simplify: The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.

The children of Arah, seven hundred and seventy-five.


rate difficulty: My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: And after three days they came across him in the Temple, seated among the wise men, giving ear to their words and putting questions to them.

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


rate difficulty: salute Apelles, the approved in Christ; salute those of the <FI>household<Fi> of Aristobulus;

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


simplify: Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.

They also presented us with many gifts, and when we set sail they put supplies of necessaries on board.


simplify: And Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

And Elon the Zebulonite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.


rate difficulty: They of the house of Togarmah, <FI>For<Fi> horses, and riding steeds, and mules, They have given out thy remnants.

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


simplify: I say again, Let no man think me foolish; but ifye do, yet as foolish receive me, that I also may glory a little.

I say again, Let me not seem foolish to anyone; but if I do, put up with me as such, so that I may take a little glory to myself.


rate difficulty: And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

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


rate difficulty: So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.

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


simplify: For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

For I am not able to give names of honour to any man; and if I did, my Maker would quickly take me away.


rate difficulty: For I have no one but him to send — no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare.

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rate difficulty: And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

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


rate difficulty: (for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land is defiled);

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


simplify: And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?

And they put a question to him, saying, Why do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?


simplify: Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.


simplify: and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.

And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.


rate difficulty: And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: and he continued making signs unto them, and remained dumb.

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


rate difficulty: and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

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


rate difficulty: And his lord saith unto him, `Let us not turn aside unto the city of a stranger, that is not of the sons of Israel, thither, but we have passed over unto Gibeah.'

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


simplify: Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.


rate difficulty: And those that died in the plague were twenty-four thousand.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

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


simplify: Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?


simplify: But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

But when they had given them orders to go out of the Sanhedrin, they had a discussion among themselves,


simplify: and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth parts for the ram,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,


rate difficulty: And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him.

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


rate difficulty: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.


simplify: See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.


rate difficulty: So it was clear to Israel and to all the people on that day that the king was not responsible for the death of Abner, the son of Ner.

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


rate difficulty: And cutteth down on the right, and hath been hungry, And he devoureth on the left, And they have not been satisfied, Each the flesh of his own arm they devour.

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


rate difficulty: And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.

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


simplify: And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.

And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.


rate difficulty: one cup of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense;


rate difficulty: Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;


rate difficulty: And all the labour of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was ended; and the children of Israel had done [it] according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses — so had they done [it].

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


simplify: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, with the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.


simplify: And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

And they made answer that they had no idea where it came from.


simplify: And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.

And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king and its towns and every person in it to the sword: as he had done to Eglon, he put them all to death, and gave it up to the curse with every person in it.


simplify: And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more?

And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?


rate difficulty: A Levite, too, did the same; he came up to the spot, but, when he saw the man, passed by on the opposite side.

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


rate difficulty: And there went a proclamation throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his own country.

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


rate difficulty: For pass over to the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there have been such a thing.

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


simplify: Then they speedily took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his sack.

Then every man quickly got his bag down and undid it.


rate difficulty: Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

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


simplify: Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;


rate difficulty: If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.


simplify: And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.


rate difficulty: [How then to him] that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich man more than the poor? for they are all the work of his hands.

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


rate difficulty: The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

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


simplify: serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against <FI>me<Fi> ;

serving the Lord, as I did, in all humility, amid the tears and trials which fell to my lot through the plots of some of the Jewish leaders.


simplify: Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Show honor to everyone, love the Lord's followers, ‘revere God, honor the emperor.’


simplify: Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves.

For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.


rate difficulty: In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.

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


simplify: He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

He who gives teaching to a man of pride gets shame for himself; he who says sharp words to a sinner gets a bad name.


rate difficulty: Beloved, take not [as] strange the fire [of persecution] which has taken place amongst you for [your] trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;


rate difficulty: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.


simplify: For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.


simplify: having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;


rate difficulty: And he carried him, and brought him to his mother; and he sat on her knees till noon, and died.

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


simplify: And Joseph and his mother marvelled at those things which were spoken of him.

While the child’s father and mother were wondering at what was said about him,


rate difficulty: Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

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


simplify: And the spirit bade me go with them, nothing doubting. Moreover these six brethren accompanied me, and we entered into the man’s house:

The Spirit told me to go with them without hesitation. These six companions also went with me. And, when we came into the man’s house,


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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


simplify: Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But I appeal to you, my friends, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united — of one mind and of one opinion.


simplify: And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.


simplify: And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.

And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.


simplify: But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

But the days will come — a time when the groom will be taken away from them; and they will fast then, when those days come.”


rate difficulty: Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man rather than a fool in his folly.

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


rate difficulty: if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

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


simplify: And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.


simplify: And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.


rate difficulty: Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

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


rate difficulty: But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;

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


simplify: And if the righteous man is scarcely saved, the ungodly and sinner--where shall he appear?

If ‘a good person is saved only with difficulty, what will become of the godless and the sinful?’


simplify: Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,


simplify: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.


rate difficulty: I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: `And thou dost not join in marriage with them; thy daughter thou dost not give to his son, and his daughter thou dost not take to thy son,

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


rate difficulty: and did keep back of the price--his wife also knowing--and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid <FI>it<Fi> .


simplify: And it was told king David, saying, Jehovah hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with joy.

And they said to King David, The blessing of the Lord is on the family of Obed-edom and on all he has, because of the ark of God. And David went and took the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the town of David with joy.


simplify: and he said unto them, `What <FI>are<Fi> these words that ye exchange with one another, walking, and ye are sad?'

“What is this that you are saying to each other as you walk along?”Jesus asked. They stopped, with sad looks on their faces,


simplify: The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.


simplify: Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit ofGod came upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.

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


rate difficulty: that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.

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


rate difficulty: And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.

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


rate difficulty: Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.

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


rate difficulty: And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.


rate difficulty: It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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


simplify: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:

And he will be ruling them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of the potter they will be broken, even as I have power from my Father:


rate difficulty: So the distribution of the land and its limits was complete; and the children of Israel gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a heritage among them;

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


rate difficulty: Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

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


simplify: and then I will acknowledge to them, that--I never knew you, depart from me ye who are working lawlessness.

And then I will say to them plainly ‘I never knew you. Go from my presence, you who live in sin.’


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,


simplify: And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

As soon as they have completed their testimony, ‘the wild Beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer’ and kill them.


simplify: And now therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, concerning this city, whereof ye say, It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence:

And now the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of this town, about which you say, It is given into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword and by need of food and by disease:


rate difficulty: Say thou, Thus saith the Lord God; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

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


simplify: And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

And the Lord will take you back to Egypt again in ships, by the way of which I said to you, You will never see it again: there you will be offering yourselves as men-servants and women-servants to your haters for a price, and no man will take you.


simplify: And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they perceived a certain bay with a beach, and they took counsel whether they could drive the ship upon it.

And when it was day, they had no knowledge of the land, but they saw an inlet of the sea with a floor of sand, and they had the idea of driving the ship up on to it if possible.


simplify: and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.

And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.


rate difficulty: But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and this [man] himself having appealed to Augustus, I have decided to send him;

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


rate difficulty: Then Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

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


simplify: And Bashemath Ishmael’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

And Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.


rate difficulty: conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other’s; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?


rate difficulty: And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry.

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


simplify: We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.

He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.


rate difficulty: Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

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


simplify: Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;


rate difficulty: And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

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


simplify: Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets cried, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith Jehovah.

Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.

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


rate difficulty: Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:

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


rate difficulty: But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

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


rate difficulty: And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

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


simplify: for astonishment seized him, and all those with him, at the draught of the fishes that they took,

For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;


simplify: for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

It is at night that people sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.


simplify: and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way,

The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road.


simplify: Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.

Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.


rate difficulty: to Shuppim and to Hosah to the west, with the gate Shallecheth, in the highway, the ascent, charge over-against charge;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth;

In that day Israel will be the third together with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the earth:


simplify: Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

Since our gifts differ in accordance with the particular charge entrusted to us, if our gift is to preach, let our preaching correspond to our faith;


rate difficulty: It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, when [our] rest shall be together in the dust.

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


simplify: and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:


simplify: And as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him; for they were all waiting for him.

And when Jesus went back, the people were glad to see him, for they were all waiting for him.


simplify: and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

Then he was aware of a voice which said — “Stand up, Peter, kill something, and eat.”


rate difficulty: He hath forsaken his covert as a young lion; for their land is a desolation because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

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


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

But Jesus spoke up, and said to the men: “Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me?


simplify: He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;

He has stretched out his hand to his servant Israel, Ever mindful of his mercy


simplify: The thoughts of the righteous are just; Butthe counsels of the wicked are deceit.

The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.


rate difficulty: `We have heard its sound, feeble have been our hands, Distress hath seized us, pain as of a travailing woman.

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


simplify: But if the princes hear that I have talked with thee, and they come unto thee, and say unto thee, Declare unto us now what thou hast said unto the king; hide it not from us, and we will not put thee to death; also what the king said unto thee:

But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;


simplify: Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts,


simplify: The Lord be with thy spirit. Grace be with you.

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.


simplify: And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the altar;

And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar:


rate difficulty: But Peter arose, and ran unto the tomb; and stooping and looking in, he seeth the linen cloths by themselves; and he departed to his home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

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


rate difficulty: He has trusted in God; if God wants him, let him deliver him now; for he said ‘I am God’s Son.’”


rate difficulty: Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.

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


rate difficulty: `Rise, go to Zarephath, that <FI>is<Fi> to Zidon, and thou hast dwelt there; lo, I have commanded there a widow woman to sustain thee.'

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him.


simplify: Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel, saying unto them,

Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,


simplify: `And no one having lighted a lamp doth cover it with a vessel, or under a couch doth put <FI>it<Fi> ; but upon a lamp-stand he doth put <FI>it<Fi> , that those coming in may see the light,

No one sets light to a lamp and then covers it with a bowl or puts it underneath a couch, but they put it on a lamp-stand, so that anyone who comes in may see the light.


rate difficulty: So I bought her to me for fifteen silver [pieces], and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.

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


rate difficulty: And the sea-coast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.

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


simplify: Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.


simplify: And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.


simplify: For indeed we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but that we would be clothed upon, that what is mortal may be swallowed up of life.

For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.


rate difficulty: `And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;

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


simplify: The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.


simplify: But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.


rate difficulty: And this took place thrice, and again all was drawn up into heaven;

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


simplify: and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the scall; and, behold, if the scall be not spread in the skin, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin; then the priest shall pronounce him clean: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, the priest will say that he is clean: and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean.


rate difficulty: And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.


simplify: unwise! thou--what thou dost sow is not quickened except it may die;

You foolish person! The seed you yourself sow does not come to life, unless it dies!


simplify: And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

And when the sons of the prophets who were facing him at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah is resting on Elisha. And they came out to him, and went down on the earth before him.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

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


simplify: If thou hast not wherewith to pay, Why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

If you have nothing with which to make payment, he will take away your bed from under you.


simplify: Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;


rate difficulty: and having sent them to Bethlehem, said, Go, search out accurately concerning the child, and when ye shall have found [him] bring me back word, so that I also may come and do him homage.

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


rate difficulty: one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy: and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertaineth to the people.

When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.


rate difficulty: Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

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


simplify: And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:

and, as they were staying there for several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king. “There is a man here,” he said, “left a prisoner by Felix,


simplify: Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Is he not a speaker of parables?

Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?


simplify: After he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward.

And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west.


simplify: And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:

Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:


simplify: For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.


simplify: and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;

He went to him and bound up his wounds, dressing them with oil and wine, and then put him on his own mule, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


simplify: Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan–havoth–jair, unto this day.

Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)


rate difficulty: Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

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


simplify: I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.

I will give the price to make them free from the power of the underworld, I will be their saviour from death: O death! where are your pains? O underworld! where is your destruction? my eyes will have no pity.


simplify: Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

Because you have been pushing with side and leg, pushing the diseased with your horns till they were sent away in every direction;


simplify: And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.


rate difficulty: Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to the captains of hundreds who had authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.

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


simplify: To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.


rate difficulty: If now there may be an angel sent to him, one of the thousands which there are to be between him and God, and to make clear to man what is right for him;

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


simplify: So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.


simplify: and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple, of gold.

And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the pins on which the doors were turned, the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, all of gold.


rate difficulty: and forty and one years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Maachah daughter of Abishalom.

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


simplify: And before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the fountain, and drew: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.


simplify: And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel, did eat,

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,


rate difficulty: And Hilkiah the high priest saith unto Shaphan the scribe, `A book of the law I have found in the house of Jehovah;' and Hilkiah giveth the book unto Shaphan, and he readeth it.

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


rate difficulty: For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Nor yet the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you took away?


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


simplify: But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.


rate difficulty: and Joshua calleth for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and saith unto them, `I have become old; I have entered into days;

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


rate difficulty: To do righteousness and justice  Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

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


simplify: All the city also was moved and there was a running together of the people, and having laid hold on Paul, they were drawing him out of the temple, and immediately were the doors shut,

The whole city was stirred, and the people quickly collected, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple, when the doors were immediately shut.


rate difficulty: And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon

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


simplify: And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

But the people recognized him and followed him in crowds; and Jesus welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, while he cured those who were in need of help.


simplify: And the multitude of the city was divided, and some were with the Jews, and some with the apostles,

But the townspeople were divided, some siding with the Jews, some with the apostles;


rate difficulty: And Mary said: My soul gives glory to God;

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


simplify: and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen and the sheep and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:


rate difficulty: Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.


simplify: For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

For there will be no more false visions or smooth use of secret arts in Israel.


rate difficulty: Sons of Keros, sons of Siaha, sons of Padon,

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


simplify: He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

“What commandments?” asked the man. “These,” answered Jesus: — “‘You must not kill. You must not commit adultery. You must not steal. You must not say what is false about others.


simplify: or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

Or do you think lightly of his abundant kindness, patience, and forbearance, not realizing that his kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?


rate difficulty: Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

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


simplify: Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: By me the yoke of the king of Babylon has been broken.


simplify: what fruit, therefore, were ye having then, in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those <FI>is<Fi> death.

But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death.


rate difficulty: And he called out saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.


simplify: And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

and were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.


rate difficulty: Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

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


simplify: And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?

Then Rachel and Leah said to him in answer, What part or heritage is there for us in our father's house?


simplify: and God did raise him out of the dead,


rate difficulty: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses and Aaron, `This <FI>is<Fi> a statute of the passover; Any son of a stranger doth not eat of it;

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


simplify: In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

It is said in the law —  ‘In strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.’


simplify: And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.

And when the time had come, he took his seat, and the Apostles with him.


simplify: And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

And the Philistine said to David, Come here to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field.


simplify: For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.

For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.


simplify: How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

What would you say now? if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone wandering away, will he not let the ninety-nine be, and go to the mountains in search of the wandering one?


simplify: And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.


simplify: and thou shalt swear, As Jehovah liveth, in truth, in justice, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.


simplify: Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.

See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly.


simplify: And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.

That night the Lord came and stood by Paul, and said: “Courage! You have borne witness for me in Jerusalem and you must bear witness in Rome also.”


simplify: One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

The law and the rule are to be the same for you and for those from other lands living with you.


simplify: They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered. ‘You also may go into my vineyard,’ he said.


simplify: And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;


rate difficulty: the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

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


simplify: In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.


rate difficulty: And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offering, which [a man] shall present to Jehovah.

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


simplify: and Joseph having sent, did call for his father Jacob, and all his kindred--with seventy and five souls--

Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relations, seventy-five persons in all;


simplify: Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,


simplify: And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

Now after this, he was in love with a woman in the valley of Sorek, named Delilah.


simplify: Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

And those who were her fighters for payment are like fat oxen; for they are turned back, they have gone in flight together, they do not keep their place: for the day of their fate has come on them, the time of their punishment.


simplify: And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.


simplify: Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.

Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.


simplify: I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

I will take away your troubles, lifting up your shame from off you.


simplify: If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:


simplify: Fire shall be kept burning upon the altar continually; it shall not go out.

Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out.


simplify: For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God.

For the strong desire of every living thing is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God.


rate difficulty: And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty;

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Is this your joyous [city], whose antiquity is of ancient days? Her feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

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


simplify: And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.

And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.


simplify: Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.


simplify: And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having seven plagues, which are the last, for in them is finished the wrath of God.

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and strange; seven angels having the seven last punishments, for in them the wrath of God is complete.


rate difficulty: And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

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


rate difficulty: And anyone touching the flesh of the unclean man is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

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


simplify: By his Spirit the heavens are garnished; His hand hath pierced the swift serpent.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jehdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.


simplify: And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

And death came to Elisha and they put his body into the earth. Now in the spring of the year, armed bands of Moabites frequently came, overrunning the land.


rate difficulty: For he has looked upon the low estate of his bondmaid; for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

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


simplify: And after he had taken leave of them, he departed into the mountain to pray.

And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.


simplify: And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.


simplify: that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:


rate difficulty: When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;


simplify: And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

And the man said, They have gone away from here, for they said in my hearing, Let us go to Dothan. So Joseph went after them and came up with them at Dothan.


rate difficulty: Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur–baal, and the Mehunims.

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


rate difficulty: Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed.


rate difficulty: and to Gideon there have been seventy sons, coming out of his loin, for he had many wives;

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


simplify: And having left him they all fled;

And all the apostles forsook him, and fled.


rate difficulty: Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

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


simplify: What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

But what of that? Only that in some way or other, either with assumed or with real earnestness, Christ is being made known; and at that I rejoice.


simplify: And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.


rate difficulty: For there fell down many slain, for the war was ofGod. And they dwelt in their stead until the captivity.


simplify: and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah:

And take one bit of bread and one cake of oiled bread and one thin cake out of the basket of unleavened bread which is before the Lord:


rate difficulty: Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee: and thou shalt put away, but shalt not save; and that which thou savest will I give up to the sword.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord:

And you, son of man, be a prophet about the mountains of Israel, and say, You mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord:


simplify: to whom coming--a living stone--by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious,

Come to him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God’s eyes choice and precious;


simplify: Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:


simplify: And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man’s money in his sack’s mouth.

Then he gave orders to the servant who was over his house, saying, Put as much food into the men's bags as will go into them, and put every man's money in the mouth of his bag;


simplify: But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

However, if the unbeliever wishes to be separated, let him be so. Under such circumstances neither is bound; God has called you to live in peace.


simplify: thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me;

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;


simplify: and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes,

And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.


simplify: Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

While it was unsold, was not it your own? And after it was sold, was not the money at your own disposal? How did you come to think of such a thing? You have lied, not to people, but to God!”


rate difficulty: Also in Horeb ye provoked the Lord to wrath, so that the Lord was angry with you to have destroyed you.

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


rate difficulty: And when he had landed at Cesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.


rate difficulty: Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

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


simplify: And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:

Then, on receiving a cup, after saying the thanksgiving, he said:


simplify: O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.

Our mouth is open to you, O Corinthians, our heart is wide.


simplify: His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.


simplify: And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come.

And when the second stamp was undone, the voice of the second beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see.


rate difficulty: Peter returned with them at once. On his arrival, he was taken upstairs, and all the widows came around him in tears, showing the coats and other clothing which Dorcas had made while she was among them.

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


rate difficulty: In his days hath Pharaoh-Nechoh king of Egypt come up against the king of Asshur, by the river Phrat, and king Josiah goeth out to meet him, and he putteth him to death in Megiddo, when he seeth him.

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


simplify: `And to those standing by he said, Take from him the pound, and give to him having the ten pounds--

Take away from him the ten pounds,’ he said to those standing by, ‘and give them to the one who has the hundred.’


rate difficulty: O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!


simplify: To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.

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


rate difficulty: And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

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


rate difficulty: I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.

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


simplify: Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth–jeshimoth, Baal–meon, and Kiriathaim,

For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.


rate difficulty: And they war against Midian, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses, and slay every male;

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob asketh, and saith, `Declare, I pray thee, thy name;' and he saith, `Why <FI>is<Fi> this, thou askest for My name?' and He blesseth him there.

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


simplify: And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the Lord.

That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.

So the master said to him ‘And you I appoint over five towns.’


simplify: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.


simplify: And the Philistine said, I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.

And the Philistine said, I have put to shame the armies of Israel this day; give me a man so that we may have a fight together.


simplify: For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:


simplify: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to sin.


rate difficulty: And coming he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.


simplify: Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.


simplify: And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

and, before letting them go, they took bail from Jason and the others.


simplify: Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.


rate difficulty: But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

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


simplify: Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.


rate difficulty: And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:

And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;


simplify: the ninth to Mattaniah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The ninth Mattaniah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: and the jailor told these words unto Paul--`The magistrates have sent, that ye may be let go; now, therefore, having gone forth go on in peace;'

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


simplify: Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.

Can you not in return — I appeal to you as I should to children — open your hearts to us?


simplify: in that thou lovest them that hate thee, and hatest them that love thee. For thou hast declared this day, that princes and servants are nought unto thee: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `To-day I have rolled the reproach of Egypt from off you;' and <FI>one<Fi> calleth the name of that place Gilgal unto this day.

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


simplify: And the most part of the multitude spread their garments in the way; and others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the way.

And all the people put their clothing down in the way; and others got branches from the trees, and put them down in the way.


simplify: And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.


rate difficulty: And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.


rate difficulty: And Peter having begun, did expound to them in order saying,

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


rate difficulty: For the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance of words.

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


rate difficulty: But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.


rate difficulty: and from the opening of the tent of meeting ye do not go out, lest ye die, for the anointing oil of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> upon you;' and they do according to the word of Moses.

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


simplify: And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel–mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.


simplify: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.


simplify: And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;

And the captain of the armed men took Jeremiah and said to him, The Lord your God gave word of the evil which was to come on this place:


simplify: Behold now, behemoth, which I made as well as thee; He eateth grass as an ox.

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.


rate difficulty: Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.


simplify: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

And those whom God destined for this he also called; and those whom he called he also pronounced righteous; and those whom he pronounced righteous he also brought to glory.


rate difficulty: And Azariah begetteth Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

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


simplify: And the coney, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fearethGod and abstaineth from evil?

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


simplify: For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

For this reason, the Jews took me in the Temple, and made an attempt to put me to death.


rate difficulty: I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broadways Will I seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

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


simplify: Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not reckon sin.

Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.


simplify: He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.


rate difficulty: And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.

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


simplify: and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own!

and, in my fear, I went and hid your money in the ground; look, here is what belongs to you!’


simplify: They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.

Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.


rate difficulty: `I am going in the way of all the earth, and thou hast been strong, and become a man,

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


rate difficulty: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?


rate difficulty: Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.


simplify: Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.


rate difficulty: for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

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


simplify: And five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall be unto the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession unto themselves, for twenty chambers.

A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.


simplify: They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

“Why, then,” they said, “did Moses direct that a man should ‘serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her’?”


simplify: And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

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


simplify: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.


simplify: But he withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed.

But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.


rate difficulty: I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.


rate difficulty: and he saith, `What <FI>is<Fi> the pledge that I give to thee?' and she saith, `Thy seal, and thy ribbon, and thy staff which <FI>is<Fi> in thy hand;' and he giveth to her, and goeth in unto her, and she conceiveth to him;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Ahinadab the son of Iddo had Mahanaim:


rate difficulty: For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.

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


simplify: For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.


simplify: I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:


rate difficulty: And Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

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


simplify: And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.

And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.


rate difficulty: Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make it into incense, a perfume, after the work of the perfumer, salted, pure, holy.

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


simplify: Five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

Five curtains are to be joined together, and the other five are to be joined together.


rate difficulty: One day, when great crowds of people were walking with Jesus, he turned and said to them:


simplify: The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.


simplify: And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say, This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.

And when a great number of people came together to him, he said, This generation is an evil generation: it is looking for a sign and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.


simplify: Let your heart therefore be perfect with the Lord our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.


rate difficulty: And he was sore athirst, and called on Jehovah, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance by the hand of thy servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.

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


rate difficulty: neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples; and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake: and they launched forth.

Now it came about on one of those days that he got into a boat with his disciples; and he said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the water: and they put out the boat.


simplify: I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:


rate difficulty: Yet hear the word of the Lord, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the Lord of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:

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


simplify: If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?


rate difficulty: And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.

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


rate difficulty: love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.

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


simplify: The blessings of thy father Have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: They shall be on the head of Joseph, And on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.


simplify: Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.


simplify: And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,

And Mizraim was the father of the Ludim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim;


rate difficulty: And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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


simplify: Behold, I cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of her works.

See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,


simplify: Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

Then I sent for Eliezer and Ariel and Shemaiah and Elnathan Jarib and Elnathan and Nathan and Zechariah and Meshullam, all responsible men; and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were wise men.


simplify: For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.


simplify: And he commanded the multitude to sit down upon the ground, and having taken the seven loaves, having given thanks, he brake, and was giving to his disciples that they may set before <FI>them<Fi> ; and they did set before the multitude.

Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out; and they served them out to the crowd.


simplify: And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.

And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.


simplify: and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.

And if the land is fertile or poor, and if there is wood in it or not. And be of good heart, and come back with some of the produce of the land. Now it was the time when the first grapes were ready.


rate difficulty: Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

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


rate difficulty: Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.

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


simplify: And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,


simplify: I have heard tidings from Jehovah, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, Gather yourselves together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight.


rate difficulty: For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they that fed them fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they came to see what it was that had come to pass.


simplify: For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

Because a number of false teachers have gone out into the world, who do not give witness that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. Such a one is a false teacher and Antichrist.


simplify: And if the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:

But if the mark on his skin is white, and does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is not turned white, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

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simplify: And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

And he, putting off his coat, got up quickly, and came to Jesus.


simplify: But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,


simplify: chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.

The chief of Magdiel, the chief of Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom.


simplify: And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.

And when they have come to the end of their witness, the beast which comes up out of the great deep will make war on them and overcome them and put them to death.


rate difficulty: These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

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


rate difficulty: Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

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


simplify: But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.

But Peter denied it before them all. “I do not know what you mean,” he replied.


simplify: I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.


simplify: And he said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.


simplify: Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, tookmen:

Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Pallu, the son of Reuben, made themselves ready,