simplify: And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.


rate difficulty: And I say unto them: `If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;' and they weigh out my hire--thirty silverlings.

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


rate difficulty: `And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;

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


rate difficulty: Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

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


rate difficulty: Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste his resting-place.


simplify: For he accepted indeed our exhortation; but being himself very earnest, he went forth unto you of his own accord.

For while he gladly gave ear to our request, he was interested enough to go to you from the impulse of his heart.


simplify: And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her in the day that he heard it: then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

If her husband, hearing of it, says nothing to her at the time, then the oaths she made and the undertakings she gave will have force.


simplify: And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base,


simplify: Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

“Master,” exclaimed Peter, interposing, “it is good to be here; if you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”


simplify: Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.


simplify: And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:

And the priest is to see him on the seventh day; and if, in his opinion, the place on his skin has not become worse and is not increased in size, then the priest will keep him shut up for seven days more:


simplify: Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?

Then Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything and have come after you; what then will we have?


simplify: And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.


rate difficulty: And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Keep silence, and hearken, O Israel: This day thou art become the people of Jehovah thy God.

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


rate difficulty: The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

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


simplify: And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

And the statement of his crime was put in writing on the cross, THE KING OF THE JEWS.


rate difficulty: Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.


simplify: And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.

And he said, I say to you, Peter, before the cock's second cry today, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.


simplify: And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

Now, at the feast, Pilate used to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might ask for.


simplify: And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance.

But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.


simplify: Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers.

Remind people of all this; tell them solemnly, as in the sight of God, to avoid controversy, a useless thing and the ruin of those who listen to it.


simplify: And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

But Jesus began to tell the people this parable — “A man once planted a vineyard, and then let it out to tenants, and went abroad for a long while.


rate difficulty: The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meeteth him, he shall put him to death.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

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


simplify: And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armor in his tent.

And David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem, but the metal war-dress and the arms he put in his tent.


rate difficulty: And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.


simplify: And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.

And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.


rate difficulty: All that found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Jehovah, the habitation of righteousness, even Jehovah, the hope of their fathers.

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


simplify: And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

While all the people were listening, Jesus said to the disciples:


simplify: This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;

This is the law for the man who has a flow from his body, or whose seed goes from him so that he is unclean;


rate difficulty: Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.


simplify: Then David the king went in, and sat before Jehovah; and he said, Who am I, O Jehovah God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me thus far?

Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?


simplify: And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

And on that day living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them flowing to the sea on the east and half to the sea on the west: in summer and in winter it will be so.


simplify: who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

Who had been taken away from Jerusalem among those who had been made prisoner with Jeconiah, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken him away.


simplify: And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.

And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour.


rate difficulty: and twelve lions are standing there on the six steps on this <FI>side<Fi> , and on that: it hath not been made so for any kingdom.


simplify: And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.


simplify: neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am Jehovah.

He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.


simplify: And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.

And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.


simplify: And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.

And Jonathan went up, gripping with his hands and his feet, his servant going up after him; and the Philistines gave way before Jonathan when he made an attack on them, and his servant put them to death after him.


simplify: Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper chambers thereof, and of the inner parlours thereof, and of the place of the mercy seat,

Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;


rate difficulty: Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

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


rate difficulty: Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

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


simplify: And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord, under the care of Obed-edom, and all the wealth from the king's house, as well as those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.


rate difficulty: And you, too, by your union with him, after you had heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation — you believed in him and were sealed as his by receiving the holy Spirit, which he had promised.

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


rate difficulty: And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.

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


simplify: And Moses did as Jehovah commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

So Moses did as the Lord had said, and before the eyes of all the people they went up Mount Hor.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.

Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.


rate difficulty: So he said, A certain man of high birth went into a far-away country to get a kingdom for himself, and to come back.

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


rate difficulty: Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

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


simplify: And they came unto the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it upon a staff between two; they brought also of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.


rate difficulty: And Joseph dieth, a son of an hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.

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


simplify: As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillethai, captains of thousands that were of Manasseh.

Then when he went back to Ziklag, there came over to him, of the men of Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands from the armies of Manasseh.


rate difficulty: And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was lightly esteemed in her eyes.


rate difficulty: The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

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


simplify: In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me:


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

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


simplify: For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.


simplify: For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.


rate difficulty: Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.

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


simplify: But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

But give my orders to Joshua, comforting him and making him strong; for he is to go over Jordan at the head of this people, and he will give them this land which you will see for their heritage.


simplify: And they, having risen up the same hour, turned back to Jerusalem, and found gathered together the eleven, and those with them,

Then they immediately got up and returned to Jerusalem, where they found the Eleven and their companions all together,


rate difficulty: He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

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


rate difficulty: and the female ostrich and the male ostrich, and the sea-gull, and the hawk, after its kind;


rate difficulty: And say this to my brother, May all be well for you: peace be to you and your house and all you have.


simplify: But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

but, when the perfect has come, that which is incomplete will be done with.


rate difficulty: But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

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


simplify: Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

Further, friends, we beg and urge you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever — as indeed you are already doing — all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God.


simplify: Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:


rate difficulty: For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that is treading out corn. IsGod occupied about the oxen,

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


rate difficulty: And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

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


simplify: To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

To make clear when it is unclean and when it is clean: this is the law about the disease of the leper.


simplify: Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring thy way upon thy head, saith the Lord Jehovah: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness with all thine abominations.

Because you have not kept in mind the days when you were young, but have been troubling me with all these things; for this reason I will make the punishment of your ways come on your head, says the Lord, because you have done this evil thing in addition to all your disgusting acts.


rate difficulty: And they spread out for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom goeth in unto the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,


simplify: Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these are.

Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.


simplify: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

You have made me see the ways of life; I will be full of joy when I see your face.


rate difficulty: Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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


simplify: and two doors of fir-wood: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.

And two folding doors of cypress-wood, with two leaves.


simplify: There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.


rate difficulty: And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

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


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

And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.


rate difficulty: and because of being of the same craft, he did remain with them, and was working, for they were tent-makers as to craft;

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


simplify: For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

For the Lamb who is on the high seat will be their keeper and their guide to fountains of living water: and God will make glad their eyes for ever.


rate difficulty: They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

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


simplify: Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah’s anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.


simplify: Because ye have said, The Lord hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;

For you have said, The Lord has given us prophets in Babylon.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall depart from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed by reason of fatness.

And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.


rate difficulty: After this, Jesus led them out as far as Bethany, and there raised his hands and blessed them.

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


rate difficulty: then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed <FI>is<Fi> abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples with [him] apart in the way, and said to them,

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


rate difficulty: But when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said to me, Nay, but a king shall reign over us; when Jehovah yourGod was your king.

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


simplify: I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.


simplify: Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man:

“There was,”he said, “in a certain town a judge, who had no fear of God nor regard for people.


simplify: And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.


simplify: not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,

and whom he called — even us — Not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also!


rate difficulty: Judgments have been prepared for scorners, And stripes for the back of fools!

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


rate difficulty: And from that time he sought a good opportunity that he might deliver him up.


rate difficulty: and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:

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


simplify: And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. So be it.


simplify: Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?

Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?


rate difficulty: For it has been the good pleasure of those of Macedonia and Achaia to send a certain amount of money for the poor among the saints at Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

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


rate difficulty: But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul: and Jehovah will forgive her.

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the Lord.

Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

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


simplify: And the breasts and the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord; as Moses commanded.

And Aaron took the breasts and the right leg, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses gave orders.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no fat, of ox, or sheep, or goat.

Say to the children of Israel: You are not to take any fat, of ox or sheep or goat, for food.


rate difficulty: I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass at the end of days that Cain bringeth from the fruit of the ground a present to Jehovah;

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


rate difficulty: And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

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


simplify: Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Fill up the measure of your ancestor’s guilt.


simplify: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.


rate difficulty: But many of the priests and Levites and chief fathers, the ancient men that had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice, [when] the foundation of this house was laid in their sight; and many shouted aloud for joy.

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


simplify: They that are deceased tremble Beneath the waters and the inhabitants thereof.

The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.


simplify: And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.


rate difficulty: Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

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simplify: If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.


simplify: and many were rebuking him, that he might keep silent, but the more abundantly he cried out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.'

Many of the people kept telling him to be quiet; but the man continued to call out all the louder: “Son of David, take pity on me.”


simplify: The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.


rate difficulty: But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

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simplify: for we are the circumcision, who by the Spirit are serving God, and glorying in Christ Jesus, and in flesh having no trust,

For it is we who are the circumcised — we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely on external privileges;


rate difficulty: See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

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rate difficulty: and his name hath been called in Israel--The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

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rate difficulty: And many rebuked him, that he might be silent; but he cried so much the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah saith unto all the people, concerning the men and concerning the women, and concerning all the people who are answering him, saying:

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rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought with Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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simplify: but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.


rate difficulty: Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof <FI>is<Fi> brutish.

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rate difficulty: And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

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rate difficulty: He and the people with him, causing fear among the nations, will be sent for the destruction of the land; their swords will be let loose against Egypt and the land will be full of dead.

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rate difficulty: and they put up over his head, his accusation written, `This is Jesus, the king of the Jews.'


rate difficulty: This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

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simplify: And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass that, as ye were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing. Fear not, but let your hands be strong.

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simplify: And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.


simplify: And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

And after he has been made clean, seven days are to be numbered for him.


simplify: with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?


rate difficulty: And if a stranger or sojourner become wealthy beside thee, and thy brother beside him grow poor, and sell himself unto the stranger, who is settled by thee, or to a scion of the stranger's family,

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simplify: For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?


rate difficulty: At the brightness before him Coals of fire were kindled.

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


simplify: Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead:

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;


rate difficulty: Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

But Jesus answered: “In the evening you say ‘It will be fine weather, for the sky is as red as fire.’


rate difficulty: But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

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simplify: And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?

And Moses said to God, When I come to the children of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you: and they say to me, What is his name? what am I to say to them?


simplify: and he sent him away to his house, saying, `Neither to the village mayest thou go, nor tell <FI>it<Fi> to any in the village.'

Jesus sent him to his home, and said: “Do not go even into the village.”


simplify: And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?

And the mixed band of people who went with them were overcome by desire: and the children of Israel, weeping again, said, Who will give us flesh for our food?


simplify: And they went out at noon. But Ben–hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness, day by day.

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simplify: So the house of Israel shall know that I am the Lord their God from that day and forward.

So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.


simplify: And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the Lord hath blessed me hitherto?

Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people.


rate difficulty: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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rate difficulty: And they distribute them, by lots, one with another, for princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, have been of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

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simplify: It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.


rate difficulty: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.


simplify: And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

Then they set out and went from village to village, telling the good news and curing people everywhere.


simplify: Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.


simplify: Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; yea, he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.

Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.


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

And the disciples of John gave him an account of all these things.


simplify: And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

And word of this was given to David; and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam and put his forces in position against them. And when David's forces were in position against the Aramaeans, the fight was started.


rate difficulty: Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

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rate difficulty: And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

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rate difficulty: Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meat offering.

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rate difficulty: And the priest shall make atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in any of these things, and he shall be forgiven: and the remnant shall be the priest’s, as the meal-offering.

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simplify: But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.


simplify: Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.

Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.


simplify: for the judgment without kindness <FI>is<Fi> to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

For there will be justice without mercy for the person who has not acted mercifully. Mercy triumphs over Justice.


rate difficulty: Show them, therefore — so that the churches may see it — the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you.

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rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

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simplify: And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.


rate difficulty: He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s, And he hath set the world upon them.

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


simplify: And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.


rate difficulty: And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is--A precept of men is taught!

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rate difficulty: And they went through all the land, and came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.


rate difficulty: `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

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rate difficulty: and openly he was speaking the word. And Peter having taken him aside, began to rebuke him,


simplify: Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;


simplify: And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

Now after writing all the words of this law in a book till the record of them was complete,


simplify: therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut thee off from the peoples, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.


simplify: A sepulchre opened <FI>is<Fi> their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps <FI>is<Fi> under their lips.

‘Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.’ ‘The venom of snakes lies behind their lips,’


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.


simplify: And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah under a pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people that were with him were about six hundred men;

And Saul was still waiting in the farthest part of Geba, under the fruit-tree in Migron: there were about six hundred men with him;


simplify: In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

Above all, set an example of doing good. Show sincerity in your teaching, and a serious spirit;


simplify: then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

Then give ear from heaven, so that the sin of your servants and the sin of your people Israel may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.


rate difficulty: For by the slope of Luhith they will go up, weeping all the way; for on the way down to Horonaim the cry of destruction has come to their ears.


rate difficulty: While John’s disciples were going back, Jesus began to say to the crowds with reference to John:

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rate difficulty: And Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master after she had grown old; and unto him has he given all that he has.

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simplify: And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.


simplify: The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

The Lord has sent a word to Jacob, and it has come on Israel;


rate difficulty: Then they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have made the land a waste and a cause of wonder, because of all the disgusting things which they have done,

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simplify: And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who was married to one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and took their name.


simplify: I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.

I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:

And David got together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites;


simplify: and saith unto them, Go your way into the village that is over against you: and straightway as ye enter into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat; loose him, and bring him.

And said to them, Go into the little town opposite: and when you come to it, you will see a young ass with a cord round his neck, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose, and come back with him.


rate difficulty: Then there went out another horse, ‘a red horse,’ and to its rider was given the power to deprive the earth of peace, so that people should kill one another; and he was given a great sword.

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rate difficulty: wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you,

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simplify: But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

But let him, being a chief among his people, not make himself unclean in such a way as to put shame on himself.


simplify: The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.


simplify: Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.

Still the upright keeps on his way, and he who has clean hands gets new strength.


simplify: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?


simplify: Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

Now give up those good-for-nothing persons in Gibeah so that we may put them to death, clearing away the evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not give ear to the voice of their brothers, the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And he brought back all the property, and brought again his brother Lot and his property, and the women also, and the people.

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rate difficulty: And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;

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simplify: Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!


rate difficulty: Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double breaking.

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rate difficulty: Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.


simplify: Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;

Do not let your ornaments be those of the body such as dressing of the hair, or putting on of jewels of gold or fair clothing;


simplify: To have respect of persons is not good; Neither that a man should transgress for a piece of bread.

It is not good to have respect for a man's position: for a man will do wrong for a bit of bread.


rate difficulty: And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

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rate difficulty: The word that Jeremiah the prophet hath spoken unto Baruch son of Neriah, in his writing these words on a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying:

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simplify: And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:

The devil next led him into Jerusalem, and, placing him on the parapet of the Temple, said: “If you are God’s Son throw yourself down from here,


rate difficulty: Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

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


rate difficulty: So keep in mind where you were at first, and be changed in heart and do the first works; or I will come to you, and will take away your light from its place, if your hearts are not changed.

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


rate difficulty: But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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rate difficulty: Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead.

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simplify: For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.

Although I have been boasting a little to him about you, you did not put me to shame; but, just as every thing we had said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus about you has also proved to be the truth.


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

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


simplify: And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: saying to them, Go into the village over against you, and immediately ye will find an ass tied, and a colt with it; loose [them] and lead [them] to me.

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


simplify: in whom we have the redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of the sins,

and through whom we have found deliverance in the forgiveness of our sins.


simplify: But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?

But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?


simplify: Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

But she will be saved by the birth of a child, if they never abandon faith, love, or holiness, and behave with modesty.


rate difficulty: Give strong drink to the perishing, And wine to the bitter in soul,

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simplify: Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.

Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.


simplify: And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the harlot after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.


simplify: Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem.

He was sixteen years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for fifty-two years; his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.


simplify: And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed.

And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.


simplify: And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, andImmer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;


rate difficulty: The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

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rate difficulty: And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

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simplify: And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.

Then from there he went up to Beth-el; and on his way, some little boys came out from the town and made sport of him, crying, Go up, old no-hair! go up, old no-hair!


rate difficulty: Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.

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


simplify: Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.

Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.


simplify: Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And the serjeants reported these words unto the magistrates: and they feared when they heard that they were Romans;

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


rate difficulty: A son of a year <FI>is<Fi> Saul in his reigning, yea, two years he hath reigned over Israel,

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


rate difficulty: Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;

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


simplify: And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

Now a man of the house of Levi took as his wife a daughter of Levi.


simplify: But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.


rate difficulty: If ye died with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do ye subject yourselves to ordinances,

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;

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


rate difficulty: And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.


simplify: But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the Lord is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.

But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and Jehovah strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Then comes Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptised of him;


rate difficulty: And the man Elkanah goeth up, and all his house, to sacrifice to Jehovah the sacrifice of the days, and his vow.

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


rate difficulty: Hear ye and testify to the house of Jacob, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, God of Hosts.


simplify: Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.


simplify: Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!


rate difficulty: But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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


simplify: The members of his body shall be devoured, Yea, the first-born of death shall devour his members.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.


simplify: The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.

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


simplify: And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of embalming: and the Egyptians wept for him threescore and ten days.

And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.


rate difficulty: Even while in our present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly house,


rate difficulty: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

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


simplify: And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

I will make them take the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters for food, they will be making a meal of one another, because of their bitter need and the cruel grip of their haters and those who have made designs against their life.


rate difficulty: Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.


rate difficulty: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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


rate difficulty: Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced cities, and let us be silent there: for Jehovah ourGod hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And after him, Eleazar the son of Dodo the son of an Ahohite: he was one of the three mighty men with David, when they had defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone up.


simplify: He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,

he casts down princes from their thrones, and the humble he uplifts,


rate difficulty: who had come to hear him and to be restored to health. Those, too, who were troubled with foul spirits were cured;


simplify: Sing unto Jehovah, all the earth; Show forth his salvation from day to day.

Make songs to the Lord, all the earth; give the good news of his salvation day by day.


rate difficulty: and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying--`Thou art the Son of God;'

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


simplify: But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

but, if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to show proper regard for the members of their own family first, and to make some return to their parents; for that is pleasing in God’s sight.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be unto Tyre as in the song of the harlot.

And it will be in that day that Tyre will go out of mind for seventy years, that is, the days of one king: after the end of seventy years it will be for Tyre as in the song of the loose woman.


simplify: And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.


rate difficulty: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.

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


simplify: Now let them put away their whoredom, and the dead bodies of their kings, far from me; and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

Now let them put their loose ways and the dead bodies of their kings far from me, and I will be among them for ever.


rate difficulty: These four Creatures have each of them six wings, and all around, and within, they are full of eyes; and day and night they never cease to say —  ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, our God, the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who will be.’

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


simplify: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy.

So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.


simplify: and having seen <FI>them<Fi> , he said to them, `Having gone on, shew yourselves to the priests;' and it came to pass, in their going, they were cleansed,

When Jesus saw them, he said: “Go and show yourselves to the priest.”And, as they were on their way, they were made clean.


simplify: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?


simplify: For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

For this is what the Lord has said to me: I will be quiet, watching from my place; like the clear heat when the sun is shining, like a mist of dew in the heat of summer.


rate difficulty: And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

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


simplify: And day by day, continuing stedfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,


rate difficulty: [It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, And sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, To David, and to his seed for evermore.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.


simplify: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:

You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,

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


rate difficulty: The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,


simplify: Howbeit ye did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction.

But you did well to have care for me in my need.


simplify: And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about.

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.


rate difficulty: And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.

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


simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, but his heart was not completely true to the Lord.


rate difficulty: I knew thee in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care;


simplify: And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.


simplify: For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:

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


simplify: The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

And the sons of Hezron, the offspring of his body: Jerahmeel and Ram and Chelubai.


rate difficulty: And thou wentest to the king with oil, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase thyself even unto Sheol.

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


simplify: and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy,


simplify: Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll; but he would not hear them.

And Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made a strong request to the king not to let the book be burned, but he would not give ear to them.


rate difficulty: Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.


rate difficulty: But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

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


rate difficulty: Their numbered ones, in number, every male from a son of a month and upward, their numbered ones <FI>are<Fi> seven thousand and five hundred.


simplify: So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; and she conceived, and bare him a son.

So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.


simplify: But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.


rate difficulty: So that I may make it clear, as it is right for me to do.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass on that night that a word of God is unto Nathan, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives <FI>are<Fi> in captivity for this.

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


simplify: Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

Let me not give respect to any man, or give names of honour to any living.


simplify: And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire.

Now the men of Ephraim came together and took up arms and went over to Zaphon; and they said to Jephthah, Why did you go over to make war against the children of Ammon without sending for us to go with you? Now we will put your house on fire over you.


rate difficulty: And he turned away from them, and wept. And he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.


rate difficulty: `And if he is poorer than thy valuation, then he hath presented himself before the priest, and the priest hath valued him; according to that which the hand of him who is vowing doth reach doth the priest value him.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


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

And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.


simplify: taking remembrance of the unfeigned faith that is in thee, that dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that also in thee.

now that I have been reminded of the sincere faith that you have shown. That faith was seen first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and is now, I am convinced, in you also.


rate difficulty: So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

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


simplify: and he saith to them, `Whose <FI>is<Fi> this image and the inscription?'

he asked: “Whose head and title are these?”


simplify: And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.

And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.


rate difficulty: Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly.

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


simplify: So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

For ourselves, then, from this time forward, we refuse to regard anyone from the world’s standpoint. Even if we once thought of Christ from the standpoint of the world, yet now we do so no longer.


simplify: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

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


rate difficulty: And he was there for a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.


rate difficulty: begging of us with much entreaty [to give effect to] the grace and fellowship of the service which [was to be rendered] to the saints.

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


simplify: And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?

“As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him saying — ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?


simplify: And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father’s house to Beth–lehem–judah, and was there four whole months.

And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.


simplify: Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.

Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.


rate difficulty: Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

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


simplify: And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

And the servant did as Joseph said, and took the men into Joseph's house.


simplify: And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.


rate difficulty: They will not, however, make further progress; for their wicked folly will be plain to everyone, just as the folly Jannes and Jambres was.

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


simplify: Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

Let the week of the bride-feast come to its end and then we will give you the other in addition, if you will be my servant for another seven years.


simplify: and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

And be made new in the spirit of your mind,


rate difficulty: Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

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


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.

And Pharaoh said to them, What is your business? And they said, Your servants are keepers of sheep, as our fathers were before us.


simplify: And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.

And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.


simplify: Now, my son, the Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee.

Now, my son, may the Lord be with you; and may you do well, and put up the house of the Lord your God, as he has said of you.


simplify: As keepers of a field, are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious against me, saith the Lord.

Like keepers of a field they are against her on every side; because she has been fighting against me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;


simplify: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?


rate difficulty: The God of our fathers gave Jesus back to life, whom you had put to death, hanging him on a tree.

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


rate difficulty: In those days, when Mordecai is sitting in the gate of the king, hath Bigthan been wroth, and Teresh, (two of the eunuchs of the king, the keepers of the threshold,) and they seek to put forth a hand on king Ahasuerus,

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


rate difficulty: `And in this thing ye are not stedfast in Jehovah your God,

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


rate difficulty: All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.


rate difficulty: Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?


rate difficulty: And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.


simplify: Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.


simplify: he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.


rate difficulty: But ye have done well in taking part in my affliction.


simplify: Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.


simplify: And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.


rate difficulty: not robbing [their masters], but shewing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the teaching which [is] of our SaviourGod in all things.

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


simplify: Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.


simplify: Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am Jehovah your God.

So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.

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


simplify: And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elijah.

And some of those who were near, hearing it, said, See, he is crying to Elijah.


simplify: And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.

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


simplify: for what thanks are we able to recompense to God for you, for all the joy with which we do joy because of you in the presence of our God?

How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God?


rate difficulty: The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

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


simplify: And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.

And they began to accuse him: “This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is ‘Christ, a king.’”


simplify: and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

When, however, Jesus saw this, he was indignant. “Let the little children come to me,”he said, “do not hinder them; for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of God belongs.


simplify: and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations,

To those who conquer and are careful to live my life to the end — to them I will give authority over the nations,


rate difficulty: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son ofGod,God abides in him, and he inGod.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?

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


simplify: And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart melt as his heart.

And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.


simplify: And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.

And they sent out a number of evil spirits, and put oil on a great number who were ill, and made them well.


simplify: `Consider the ravens, that they sow not, nor reap, to which there is no barn nor storehouse, and God doth nourish them; how much better are ye than the fowls?

Think of the ravens — they neither sow nor reap; they have neither storehouse nor barn; and yet God feeds them! And how much more precious are you than birds!


simplify: and ye, take heed; lo, I have foretold you all things.

But see that you are on your guard! I have told you all this beforehand.


simplify: For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light


rate difficulty: because all flesh <FI>is<Fi> as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

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


rate difficulty: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

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


simplify: Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.


simplify: And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.


simplify: And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

and there he saw a man with a withered hand. Some people asked Jesus whether it was allowable to work a cure on the Sabbath — so that they might have a charge to bring against him.


simplify: All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.


simplify: Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The Lord saith it; albeit I have not spoken?

Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?


rate difficulty: passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,


rate difficulty: And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.

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


rate difficulty: one golden spoon of ten <FI>shekels<Fi> , full of perfume;

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


simplify: And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake so that you may witness for me before them and the nations.


rate difficulty: And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you.

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


simplify: The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor to his servant Jesus — him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.


rate difficulty: And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns,