rate difficulty: and their border is from Heleph, from Allon in Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakkum, and its outgoings are <FI>at<Fi> the Jordan;

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rate difficulty: And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

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


rate difficulty: not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Abigail, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be praised, who sent you to me today:


rate difficulty: Take away evil-doers from before the king, and the seat of his power will be made strong in righteousness.

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


simplify: Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.

So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.


simplify: Without counsel purposes are disappointed: but in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.


simplify: the <FI>son<Fi> of Neri, the <FI>son<Fi> of Melchi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Addi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Cosam, the <FI>son<Fi> of Elmodam, the <FI>son<Fi> of Er,


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them as a wave-offering to Jehovah.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And all the wise-hearted men among them that wrought the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skilful workman, Bezalel made them.

Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.


simplify: And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck, and kissed him,

All were in tears; and throwing their arms around Paul’s neck, they kissed him again and again,


simplify: Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

Did the gods of the nations keep safe those on whom my fathers sent destruction, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?


simplify: Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh.


rate difficulty: But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

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


rate difficulty: And say unto them, This is the offering by fire which ye shall present to Jehovah: two yearling lambs without blemish, day by day, as a continual burnt-offering.

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


rate difficulty: God hath delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.


simplify: For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

If we have become united with him by the act symbolic of his death, surely we will also become united with him by the act symbolic of his resurrection.


rate difficulty: Jehovah had called thy name, A green olive-tree, fair, of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and its branches are broken.


rate difficulty: to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him <FI>be<Fi> glory to the ages. Amen.

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


rate difficulty: The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.


simplify: That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;


rate difficulty: This [man] heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

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


simplify: And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

And you will put the value of a male from twenty years to sixty years old at fifty shekels of silver, by the scale of the holy place.


rate difficulty: `According to law, what--to do with queen Vashti, because that she hath not done the saying of the king Ahasuerus by the hand of the eunuchs?'

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: saying, What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

Saying, What you see, put in a book, and send it to the seven churches; to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamos and to Thyatira and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.


simplify: but ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saveth you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before Jehovah by your tribes, and by your thousands.

But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.


simplify: And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

And when Jesus saw that he gave a wise answer, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And every man after that was in fear of questioning him any more.


simplify: But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

But, if anyone has worldly possessions, and yet looks on while one of our own is in need, and steels their heart against that person, how can it be said that the love of God is within them?


rate difficulty: Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

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


simplify: And David did so, as Jehovah commanded him, and smote the Philistines from Geba until thou come to Gezer.

And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.


simplify: But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.


simplify: And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.


simplify: Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

Therefore, as the offspring of God, we must not think that the Deity has any resemblance to anything made of gold, or silver, or stone — a work of human art and imagination.


simplify: And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.


simplify: But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will determine your matter.

But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business.


simplify: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.


simplify: Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.


rate difficulty: (Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and they had buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land.)


simplify: And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

And the chiefs of the people, out of all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the meeting of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen armed with swords.


simplify: And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,

And Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (which is Hazor);


rate difficulty: Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as the whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are ruined.

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


rate difficulty: And straight away the disease went from him, and he was made clean.

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


rate difficulty: For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.

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


simplify: And on the fifth day nine bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

And on the fifth day nine oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:


rate difficulty: Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.


rate difficulty: Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;


rate difficulty: ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend <FI>it<Fi> .

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


simplify: but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.'

Paul, however, appealed to have his case reserved for the consideration of his August Majesty, so I ordered him to be detained in custody, until I could send him to the Emperor.”


simplify: but ye shall offer a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah: one bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;

And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:


rate difficulty: But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

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


rate difficulty: lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

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


simplify: And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)

And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:


simplify: And he provided the first part for himself, For there was the lawgiver’s portion reserved; And he camewiththe heads of the people; He executed the righteousness of Jehovah, And his ordinances with Israel.

He kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel.


simplify: And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


simplify: And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber, that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom.


rate difficulty: and they have overcome him by reason of the blood of the Lamb, and by reason of the word of their testimony, and have not loved their life even unto death.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellowlabourer,

From Paul, now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, a fellow follower of the Lord.


rate difficulty: In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come in unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz, the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou <FI>art<Fi> dying, and dost not live.'

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, What is this that thou hast done? For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Jehovah, because he had told them.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

And when his father had been put to rest, Joseph and his brothers and all who had gone with him, went back to Egypt.


simplify: And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

For now, truly, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me, and I have seen the cruel behaviour of the Egyptians to them.


simplify: Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear thee.

And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.


rate difficulty: Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.

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


rate difficulty: These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,

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


simplify: And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Jehovah your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof.

Now I am about to go the way of all the earth: and you have seen and are certain, all of you, in your hearts and souls, that in all the good things which the Lord said about you, he has kept faith with you; everything has come true for you.


rate difficulty: And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

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


simplify: and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed--in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil--in their destruction shall be destroyed,

These people, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed — these people, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,


simplify: If any man or woman that believeth have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the church be charged; that it may relieve them that are widows indeed.

Any Christian woman, who has relations who are widows, ought to relieve them and not allow them to become a burden to the church, so that the church may relieve those widows who are really widowed.


simplify: The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations;

Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done.


rate difficulty: And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.


simplify: And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out 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: Shout for joy, ye nations, with his people, For he avengeth the blood of his servants, And rendereth vengeance to his enemies, And maketh atonement for his land, for his people.

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


simplify: redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Making good use of the time, because the days are evil.


rate difficulty: For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.

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


simplify: Again, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths:

Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:


rate difficulty: Ministrants--in like manner grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not given to filthy lucre,

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


simplify: The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.


simplify: The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of JeshuaandJoab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred and twelve.


rate difficulty: Then shall he sweep by as a wind, and shall pass over, and be guilty, even he whose might is his god.

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


rate difficulty: which figure also now saves you, [even] baptism, not a putting away of [the] filth of flesh, but [the] demand as beforeGod of a good conscience, by [the] resurrection of Jesus Christ,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

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


rate difficulty: in reference to all the signs and the wonders which Jehovah sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

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


rate difficulty: But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

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


simplify: The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred, ready armed to the war.

There were six thousand, eight hundred spearmen of the children of Judah, armed for war;


simplify: And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

And if your foot is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off: it is better for you to go into life with one foot than to have two feet and go into hell.


simplify: For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

What follows then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their want of faith make God break faith? Heaven forbid!


rate difficulty: Because of violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.


simplify: And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.

And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of Manasseh by their families.


simplify: But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be ‘banished into the darkness’ outside; there, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.”


simplify: And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.

But again he said it was not so. And after a little time, again those who were near said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; for you are a Galilaean.


rate difficulty: For even as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also [is] the Christ.

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


simplify: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back: but my face is not to be seen.


simplify: that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.


rate difficulty: that thou mayest bear thy confusion, and mayest be confounded for all that thou hast done, in that thou comfortest them.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;


simplify: praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

And the Lord daily added to their company those who were in the path of salvation.


rate difficulty: Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain.

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


simplify: If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,


simplify: For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say.


simplify: And he brake in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.


rate difficulty: And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

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


rate difficulty: And some of them that stood there, when they heard it, said, This man calleth Elijah.

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


simplify: And the multitudes said, `This is Jesus the prophet, who <FI>is<Fi> from Nazareth of Galilee.'

“Who is this?”, to which the crowd replied — “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”


simplify: A prudent man concealeth knowledge; But the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.


simplify: And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.

And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.


simplify: I will hear thee fully, said he, when thine accusers also are come: and he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s palace.

I will give hearing to your cause, he said, when those who are against you have come. And he gave orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.


simplify: And this Writing did ye not read: A stone that the builders rejected, it did become the head of a corner:

‘Have you never read this passage of scripture? — ‘The stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner-stone;


simplify: How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him!

How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.


simplify: Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand: for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath consecrated his guests.

Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.


rate difficulty: Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.


simplify: And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

And they came back to him, while he was still at Jericho; and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?


rate difficulty: And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the flux shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


rate difficulty: Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.


simplify: Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),

Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,


simplify: Thou art all fair, my love; And there is no spot in thee.

You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.


rate difficulty: and the one sea, the twelve oxen under the sea,


simplify: And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.

And the children of Israel will be seven months putting them in the earth, so as to make the land clean.


simplify: And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon and Kohath and Merari.


rate difficulty: Lo, as a lion he cometh up, Because of the rising of the Jordan, Unto the enduring habitation, But I cause to rest, I cause them to run from off her. And who is chosen? on her I lay a charge, For who <FI>is<Fi> like Me? And who doth convene Me? And who <FI>is<Fi> this shepherd who standeth before Me?

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


simplify: So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told, saying, The messenger came to them, but he cometh not back.

So a horseman went out to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? come after me. And the watchman gave them word, saying, The horseman went up to them, but has not come back.


rate difficulty: In the fifteenth year of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was Governor of Judea, Herod Ruler of Galilee, his brother Philip Ruler of the territory comprising Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias Ruler of Abilene,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on when they are made priests.


rate difficulty: lo, ye <FI>are<Fi> all sons of Israel; give for you a word and counsel here.'

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that in the time when all things are made new, and the Son of man is seated in his glory, you who have come after me will be seated on twelve seats, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: a son of thirty and two years was he in his reigning, and eight years he hath reigned in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: and the priest hath seen the plague in the skin of the flesh, and the hair in the plague hath turned white, and the appearance of the plague <FI>is<Fi> deeper than the skin of his flesh--it <FI>is<Fi> a plague of leprosy, and the priest hath seen him, and hath pronounced him unclean.

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

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


rate difficulty: These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.


rate difficulty: and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? --ye strive with me, what? --ye try Jehovah?'

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


rate difficulty: But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

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


simplify: And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

And Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour, but in his country, and among his relations, and in his family.


simplify: for because of this also pay ye tribute; for servants of God they are, on this very thing attending continually;

This, too, is the reason for your paying taxes; for the officials are God’s officers, devoting themselves to this special work.


simplify: As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.


rate difficulty: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:

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


rate difficulty: Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

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


simplify: Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity; And array thyself with honor and majesty.

Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:


rate difficulty: The twenty-third Mahazioth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

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


rate difficulty: And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.

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


rate difficulty: And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.


rate difficulty: And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.

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


simplify: And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:

And I will let your numbers be increased, all the children of Israel, even all of them: and the towns will be peopled and the waste places will have buildings;


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else should I do, because of the daughter of my people?

So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will make them soft in the fire and put them to the test; this I will do because of their evil-doing.


rate difficulty: And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.

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rate difficulty: And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.

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


simplify: and now send men to Joppa, and send for a certain one Simon, who is surnamed Peter,

And now, send messengers to Jaffa and fetch a man called Simon, who is also known as Peter.


rate difficulty: His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

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


rate difficulty: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

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


simplify: All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands.


rate difficulty: The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.


simplify: And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

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


simplify: Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.


simplify: And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew the men of seven hundred chariots of the Syrians, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, who died there.

And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.


rate difficulty: For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;

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simplify: And he came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee.

And the angel came in to her and said, Peace be with you, to whom special grace has been given; the Lord is with you.


simplify: And Hannah prayed, and said:  My heart exulteth in Jehovah; My horn is exalted in Jehovah; My mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; Because I rejoice in thy salvation.

And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.


rate difficulty: For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; andGod has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him.

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


rate difficulty: And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

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


simplify: I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.


simplify: And when they have accomplished the days, it shall be that upon the eighth day, and forward, the priests shall make your burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your peace-offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And when these days have come to an end, then on the eighth day and after, the priests will make your burned offerings on the altar and your peace-offerings; and I will take pleasure in you, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.


simplify: But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out demons, but by Beelzebub the prince of the demons.

But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.


simplify: for whether we were beside ourselves, <FI>it was<Fi> to God; whether we be of sound mind--<FI> it is<Fi> to you,

For, if we were “beside ourselves,” it was in God’s service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!


rate difficulty: How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?


simplify: Then he brought me forth into the outer court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was over against the building toward the north.

And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north: and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and opposite the building to the north.


rate difficulty: And ye shall present a burnt-offering to Jehovah for a sweet odour: one young bullock, one ram, seven yearling lambs (without blemish shall they be unto you);

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


simplify: It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

It seemed good to me, having made observation, with great care, of the direction of events in their order, to put the facts in writing for you, most noble Theophilus;


rate difficulty: But he, turning about, and seeing his disciples, said sharply to Peter, Get out of my way, Satan: for your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.

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


simplify: Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him that dieth of his in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.

Anyone of the family of Baasha who comes to death in the town, will become food for the dogs; and he to whom death comes in the open country, will be food for the birds of the air.


rate difficulty: son of Amzi, son of Bani, son of Shamer,


rate difficulty: Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Of a talent of pure gold shall they make it, with all these utensils.

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


simplify: And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

There was, however, a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, sold some property,


simplify: He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.


rate difficulty: For she leaveth her eggs to the earth, and warmeth them in the dust,

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


simplify: But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?


simplify: For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

For what is there in which you were made less than the other churches, but in the one thing that I was not a trouble to you? Let me have forgiveness for this wrong.


rate difficulty: Now from [the] sixth hour there was darkness over the whole land until [the] ninth hour;


rate difficulty: and sacrifice to Jehovah on that day from the spoil they have brought in--oxen seven hundred, and sheep seven thousand,

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simplify: And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot: but Jehovah will give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:


rate difficulty: Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.


rate difficulty: The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


simplify: The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the last farthing.

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


simplify: And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

Now Elisha, the man of God, hearing that the king of Israel had done this, sent to the king, saying, Why are you troubled? send the man to me, so that he may see that there is a prophet in Israel.


simplify: And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.

And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.


simplify: Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to each man according as his work is.

See, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give to every man the outcome of his works.


simplify: But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.


rate difficulty: Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.

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


simplify: Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled over the house of their father; for they were mighty men of valor.

And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men.


simplify: the law and the prophets <FI>are<Fi> till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

The law and the prophets sufficed until the time of John. Since then the good news of the kingdom of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing their way into it.


simplify: The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.


simplify: So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.


simplify: And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

And while they were drinking wine the king said to Esther, What is your prayer? for it will be given to you and what is your request? for it will be done, even to the half of my kingdom.


simplify: For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.


simplify: And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

A man came up to Jesus, and said: “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”


simplify: And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.


simplify: And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.


rate difficulty: Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

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simplify: But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,


rate difficulty: the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;


rate difficulty: and whereas my father laid a heavy yoke upon you, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.


simplify: And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel say unto Samuel, `Keep not silent for us from crying unto Jehovah our God, and He doth save us out of the hand of the Philistines.'

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


simplify: Now on the morrow, which is the day after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together unto Pilate,

Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,


rate difficulty: and a south wind blowing softly, having thought they had obtained <FI>their<Fi> purpose, having lifted anchor, they sailed close by Crete,

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


rate difficulty: `For Judah--Nahshon son of Amminadab.

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


simplify: But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

But what was the divine response? ‘I have kept for myself seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal.’


rate difficulty: He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.

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


simplify: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: A servant that dealeth wisely shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, And shall have part in the inheritance among the brethren.

A servant who does wisely will have rule over a son causing shame, and will have his part in the heritage among brothers.


simplify: And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

And any vessel of earth which has been touched by the unclean man will have to be broken and any vessel of wood washed.


rate difficulty: Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to him with her sons, bowing to the ground, and begging a favor.


rate difficulty: And he made the sea, molten, ten cubits from brim to brim, round all about; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it round about.

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


rate difficulty: Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;

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


rate difficulty: And his firstborn son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,


rate difficulty: A son of eighty years I <FI>am<Fi> to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?

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


simplify: Now the pit wherein Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, was it which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with them that were slain.

Now the hole into which Ishmael had put the dead bodies of the men whom he had put to death, was the great hole which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha, king of Israel: and Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, made it full of the bodies of those who had been put to death.


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book, thou dost bind to it a stone, and hast cast it into the midst of Phrat,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.


rate difficulty: And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.


rate difficulty: And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?

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


simplify: Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.


rate difficulty: And thou hast established to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, art become theirGod.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Do you think that I cannot ask my Father for help, when he would at once send to my aid more than twelve legions of angels?

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


rate difficulty: Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let my soul die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!

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


rate difficulty: So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority.

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


simplify: And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

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


simplify: And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?


rate difficulty: And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, I will ask of you one question, and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

And Jesus said to them, I will put to you one question; give me an answer, and I will say by what authority I do these things.


simplify: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

for you know that everyone will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or free.


rate difficulty: For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.


simplify: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

that the genuineness of your faith — a thing far more precious than gold, which is perishable, yet has to be tested by fire — may win praise and glory and honor at the appearing of Jesus Christ.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;

And it will be, in that day, says the Lord, that I will give an answer to the heavens, and the heavens to the earth;


simplify: And they slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.


simplify: The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.


rate difficulty: For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.

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


rate difficulty: But six hundred men, turning back, went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land, and were living on the rock of Rimmon for four months.

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


simplify: This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,


simplify: And Isaiah crieth concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:

And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:


simplify: And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding.

Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food.


simplify: For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.


simplify: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.


simplify: how he went into the house of God, and the loaves of the presentation did take, and did eat, and gave also to those with him, which it is not lawful to eat, except only to the priests?'

That he went into the house of God, and took the consecrated bread and ate it, and gave some to his companions, though only the priests are allowed to eat it?”


rate difficulty: How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:

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


simplify: The waste city is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

The town is waste and broken down: every house is shut up, so that no man may come in.


rate difficulty: Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

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


rate difficulty: We ought to thankGod always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

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


simplify: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;


simplify: And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

And as for you, if you will go on your way before me as David your father did, doing whatever I have given you orders to do and keeping my laws and my decisions:


rate difficulty: And Isaiah said, Take a cake of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.


rate difficulty: Until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: or ministration--`In the ministration!' or he who is teaching--`In the teaching!'

if it is to minister to others, let us devote ourselves to our ministry; the teacher to their teaching,


simplify: If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.

If not, give attention to me, and keep quiet, and I will give you wisdom.


rate difficulty: And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.

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


simplify: But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up the Gentiles, and poisoned their minds against the Lord's followers.


simplify: For at the window of my house  I looked forth through my lattice;

Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,


simplify: So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground; and of him and of all the men that are with him we will not leave so much as one.

Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.


rate difficulty: Blessed are those bondmen whom the lord [on] coming shall find watching; verily I say unto you, that he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and coming up will serve them.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?


rate difficulty: Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

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


simplify: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

(For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.)


rate difficulty: If then David doth call him lord, how is he his son?'


simplify: And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

He will be to you a joy and a delight; and many will rejoice over his birth.


rate difficulty: And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

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


rate difficulty: So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

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


simplify: Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.


rate difficulty: For there were many in the congregation that were not hallowed; therefore the Levites had the charge of the slaughtering of the passover-lambs for every one not clean, to hallow them unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the lord of that bondman, being moved with compassion, loosed him and forgave him the loan.

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


simplify: Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.


simplify: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.


rate difficulty: You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

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


rate difficulty: I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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


rate difficulty: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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


simplify: `I indeed do baptize you with water to reformation, but he who after me is coming is mightier than I, of whom I am not worthy to bear the sandals, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire,

I, indeed, baptize you with water to teach repentance; but he who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

Then on the day after, the people got up early and made an altar there, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings.


rate difficulty: A man’s gift maketh room for him, And bringeth him before great men.


rate difficulty: See, you will send for a nation of which you had no knowledge, and those who had no knowledge of you will come running to you, because of the Lord your God, and because of the Holy One of Israel, for he has given you glory.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death;


rate difficulty: And make a network of brass, with four brass rings at its four angles.

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


rate difficulty: Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

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


simplify: The fifth to Nethaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The fifth Nethaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

The former spread the news of the Christ in a factious spirit, and not sincerely, thinking to add to the pain of my chains.


rate difficulty: Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

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


simplify: Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Together you are the body of Christ, and individually its parts.


rate difficulty: He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:

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


simplify: not to condemn you do I say <FI>it<Fi> , for I have said before that in our hearts ye are to die with and to live with;

I am not saying this to condemn you. Indeed, I have already said that you are in our heart, to live and die together.


simplify: So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?


simplify: And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

The people kept shouting: “It is the voice of God, and not of a person!”


simplify: beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.


simplify: That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

I made my brother Hanani, and Hananiah, the ruler of the tower, responsible for the government of Jerusalem: for he was a man of good faith, fearing God more than most.


simplify: And when he was departed thence, he lighted on Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him: and he saluted him, and said to him, Is thine heart right, as my heart is with thy heart? And Jehonadab answered, It is. If it be, give me thine hand. And he gave him his hand; and he took him up to him into the chariot.

And when he had gone away from there, he came across Jehonadab, the son of Rechab: and he said good-day to him, and said to him, Is your heart true to mine, as mine is to yours? And Jehonadab in answer said, It is; and Jehu said, If it is, give me your hand. And he gave him his hand, and he made him come up into his carriage.


rate difficulty: his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Then the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the bar from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

Then after the yoke had been broken off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah by Hananiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,


simplify: And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.

And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites:


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass at the hearing of this word--and he is drinking, he and the kings, in the booths--that he saith unto his servants, `Set yourselves;' and they set themselves against the city.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Those who conquer will suffer no hurt from the Second Death.”


rate difficulty: We pray God that you may do nothing wrong, not that we may be seen to stand the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem not to stand the test.

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


simplify: And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go out from thee; because he loveth thee and thy house, because he is well with thee;

But if he says to you, I have no desire to go away from you; because you and your family are dear to him and he is happy with you;


simplify: And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.


rate difficulty: And he hath caused to cease the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah have appointed, (and they make perfume in high places, in cities of Judah and suburbs of Jerusalem,) and those making perfume to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of the heavens.

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


simplify: And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat;

In it the hands and feet of Moses and Aaron and his sons were washed,


simplify: and whosoever beareth aught of the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

Whoever takes away the dead body of one of them is to have his clothing washed, and will be unclean till evening.


simplify: And Elijah said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.

And Elijah said, By the life of the Lord of armies, whose servant I am, I will certainly let him see me today.


simplify: And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched grain, nor fresh ears, until this selfsame day, until ye have brought the oblation of your God: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.


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.


rate difficulty: Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and Isaiah saith unto them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord, Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

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


rate difficulty: How then shall they call upon <FI>him<Fi> in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe <FI>on him<Fi> of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

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


rate difficulty: and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the men of Sheba, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken it.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, the name of Jehovah is coming from far, Burning is His anger, and great the flame, His lips have been full of indignation, And His tongue <FI>is<Fi> as a devouring fire.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: As the heat in a dry place wilt thou bring down the noise of strangers; as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.


rate difficulty: The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

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


rate difficulty: Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.


simplify: Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the prophet says —


simplify: There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.


rate difficulty: `And he hath done to the bullock as he hath done to the bullock of the sin-offering, so he doth to it; and the priest hath made atonement for them, and it hath been forgiven them;

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


rate difficulty: But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.


simplify: And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,


simplify: And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.


rate difficulty: then the priest shall come, and when he looketh, and behold, the plague hath spread in the house, it is a corroding leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

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


simplify: for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him--in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'

For in every town, for generations past, there have been those who preach Moses, read as he is in the Synagogues every Sabbath.”


simplify: Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;

Straight away I was in the Spirit: and I saw a high seat in heaven, and one was seated on it;


simplify: And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And when the seventh stamp was undone there was quiet in heaven for about half an hour.


rate difficulty: Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.


rate difficulty: For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, For the fierce anger of Jehovah hath not turned back from us.

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


rate difficulty: Sons of Reuben, first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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


rate difficulty: Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

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


simplify: He openeth also their ear to discipline, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.


simplify: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.


rate difficulty: But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.

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


simplify: And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.


rate difficulty: The evil have bowed down before the good, And the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

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


rate difficulty: Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, theGod of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or hurled upon him anything without lying in wait,

But if a man has given a wound to another suddenly and not in hate, or without design has sent something against him,


simplify: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.

And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.


simplify: In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.


simplify: All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


rate difficulty: In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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


simplify: I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah.

I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.


simplify: And at En–rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,

And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,


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: So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

So they went on increasing the power of the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, strong for three years; and for three years they went in the ways of David and Solomon.


rate difficulty: for he was not yet fallen upon any of them, only they were baptised to the name of the Lord Jesus.

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


simplify: If he set his heart upon himself, Ifhe gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,


simplify: And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord,

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud,


rate difficulty: And he said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, shew me a sign that it is thou who talkest with me.

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


rate difficulty: What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

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


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

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


rate difficulty: I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

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


rate difficulty: Have we no right to take about with us a Christian wife, like the rest of the Apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

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


rate difficulty: They have sown wheat, and they reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, [and] do not profit. Be ye therefore ashamed of your revenues, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?


rate difficulty: Gall of asps he sucketh, Slay him doth the tongue of a viper.

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


simplify: But the Lord said to David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build an house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:


rate difficulty: And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.


simplify: ye, then, coming together at the same place--it is not to eat the Lord's supper;

When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s Supper;


rate difficulty: It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to take wine, or for rulers to say, Where is strong drink?

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


rate difficulty: Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: (And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,


rate difficulty: and it hath been, in the day that ye pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, that thou hast raised up for thee great stones, and plaistered them with plaister,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.


rate difficulty: Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets hath its foliage been.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Ifwe speakof strength, lo, he ismighty! And if of justice, Who, saith he, will summon me?

If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?


simplify: Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

Came after him and put her hand on the edge of his robe, and straight away the flowing of her blood was stopped.


simplify: and a certain one, Ananias, a pious man according to the law, being testified to by all the Jews dwelling <FI>there<Fi> ,

There a man named Ananias, a strict observer of our law, well spoken of by all the Jewish inhabitants, came to see me.


rate difficulty: They therefore, when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

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


simplify: And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth


simplify: And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly; Yea, he was seen upon the wings of the wind.

And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind.


rate difficulty: And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

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


rate difficulty: And they come in--the men with the women--every willing-hearted one--they have brought in nose-ring, and ear-ring, and seal-ring, and necklace, all golden goods, even every one who hath waved a wave-offering of gold to Jehovah.

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


simplify: And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.


simplify: Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah, with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.


rate difficulty: And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.


rate difficulty: There will be weeping and cries of sorrow when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are shut outside.


rate difficulty: In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

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


simplify: And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.