain and the soldiers, did leave off beating Paul.

He instantly got together some officers and soldiers, and charged down on the crowd, who, when they saw the commanding officer and his soldiers, stopped beating Paul.


simplify: Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:


simplify: And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;

Saul approved of his being put to death.  On that very day a great persecution broke out against the church which was in Jerusalem; and its members, with the exception of the apostles, were all scattered over the districts of Judea and Samaria.


simplify: Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

and when Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, a command from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, while he was in the wilderness.


rate difficulty: However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: But I wish you to know that the Christ is the head of every man, but woman's head [is] the man, and the Christ's headGod.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And let the robes and the horse be given to one of the king's most noble captains, so that they may put them on the man whom the king has delight in honouring, and let him go on horseback through the streets of the town, with men crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

Now the men were full of fear because they had been taken into Joseph's house and they said, It is because of the money which was put back in our bags the first time; he is looking for something against us, so that he may come down on us and take us and our asses for his use.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.


rate difficulty: And after the taking away to Babylon, Jechoniah had a son Shealtiel; and Shealtiel had Zerubbabel;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?


simplify: When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;

Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.


simplify: And if, seeking to be declared righteous in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, <FI>is<Fi> then Christ a ministrant of sin? let it not be!

If, while seeking to be pronounced righteous through union with Christ, we were ourselves seen to be outcasts, would that make Christ an agent of sin? Heaven forbid!


rate difficulty: Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: and again it saith, `Rejoice ye nations, with His people;'

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: then the priest shall look upon it; and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and the appearance thereof be deeper than the skin; it is leprosy, it hath broken out in the burning: and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.

The priest is to see it: and if the hair on the bright place is turned white and it seems to go deeper than the skin, he is a leper: it has come out in the burn, and the priest will say that he is unclean: it is the leper's disease.


simplify: even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.


rate difficulty: Behold, I am against thee, inhabitress of the valley, the rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; ye that say, Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter into our dwellings?

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.


rate difficulty: And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, trying him.

And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him.


simplify: And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.

And the keeper said to Paul, The authorities have given orders to let you go: come out now, and go in peace.


rate difficulty: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.


simplify: They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

For the foolish, when they took their lights, took no oil with them.


rate difficulty: Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth.

Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.


simplify: Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:


rate difficulty: And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,

Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah,


simplify: In holiness and righteousness before him all our days.

In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.


rate difficulty: But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: For in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him, I will also visit the altars of Beth-el; and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins, I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.


rate difficulty: Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I say this to prevent anyone from deceiving you by plausible arguments.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,

In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting,


simplify: And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.


rate difficulty: Friends, let everyone remain in the condition in which they were when they were called, in close communion with God.


rate difficulty: And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites bowls full of wine, and cups; and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: so that the name of our Lord Jesus [Christ] may be glorified in you and ye in him, according to the grace of ourGod, and of [the] Lord Jesus Christ.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Moses let his father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.


rate difficulty: to you first, God, having raised up His child Jesus, did send him, blessing you, in the turning away of each one from your evil ways.'

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.

Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.


rate difficulty: And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;


simplify: And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?

And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?


rate difficulty: and saith, `O Jehovah God of Israel, there is not like Thee a god in the heavens and in the earth, keeping the covenant and the kindness for Thy servants who are walking before Thee with all their heart;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth parts for each ram of the two rams,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep,


rate difficulty: but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And his ears are attentive to their prayers, But the face of the Lord is set against those who do wrong.’


simplify: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.