rate difficulty: And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was burnt up: then he was wroth with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying,

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rate difficulty: All those numbered of the camp of Ephraim <FI>are<Fi> a hundred thousand, and eight thousand, and a hundred, by their hosts; and they journey third.

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


rate difficulty: and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, [who are] taken by him, for his will.

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


rate difficulty: The husbandman that laboreth must be the first to partake of the fruits.

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simplify: But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.


rate difficulty: And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.


simplify: Now therefore thus saith Jehovah, Thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die. And Elijah departed.

Give ear then to the words of the Lord: You will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you. Then Elijah went away.


rate difficulty: And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about thee, and follow me.

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


rate difficulty: saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ: who is he that struck thee?

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


simplify: Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf?


simplify: And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest.

And Pilate said to him, Are you the King of the Jews? And he said in answer, You say so.


rate difficulty: Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;

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


rate difficulty: Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

Then the angel said to me — ‘These words may be trusted and are true. The Lord, the God that inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants what must quickly take place;


simplify: And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

What they said seemed to the apostles mere nonsense, and they did not believe them.


rate difficulty: Shimei Ben-Elah <FI>is<Fi> in Benjamin.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him, Wherefore wentest not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

Now when he had come from Jerusalem to see the king, the king said to him, Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

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


simplify: And David said unto him, How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the Lord’s anointed?

And David said to him, Had you no fear of stretching out your hand to put to death the one marked with the holy oil?


rate difficulty: And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.

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


rate difficulty: Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up!

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


simplify: But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner.


rate difficulty: And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?


simplify: Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, And stand not in the place of great men:

Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:


rate difficulty: Therefore Jehovah left those nations, without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

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


simplify: He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Whoever who is not with me is against me, and the person who does not help me to gather is scattering.


simplify: I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

In my letter I said to you that you were not to keep company with those who go after the desires of the flesh;


rate difficulty: And I have separated for thee destroyers, Each with his weapons, And they have cut down the choice of thy cedars, And have cast them on the fire.

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


simplify: They are like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.

They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.


simplify: That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.


rate difficulty: — Ephraim is joined to idols: leave him alone.

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


simplify: Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Take care that you do not say, Wisdom is here; God may overcome him, but not man.


rate difficulty: Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.


simplify: But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.


rate difficulty: Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

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


simplify: And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,

Meanwhile Stephen, divinely helped and strengthened, was showing great wonders and signs among the people.


rate difficulty: And Peter answering said to Jesus, Lord, it is good we should be here. If thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles: for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elias.

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


simplify: They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.

They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.


rate difficulty: And they all ate and were satisfied.

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


simplify: And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

And Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, had no sons, but only daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


rate difficulty: and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty — there was no water in it.


simplify: Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

Nor was there anyone in need among them, for all who were owners of land or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the sales


rate difficulty: and we have come in unto him in one of the places where he is found, and we <FI>are<Fi> upon him as the dew falleth on the ground, and there hath not been left of him and of all the men who <FI>are<Fi> with him even one.

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


rate difficulty: and afterwards have the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and they encamp in the wilderness of Paran.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.


simplify: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,


simplify: And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin; for the kingdom of heaven is near.


simplify: What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp,

If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;


rate difficulty: I indeed have baptised you with water, but he shall baptise you with [the] Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

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


simplify: Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: As a man falleth before the children of iniquity, so didst thou fall.  And all the people wept again over him.

Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.


rate difficulty: a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take <FI>it<Fi> .

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


simplify: And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

The robe which went with the ephod was made all of blue;


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


rate difficulty: Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

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


simplify: (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

(Now the children of Benjamin had word that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Make clear how this evil thing took place.


rate difficulty: And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

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


rate difficulty: by number, by weight of every one, and all the weight is written at that time.


rate difficulty: And he said, To morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the Lord our God.

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


rate difficulty: And of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

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


simplify: and he made of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;

And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,


simplify: At the appointment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burdens, and in all their service: and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burdens.

From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.


simplify: that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated on twelve thrones as judges of the twelve tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.

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


simplify: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.


rate difficulty: all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses smite, and drove them out.

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


simplify: and their brethren, heads of their fathers’ houses, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God.


simplify: This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.

And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.


rate difficulty: Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.

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


simplify: He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.


rate difficulty: Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul

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


simplify: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.


rate difficulty: And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.

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


simplify: They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.

They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.


simplify: And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.

And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.


rate difficulty: And when it opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, Come [and see].

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


simplify: And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.


rate difficulty: And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

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


simplify: And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace,


simplify: But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

but Martha was distracted by the many preparations that she was making. So she went up to Jesus and said: “Master, do you approve of my sister’s leaving me to make preparations alone? Tell her to help me.”


rate difficulty: As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, [so] is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

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


rate difficulty: He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.


rate difficulty: I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;

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


simplify: And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.


rate difficulty: and Moses taketh--Eleazar the priest also--the gold from the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, and they bring it in unto the tent of meeting--a memorial for the sons of Israel before Jehovah.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Of Edom. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?

About Edom. This is what the Lord of armies has said. Is there no more wisdom in Teman? have wise suggestions come to an end among men of good sense? has their wisdom completely gone?


simplify: For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.


simplify: How is the faithful city become a harlot! she that was full of justice! righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.


rate difficulty: And for the drink offering: give half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.


rate difficulty: He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

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


simplify: And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.


rate difficulty: And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

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


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

Then Saul said to David, May a blessing be on you, David, my son; you will do great things and without doubt you will overcome. Then David went on his way, and Saul went back to his place.


rate difficulty: I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the brazen doors, and cut asunder the bars of iron;

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


simplify: And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,

And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;


simplify: the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;


simplify: And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.

Saying, Friends, I see that this journey will be one of great damage and loss, not only to the goods and the ship, but to ourselves.


simplify: Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?


rate difficulty: But the crowds, who saw what Paul had done, lifted up their voices in Lycaonian, saying, Thegods, having made themselves like men, are come down to us.

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


simplify: And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

On hearing this, the people and the city magistrates were much concerned;


simplify: And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming forth out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man could pass by that way.

And when he had come to the other side, to the country of the Gadarenes, there came out to him from the place of the dead, two who had evil spirits, so violent that no man was able to go that way.


rate difficulty: And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the king returned and came as far as the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to conduct the king over the Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling.

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


rate difficulty: Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.


rate difficulty: and has revealed at his own time in his message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.

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


rate difficulty: In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon,

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


rate difficulty: For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

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


rate difficulty: And the oblation shall be an ephah for a ram, and the oblation for the lambs as he shall be able to give; and oil, a hin for an ephah.


simplify: Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it.

Then he said to me, This is the curse which goes out over the face of all the land: for long enough has every thief gone without punishment, and long enough has every taker of false oaths gone without punishment.


rate difficulty: And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.


rate difficulty: And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.

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


rate difficulty: whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;


simplify: Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;


rate difficulty: And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

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


rate difficulty: And they rehearsed the things that happened in the way, and how he was known of them in the breaking of the bread.

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


simplify: And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, unto the mount of the Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

When they had almost reached Jerusalem, having come as far as Bethphage, on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two disciples.


simplify: And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

And all King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold; not one was of silver, for no one gave a thought to silver in the days of King Solomon.


simplify: For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;


simplify: and laid it in his new tomb, that he hewed in the rock, and having rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, he went away;

and laid it in his newly made tomb which he had cut in the rock; and, before he left, he rolled a great stone against the entrance of the tomb.


rate difficulty: Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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


simplify: and the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet was by me.

Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.


simplify: And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women, were burned to death with it.


simplify: And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And the Lord saw that the sin of man was great on the earth, and that all the thoughts of his heart were evil.


simplify: Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai the son of Ezbai,

Hezro the Carmelite, Naarai, the son of Ezbai,


simplify: For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

Therefore, since I could no longer endure the uncertainty, I sent to make inquiries about your faith, fearing that the Tempter had tempted you, and that our toil might prove to have been in vain.


simplify: And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive.

Give ear to the prayers of your servant, and the prayers of your people Israel, when they make their prayers, turning to this place; give ear in heaven your living-place, and hearing, have mercy.


simplify: And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

And they said to one another, Were not our hearts burning in us while he was talking to us on the way, making clear to us the holy Writings?


simplify: Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

down to that day on which he was taken up to heaven, after he had, by the help of the Holy Spirit, given instructions to the apostles whom he had chosen.


rate difficulty: About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.

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simplify: And he will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;

And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.


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


rate difficulty: And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:

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simplify: And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Then I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mixed with fire; and, standing by this sea of glass, holding the harps of God, I saw those who had come victorious out of the conflict with the Beast and its image and the number that formed its name.


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


rate difficulty: But <FI>to<Fi> him who is joined unto all the living there is confidence, for to a living dog it <FI>is<Fi> better than to the dead lion.

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


simplify: Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

Then Jesus speaking to the crowds and to his disciples, said:


simplify: And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.

And Saul gave his servants orders saying, Have talk with David secretly and say to him, See how the king has delight in you, and how you are loved by all his servants: then be the king's son-in-law.


rate difficulty: The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for fierce anger is upon all the multitude thereof.

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


simplify: But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are of a hard forehead and of a stiff heart.

But the children of Israel will not give ear to you; for they have no mind to give ear to me: for all the children of Israel have a hard brow and a stiff heart.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.


rate difficulty: I speak, and do not fear Him, But I am not right with myself.

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


rate difficulty: Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even the scribe of the words of the commandments of Jehovah, and of his statutes to Israel:

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.

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simplify: And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.


simplify: By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

A judge is moved by one who for a long time undergoes wrongs without protest, and by a soft tongue even bone is broken.


rate difficulty: — that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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


rate difficulty: And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

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


simplify: And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.


simplify: And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was herself a Jewess, and, sending for Paul, listened to what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.


simplify: And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Do to others as you wish them to do to you.


rate difficulty: Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,


rate difficulty: And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.

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


simplify: and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

And Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.


simplify: And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

And when they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus gave them orders, saying, Let no man have word of what you have seen, till the Son of man has come again from the dead.


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: preaching the kingdom ofGod, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all freedom unhinderedly.

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


rate difficulty: All that are with me salute thee. Salute them that love us in faith. Grace be with you all.

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


simplify: and take ye every man his censer, and put incense upon them, and bring ye before Jehovah every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each his censer.

And let every man take a vessel for burning perfumes, and put sweet spices in them; let every man take his vessel before the Lord, two hundred and fifty vessels; you and Aaron and everyone with his vessel.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the Lord.

Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.


simplify: But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

But as to the times and the moments, there is no need, friends, for anyone to write to you.


simplify: And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.


rate difficulty: For the waves of death came round me, and the seas of evil put me in fear;


rate difficulty: And king Asa called together all Judah: none was exempted; and they carried away the stones and the timber from Ramah, with which Baasha had been building; and king Asa built with them Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.


rate difficulty: And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people that asked of him a king.


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonite in the tent of meeting; and their charge <FI>is<Fi> under the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

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


rate difficulty: In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

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


rate difficulty: And the people came into the camp; and the elders of Israel said, Why has Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch ourselves the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

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


simplify: For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.

For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.


simplify: And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together: for before they were at enmity between themselves.

And that day Herod and Pilate became friends with one another, for before they had been against one another.


rate difficulty: The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

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rate difficulty: And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

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


rate difficulty: While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.

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


simplify: For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

for to me life is Christ, and death is gain.


simplify: And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifthmonth, the tenthdayof the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and sat before me.

Now it came about in the seventh year, in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, that certain of the responsible men of Israel came to get directions from the Lord and were seated before me.


rate difficulty: For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

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


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


simplify: And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

Then Jesus called the people to him again, and said: “Listen to me, all of you, and mark my words.


simplify: And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face again.


simplify: The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

The carriage in which are the black horses goes in the direction of the north country; the white go to the west; and those of mixed colour go in the direction of the south country.


simplify: And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.


rate difficulty: By His Spirit the heavens He beautified, Formed hath His hand the fleeing serpent.

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


rate difficulty: My desire, then, is that it should be the custom everywhere for the men to lead the prayers, with hands reverently uplifted, avoiding heated controversy.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

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


simplify: For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.

For the Lord will not give his people up, because of the honour of his name; for it was the Lord's pleasure to make of you a people for himself.


simplify: and we sent with them our brother, whom we proved in many things many times being diligent, and now much more diligent, by the great confidence that is toward you,

We are also sending with them another of our friends, whose earnestness we have many a time proved in many ways, and whom we now find made even more earnest by his great confidence in you.


simplify: then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:


simplify: Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah the first, and Jesiah the second.

The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.


simplify: Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.

Wealth which comes from sin is of no profit, but righteousness gives salvation from death.


simplify: Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

“Give me also this power of yours, so that, if I place my hands on anyone, he may receive the Holy Spirit.”


simplify: and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,


simplify: And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

And the gold which the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds gave, as an offering to be lifted up before the Lord, came to sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels.


simplify: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat thereof, the fat tail entire, he shall take away hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

And of the peace-offering, let him give an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat of it, all the fat tail, he is to take away near the backbone; and the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,


simplify: Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.


rate difficulty: For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.

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simplify: How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

How, tired though they were by many a trouble, their overflowing happiness, and even their deep poverty, resulted in a flood of generosity.


simplify: Then said Absalom to Ahithophel, Give counsel among you what we shall do.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, Give your opinion now, what are we to do?


simplify: Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.


rate difficulty: Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

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


rate difficulty: And from there to Philippi, which is the most important town of Macedonia and a Roman colony: and we were there for some days.

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


rate difficulty: All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.


simplify: Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.


rate difficulty: And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?


simplify: And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah.

And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.


simplify: And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:


simplify: What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.


simplify: And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.

And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, went out from Mizpah with the purpose of meeting them, weeping on his way: and it came about that when he was face to face with them he said, Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.


simplify: And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.

Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.


simplify: And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,

And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh


simplify: And also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.


rate difficulty: for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee as He hath spoken to thee; and thou hast lent <FI>to<Fi> many nations, and thou hast not borrowed; and thou hast ruled over many nations, and over thee they do not rule.

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rate difficulty: Of all clean beasts thou shalt take to thee by sevens, a male and its female; but of the beasts that are not clean two, a male and its female.

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


simplify: He slew also the bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for the people: and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar round about,

And he put to death the ox and the sheep, which were the peace-offerings for the people; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;


rate difficulty: When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.


simplify: And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.

And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

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


rate difficulty: If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.

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


simplify: that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.


simplify: My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.


simplify: This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their several portions, saith the Lord Jehovah.

This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.


simplify: The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

As the north wind gives birth to rain, so is an angry face caused by a tongue saying evil secretly.


simplify: And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.


simplify: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

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


simplify: And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?

And Isaiah said, This is the sign the Lord will give you, that he will do what he has said; will the shade go forward ten degrees or back?


rate difficulty: I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

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


simplify: And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a hundred thirty and seven years.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.


simplify: They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.


simplify: wherefore? because--not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over ‘the Stumbling-block.’


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole people to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.


simplify: Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Then he will say to those on his left ‘Go from my presence, accursed, into the ‘permanent fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.’


simplify: and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days, and he died; a hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.


simplify: Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

My children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.


rate difficulty: And have sold your sons and your daughters Into the hand of the sons of Judah, And they have sold them to Shabeans, Unto a nation far off, for Jehovah hath spoken.

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


rate difficulty: And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

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


simplify: and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

and, if Christ has not been raised, your faith is folly — your sins are on you still!


rate difficulty: And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,


simplify: So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.

So that not one of the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will get away or keep his life, to come back to the land of Judah where they are hoping to come back and be living again: for not one will come back, but only those who are able to get away.


simplify: When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.


simplify: And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

Now Jotham, on hearing of it, went to the top of Mount Gerizim, and crying out with a loud voice said to them, Give ear to me, you townsmen of Shechem, so that God may give ear to you.


simplify: and the number of the forces of the horsemen <FI>is<Fi> two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.

The number of the hosts of cavalry was ten thousand times ten thousand, twice told; I heard their number.


simplify: That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

so that — in the words of scripture —  ‘Let him who boasts make his boast of the Lord!’


rate difficulty: O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

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


simplify: And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit--to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

But now that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end eternal life.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said, Behold the people of the land are now many, and ye wish to make them rest from their burdens.

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


simplify: Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,

Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,


simplify: `And ye--ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director--the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

But do not allow yourselves to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and you yourselves are all brothers and sisters.


simplify: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,


rate difficulty: And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

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


simplify: Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.


rate difficulty: for Jehovah--His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong <FI>for<Fi> a people whose heart <FI>is<Fi> perfect towards Him; thou hast been foolish concerning this, because--henceforth there are with thee wars.'

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


rate difficulty: And the servant saith unto him, `It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?'

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


rate difficulty: Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!

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


simplify: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

To his Excellency, Theophilus.  Many attempts have been already made to draw up an because of those events which have reached their conclusion among us,


rate difficulty: And Saul cast the spear, and thought, I will smite David and the wall. But David turned away from him twice.

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


simplify: And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.


rate difficulty: And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

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


rate difficulty: For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

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


simplify: Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.

Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you.


simplify: And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus.


rate difficulty: The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains [for it].


simplify: So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they communed with her.

So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam and Achbor and Shaphan and Asaiah, went to Huldah the woman prophet, the wife of Shallum, the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the robes, (now she was living in Jerusalem, in the second part of the town;) and they had talk with her.


simplify: for <FI>it is<Fi> better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

It is better that you should suffer, if that should be God’s will, for doing right, than for doing wrong.


simplify: And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams.

And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.


simplify: Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.

Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.


simplify: That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood causeless, or that my lord hath avenged himself: but when the Lord shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thine handmaid.

Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.


rate difficulty: All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

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


simplify: `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.


simplify: That brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord.

Who took you out of the land of Egypt that I might be your God: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth presents, and hunteth after rewards; they judge not the fatherless, and the cause of the widow cometh not unto them.

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


rate difficulty: Mattith, Mattithiah, Shimei, Joseph, Josheh,

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


rate difficulty: And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

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


rate difficulty: See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

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


simplify: lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you--doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;

I tell you, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been fraudulently keeping back, are crying out against you, and the outcries of your reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts!


rate difficulty: Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.


rate difficulty: every raven after its kind,


simplify: Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own lord he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be made to stand; for the Lord hath power to make him stand.

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.


simplify: And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

And there came to my ears the voice of a great army, like the sound of waters, and the sound of loud thunders, saying, Praise to the Lord: for the Lord our God, Ruler of all, is King.


simplify: and Ibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;

And Ibneiah, the son of Jeroham, and Elah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Ibnijah;


simplify: I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would say unto me.

I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.


rate difficulty: and the princes of the Philistines are passing on by hundreds, and by thousands, and David and his men are passing on in the rear with Achish.

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


simplify: Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.

See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.


simplify: This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

This is a true saying, in which all may put their faith.


simplify: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

Give ear to the words of this agreement, and say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: And I answer and say unto the messenger who is speaking with me, `What <FI>are<Fi> these, my lord?'

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


simplify: and Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,

And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and Adiel and Jesimiel and Benaiah,


simplify: And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.

And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.


simplify: And Jehovah God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.


rate difficulty: But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and it be not lower than the skin, but be dim; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:

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


simplify: They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels.

And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.


simplify: Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus’ household.

Give my love to Apelles, who has the approval of Christ. Say a kind word to those who are of the house of Aristobulus.


simplify: for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.


simplify: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of Jehovah:

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


simplify: And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

And another said, I have got some cattle, and I am going to make a test of them: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.


simplify: But prophesy not again any more at Beth–el: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.

But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.


rate difficulty: She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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


simplify: And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

no more will the light of a lamp shine in you; no more will the voices of groom and bride be heard in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth, for all the nations were deceived by your magical charms.


simplify: And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

And Moses said to them, At the end of every seven years, at the time fixed for the ending of debts, at the feast of tents,


simplify: The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.

These words of love to you at the end are in my writing, Paul's writing, and this is the mark of every letter from me.


simplify: And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;


rate difficulty: As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, that were not of Israel;

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


simplify: chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek: these are the chiefs that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Adah.

Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Behold, I will turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, wherewith ye fight against the king of Babylon, and against the Chaldeans, which besiege you without the walls, and I will assemble them into the midst of this city.

The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.


simplify: And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.


rate difficulty: For whatever promises ofGod [there are], in him is the yea, and in him the amen, for glory toGod by us.

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


simplify: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.


rate difficulty: And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith to her, `What <FI>is<Fi> his form?' and she saith, `An aged man is coming up, and he <FI>is<Fi> covered with an upper robe;' and Saul knoweth that he <FI>is<Fi> Samuel, and boweth--face to thee earth--and doth obeisance.

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


rate difficulty: And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.


simplify: My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.  The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. So be it.


simplify: And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among you?

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin saying, What is this evil which has been done among you?


simplify: Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: And his disciples were questioning him, saying, `What may this simile be?'

His disciples asked Jesus the meaning of this parable.


rate difficulty: And the governor said, What evil then has he done? But they cried more than ever, saying, Let him be crucified.

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


simplify: Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God’s will.


rate difficulty: Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;


rate difficulty: be ye not therefore like to them, for your Father doth know those things that ye have need of before your asking him;

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


simplify: and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.


simplify: And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.

And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.


simplify: The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.


simplify: Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the field in the South;

Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;


rate difficulty: every native doth thus with these, at bringing near a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah;

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


simplify: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.


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


rate difficulty: And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, Jehovah be with you. And they answered him, Jehovah bless thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehu sendeth into all Israel, and all the servants of Baal come in, and there hath not been left a man who hath not come in; and they come in to the house of Baal, and the house of Baal is full--mouth to mouth.

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


simplify: For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

for no one can lay any other foundation than the one already laid — Jesus Christ.


simplify: And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth–gilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner.

And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.


rate difficulty: And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it;

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


rate difficulty: He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.

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


simplify: And Beth–nimrah, and Beth–haran, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.

And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.


simplify: The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

Keep the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days your food is to be bread without leaven, as I gave you orders, at the regular time in the month Abib; for in that month you came out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. And Saul had his spear in his hand;

Now on the day after, an evil spirit from God came on Saul with great force and he was acting like a prophet among the men of his house, while David was making music for him, as he did day by day: and Saul had his spear in his hand.


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: For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins—ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate from their right.

For I have seen how your evil-doing is increased and how strong are your sins, you troublers of the upright, who take rewards and do wrong to the cause of the poor in the public place.


rate difficulty: And some of the sons of the priests prepared the confection of the spices.

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


simplify: And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.


simplify: Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.

Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among his sons, and the land of Gilead was the property of the other sons of Manasseh.


rate difficulty: Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

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


rate difficulty: And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

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


simplify: And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.


simplify: And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.


simplify: And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.


simplify: And these were the heads of their fathers’ houses: even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valor, famous men, heads of their fathers’ houses.

And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.


simplify: These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.


rate difficulty: Then Gideon said to him, O my lord, if the Lord is with us why has all this come on us? And where are all his works of power, of which our fathers have given us word, saying, Did not the Lord take us out of Egypt? But now he has given us up, handing us over to the power of Midian.

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


simplify: And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

But those who were left of humanity, who had not perished through these curses, did not repent and turn away from what their own hands had made; they would not abandon the worship of ‘demons, and of idols made of gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk’;


rate difficulty: And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Righteous art thou, who art and who wast, thou Holy One, because thou didst thus judge:

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


rate difficulty: And he saith, `I have not troubled Israel, but thou and the house of thy father, in your forsaking the commands of Jehovah, and thou goest after the Baalim;

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


simplify: And they shall know that I am the Lord, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord: not for nothing did I say that I would do this evil to them.


simplify: And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.


rate difficulty: And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

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


rate difficulty: `Jehovah our God hath spoken unto us in Horeb, saying, Enough to you--of dwelling in this mount;


simplify: And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of Jehovah; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of Jehovah your God.

And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.


simplify: and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

‘And, if anyone puts temptation in the way of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be far better for him if he had been thrown into the sea with a great millstone around his neck.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations, and countries are round about her.

This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the secret design which he made, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


rate difficulty: The song of songs, which is Solomon's.

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simplify: And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And Jehovah said unto David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

And David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.


rate difficulty: And the children of Dan sent of their family five men of their whole number, men of valour, from Zoreah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to examine it; and they said to them, Go, examine the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

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simplify: The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;


rate difficulty: And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

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

It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.


simplify: And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?


rate difficulty: And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:

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rate difficulty: And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand; but hitherto the greater part of them had adhered to the house of Saul.

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rate difficulty: Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:


simplify: For they that dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.


simplify: Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote. Thus saith Jehovah: Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.


simplify: I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.


rate difficulty: and they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are at Gibeon.

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rate difficulty: let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

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simplify: Then began he to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And straightway the cock crew.

Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.


simplify: And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.


simplify: And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?

And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?


rate difficulty: And the priests could not enter into the house of Jehovah, because the glory of Jehovah filled Jehovah's house.


rate difficulty: And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.


simplify: Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,


simplify: And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

And if there is pain in one part of the body, all the parts will be feeling it; or if one part is honoured, all the parts will be glad.


simplify: And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians.

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.


rate difficulty: And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole.

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simplify: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:


rate difficulty: And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

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rate difficulty: The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

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