simplify: Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;

Then if the priest sees that the growth of the disease has become red and white on his head or on his brow where there is no hair, like the mark in the skin of a leper;


rate difficulty: then it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth; and having come, it findeth <FI>it<Fi> unoccupied, swept, and adorned:

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


simplify: And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.


rate difficulty: Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was sore troubled for this thing; and he called his servants, and said unto them, Will ye not shew me which of us is for the king of Israel?

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


simplify: John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation--to remission of sins,

John the Baptizer appeared in the wilderness, proclaiming a baptism on repentance, for the forgiveness of sins.


simplify: And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.


rate difficulty: and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

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


rate difficulty: Her ways <FI>are<Fi> ways of pleasantness, And all her paths <FI>are<Fi> peace.

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


simplify: And this shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, unto the entrance of Zedad;

And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far as the way into Hamath;


rate difficulty: the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

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


rate difficulty: and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

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


rate difficulty: And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

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


simplify: He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come and be gathered together unto the great supper of God;


simplify: And the people are looking forward, and all are reasoning in their hearts concerning John, whether or not he may be the Christ;

Then, while the people were in suspense, and were all debating with themselves whether John could be the Christ,


simplify: For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near, a day of cloud; it will be the time of the nations.


simplify: And God saw the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

And God, looking on the earth, saw that it was evil: for the way of all flesh had become evil on the earth.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto me, `Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear ye the words of this covenant, And ye have done them.

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


rate difficulty: and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: After this thing Jeroboam hath not turned from his evil way, and turneth back, and maketh of the extremities of the people priests of high places; he who is desirous he consecrateth his hand, and he is of the priests of the high places.

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


simplify: And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bare him Hur.

And after the death of Azubah, Caleb took as his wife Ephrath, who was the mother of Hur.


simplify: Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?


simplify: And when they had tied him up with the thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?

And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?


rate difficulty: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

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


simplify: and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.


simplify: and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.


simplify: And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

But I, my friends, could not speak to you as people with spiritual insight, but only as worldly-minded — mere infants in the faith of Christ.


rate difficulty: And the silver is consumed out of the land of Egypt, and out of the land of Canaan, and all the Egyptians come in unto Joseph, saying, `Give to us bread--why do we die before thee, though the money hath ceased?'

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


simplify: Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

and they brought these men to the apostles, who, after praying, placed their hands on them.


simplify: Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:

Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:


simplify: And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts.

And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.


simplify: When thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim peace unto it.

When you come to a town, before attacking it, make an offer of peace.


rate difficulty: that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ramath-lehi.

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


rate difficulty: The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the good news.

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


rate difficulty: He raiseth from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He lifteth up the needy, To cause <FI>them<Fi> to sit with nobles, Yea, a throne of honour He doth cause them to inherit, For to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> the fixtures of earth, And He setteth on them the habitable world.

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


rate difficulty: and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

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


rate difficulty: Lo, all these doth God work, Twice--thrice with man,

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


rate difficulty: Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.


rate difficulty: and it is declared to Joshua, saying, `The five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah.'


simplify: But they forgat Jehovah their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

But they were false to the Lord their God, and he gave them up into the hands of Sisera, captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab, who made war against them.


rate difficulty: And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

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


rate difficulty: in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error;

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


rate difficulty: Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

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


simplify: Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?


simplify: But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism.


rate difficulty: The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.


rate difficulty: And Solomon went to Hamath–zobah, and prevailed against it.


simplify: And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

Plated with the best gold, with a gold edge all round it;


rate difficulty: And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.


rate difficulty: And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed Saul.

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


rate difficulty: And David dwelt in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.


rate difficulty: If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what Jehovah speaketh, that will I speak?

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


simplify: But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

I intend, however, staying at Ephesus until the Festival at the close of the Harvest;


simplify: knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away, that so we should no longer be in bondage to sin;

Being conscious that our old man was put to death on the cross with him, so that the body of sin might be put away, and we might no longer be servants to sin.


rate difficulty: but they, having gone forth, did spread his fame in all that land.


simplify: and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.

yes, and I ask you, my true comrade, to help them, remembering that they toiled by my side in spreading the good news; and so, too, did Clement and my other fellow workers, whose names are ‘in the book of life.’


rate difficulty: And when they came to the people, a man went down on his knees to him, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And he returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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


simplify: Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.


rate difficulty: So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.


simplify: Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose new armies on me.


simplify: And when both Silas and Timotheus came down from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the Spirit, testifying fully to the Jews Jesus the Christ;

But, when Silas and Timothy had come down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to delivering the message, earnestly maintaining before the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.


simplify: He who is overcoming--I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary of my God, and without he may not go any more, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, that doth come down out of the heaven from my God--also my new name.

Those who conquer — I will make them a pillar in the Temple of my God; and never more will they leave it; and I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on them my new name.


simplify: That the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do.

That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.


simplify: But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

But there were certain of the scribes seated there, and reasoning in their hearts,


simplify: And he answering said, `He who did dip with me the hand in the dish, he will deliver me up;

“The one who dipped his bread beside me in the dish,” replied Jesus, “is the one who will betray me.


rate difficulty: Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Judge ye in yourselves: is it seemly that a woman pray unto God unveiled?

Be judges yourselves of the question: does it seem right for a woman to take part in prayer unveiled?


simplify: While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Teacher.

While he was still talking, someone came from the house of the ruler of the Synagogue, saying, Your daughter is dead; do not go on troubling the Master.


simplify: These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.


simplify: And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

Then Abraham put Sarah his wife to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, that is, Hebron in the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;

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


simplify: And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

without ever shrinking from your opponents. To them this will be a sign of their destruction and of your salvation — a sign from God.


simplify: And in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth, and some to honour, and some to dishonour:

Now in a large house there are not only things of gold and silver, but also others of wood and earthenware, some for better and some for common use.


rate difficulty: My point is this — As long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate.

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


simplify: And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry because I do not get up before you, for I am in the common condition of women. And with all his searching, he did not come across the images.


rate difficulty: It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.

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


simplify: And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.


simplify: And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do.


rate difficulty: On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.

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


simplify: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And I saw when the Lamb undid one of the stamps, and the voice of one of the four beasts came to my ears, saying as with a voice of thunder, Come and see.


simplify: And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

And the Evil One who put them in error was sent down into the sea of ever-burning fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, and their punishment will go on day and night for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: The hope of Israel <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, All forsaking Thee are ashamed, And `My apostates' in the earth are written, For they have forsaken Jehovah, A fountain of living waters.

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


rate difficulty: And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

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


rate difficulty: And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

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


simplify: saying,  Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:


simplify: Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God


rate difficulty: And all the people were surprised and said, Is not this the Son of David?

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


rate difficulty: And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

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


simplify: Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

The servant who had received the five bags of gold went at once and traded with it, and made another five bags.


rate difficulty: But the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt upon the altar; as the Lord commanded Moses.


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

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


simplify: And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.

And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:


simplify: And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.


rate difficulty: I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.

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


simplify: And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s; for it was his from Jehovah.

And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.


rate difficulty: And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.


rate difficulty: and thy seed would have been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: their name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Elam: Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Elijah.

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


simplify: So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.


simplify: for till law sin was in the world: and sin is not reckoned when there is not law;

Even before the time of the law there was sin in the world; but sin cannot be charged against someone where no law exists.


rate difficulty: See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.


rate difficulty: And Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.


simplify: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

And I saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was Death; and Hell came after him. And there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth.


rate difficulty: Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them up into the hand of Midian for seven years.


rate difficulty: And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.

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


simplify: He saith to him, `What kind?' And Jesus said, `Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness,

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Go not up, for Jehovah is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.

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


rate difficulty: They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

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


rate difficulty: but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.

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


rate difficulty: And when they forgat the Lord their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

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


simplify: The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord.

Happy sounds, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who say, Give praise to the Lord of armies, for the Lord is good, for his mercy is unchanging for ever: the voices of those who go with praise into the house of the Lord. For I will let the land come back to its first condition, says the Lord.


simplify: This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.


rate difficulty: And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

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


rate difficulty: And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted by Satan, and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him.


rate difficulty: And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab,

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


simplify: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.


simplify: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the holy <FI>place<Fi> , that the cloud hath filled the house of Jehovah,

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


simplify: yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.

Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.


rate difficulty: Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

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


simplify: And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field.

Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.


simplify: And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Take one ox for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are more of you; and make your prayers to your god, but put no fire under.


rate difficulty: Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.


rate difficulty: And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them.

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


simplify: Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.

And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.


rate difficulty: And the people saw them going, and a number of them, having knowledge who they were, went running there together on foot from all the towns, and got there before them.

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


rate difficulty: but, if they are of divine origin, you will be powerless to put an end to them — or else you may find yourselves fighting against God!”

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


rate difficulty: In all my going about with all Israel, did I speak a word to any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people, saying, Why build ye me not a house of cedars?

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


rate difficulty: And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.


simplify: And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth: and they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?

And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?


simplify: In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, `As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;

Jesus at the same time said to the crowds: “Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me? I have sat teaching day after day in the Temple Courts, and yet you did not arrest me.”


rate difficulty: For, pass to the isles of Chittim, and see, And to Kedar send, and consider well, And see if there hath been like this:

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


rate difficulty: And the whole vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which they give to one that can read, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed.

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


rate difficulty: `See, I have called by name Bezaleel, son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,

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


rate difficulty: I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,

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


simplify: And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.

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


simplify: And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go: peradventure Jehovah will come to meet me; and whatsoever he showeth me I will tell thee. And he went to a bare height.

Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.


rate difficulty: And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

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


simplify: `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law--the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved <FI>you<Fi>  to do, and those not to neglect.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law — justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first.


rate difficulty: The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

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


rate difficulty: Hodijah, Hashum, Bezai,

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


rate difficulty: On his return, after having been appointed king, he directed that the servants to whom he had given his money should be summoned, so that he might learn what amount of trade they had done.

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


simplify: And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the agreement which I have made between me and all flesh on the earth.


rate difficulty: Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the Lord by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

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


rate difficulty: And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month, he sent the people away to their tents, full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David and to Solomon and to Israel his people.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah doth favour them, and pity them, and turn unto them, for the sake of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and hath not been willing to destroy them, nor to cast them from His presence as yet.

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


simplify: And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.


simplify: Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.


rate difficulty: Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,


rate difficulty: two women shall be grinding in the mill, one is received, and one is left.


rate difficulty: Then said Elkanah her husband to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

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


simplify: The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a chief priest: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,


rate difficulty: son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the head priest;

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


simplify: And if one of the Levites redeem, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the jubilee; for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.


rate difficulty: And we have appointed for ourselves commands, to put on ourselves the third of a shekel in a year, for the service of the house of our God,

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


rate difficulty: And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of the Lord your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.

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


rate difficulty: Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.


rate difficulty: As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

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


rate difficulty: The ephah and the bath is of one measure, for the bath to bear a tenth of the homer, and the ephah a tenth of the homer: according to the homer is its measurement.

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


simplify: and give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters:

And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters,


simplify: A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.


simplify: For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.

And Moses said, You have made yourselves priests to the Lord this day; for every one of you has made the offering of his son and his brother; the blessing of the Lord is on you this day.


simplify: for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:

For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thyGod redeemed thee; therefore I command thee this thing to-day.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

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


rate difficulty: `But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins--(then saith he to the paralytic) --having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.'

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


rate difficulty: But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.

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


rate difficulty: Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

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


rate difficulty: And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.


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


simplify: therefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;

And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:


simplify: But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

But she had taken them up to the roof, covering them with the stems of flax which she had put out in order there.


simplify: and when ye may hear of wars and uprisings, be not terrified, for it behoveth these things to happen first, but the end <FI>is<Fi> not immediately.'

And, when you hear of wars and disturbances, do not be terrified, for these things must occur first; but the end will not be at once.”


rate difficulty: And the children of Kohath that remained had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

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


rate difficulty: Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

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


simplify: He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.

He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.


rate difficulty: And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

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


simplify: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

She was pregnant; and ‘she is crying out in the pain and agony of childbirth.’


rate difficulty: He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.

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


rate difficulty: And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway the leprosy departed from him.

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


simplify: And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a shame for women to speak in the church.

And if they have a desire for knowledge about anything, let them put questions to their husbands privately: for talking in the church puts shame on a woman.


simplify: For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

Because of his sin in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, in going in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel do.


simplify: But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

but, at the beginning of the Creation, God ‘made them male and female.’


simplify: And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

And twenty boards for the second side of the house on the north,


simplify: Jesus said to him again, `It hath been written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

“Scripture also says,” answered Jesus,   “You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”


simplify: In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.

and to which you, like others, once devoted your lives, when you lived for them.


simplify: And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.

And they said, What more need have we of witness? we have the very words of his mouth.


simplify: and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but--the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads,

They were told not to harm the grass, or any plant, or any tree, but only those who have not ‘the seal of God on their foreheads.’


rate difficulty: [And] I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me power, that he has counted me faithful, appointing to ministry him

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


simplify: The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

A copy of the writing, to be made public as an order in every division of the kingdom, was given out to all the peoples, so that the Jews might be ready when that day came to give punishment to their haters.


simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of David his father, without turning to the right hand or to the left.


rate difficulty: ForGod is one, and [the] mediator ofGod and men one, [the] man Christ Jesus,

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


rate difficulty: The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.

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


simplify: And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

And I saw the Lamb on the mountain of Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, marked on their brows with his name and the name of his Father.


simplify: And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you.

The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.


rate difficulty: What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

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


rate difficulty: And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.


simplify: With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.

If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.


simplify: After him Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired the other piece, from the turning of the wall unto the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

After him Baruch, the son of Zabbai, was hard at work on another part, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib, the chief priest.


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


simplify: And the men of Kiriath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Jehovah, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Jehovah.

So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care.


simplify: And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.

That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king to the sword; every soul in it he gave up to the curse without mercy: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.


simplify: And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings.

And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar.


rate difficulty: He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.

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


simplify: And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.


rate difficulty: When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.

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


simplify: And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.


rate difficulty: And he said, Put it before me and I will take of my son's meat, so that I may give you a blessing. And he put it before him and he took it; and he gave him wine, and he had a drink.

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


rate difficulty: And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.


simplify: The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.


rate difficulty: He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.

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


simplify: My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea; and I will make them into rafts to go by sea unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and thou shalt receive them; and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.

My men will take them down from Lebanon to the sea, where I will have them corded together to go by sea to whatever place you say, and I will have them cut up there so that you may take them away; as for payment, it will be enough if you give me food for my people.


rate difficulty: And Iphdeiah and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;

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


simplify: I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.


simplify: And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.

And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.


simplify: Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.


simplify: And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.

But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.


simplify: And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.

And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: so that they may not be seen by people to be fasting, but by their Father who dwells in secret; and their Father, who sees what is secret, will reward them.

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


simplify: also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

And baptism, which this foreshadowed, now saves you — not the mere cleansing of the body, but the search of a clear conscience after God — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,


simplify: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.


rate difficulty: What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

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


simplify: And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah, Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king:

And Jonathan, answering, said to Adonijah, Not so, but our lord King David has made Solomon king:


rate difficulty: And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.


simplify: But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus (the same is Jerusalem): and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine also was with him.

But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.


rate difficulty: She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

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


simplify: And it will come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of Jehovah will carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he will slay me: but I thy servant fear Jehovah from my youth.

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.


simplify: and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;

Then he measured the wall; it was two hundred and eighty-eight feet, as people measure, that is as the angel measured.


rate difficulty: And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David waxed faint;


simplify: And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to the man: “Ephphatha!”which means ‘Be opened.’


simplify: Gad, a troop shall press upon him; But he shall press upon their heel.

Gad, an army will come against him, but he will come down on them in their flight.


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

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


simplify: By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.


rate difficulty: And she sitteth at the entry of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

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


rate difficulty: [It is as] the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

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


simplify: And he healed many that were sick with divers diseases, and cast out many demons; and he suffered not the demons to speak, because they knew him.

And a number, who were ill with different diseases, he made well, and sent out evil spirits; but he did not let the evil spirits say anything, because they had knowledge of him.


simplify: And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

And Jacob went near his father Isaac: and he put his hands on him; and he said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.


rate difficulty: I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;

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


rate difficulty: Completed <FI>is<Fi> thy iniquity, daughter of Zion, He doth not add to remove thee, He hath inspected thy iniquity, O daughter of Edom, He hath removed <FI>thee<Fi> because of thy sins!

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


simplify: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

Mary of Magdala and the other Mary remained behind, sitting in front of the grave.


rate difficulty: And their words were pleasing to Hamor and his son Shechem.

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


simplify: But a voice answered the second time out of heaven, What God hath cleansed, make not thou common.

But the voice, coming a second time from heaven, said, What God has made clean, do not you make common.


simplify: `There were, then, seven brothers, and the first having taken a wife, died childless,

Well, there were once seven brothers; of whom the eldest, after taking a wife, died childless.


rate difficulty: And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.

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


simplify: and he spake to them many things in similes, saying: `Lo, the sower went forth to sow,

Then he told them many truths in parables. “The sower,” he began, “went out to sow; and,


rate difficulty: Lo, he goeth by me, and I see [him] not; and he passeth along, and I perceive him not.


simplify: and saying, If thou art the King of the Jews, save thyself.

And saying, If you are the King of the Jews, get yourself free.


simplify: And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.


rate difficulty: And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

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


rate difficulty: Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

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


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.


rate difficulty: and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

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


simplify: When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.

So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.


simplify: And David numbered the people that were with him, and set captains of thousands and captains of hundreds over them.

And David had the people who were with him numbered, and he put over them captains of thousands and captains of hundreds.


rate difficulty: And the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, Pethahiah, said, Stand up, bless Jehovah yourGod from eternity to eternity. And let [men] bless the name of thy glory, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

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


rate difficulty: who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;


simplify: If any man hath an ear, let him hear.


rate difficulty: But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,

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


simplify: And thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.


simplify: and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah.

And the rest of the oil which is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean, to take away his sin before the Lord.


rate difficulty: All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah unto me, As the lion and the young lion growling over his prey, if a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so will Jehovah of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son;

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and sons of Elah, even Kenaz.

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


simplify: that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

some of whom they will persecute and kill, in order that the ‘blood’ of all the prophets ‘that has been spilt’ since the creation of the world may be exacted from this generation —


simplify: He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:

He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.


simplify: The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.


simplify: Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:

Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, sent a letter against Jerusalem, to Artaxerxes the king;


simplify: And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And a leper came and gave him worship, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.


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

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


simplify: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.


rate difficulty: and, seeing an Israelite ill-treated, he defended him, and avenged the man, who was being wronged, by striking down the Egyptian.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

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


simplify: from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;

And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:


simplify: For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.

Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.


simplify: Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit on thy throne, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bonds of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.


rate difficulty: and they, on their arrival, prayed that the Samaritans might receive the Holy Spirit.

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


simplify: And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.

but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.


simplify: The hand of the diligent shall bear rule; But the slothful shall be put under taskwork.

The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.


rate difficulty: Ladan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,


rate difficulty: And he causeth me to turn back unto the opening of the house; and lo, water is coming forth from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house <FI>is<Fi> eastward, and the water is coming down from beneath, from the right side of the house, from the south of the altar.

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


simplify: So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.


rate difficulty: Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?

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


rate difficulty: On my righteousness I have laid hold, And I do not let it go, My heart doth not reproach me while I live.

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


simplify: Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.

So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.


simplify: And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;

The foundations of the wall of the city were ornamented with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation stone was a jasper; the second a sapphire; the third a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald;


simplify: And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place.


rate difficulty: and told them to say that his disciples came in the night, and stole him while they were asleep;

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


simplify: And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together.

And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.


rate difficulty: Sons of Pahath-Moab, of the sons of Jeshua, Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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


simplify: Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.


simplify: It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.


rate difficulty: `And the priest who is anointed in his stead, from among his sons, doth make it, --a statute age-during of Jehovah: it is completely perfumed;

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


simplify: and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

And to the east his limits went as far as the starting point of the waste land, ending at the river Euphrates, because their cattle were increased in number in the land of Gilead.


simplify: And sitting down they watched him there;

Then they sat down, and kept watch over him there.


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

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


rate difficulty: There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, because fear implies punishment, and the person who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.

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


rate difficulty: For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.

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


simplify: These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.


rate difficulty: And heads of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin rise, and the priests and the Levites, even every one whose spirit God hath waked, to go up to build the house of Jehovah, that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem;

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


simplify: We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;

But, in the same spirit of faith as that expressed in the words — ‘I believed, and therefore I spoke,’ we, also believe, and therefore speak.


simplify: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of a man, goes through dry places looking for rest, and getting it not.


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh saith, `Go up and bury thy father, as he caused thee to swear.'

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


rate difficulty: the sun shall be changed to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and gloriously appearing day of [the] Lord come.

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


rate difficulty: And when the ruler comes in, he is to go in through the covered way of the doorway, and he is to go out by the same way.

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


rate difficulty: If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.


simplify: And it shall be the prince’s part to give the burnt-offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.

And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.


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

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


simplify: thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will send on them the sword and need of food and disease, and will make them like bad figs, which are of no use for food, they are so bad.


simplify: But the Lord, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice.

But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:


rate difficulty: Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

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


simplify: Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;

Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the responsible men among those who had been taken away, and to the priests and the prophets and to all the rest of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon;


simplify: And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

Then, looking up to the window, he said, Who is on my side, who? and two or three unsexed servants put out their heads.


rate difficulty: Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.


simplify: verily I say to you, that no more may I drink of the produce of the vine till that day when I may drink it new in the reign of God.'

I tell you that I will never again drink of the juice of the grape, until that day when I will drink it new in the kingdom of God.”


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

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


simplify: nor because they are seed of Abraham <FI>are<Fi> all children, but--`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

nor, because they are Abraham’s descendants, are they all his children; but — ‘It is Isaac’s children who will be called your descendants.’


simplify: And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

And again he went out from Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the country of Decapolis.


rate difficulty: And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house he asked them, What were ye reasoning on the way?

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


simplify: And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.


rate difficulty: Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.


rate difficulty: And he divideth the three hundred men <FI>into<Fi> three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

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


rate difficulty: This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And God saith unto Jonah: `Is doing good displeasing to thee, because of the gourd?' and he saith, `To do good is displeasing to me--unto death.'

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


simplify: And he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger Jehovah, the God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.


rate difficulty: And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

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


simplify: And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

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


rate difficulty: And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.


rate difficulty: Besides those things that are without, the crowd [of cares] pressing on me daily, the burden of all the assemblies.

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


rate difficulty: And now I am certain that you will be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be made strong under your authority.

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


rate difficulty: and thou hast cooked and eaten in the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix, and hast turned in the morning, and gone to thy tents;

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


rate difficulty: `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

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


simplify: And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.

And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and Aaron and Miriam, Come out, you three, to the Tent of meeting. And the three of them went out.


simplify: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.


simplify: And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he commanded you;

But to the Rechabites Jeremiah said, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have done the orders of Jonadab your father, and have kept his rules, and done everything as he gave you orders to do it;


rate difficulty: They, however, shook the dust off their feet in protest,

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


simplify: Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? saith Jehovah. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith Jehovah.

In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.


simplify: And of the children of Issachar, men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders.


rate difficulty: to [the] praise of [the] glory of his grace, wherein he has taken us into favour in the Beloved:

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


simplify: Ye shall offer these besides the burnt-offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt-offering.

These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times.


simplify: But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.

But, By the living Lord, who took up the seed of Israel, and made them come out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had sent them; and they will be living in the land which is theirs.


simplify: And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

Suddenly the Temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were torn asunder,


simplify: And he took the fenced cities which pertained to Judah, and came to Jerusalem.

And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of Jehovah, that thou die not by our hand,

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rate difficulty: And burning with wrath against them, the Lord went away.

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


simplify: This is the service of the families of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation: and their charge shall be under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

This is the work of the family of the Gershonites in the Tent of meeting, and they will be under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


simplify: I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day;

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day


rate difficulty: And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.

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


rate difficulty: To everything--a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

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simplify: Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.

Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.


rate difficulty: then I have walked--I also--with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

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rate difficulty: In the four corners of the court there were enclosed courts, forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corner courts were of one measure.

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simplify: He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.


rate difficulty: Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women),

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


rate difficulty: butGod knows that in the day ye eat of it, your eyes will be opened, and ye will be asGod, knowing good and evil.

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


simplify: Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?


simplify: Insomuch that we exhorted Titus, that as he had made a beginning before, so he would also complete in you this grace also.

So that we made a request to Titus that, as he had made a start before, so he might make this grace complete in you.


simplify: And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.


simplify: And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

for we know that trouble develops endurance, and endurance strength of character, and strength of character hope,


simplify: that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.

That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.


simplify: Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

Now, O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears awake to the prayers made in this place.


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


rate difficulty: for the native among the sons of Israel, and for the sojourner who is sojourning in their midst--one law is to you, for him who is doing <FI>anything<Fi> through ignorance.

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rate difficulty: And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.

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rate difficulty: I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

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


simplify: And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, Save yourselves from this crooked generation.

And with more such words he gave his witness, offering them salvation and saying, Come out from this evil generation.


simplify: And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.


simplify: And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Isaac made prayer to the Lord for his wife because she had no children; and the Lord gave ear to his prayer, and Rebekah became with child.


rate difficulty: And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

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