rate difficulty: And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening.

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simplify: to me--the less than the least of all the saints--was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news--the untraceable riches of the Christ,

Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ’s people, was this charge entrusted! — to tell the Gentiles the good news of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,


simplify: And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

And they said to him, Send us into the pigs, so that we may go into them.


simplify: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord's follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be ‘defiled,’ but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.


rate difficulty: And these were sons of David, who were born to him in Hebron: the first-born Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess;

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


simplify: no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.


rate difficulty: And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:

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


rate difficulty: for if willing I do this, I have a reward; and if unwillingly--with a stewardship I have been entrusted!

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


rate difficulty: She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retaineth her.

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


simplify: afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king, and shall come with fear unto Jehovah and to his goodness in the latter days.

And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.


rate difficulty: Then Moses sent for Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab: and they said, We will not come up:


rate difficulty: After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

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


simplify: and answering them he said, `Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a pit, and he will not immediately draw it up on the sabbath-day?'

And he said to them: “Which of you, finding that your son or your ox has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull them out on the Sabbath day?”


simplify: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;


rate difficulty: I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun; and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God;


rate difficulty: But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;


simplify: Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;


simplify: Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;

Prince Herod heard of all that was happening, and was perplexed, because it was said by some that John must be risen from the dead.


rate difficulty: And the skin of the bullock, and all its flesh, with its head, and with its legs, and its inwards, and its dung,

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rate difficulty: If I have found grace in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow according to the king's word.

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


simplify: And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.


simplify: The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;

The conies are only a feeble people, but they make their houses in the rocks;


simplify: The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise.

The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.


simplify: Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.


simplify: Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hand.

So now, O king, have your soul's desire and come down, and we, for our part, will give him up into the king's hands.


rate difficulty: He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; but he that hateth gifts shall live.


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

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


rate difficulty: and gathereth all the heads of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites;

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


rate difficulty: `And the suburbs of the cities which ye give to the Levites <FI>are<Fi> , from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about.

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


simplify: Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you after this manner, neither believe ye him; for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?

So do not be tricked by Hezekiah or let him get you to do this, and do not put any faith in what he says: for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to keep his people safe from my hands, or the hands of my fathers: how much less will your God keep you safe from my hands!


simplify: And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.


simplify: And David arose, and he passed over with the six hundred men that were with him unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.


rate difficulty: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

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


rate difficulty: and rend the kingdom from the house of David, and give it to thee, --and thou hast not been as My servant David who kept My commands, and who walked after Me with all his heart, to do only that which <FI>is<Fi> right in Mine eyes,

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


simplify: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.


simplify: The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.


rate difficulty: but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

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


rate difficulty: The twelfth to Hashabiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:


simplify: For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.


rate difficulty: And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.


simplify: The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.


simplify: And when the angel that spake unto him was departed, he called two of his household-servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;

And when the angel who said these words to him had gone away, he sent for two of his house-servants, and a God-fearing man of the army, one of those who were waiting on him at all times;


simplify: And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him.

And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him;


rate difficulty: whom we announce, admonishing every man, and teaching every man, in all wisdom, to the end that we may present every man perfect in Christ.

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


rate difficulty: I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.

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


simplify: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

Their land is full of images; they give worship to the work of their hands, even to that which their fingers have made.


simplify: And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

And they put a meal ready for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians who were with him by themselves; because the Egyptians may not take food with the Hebrews, for that would make them unclean.


simplify: And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

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


rate difficulty: I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.

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


simplify: faithful <FI>is<Fi> God, through whom ye were called to the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.


simplify: Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbour’s wife: and shall ye possess the land?

You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?


rate difficulty: this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

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


rate difficulty: And anyone touching these things will be unclean, and his clothing will have to be washed and his body bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.

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


simplify: And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.

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


simplify: And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.


simplify: But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all.


rate difficulty: neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

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


rate difficulty: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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


rate difficulty: for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ inGod.


simplify: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.


simplify: and having heard that Archelaus doth reign over Judea instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither, and having been divinely warned in a dream, he withdrew to the parts of Galilee,

But, hearing that Archelaus had succeeded his father Herod as king of Judea, he was afraid to go back there; and having been warned in a dream, he went into the part of the country called Galilee.


rate difficulty: `Take up the sum of the sons of Kohath from the midst of the sons of Levi, by their families, by the house of their fathers;

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


rate difficulty: And Abner said to David, I will arise and go, and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with thee, and that thou mayest reign over all that thy heart desires. And David sent Abner away; and he went in peace.


simplify: How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!

How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel!


rate difficulty: Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; him shalt thou serve; and to him shalt thou cleave, and by his name shalt thou swear.

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


simplify: Set thee up waymarks, make thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the highway, even the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns.


simplify: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, Evil shall not depart from his house.

If anyone gives back evil for good, evil will never go away from his house.


rate difficulty: And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

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


simplify: And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.

And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.


rate difficulty: And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son.

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


simplify: But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart.

But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.


rate difficulty: And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.

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


simplify: And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

And they said to him, Moses let us give her a statement in writing, and be free from her.


simplify: And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned.

Then Aaron said to Moses, O my lord, let not our sin be on our heads, for we have done foolishly and are sinners.


simplify: And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite.


simplify: But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

But turning round he said sharp words to them.


simplify: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.


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

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


simplify: And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.


rate difficulty: the prophets of Israel who prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and who see a vision of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths;


rate difficulty: In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

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


rate difficulty: And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.


rate difficulty: So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,


rate difficulty: and Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, `Be not afraid, only believe, and she shall be saved.'

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


simplify: And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: sons of Delaiah, sons of Tobiah, sons of Nekoda, six hundred forty and two.

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


rate difficulty: And Boaz went up to the gate, and sat down there. And behold, he that had the right of redemption, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. And he said, Thou, such a one, turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside and sat down.

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


simplify: And the prince of the tribe of the children of Asher, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi.


rate difficulty: And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.

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


simplify: Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

And I will keep you safe from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,


rate difficulty: And when the foolish man is walking in the way, he has no sense and lets everyone see that he is foolish.

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


simplify: Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

Pilate, however, wanting to release Jesus, called to them again;


simplify: And he saith to them on that day, evening having come, `We may pass over to the other side;'

In the evening of the same day, Jesus said to them: “Let us go across.”


simplify: And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?

To say to him, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?


simplify: And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple.

And when he came to Jerusalem, he made an attempt to be joined to the disciples, but they were all in fear of him, not taking him for a disciple.


simplify: And they journeyed from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.

And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.


simplify: Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.


simplify: thus saith Jehovah concerning the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and concerning all the people that dwell in this city, your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David's kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners;


simplify: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.


rate difficulty: And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

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


rate difficulty: A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Jehovah that rendereth recompense to his enemies.

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


simplify: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.


rate difficulty: And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: We have, therefore, decided, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to lay no further burden on you beyond these necessary conditions —

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


simplify: Publish in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the oppressed in the midst thereof.

Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.


simplify: But Peter raised him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.


rate difficulty: Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.

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


rate difficulty: And as they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me now Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.


rate difficulty: If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:

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


simplify: And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they came with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched from thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

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


simplify: He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.


simplify: And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.


rate difficulty: Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains.

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


simplify: But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I had aught whereof to accuse my nation.

But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.


simplify: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.

Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round the town.


simplify: And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;


simplify: And I will bring you out from the peoples, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out;

And I will take you out from the peoples and get you together out of the countries where you are wandering, with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm and with burning wrath let loose:


simplify: For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

We hear that there are among you people who are living ill-ordered lives, and who, instead of attending to their own business, are mere busybodies.


rate difficulty: and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five lambs, sons of a year; this <FI>is<Fi> the offering of Nethaneel son of Zuar.


rate difficulty: (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

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


rate difficulty: And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.

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


rate difficulty: Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

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


rate difficulty: The next day we left, and reached Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip, the missionary, who was one of ‘the Seven,’ and stayed with him.

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


simplify: the persecutions, the afflictions, that befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of all the Lord did deliver me,

as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!


simplify: Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

and who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.


rate difficulty: Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi.


simplify: `Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

Therefore watch, since you know neither the day nor the hour.


simplify: But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

But if he has a desire to get it back for himself, let him give a fifth more than your value.


simplify: And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:

And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil on it, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right leg:


simplify: And Jesus uttered a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.

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


simplify: And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.


simplify: Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,


simplify: Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.


rate difficulty: And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab,

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


simplify: At that time Merodach-baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill, and was well again.


rate difficulty: Have I not commanded thee: Be strong and courageous? Be not afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah thyGod is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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


rate difficulty: If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

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


rate difficulty: According to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

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


simplify: So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and increased in number daily.

So the churches were made strong in the faith and were increased in number every day.


simplify: And the report of him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto him all that were sick, holden with divers diseases and torments, possessed with demons, and epileptic, and palsied; and he healed them.

And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.


simplify: And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.


simplify: Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.

Be glad then, O heavens, and you who are in them. But there is trouble for the earth and the sea: because the Evil One has come down to you, being very angry, having the knowledge that he has but a short time.


rate difficulty: The devastation of the wicked sweepeth them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

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


simplify: For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father’s, and of the holy angels.

For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.


rate difficulty: And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass--they <FI>are<Fi> in the way--and the report hath come unto David, saying, `Absalom hath smitten all the sons of the king, and there is not left of them one;'

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


rate difficulty: To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: —  “These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, and walks among the seven golden lamps: —

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


rate difficulty: But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

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


rate difficulty: And when they went in, they saw a young man seated on the right side, dressed in a white robe; and they were full of wonder.

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


simplify: for if they who are of law <FI>are<Fi> heirs, the faith hath been made void, and the promise hath been made useless;

If those who take their stand on law are to inherit the world, then faith is robbed of its meaning and the promise comes to nothing!


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

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


simplify: And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof; even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other,


simplify: Now because we eat the salt of the palace, and it is not meet for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,


simplify: And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.


simplify: What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?

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


simplify: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.


simplify: And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

So they called the apostles in, and ordered them not to speak or teach in the name of Jesus.


rate difficulty: And they rise and go up to Beth-El, and ask of God, and the sons of Israel say, `Who doth go up for us at the commencement to battle with the sons of Benjamin?' and Jehovah saith, `Judah--at the commencement.'

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


rate difficulty: And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people, to make thee a name by great and terrible things, in driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou redeemedst out of Egypt?

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


rate difficulty: and these <FI>are<Fi> heads of the officers whom king Solomon hath, two hundred and fifty who are rulers among the people.

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


simplify: Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.


simplify: And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

And went after the man of Israel into the tent, driving the spear through the two of them, through the man of Israel and through the stomach of the woman. So the disease was stopped among the children of Israel.


simplify: And he hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the host: but Solomon thy servant hath he not called.

And has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the captain of the army; but he has not sent for Solomon your servant.


simplify: Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?


rate difficulty: Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.

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


simplify: brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched grain, and beans, and lentils, and parched pulse,

Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,


rate difficulty: and immediately Jesus gave them leave, and having come forth, the unclean spirits did enter into the swine, and the herd did rush down the steep place to the sea--and they were about two thousand--and they were choked in the sea.

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


rate difficulty: And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

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


simplify: These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?

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


simplify: and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, `Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

But, when in their fear the women bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them: “Why are you looking among the dead for him who is living?


simplify: And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

She became the mother of Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.


rate difficulty: and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,

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


simplify: I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:

I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:


simplify: He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.

He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.


rate difficulty: Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

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


rate difficulty: And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.

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


simplify: Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Go on your way: see, I send you out like lambs among wolves.


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

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep;


simplify: Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind person guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch.”


simplify: And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, got up quickly and went down with the men of Judah for the purpose of meeting King David;


rate difficulty: for I, also, try to please everybody in everything, not seeking my own advantage, but do what is best for others, so that they may be saved.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is molten out of the stone.

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


rate difficulty: Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?

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


simplify: So we wrought in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

So we went on with the work: and half of them had spears in their hands from the dawn of the morning till the stars were seen.


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

While charges were being brought against him by the chief priests and councillors, Jesus made no reply.


simplify: Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not builded.

Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.


rate difficulty: And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.

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


rate difficulty: God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

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


rate difficulty: Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)

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


simplify: In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.


rate difficulty: And to Obed-Edom <FI>are<Fi> sons, Shemaiah the first-born, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,

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


rate difficulty: And David danced before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

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


rate difficulty: Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.


rate difficulty: Rejoice not, Israel, exultingly, as the peoples; for thou hast gone a whoring from thyGod, thou hast loved harlot's hire upon every corn-floor.

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


rate difficulty: Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because in selfwill he walked after the commandment [of man].

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


simplify: and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field.

And shaking it seven times over the man who is to be made clean, he will say that he is clean and will let the living bird go free into the open country.


simplify: Now Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel; and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.

Now Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son whose feet were damaged. He was five years old when news of the death of Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and the woman who took care of him took him up and went in flight: and while she was getting him away as quickly as she was able, he had a fall and his feet were damaged. His name was Mephibosheth.


rate difficulty: And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

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


rate difficulty: Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

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


rate difficulty: His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

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


rate difficulty: We, for Christ’s sake, are ‘fools,’ but you, by your union with Christ, are people of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.

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


rate difficulty: And David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping within the wagon-defence, and his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay round about him.

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


simplify: `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,

Now, therefore, Lord, mark their threats, and enable your servants, with all fearlessness, to tell your message,


simplify: He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.


simplify: in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.

In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.

Give my love to Ampliatus, who is dear to me in the Lord,


rate difficulty: And when they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I sought thee sorrowing.

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


simplify: Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments of the Lord, and of his statutes to Israel.

Now this is a copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra, the priest and the scribe, who put into writing the words of the orders of the Lord, and of his rules for Israel:


rate difficulty: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, when Ehud was dead.

And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.


rate difficulty: neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,


rate difficulty: And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.


rate difficulty: Therefore will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.

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


simplify: let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren.

See then that he has the honour which is right. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me: for I am looking for him with the brothers.


simplify: Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

Over the first division for the first month was Ishbaal, the son of Zabdiel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Jehovah. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.


rate difficulty: And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.

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


rate difficulty: and Saul hath pity--also the people--on Agag, and on the best of the flock, and of the herd, and of the seconds, and on the lambs, and on all that <FI>is<Fi> good, and have not been willing to devote them; and all the work, despised and wasted--it they devoted.

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


simplify: He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.


rate difficulty: and the whole city was gathered together near the door,


rate difficulty: So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and got the prophets together at Mount Carmel.


rate difficulty: So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.

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


simplify: Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the Lord had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the Lord’s anointed.

Look! you have seen today how the Lord gave you up into my hands even now in the hollow of the rocks: and some would have had me put you to death, but I had pity on you: for I said, Never will my hand be lifted up against my lord, who has been marked with the holy oil.


simplify: Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?


rate difficulty: And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thyGod require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thyGod, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thyGod with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

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


simplify: And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;

Eliud of Eleazar, Eleazar of Matthan, Matthan of Jacob,


simplify: I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the cook took up the leg with the fat tail on it, and put it before Saul. And Samuel said, This is the part which has been kept for you: take it as your part of the feast; because it has been kept for you till the right time came and till the guests were present. So that day Saul took food with Samuel.


simplify: A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.


simplify: for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

For from the day when I took the children of Israel up out of Egypt till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from place to place in a tent.


simplify: And seeing the man that was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

And, seeing that the man who had been made well was there with them, they were not able to say anything against it.


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

And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut.


simplify: whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that ye might know the things concerning us, and that he might comfort your hearts.

I am sending him to you on purpose that you may learn all about us, and that he may cheer your hearts.


simplify: And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.


simplify: And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.


rate difficulty: And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey, and overtook him on mount Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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


simplify: I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.


rate difficulty: There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

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


simplify: and the ass saw me, and turned aside before me these three times: unless she had turned aside from me, surely now I had even slain thee, and saved her alive.

And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.


simplify: Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;


simplify: For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

The words of scripture are —  ‘You should not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain.’  and again —  ‘The worker is worth their wages.’


rate difficulty: for I through law, did die, that to God I may live;


rate difficulty: `Take heed to thyself, lest thou forget Jehovah thy God so as not to keep His commands, and His judgments, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and having stretched forth <FI>his<Fi> hand, he touched him, having said, `I will; be thou cleansed;' and immediately the leprosy went away from him.

Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so: “I am willing; become clean.”  Instantly the leprosy left the man;


simplify: And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks and streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.


simplify: And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;

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


simplify: Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.


rate difficulty: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,


rate difficulty: And the nations shall walk by its light; and the kings of the earth bring their glory to it.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

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


simplify: Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods.


rate difficulty: and he took the mantle of Elijah which had fallen from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is Jehovah, theGod of Elijah? He also smote the waters, and they parted hither and thither, and Elisha went over.

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


simplify: And will send unto Babylon fanners, that shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

And I will send men to Babylon to make her clean and get her land cleared: for in the day of trouble they will put up their tents against her on every side.


rate difficulty: yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we unto him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we through him.


rate difficulty: Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

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


simplify: And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.

The people were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the teachers of the law.


simplify: Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.


simplify: And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them well.

Then Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the meeting and the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, hearing what the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh said, were pleased.


simplify: For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.


rate difficulty: For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.


rate difficulty: He hath set the fool in many high places, And the rich in a low place do sit.


rate difficulty: Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.

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


rate difficulty: The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: for they stayed round about the house ofGod during the night, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning [pertained] to them.

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


rate difficulty: Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

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


simplify: I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.


rate difficulty: And the servants of Saul speak in the ears of David these words, and David saith, `Is it a light thing in your eyes to be son-in-law to the king--and I a poor man, and lightly esteemed?'

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


rate difficulty: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:

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


simplify: And he wrote a letter after this manner:

He also wrote a letter along these lines:


simplify: Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.


simplify: I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

I ask, then, ‘Has God rejected his people?’ Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.


simplify: But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

What then did you go to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.


simplify: This do; Take you censers, Korah, and all his company;

So do this: let Korah and all his band take vessels for burning perfumes;


simplify: Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.

Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.


simplify: Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

Then my agreement with my servant David may be broken, so that he no longer has a son to take his place on the seat of the kingdom; and my agreement with the Levites, the priests, my servants.


rate difficulty: And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

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


rate difficulty: Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.


simplify: For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.


rate difficulty: And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Put forth thy hand, and lay hold on the tail of it;' and he putteth forth his hand, and layeth hold on it, and it becometh a rod in his hand--

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

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


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

And when he comes, he sees that it has been made fair and clean.


rate difficulty: And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

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


rate difficulty: And I will stretch forth my hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, the name of the Chemarim with the priests;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

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


simplify: And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.


rate difficulty: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.


rate difficulty: The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, saying, This is what Jehovah hath commanded.

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


rate difficulty: Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear; open thine eyes, O Lord, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God.

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


rate difficulty: But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, who have taken an oath that they will not eat or drink, until they have made away with him; and they are at this very moment in readiness, counting on your promise.”

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


rate difficulty: So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.


simplify: And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem.


simplify: But the Lord answered him, and said, Ye hypocrites, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?


simplify: For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.


simplify: And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.

And there was a great earth-shock; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, rolling back the stone, took his seat on it.


simplify: O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.

O you seed of Israel his servant, you children of Jacob, his loved ones.


rate difficulty: though I also have <FI>cause of<Fi> trust in flesh. If any other one doth think to have trust in flesh, I more;

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


rate difficulty: Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;

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


simplify: He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.


simplify: And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab hath rebelled against me: wilt thou go with me against Moab to battle? And he said, I will go up: I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

And he sent to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, saying, The king of Moab has got free from my authority: will you go with me to make war on Moab? And he said, I will go with you: I am as you are, my people as your people, and my horses as your horses.


simplify: but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering <FI>is<Fi> whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

but you say ‘Whenever anyone says to his father or mother “Whatever of mine might have been of service to you is ‘Given to God,’”


simplify: And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

And he put his hands on them, and went away.


simplify: and in every synagogue, often punishing them, I was constraining <FI>them<Fi> to speak evil, being also exceedingly mad against them, I was also persecuting <FI>them<Fi> even unto strange cities.

Time after time, in every synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.


simplify: My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and he had fear of me and gave honour to my name.


rate difficulty: And all the land are weeping--a great voice, and all the people are passing over; and the king is passing over through the brook Kidron, and all the people are passing over on the front of the way of the wilderness;

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


simplify: Whither are we going up? our brethren have made our heart to melt, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.


rate difficulty: And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.

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


rate difficulty: for they are adversaries to you with their frauds, <FI>with<Fi> which they have acted fraudulently to you, concerning the matter of Peor, and concerning the matter of Cozbi, daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, who is smitten in the day of the plague for the matter of Peor.'

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


rate difficulty: after his rising again, early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first of all to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven demons.

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


rate difficulty: So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.

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


rate difficulty: And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate, and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.

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


rate difficulty: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

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


rate difficulty: Many shall come in my name, saying, I am he; and shall lead many astray.

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


simplify: And Naaman said, If not, yet, I pray thee, let there be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto Jehovah.

Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

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


simplify: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only.


rate difficulty: Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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


rate difficulty: So shall their blood return upon the head of Joab, and upon the head of his seed for ever: but unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his throne, shall there be peace for ever from Jehovah.

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


simplify: But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?

But Jesus said to him, Judas, will you be false to the Son of man with a kiss?


simplify: and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;


rate difficulty: And thou dost trust in thy beauty, And goest a-whoring because of thy renown, And dost pour out thy whoredoms On every passer by--to him it is.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what seest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.

And the king said to her, Have no fear: what do you see? And the woman said to Saul, I see a god coming up out of the earth.


simplify: And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.


rate difficulty: Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it; But the correction of fools istheirfolly.

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


rate difficulty: And I will cause all her mirth to cease: her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths! and all her solemnities.


rate difficulty: But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.


rate difficulty: And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.

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


simplify: And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

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


simplify: Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.


rate difficulty: I--I am become wicked; why <FI>is<Fi> this? <FI>In<Fi> vain I labour.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;

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


simplify: Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Her first husband, who had sent her away, may not take her back after she has been wife to another; for that is disgusting to the Lord: and you are not to be a cause of sin in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.


simplify: I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren.

I give orders in the name of the Lord that all the brothers are to be present at the reading of this letter.


rate difficulty: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that the city shall be built to Jehovah from the tower of Hananel unto the gate of the corner.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said to the children of Israel, See, the Lord has made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

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


rate difficulty: but in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound the trumpet, the mystery ofGod also shall be completed, as he has made known the glad tidings to his own bondmen the prophets.

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


rate difficulty: But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.


simplify: And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well as those from other lands living among them, will have forgiveness; for it was an error on the part of the people.


simplify: Thou shalt not do so unto Jehovah thy God: for every abomination to Jehovah, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make enclosures of gold;

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


simplify: And his princes gave for a freewill-offering unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen.


simplify: Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:


rate difficulty: That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the bowmen, the men of war of the children of Kedar, will be small in number: for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said it.


rate difficulty: `And he hath brought near from the sacrifice of the peace-offerings a fire-offering to Jehovah, the fat which is covering the inwards, and all the fat which <FI>is<Fi> on the inwards,

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


simplify: Let them give glory unto Jehovah, and declare his praise in the islands.

Let them give glory to the Lord, sounding his praise in the sea-lands.


simplify: and she is happier if she may so remain--according to my judgment; and I think I also have the Spirit of God.

Yet she will be happier if she remains as she is — in my opinion, for I think that I also have the Spirit of God.


rate difficulty: When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

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


simplify: And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

And you yourselves began to follow, not only our example, but the Master’s also; and, in spite of much suffering, you welcomed the message with a joy inspired by the Holy Spirit,


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read.

These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;


rate difficulty: This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to make to the Lord on the day when he is made a priest: the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering for ever; half of it in the morning and half in the evening.


simplify: Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?

On noticing this, Jesus said: “Why are you talking among yourselves about your being short of bread, you of little faith?


rate difficulty: and in Ziklag, and in Mekonah and in its small towns,


simplify: for yet ye are fleshly, for where <FI>there is<Fi> among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other people do?


simplify: Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: O Lord Jehovah, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy strong hand: for what god is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy mighty acts?

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

But his reply has been — ‘My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.’  Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me.


rate difficulty: And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

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


simplify: When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

And hearing this, they had baptism in the name of the Lord Jesus.


simplify: And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

And they were taken over to Shechem, and put to rest in the place which Abraham got for a price in silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.


simplify: And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.


rate difficulty: Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:

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


simplify: Then question him do the Pharisees and the scribes, `Wherefore do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but with unwashed hands do eat the bread?'

So the Pharisees and the teachers of the law asked Jesus this question — “How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?”


simplify: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all humanity,


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and all the people and the king, that they should be the people of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?


simplify: Remember the word which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God giveth you rest, and will give you this land.

Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.


rate difficulty: And the children of Benjamin went forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men.

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


simplify: Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

And he said to me, Son of man, make a hole in the wall: and after making a hole in the wall I saw a door.


simplify: To the wise the way of lifegoethupward, That he may depart from Sheol beneath.

Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.


rate difficulty: And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart.

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


rate difficulty: And Absalom spake unto Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

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


rate difficulty: Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the head; (as to the Hebronites, according to their families according to the fathers: in the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jaazer in Gilead;)

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


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

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