simplify: I said, Only fear thou me; receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, according to all that I have appointed concerning her: but they rose early and corrupted all their doings.

I said, Certainly you will go in fear of me, and come under my training, so that whatever I may send on her may not be cut off before her eyes: but they got up early and made all their works evil.


rate difficulty: And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.

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


rate difficulty: And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.

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rate difficulty: And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

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


rate difficulty: They lick dust as a serpent, as fearful things of earth, They tremble from their enclosures, Of Jehovah our God they are afraid, Yea, they are afraid of Thee.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.


rate difficulty: Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

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


rate difficulty: Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

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


rate difficulty: Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

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simplify: And verily I say unto you, Wheresoever the gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, that also which this woman hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

And truly I say to you, Wherever the good news goes out through all the earth, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.


rate difficulty: And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting.

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


simplify: And thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto Jehovah thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which Jehovah shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name.


rate difficulty: And Caleb is dispossessing thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, children of Anak,

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


rate difficulty: I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.

Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.


simplify: And the Lord said unto me, Say unto them, Go not up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.

And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.


rate difficulty: And you are to make two chains of gold, twisted like cords, to be fixed to the priest's bag.

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


rate difficulty: On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.

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


rate difficulty: Then he said, Take it up. So he put out his hand and took it.


simplify: He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

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


simplify: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.


rate difficulty: And there was great joy in that city.


simplify: But thanks be to God, who putteth the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.


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

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


rate difficulty: And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, [that] him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay; and him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

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


simplify: But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you.


rate difficulty: Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?

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


simplify: All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.


rate difficulty: And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward every wind; and ye shall know that I Jehovah have spoken.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

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


simplify: `And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;

When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his fellow Israelites;


simplify: The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.

The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred and twenty-two.


simplify: And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

And the light of God was still burning, while Samuel was sleeping in the Temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,


simplify: See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days,

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


simplify: and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What--to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'

Catching sight of Jesus, he shrieked out and threw himself down before him, and in a loud voice exclaimed: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torment me.”


simplify: Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.


rate difficulty: The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

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


simplify: Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.


simplify: And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the Lord, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

And say to them, Give ear to the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all the people of Jerusalem who come in by these doors:


rate difficulty: The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,

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


simplify: And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.


rate difficulty: The children of Israel brought a voluntary offering to Jehovah, every man and woman whose heart prompted them to bring for all manner of work, which Jehovah, by the hand of Moses, had commanded to be done.

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


rate difficulty: For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

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


rate difficulty: and his feet like fine brass, as burning in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters;

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


simplify: `Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.

How, again, can anyone get into a strong man’s house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? Not until then will he plunder his house.


simplify: And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.


simplify: and wheresoever he shall enter in, say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith, Where is my guest-chamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?

And wherever he goes in, say to the owner of the house, The Master says, Where is my guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?


simplify: And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

And all the people came up after him, piping with pipes, and they were glad with great joy, so that the earth was shaking with the sound.


simplify: And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, The people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

And David said to him, How did things go? Give me the news. And in answer he said, The people have gone in flight from the fight, and a great number of them are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.


simplify: And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.

And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.


simplify: For thus hath Jehovah of hosts said, Hew ye down trees, and cast up a mound against Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited; she is wholly oppression in the midst of her.

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.


rate difficulty: Jesus took the seven loaves and the fish, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke them, and gave them to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the crowds.


simplify: Thou shalt not bring the hire of a harlot, or the wages of a dog, into the house of Jehovah thy God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.

Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Diphath and Togarmah.


rate difficulty: And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;


simplify: and the name of the star is called Wormwood, and the third of the waters doth become wormwood, and many of the men did die of the waters, because they were made bitter.

(The star is called ‘Wormwood.’) A third of the water became bitter as wormwood, and so bitter was the water that many died from drinking it.


rate difficulty: Blessed are the mourners,  for they will be comforted.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.


simplify: honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.'

Honor your father and your mother.’ And ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.”


rate difficulty: And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

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


rate difficulty: Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.


simplify: And the waters prevailed, and increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.


simplify: for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last--to believe him.

For when John came to you, walking in the path of righteousness, you did not believe him, but tax-gatherers and prostitutes did; and yet you, though you saw this, even then were not sorry, nor did you believe him.


rate difficulty: The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

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


simplify: Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.


simplify: These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.

These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.


simplify: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.

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


rate difficulty: Oh! would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech. And he said to Abimelech, Increase thine army, and come out.

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


rate difficulty: Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.


simplify: But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.


rate difficulty: And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.

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


simplify: And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.


rate difficulty: Peter saith to him, `Even if it may be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee;' in like manner also said all the disciples.

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


simplify: And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and Laban with his brethren encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

Now when Laban overtook him, Jacob had put up his tent in the hill-country; and Laban and his brothers put up their tents in the hill-country of Gilead.


simplify: And the glory of Jehovah went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

And the glory of the Lord went up from inside the town, and came to rest on the mountain on the east side of the town.


rate difficulty: Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.


rate difficulty: And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And the gate of the outer court, that looked toward the north, he measured its length and its breadth.


simplify: and Simon Peter answering said, `Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'

To this Simon Peter answered: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”


simplify: Then said he, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.


rate difficulty: The increase of his house shall depart; His goodsshall flow away in the day of his wrath.

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


rate difficulty: Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?

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


simplify: These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

Selection was made of these in the same way as of their brothers the sons of Aaron, David the king being present, with Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of families of the priests and of the Levites; the families of the chief in the same way as those of his younger brother.


rate difficulty: And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you, for thee, and for thy bondman, and for thy handmaid, and for thy hired servant, and for him that dwelleth as a sojourner with thee, and for thy cattle,

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


rate difficulty: There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:


simplify: And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.

But now, I say to you, be of good heart, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.


rate difficulty: to the one an odour from death unto death, but to the others an odour from life unto life; and who [is] sufficient for these things?


simplify: Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

But even Moses made it clear that the dead come back to life, saying, in the story of the burning thorn-tree, The Lord, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


rate difficulty: And if the priest sees that all his flesh is covered with the leper's disease, the priest will say that he is clean: it is all turned white, he is clean.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore has my heart rejoiced and my tongue exulted; yea more, my flesh also shall dwell in hope,


simplify: and having come, he did proclaim good news--peace to you--the far-off and the nigh,

He came with the good news of peace for you who were ‘far off,’ and of peace for those who were ‘near’;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; for now thou shalt have another son.

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


simplify: And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.


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

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


simplify: And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.


simplify: So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.


simplify: and a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

And a man will be hated by those of his house.


rate difficulty: And they shall hearken to thy voice. And thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, Jehovah, theGod of the Hebrews, hath met with us; and now, let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Jehovah ourGod.

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


rate difficulty: And this stone which I have put up for a pillar will be God's house: and of all you give me, I will give a tenth part to you.


rate difficulty: The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

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


simplify: Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.


rate difficulty: `And when ye may fast, be ye not as the hypocrites, of sour countenances, for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men fasting; verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

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


rate difficulty: Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?

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


rate difficulty: in which He did abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

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


simplify: And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish:

But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:


rate difficulty: For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.


simplify: For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.

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


simplify: Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

The Romans, when they had examined me, were ready to release me, because there was nothing in my conduct deserving death.


simplify: As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.


rate difficulty: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

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


rate difficulty: `Do not hearken unto Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur, Make with me a blessing, and come out unto me, and eat ye each of his vine, and each of his fig-tree, and drink ye each the waters of his own well,

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


rate difficulty: And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

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


simplify: And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?


rate difficulty: Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

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


simplify: Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

One night the Lord said to Paul, in a vision: “Have no fear, but continue to speak, and refuse to be silenced;


simplify: And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

Now the disciples had crossed to the opposite shore, and had forgotten to take any bread.


simplify: The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.


rate difficulty: for there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

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


simplify: And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.


simplify: Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

Son of man, let your face be turned to Mount Seir, and be a prophet against it,


rate difficulty: And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.

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


rate difficulty: Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.

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


simplify: And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.


simplify: And again he sent a third: and they wounded him also, and cast him out.

He sent a third; but they wounded this man also, and threw him outside.


rate difficulty: And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.


simplify: If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:

If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;


rate difficulty: And the girdle of his ephod which <FI>is<Fi> on it is of the same, according to its work, of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

And the Lord said to Moses, Go down quickly; for your people, whom you took out of the land of Egypt, are turned to evil ways;


simplify: that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered:

Then the chiefs of Israel, the heads of their fathers' houses, made offerings; these were the chiefs of the tribes, who were over those who were numbered.


simplify: and father of circumcision to those not of circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of the faith, that <FI>is<Fi> in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

as well as father of the circumcised — to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised.


rate difficulty: whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.


simplify: And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Cesarea unto me.

At that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea to see me, came up to the house in which we were.


rate difficulty: Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.

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


simplify: Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.

Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.


rate difficulty: and looketh, and lo, the king is standing by the pillar, according to the ordinance, and the heads, and the trumpets, <FI>are<Fi> by the king, and all the people of the land are rejoicing, and blowing with trumpets, and Athaliah rendeth her garments, and calleth, `Conspiracy! conspiracy!'

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


simplify: Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices share with the altar?


simplify: of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

Let the same spirit of sympathy animate you all, not a spirit of pride; enjoy the company of ordinary people. Do not think too highly of yourselves.


simplify: And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.


simplify: We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers,

We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you all;


rate difficulty: But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,

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


rate difficulty: We often make mistakes, every one of us. Anyone who does not make mistakes when speaking is indeed a perfect person, able to bridle their whole body as well.

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


simplify: Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.


simplify: And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.


simplify: and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.


rate difficulty: For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, prophesy, and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah concerning the sons of Ammon, and concerning their reproach: and thou hast said: A sword, a sword, open for slaughter, Polished to the utmost for brightness!

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


simplify: A fool’s wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.


simplify: And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:

And Jeremiah gave orders to Baruch, saying, I am shut up, and am not able to go into the house of the Lord:


rate difficulty: but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.


simplify: When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.


rate difficulty: A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.


rate difficulty: And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

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


rate difficulty: Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.


rate difficulty: The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.

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


simplify: Then the nations that are left round about you shall know that I, Jehovah, have builded the ruined places, and planted that which was desolate: I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and I will do it.

Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.


rate difficulty: After that, he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles.


rate difficulty: And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the Lord hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.

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


simplify: And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

And the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: And the men observe diligently, and hasten, and catch it from him, and say, `Thy brother Ben-Hadad;' and he saith, `Go ye in, bring him;' and Ben-Hadad cometh out unto him, and he causeth him to come up on the chariot.

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


simplify: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.


rate difficulty: and we say unto him, We <FI>are<Fi> right men, we have not been spies,


rate difficulty: And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and encamped in the vale of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

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


simplify: The beginning of strife isas when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.


simplify: for if by law <FI>be<Fi> the inheritance, <FI>it is<Fi> no more by promise, but to Abraham through promise did God grant <FI>it<Fi> .

If our heritage is the result of law, then it has ceased to be the result of a promise. Yet God conferred it on Abraham by a promise.


simplify: To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

To make you see how certain are true words, so that you may give a true answer to those who put questions to you?


rate difficulty: The sons of Pherez: Hezron and Hamul.

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


simplify: Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.


simplify: And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.


rate difficulty: A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.


rate difficulty: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

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


rate difficulty: `And He saith, Lift up, I pray thee, thine eyes, and see--all the he-goats which are going up on the flock <FI>are<Fi> ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled, for I have seen all that Laban is doing to thee;

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


simplify: For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

My friends, so that you don't think too highly of yourselves, I want you to recognize the truth, hitherto hidden, that the callousness which has come over Israel is only partial, and will continue only until the whole Gentile world has been gathered in.


rate difficulty: And there was far off from them a herd of many swine feeding,


simplify: Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

Whoever is eager to get the most out of their life will lose it; but whoever will lose it will preserve it.


rate difficulty: And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:


simplify: And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, the seventh month.


simplify: These are the statutes, which the Lord commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father’s house.

These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.


simplify: Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,


simplify: And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.


rate difficulty: Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.

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


rate difficulty: When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;


simplify: And David’s heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: and now, I beseech thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly


simplify: And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.


rate difficulty: And Gideon goeth up the way of those who tabernacle in tents, on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and smiteth the camp, and the camp was confident;

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


rate difficulty: Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

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


simplify: What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh?

What then, it may be asked, are we to say about Abraham, the ancestor of our nation?


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

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.


simplify: The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.


rate difficulty: And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass after this, that David smiteth the Philistines, and humbleth them, and taketh Gath and its small towns out of the hand of the Philistines;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them.


simplify: And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

And what I say to you I say to all — Watch!”


simplify: A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.


rate difficulty: And Solomon completed the house of Jehovah, and the king's house; and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he did prosperously.

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


rate difficulty: For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,


simplify: They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.


rate difficulty: Greater is the honour of this latter house, Than of the former, said Jehovah of Hosts, And in this place do I give peace, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.'

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


simplify: And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet,

“At Bethlehem in Judea,” was their answer; “for it is said in the prophet —


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

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


simplify: Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.


simplify: And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an oblation unto Jehovah, then he shall set the beast before the priest;

And if it is any unclean beast, of which offerings are not made to the Lord, then let him take the beast before the priest;


rate difficulty: always in every supplication of mine on behalf of you all making my supplication with joy,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that the tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left.

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


simplify: And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

After beating them severely, the Magistrates put them in prison, with orders to the jailer to keep them in safe custody.


rate difficulty: When that time comes, they will give you up to persecution, and will put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.

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


simplify: While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

While Jesus was saying this, a synagogue leader came up and bowed to the ground before him. “My daughter,” he said, “Has just died; but come and place your hand on her, and she will be restored to life.”


rate difficulty: And certain of the priests’ sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:

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


simplify: Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.

Is evil to be the reward of good? for they have made a deep hole for my soul. Keep in mind how I took my place before you, to say a good word for them so that your wrath might be turned away from them.


simplify: and they had hair as hair of women, and their teeth were as <FI>those<Fi> of lions,

and they had hair like the hair of a woman, their teeth were like lions’ teeth,


simplify: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:


simplify: Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please people, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.


simplify: Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.


rate difficulty: and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

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


rate difficulty: But now, through your union with Christ Jesus, you who once were ‘far off’ have, by the shedding of the blood of the Christ, been brought ‘near.’

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


simplify: and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, `What is this? what new teaching <FI>is<Fi> this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!'

They were all so amazed that they kept asking each other: “What is this? What is this strange teaching? He gives his commands with authority even to the foul spirits, and they obey him!”


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


simplify: Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.


simplify: The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

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


simplify: And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;


rate difficulty: For the cruel one has come to nothing; and those who make sport of the Lord are gone; and those who are watching to do evil are cut off:

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


simplify: And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.

Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.


simplify: And Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.


rate difficulty: Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been--as the righteous so the wicked--far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

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


simplify: The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.


rate difficulty: And all the people whom Ishmael had taken away prisoners from Mizpah, turning round, came back and went to Johanan, the son of Kareah.


rate difficulty: That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich:

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.


rate difficulty: if to others I am not an apostle--yet doubtless to you I am; for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

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


simplify: And David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man; and he said to Nathan, As the Lord liveth, the man that hath done this thing shall surely die:

And David was full of wrath against that man; and he said to Nathan, By the living Lord, death is the right punishment for the man who has done this:


simplify: But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.


simplify: Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.

Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.


simplify: In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, andof Moab:

And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:


simplify: Then spake the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?


rate difficulty: And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

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


rate difficulty: Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.


simplify: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

and he will wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, nor will there be any more grief or crying or pain. The old order has passed away.’


rate difficulty: Be watchful; stand firm in your faith; be brave; be strong.


simplify: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

You have heard that to our ancestors it was said — ‘You must not commit murder,’ and ‘Whoever commits murder will be brought to trial.’


rate difficulty: And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the Lord about the king.

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


rate difficulty: A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in [the] Lord.


rate difficulty: And David went in flight from Naioth in Ramah and came to Jonathan and said, What have I done? What is my crime and my sin against your father that he is attempting to take my life?


rate difficulty: Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

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


simplify: A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.


rate difficulty: And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:

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


simplify: and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

and will flog the servant severely, and assign them their place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.


simplify: And when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.


simplify: And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto Jehovah, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

And if a man has given his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest will put a value on it, if it is good or bad; as the priest gives decision so will the value be fixed.


rate difficulty: chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

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


rate difficulty: and her husband have heard it, and been silent at her, and hath not prohibited her, then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

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


simplify: Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Yes, Father, I thank you that this has seemed good to you.


simplify: And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children’s children, for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever.

And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.


simplify: The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.

The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.


simplify: And ye shall teach them your children, talking 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, and 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: And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;


simplify: Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Briefly then, just as a single offense resulted for all humanity in condemnation, so, too, a single decree of righteousness resulted for all humanity in that declaration of righteousness which brings life.


simplify: And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty.

And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.


simplify: And none calleth to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?


rate difficulty: And afterwards Hezron went to the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

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


rate difficulty: For these are to be the days of vengeance, when all that scripture says will be fulfilled.

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


simplify: And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,


rate difficulty: Then shalt thou kill the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

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


simplify: Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

If, however, Demetrius and the artisans who are acting with him have a charge to make against anyone, there are court days and there are Magistrates; let both parties take legal proceedings.


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

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


rate difficulty: Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

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


simplify: do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

Do not you yet see, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took away?


rate difficulty: And when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he went not, as at other times, to seek for enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

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


rate difficulty: And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.

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


rate difficulty: Then Amaziah said to the man of God, But what is to be done about the hundred talents which I have given for the armed band of Israel? And the man of God in answer said, God is able to give you much more than this.


rate difficulty: And Enoch was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Methuselah:


rate difficulty: and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;

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


simplify: and in the morning turning back to the city, he hungered,

The next morning, in returning to the city, Jesus became hungry;


simplify: there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).

a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and poured the perfume on his head as he sat at the table.


simplify: And he said unto his men, Jehovah forbid that I should do this thing unto my lord, Jehovah’s anointed, to put forth my hand against him, seeing he is Jehovah’s anointed.

And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.


rate difficulty: And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them,  If ye had not plowed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle.

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


simplify: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.


rate difficulty: For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

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


rate difficulty: For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

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


rate difficulty: Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

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


rate difficulty: And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.


rate difficulty: And Moses cometh and speaketh all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hoshea son of Nun;

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


simplify: `And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

Whenever they betray you, do not be anxious as to how you will speak or what you will say, for what you will say will be given you at the moment;


rate difficulty: He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.


rate difficulty: Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.


simplify: And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan.


simplify: And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.


rate difficulty: who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.


rate difficulty: For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, and their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

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


rate difficulty: If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,

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


simplify: To call passengers who go right on their ways:

Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:


rate difficulty: `Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,

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


simplify: But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;


rate difficulty: And My flock the trodden thing of your feet consumeth, And the trampled thing of your feet drinketh?

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


simplify: And it was so, as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.

And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Let the woman take note of what I have said to her.


simplify: When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,


rate difficulty: The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.


rate difficulty: See that there be no one who shall lead you away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;

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


rate difficulty: And he saith, `While the lad is alive I have fasted, and weep, for I said, Who knoweth? --Jehovah doth pity me, and the lad hath lived;

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


simplify: And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.

And the sons of Ulla: Arah and Hanniel and Rizia.


rate difficulty: They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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


simplify: And the wings of the cherubim were twenty cubits long: the wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.


simplify: And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: “Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give him back four times as much.”


rate difficulty: For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

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


rate difficulty: Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Will he keep [his anger] for ever? Will he preserve it perpetually? Behold, thou hast spoken and hast done evil things, and thou art [so] determined.

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


rate difficulty: Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.

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


rate difficulty: You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

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


simplify: according to the commandment of Jehovah they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and dwelt therein.

By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for which he made request, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim: there, after building the town, he made his living-place.


simplify: And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,


simplify: This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


simplify: Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.

You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.


simplify: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.


rate difficulty: Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.


rate difficulty: And Shimei saith to the king, `The word <FI>is<Fi> good; as my lord the king hath spoken so doth thy servant do;' and Shimei dwelleth in Jerusalem many days.

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


rate difficulty: But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

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


simplify: For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory.


simplify: And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely:


rate difficulty: And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse to it.

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


simplify: Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.


simplify: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

For neither is circumcision nor the omission of it anything; but a new nature is everything.


rate difficulty: And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!


simplify: The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.


rate difficulty: In the first month--it <FI>is<Fi> the month of Nisan--in the twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, hath one caused to fall Pur (that <FI>is<Fi> the lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, <FI>to<Fi> the twelfth, it <FI>is<Fi> the month of Adar.

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


simplify: And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

And the Lord said, I will take away man, whom I have made, from the face of the earth, even man and beast and that which goes on the earth and every bird of the air; for I have sorrow for having made them.


simplify: Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.

Do not go away till I come with my offering and put it before you. And he said, I will not go away before you come back.


rate difficulty: In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

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


rate difficulty: they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he dwelt among the people.

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


simplify: And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

And all the earth had one language and one tongue.


rate difficulty: let it fall on the head of Joab, and on all his father's house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that has an issue, or that is a leper, or that leans on a staff, or that falls by the sword, or that lacks bread!

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


rate difficulty: And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:


simplify: and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.


rate difficulty: The ear that heareth the reproof of life shall abide among the wise.

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


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


rate difficulty: For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

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


rate difficulty: I also will answer my part, I also will show mine opinion.


simplify: Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?


simplify: Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?


rate difficulty: And when it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

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


rate difficulty: And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.


simplify: so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And they will take no wood out of the field or have any cut down in the woods; for they will make their fires of the instruments of war: and they will take by force the property of those who took their property, and go off with the goods of those who took their goods, says the Lord.


simplify: Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.


simplify: Now while he was not yet gone back, Go back then, said he, to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a present, and let him go.

Then go back to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has made ruler over the towns of Judah, and make your living-place with him among the people; or go wherever it seems right to you to go. So the captain of the armed men gave him food and some money and let him go.


rate difficulty: if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

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


rate difficulty: all that they had heard was — ‘The man who once persecuted us is now telling the good news of the faith of which he once made havoc.’

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


simplify: Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the heads of fathers’housesand the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers that served the king, in any matter of the courses which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every course were twenty and four thousand.

Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.

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


simplify: These things remind <FI>them<Fi> of, testifying fully before the Lord--not to strive about words to nothing profitable, but to the subversion of those hearing;

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


simplify: That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.


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

But there were some who said with a sneer: “They have had too much new wine.”


simplify: Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.


simplify: And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.


simplify: and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.


simplify: And I will lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.


simplify: Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.


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

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


simplify: But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

But in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, came with ten men and made an attack on Gedaliah, causing his death and the death of the Jews and the Chaldaeans who were with him at Mizpah.


rate difficulty: and he sendeth Hadoram his son unto king David, to ask of him of peace, and to bless him (because that he hath fought against Hadarezer, and smiteth him, for a man of wars with Tou had Hadarezer been,) and all kinds of vessels, of gold, and silver, and brass;

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


rate difficulty: Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

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


simplify: And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Uriah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchijah, and Hashum, and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.


rate difficulty: Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

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


simplify: And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.


rate difficulty: And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

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


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Judah: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:

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


simplify: And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.

and, sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and make careful inquiries about the child, and, as soon as you have found him, bring me word so that I, too, can go and worship him.”


simplify: Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.


simplify: And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;

And at that time, when Eli was resting in his place, (now his eyes were becoming clouded so that he was not able to see,)


simplify: And the frogs shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.

And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

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