simplify: Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.


simplify: And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,


simplify: But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

But when the time came to give Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, she was given to Adriel of Meholath.


simplify: `And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna.

And, if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it go down to Gehenna.


simplify: If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give to him life to those sinning not unto death; there is sin to death, not concerning it do I speak that he may beseech;

If anyone sees one of our people committing some sin that is not a deadly sin, they will ask, and so be the means of giving life to them — to any whose sin is not deadly. There is such a thing as deadly sin; about that I do not say that a person should pray.


simplify: For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.

For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.


simplify: And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

And on the day after, we came to Sidon; and Julius was kind to Paul, and let him go to see his friends and take a rest.


rate difficulty: But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.

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simplify: He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.


rate difficulty: And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;

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


simplify: saying--`The prison indeed we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors, and having opened--within we found no one.'

while they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found anyone inside.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having heard, saith to them, `They who are strong have no need of a physician, but they who are ill; I came not to call righteous men, but sinners to reformation.'

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


simplify: Wherefore Jehovah said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.


rate difficulty: And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?


simplify: Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.


rate difficulty: and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.

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


simplify: And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.

He put the rods through the rings at the opposite sides of the altar for lifting it; he made the altar hollow, boarded in with wood.


rate difficulty: And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

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


simplify: Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? Or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?


rate difficulty: I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.


rate difficulty: Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

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


simplify: The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.


rate difficulty: And all who had not come to death by the sword he took away prisoners to Babylon; and they became servants to him and to his sons till the kingdom of Persia came to power:

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


rate difficulty: But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.


simplify: and we are His witnesses of these sayings, and the Holy Spirit also, whom God gave to those obeying him.'

And we are witness to the truth of this, and so is the Holy Spirit — the gift of God to those who obey him.”


rate difficulty: The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.

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


rate difficulty: The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.


simplify: And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were crowns like unto gold, and their faces were as men’s faces.

And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.


rate difficulty: For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.

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


simplify: For there fell down many slain, because the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity.

And a very great number went to their death, because the war was God's purpose. And they went on living in their place till they were taken away as prisoners.


rate difficulty: What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation--to make dumb idols?

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


simplify: And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.


rate difficulty: And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which is, being interpreted, 'God with us.'

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


simplify: As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

As the true word of Christ is in me, I will let no man take from me this my cause of pride in the country of Achaia.


rate difficulty: and my cup, the silver cup, thou dost put in the mouth of the bag of the young one, and his corn-money;' and he doth according to the word of Joseph which he hath spoken.

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


simplify: The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.


simplify: But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

The person who wants to be the greatest among you must be your servant.


rate difficulty: And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

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


rate difficulty: And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!


simplify: Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.


simplify: Then Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem on mount Moriah, whereJehovahappeared unto David his father, which he made ready in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, `What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he <FI>is<Fi> ;

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


rate difficulty: `All the command which I am commanding thee to-day ye observe to do, so that ye live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Even this thing which thou hast spoken I do; for thou hast found grace in Mine eyes, and I know thee by name.'

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon,

And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.


rate difficulty: And Jephthah said to them, I was at great strife, I and my people, with the children of Ammon; and I called you, but ye saved me not out of their hand.

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


rate difficulty: and Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them as watches.

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


rate difficulty: And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yea, let him take all, forasmuch as my lord the king is come again in peace unto his own house.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.


simplify: and the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah for his issue.

And they are to be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, and the priest will take away his sin before the Lord on account of his flow.


rate difficulty: But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

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


rate difficulty: Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.

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


simplify: He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Was not this to know me? saith Jehovah.

He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.


rate difficulty: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

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


rate difficulty: and he maketh all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the sprinkling-pans, the forks, and the fire-pans; all its vessels he hath made of brass.

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


rate difficulty: And the messengers turn back and say, `Thus spake Ben-Hadad, saying, Surely I sent unto thee, saying, Thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy sons, to me thou dost give;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

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


simplify: And the contents of the Writing that he was reading was this: `As a sheep unto slaughter he was led, and as a lamb before his shearer dumb, so he doth not open his mouth;

The passage of scripture which he was reading was this —  ‘Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, And as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, So he refrains from opening his lips.


simplify: Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord God unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land.


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

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


rate difficulty: And he said to him, Why are you questioning me about what is good? One there is who is good: but if you have a desire to go into life, keep the rules of the law.

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


simplify: For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

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


rate difficulty: Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and the holyGod hallowed in righteousness.


rate difficulty: And he sent to Abimelech at Arumah, saying, See, Gaal, the son of Ebed, and his brothers have come to Shechem, and they are working up the town against you.

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


rate difficulty: The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.


rate difficulty: And I heard the angel of the Waters saying — ‘Righteous are you, you who is and who is, the Holy One, in inflicting this judgment;

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


simplify: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:


simplify: And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,


rate difficulty: As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

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


rate difficulty: and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

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


rate difficulty: Sons of Pharez: Hezron, and Hamul.


simplify: And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Accordingly, after fasting and prayer, they placed their hands on them and dismissed them.


simplify: and shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye draw nigh this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your heart faint; fear not, nor tremble, neither be ye affrighted at them;

Give ear, O Israel: today you are going forward to the fight; let your heart be strong; do not let uncontrolled fear overcome you because of those who are against you;


simplify: In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.


simplify: And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.


simplify: Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.


rate difficulty: So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

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


simplify: Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as do thy people Israel; and that they may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.

Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.


rate difficulty: My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

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


simplify: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

For, when anyone listens to it and does not practice it, they like a person looking at their own face in a mirror.


simplify: Of whom be thou ware also; for he hath greatly withstood our words.

But be on the watch for him, for he was violent in his attacks on our teaching.


rate difficulty: for we provide for things honest, not only before [the] Lord, but also before men.

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


simplify: And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;


simplify: And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

And I will let wonders be seen in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and pillars of smoke.


rate difficulty: Come and let us return unto Jehovah: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

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


simplify: Even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh.

In the same way, when you see these things taking place you may be certain that the kingdom of God is near.


simplify: For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.


rate difficulty: And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they sent men to get the Aramaeans who were on the other side of the River, with Shophach, the captain of Hadadezer's army, at their head.

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


simplify: But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.

But, if I do that which I have no mind to do, I am in agreement with the law that the law is good.


simplify: Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord’s servant?

Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?


rate difficulty: And King Solomon and all the men of Israel who had come together there with him, were before the ark, making offerings of sheep and oxen more than might be numbered.

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


rate difficulty: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:


rate difficulty: Do not make complaints against one another, friends, or judgment will be passed on you. The judge is already standing at the door!


rate difficulty: And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the border thereof did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

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


rate difficulty: And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.


simplify: For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

For a man is the head of his wife, as the Christ is the head of the church — being indeed himself the Savior of his body.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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


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

When the angel, who had spoken to him, had gone, Cornelius called two servants and a religious soldier, who was one of his constant attendants,


simplify: and the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and he put them in array against the children of Ammon.

And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon, with Abishai, his brother, at their head.


simplify: For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s),

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


simplify: in like manner also he who <FI>received<Fi> the two, he gained, also he, other two;

So, too, the servant who had received the two bags of gold made another two bags.


simplify: I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

I have made haircloth the clothing of my skin, and my horn is rolled in the dust.


rate difficulty: Then sang Israel this song:  Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

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


simplify: And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of Jehovah; and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.

And Ahaz got together the vessels of the house of God, cutting up all the vessels of the house of God, and shutting the doors of the Lord's house; and he made altars in every part of Jerusalem.


simplify: Destruction and misery are in their ways;

Destruction and trouble are in their ways;


rate difficulty: And Solomon gathereth chariots, and horsemen, and he hath a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, and he placeth them in the cities of the chariot, and with the king in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?


rate difficulty: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

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


simplify: And the nations were wroth, and thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth.

And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and the time of reward for your servants, the prophets, and for the saints, and for those in whom is the fear of your name, small and great, and the time of destruction for those who made the earth unclean.


rate difficulty: Strengthen yourselves, sons of Benjamin, From the midst of Jerusalem, And in Tekoa blow ye a trumpet, And over Beth-Haccerem lift ye up a flame, For evil hath been seen from the north, And great destruction.

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


simplify: I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when they saw him, that they brought thirty companions to be with him.

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


rate difficulty: If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

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


rate difficulty: Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

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


simplify: And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.

And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.


simplify: By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

By myself have I taken an oath, a true word has gone from my mouth, and will not be changed, that to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give honour.


simplify: For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.


simplify: And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.

And Laban got together all the men of the place and gave a feast.


rate difficulty: And Joram lieth with his fathers, and is buried with his fathers in the city of David, and reign doth Ahaziah his son in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

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


simplify: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.

And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.


simplify: this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.

This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel — ‘God will raise up for you, from among yourselves, a prophet, as he raised up me.’


simplify: so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

Therefore, if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!


simplify: In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.


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


simplify: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.


simplify: And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he entereth in.

“Listen,”he answered, “when you have got into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him into whatever house he enters;


rate difficulty: for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

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


simplify: There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.


simplify: The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.


simplify: And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

Jesus also said: “To what can we liken the kingdom of God?


rate difficulty: For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

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


rate difficulty: And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

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


rate difficulty: Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which Jehovah commanded him.


simplify: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

Stand firm against him, strong in your faith; knowing, as you do, that the sufferings which you are undergoing are being endured to the full by the Lord's followers throughout the world.


simplify: And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

And make a feast before the Lord your God, in the place which is to be marked out, where his name will be for ever, of the tenth part of your grain and your wine and your oil, and the first births of your herds and your flocks; so that you may have the fear of the Lord your God in your hearts at all times.


simplify: And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them. And they set him between the pillars:

Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.


simplify: And David divided them into courses among the sons of Levi, namely, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


simplify: For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.


simplify: The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,


simplify: And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.


rate difficulty: `And when the way is too much for thee, that thou art not able to carry it--when the place is too far off from thee which Jehovah thy God doth choose to put His name there, when Jehovah thy God doth bless thee; --

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah had not said that he would blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens; and he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

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


rate difficulty: Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,


rate difficulty: For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.


simplify: From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?


rate difficulty: for they and their cattle come up, with their tents; they come in as the fulness of the locust for multitude, and of them and of their cattle there is no number, and they come into the land to destroy it.

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


simplify: Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the ground which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.

So, looking down from your holy place in heaven, send your blessing on your people Israel and on the land which you have given us, as you said in your oath to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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

So King Joram went back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the bowmen had given him at Ramah, when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram. And Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Joram, the son of Ahab, in Jezreel, because he was ill.


simplify: and now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

And now to us the men of pride seem happy; yes, the evil-doers are doing well; they put God to the test and are safe.


simplify: And he presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

And he put the other sheep before the Lord, the sheep with which they were made priests; and Aaron and his sons put their hands on the head of the sheep,


rate difficulty: For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.

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


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


simplify: And Enos lived after he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.

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


rate difficulty: Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

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


simplify: For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him;


simplify: Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.

Greet one another with a sacred kiss. All the churches of the Christ send you greetings.


rate difficulty: You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,


simplify: Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:


simplify: So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

So Jotham became strong, because in all his ways he made the Lord his guide.


rate difficulty: Now therefore the wheat and the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord hath spoken of, let him send unto his servants:

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


simplify: Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

Everyone who comes to me and listens to my teaching and acts on it — I will show you to whom they may be compared.


rate difficulty: Because [it is] theGod who spoke that out of darkness light should shine who has shone in our hearts for the shining forth of the knowledge of the glory ofGod in [the] face of [Jesus] Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

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


simplify: And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

I will make you come out from inside the town and will give you up into the hands of men from other lands, and will be judge among you.


simplify: And I saw, when, for this very cause that backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot.

And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.


simplify: But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.

But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.


rate difficulty: They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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


rate difficulty: The length of each curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits the breadth of each curtain: the eleven curtains had one measure.

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


simplify: daily I was with you in the temple teaching, and ye did not lay hold on me--but that the Writings may be fulfilled.'

I have been among you day after day in the Temple Courts teaching, and yet you did not arrest me; but this is in fulfillment of the scriptures.”


rate difficulty: Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,

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


rate difficulty: This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

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


simplify: and did not know her till she brought forth her son--the first-born, and he called his name Jesus.

He made Mary his wife, but they did not sleep together until after the birth of her son; and to this son he gave the name Jesus.


simplify: And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And at the sounding of the seventh angel there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he will have rule for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, [Do] not interpretations [belong] toGod? tell me [your dreams], I pray you.


rate difficulty: But none saith, Where isGod my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

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


rate difficulty: I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, [the] first and [the] last, the beginning and the end.

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


simplify: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.


simplify: And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.


simplify: The sixteenth to Hananiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The sixteenth Hananiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: And Samuel said to the cook, Give me that part which I gave you orders to keep by you.


rate difficulty: Vanity <FI>are<Fi> they--work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.

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


rate difficulty: at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;

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


rate difficulty: Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

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


rate difficulty: And the Spirit of Jehovah fell on me, and said unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; and the things that come into your mind, I know them.

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


rate difficulty: `And <FI>for<Fi> the breadth of the court at the west side <FI>are<Fi> hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

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


simplify: Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.

And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.


rate difficulty: Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee:

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


simplify: and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou--declare not thou common.

Then a second time there came a voice from the heavens. “What God has pronounced ‘clean’,”it said, “you must not call ‘defiled’.”


simplify: Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Put on one side a tenth of all the increase of your seed, produced year by year.


simplify: The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.


rate difficulty: And falling into a place where two seas met they ran the ship aground, and the prow having stuck itself fast remained unmoved, but the stern was broken by the force of the waves.

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


rate difficulty: Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

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


simplify: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

that he was buried, that on the third day he was raised (as the scriptures had foretold),


simplify: And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,

And Zadok the priest, with his brothers the priests, before the House of the Lord in the high place at Gibeon;


simplify: Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

When the day of the Festival of the unleavened bread came, on which the Passover lambs had to be killed,


rate difficulty: Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

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


simplify: And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

With the request that they might only put their hands on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.


simplify: And certain having risen up, were bearing false testimony against him, saying--

Presently some men stood up, and gave this false evidence against him —


simplify: And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:

And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:


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


simplify: When thou dost lend thy neighbor any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;


simplify: And there having been long fasting, then Paul having stood in the midst of them, said, `It behoved <FI>you<Fi> , indeed, O men--having hearkened to me--not to set sail from Crete, and to save this hurt and damage;

It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said: “My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.


rate difficulty: The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

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


simplify: And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

And Hezekiah was glad at their coming, and let them see all his store of wealth, the silver and the gold and the spices and the oil, and all the house of his arms, and everything there was in his stores: there was nothing in all his house or his kingdom which he did not let them see.


simplify: And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye contend for Baal? or will ye save him? he that will contend for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one hath broken down his altar.

But Joash said to all those who were attacking him, Will you take up the cause of Baal? will you be his saviour? Let anyone who will take up his cause be put to death while it is still morning: if he is a god, let him take up his cause himself because of the pulling down of his altar.


simplify: Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.

And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.


simplify: And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.


simplify: To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Put to shame hath been Moab, For it hath been broken down, Howl and cry, declare ye in Arnon, For spoiled is Moab,

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


rate difficulty: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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


rate difficulty: and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the cities <FI>are<Fi> twenty and nine, and their villages.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob. And vain men were gathered to Jephthah, and they made expeditions with him.

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


rate difficulty: There were two debtors of a certain creditor: one owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty;


simplify: And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.


simplify: But of the cities of these peoples, that Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth;

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they took in strange fire before the Lord and death overtook them;

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


simplify: Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

Keep your people safe with your rod, the flock of your heritage, living by themselves in the woods in the middle of Carmel: let them get their food in Bashan and Gilead as in the past.


simplify: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

My prayer is that the God of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-glorious Father, may inspire you with wisdom and true insight through a fuller knowledge of himself;


simplify: And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.


rate difficulty: Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.

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


rate difficulty: And having called near all the multitude, he said to them, `Hearken to me, ye all, and understand;

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


simplify: And he began to speak to them in similes: `A man planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around, and digged an under-wine-vat, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad;

Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man once planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine-press, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.


simplify: And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

And when Jesus saw that he gave a wise answer, he said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. And every man after that was in fear of questioning him any more.


rate difficulty: shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

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


rate difficulty: Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.

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


simplify: And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the carcase, nor torn the ass.

And he went and saw the dead body stretched out in the road with the ass and the lion by its side: the lion had not taken the body for its food or done any damage to the ass.


rate difficulty: And Mephibosheth saith unto the king, `Yea, the whole let him take, after that my lord the king hath come in peace unto his house.'

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


simplify: And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever,

And, whenever these Creatures give praise and honor and thanks to him who is ‘seated on the throne, to him who lives for ever and ever,’


simplify: Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee.

Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.


simplify: and having sent to Macedonia two of those ministering to him--Timotheus and Erastus--he himself stayed a time in Asia.

So he sent to Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, while he himself stayed for some time longer in Roman Asia.


simplify: And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,

And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,


rate difficulty: And when Aaron lighteth the lamps between the two evenings, he shall burn the incense — a continual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.

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


simplify: Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

The Lord gives me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean before him.


simplify: For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.


rate difficulty: And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.

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


simplify: Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?

Who is certain that the spirit of the sons of men goes up to heaven, or that the spirit of the beasts goes down to the earth?


simplify: All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands.


rate difficulty: But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

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


simplify: Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.


simplify: And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

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


simplify: wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.


rate difficulty: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.

These are the words of the Lord: As the keeper of sheep takes out of the mouth of the lion two legs or part of an ear; so will the children of Israel be made safe, who are resting in Samaria on seats of honour or on the silk cushions of a bed.


rate difficulty: But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and break in pieces their pillars.

Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.


simplify: And thou didst establish to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.

But you took and made strong for yourself your people Israel, to be your people for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.


simplify: All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.


rate difficulty: but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

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


rate difficulty: So the last shall be first, and the first last.

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


simplify: and Josiah begat Jeconiah and his brethren, at the Babylonian removal.

Josiah of Jeconiah and his brothers, at the time of the Exile to Babylon.


rate difficulty: Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.

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


rate difficulty: and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul buildeth an alter to Jehovah; with it he hath begun to build altars to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: (And the children of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest’s office in his stead.

(And the children of Israel went on from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah: there death came to Aaron and he was put to rest in the earth; and Eleazar, his son, took his place as priest.


rate difficulty: Of Melicu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

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


simplify: Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;

Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,


rate difficulty: For thus hath the Lord said unto me: Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he drew nigh unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,

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


rate difficulty: For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two kings you are now fearing will have become waste.

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


rate difficulty: Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

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


rate difficulty: and the very great multitude spread their own garments in the way, and others were cutting branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way,

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


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

Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.


rate difficulty: Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them; they shall go into exile, into captivity.

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


simplify: He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed.

Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.


simplify: And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.

Near them was Shallum, the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half Jerusalem, with his daughters.


simplify: And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;


simplify: whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.


rate difficulty: And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be chamberlains in the palace of the king of Babylon.

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


simplify: For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the Lord: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.


simplify: And the king sware, and said, As the Lord liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress,

And the king took an oath, and said, By the living Lord, who has been my saviour from all my troubles,


rate difficulty: and I will make it a waste — it shall not be pruned nor cultivated, but there shall come up briars and thorns; and I will command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

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


simplify: And on the first of the week, the disciples having been gathered together to break bread, Paul was discoursing to them, about to depart on the morrow, he was also continuing the discourse till midnight,

On the first day of the week, when we had met for the breaking of bread, Paul, who was intending to leave the next day, began to address those who were present, and prolonged his address until midnight.


simplify: And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

And I will take you into the waste land of the peoples, and there I will take up the cause with you face to face.


rate difficulty: So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.


simplify: And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

And the chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing; and I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.


simplify: In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?

That the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people came to him and said, Make clear to us by what authority you do these things and who gave you this authority.


rate difficulty: and we have known that the law <FI>is<Fi> good, if any one may use it lawfully;


rate difficulty: And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs.

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


simplify: And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.


simplify: the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Fathers, never irritate your children, otherwise they might become disheartened.


simplify: There were also women looking on afar off: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

And there were women watching from a distance: among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,


rate difficulty: being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.


rate difficulty: Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders.

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


simplify: O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.


simplify: to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?

Do you mean to make away with me as you did yesterday with that Egyptian?’


simplify: And having made some stay he went forth, going through in order the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

After making some stay in Antioch, he set out on a tour through the Phrygian district of Galatia, strengthening the faith of all the disciples as he went.


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

He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.


simplify: But as for us, Jehovah is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and we have priests ministering unto Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:

But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;


rate difficulty: Therefore do my thoughts give me an answer, and for this is my haste within me.

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


rate difficulty: But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

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


simplify: For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, There will again be trading in houses and fields and vine-gardens in this land.


simplify: And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.


rate difficulty: In My saying to the wicked, O wicked one--thou dost surely die, And thou hast not spoken to warn the wicked from his way, He--the wicked--in his iniquity doth die, And his blood from thy hand I require.

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


rate difficulty: But I stood upon the mountain according to the former days, forty days and forty nights; and Jehovah listened unto me also at that time: Jehovah would not destroy thee.

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


rate difficulty: Then the Levites are to be put before Aaron and his sons, to be offered as a wave offering to the Lord.


simplify: Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.


simplify: and lo, a messenger of the Lord stood over them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they feared a great fear.

when an angel of the Lord suddenly stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were seized with fear.


rate difficulty: Since Abraham shall indeed become a great and mighty nation; and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.


simplify: But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

Now, Sanballat, hearing that we were building the wall, was very angry, and in his wrath made sport of the Jews.


rate difficulty: And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.

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


simplify: Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?


simplify: The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.


simplify: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

For as in Adam death comes to all, so in Christ will all come back to life.


rate difficulty: saying, `A certain judge was in a certain city--God he is not fearing, and man he is not regarding--

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


simplify: I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little.

I say again — Let no one think me a fool! Yet, if you do, at least welcome me as you would a fool, so that I, too may indulge in a little boasting.


rate difficulty: Now the Philistines got all their army together at Aphek: and the Israelites put their forces in position by the fountain in Jezreel.

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


rate difficulty: I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred talents;

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


simplify: And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren.

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.


rate difficulty: Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest.

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


rate difficulty: And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his uncle king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.


simplify: Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillator!


rate difficulty: These are the chief fathers of the Levites, heads according to their families; these dwelt in Jerusalem.

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


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


rate difficulty: And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

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


rate difficulty: And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.


rate difficulty: See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.


simplify: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,


simplify: Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?

Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith Jehovah: Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.

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


simplify: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.


simplify: But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.


simplify: And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, as it were frogs:

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits, like frogs.


rate difficulty: It is Egypt that riseth up as the Nile, and [his] waters toss themselves like the rivers; and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

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


rate difficulty: therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass--Isaiah hath not gone out to the middle court--that the word of Jehovah hath been unto him, saying,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: In all their distress <FI>He is<Fi> no adversary, And the messenger of His presence saved them, In His love and in His pity He redeemed them, And He doth lift them up, And beareth them all the days of old.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even those seventy years, did ye really fast unto me, [even] unto me?

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


rate difficulty: the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

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


simplify: For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.

For Jesus had said: “Come out from the man, you foul spirit.”


simplify: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.


simplify: And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

And there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will be living without fear of danger.


simplify: And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was, and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew with trumpets: and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, Treason.

And looking, she saw the king in his regular place by the pillar, and the captains and the horns near him; and all the people of the land giving signs of joy and sounding the horns. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, gave a cry, saying, Broken faith, broken faith!


rate difficulty: Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the dumb [man] spake and saw.

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


simplify: And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

Then Jehu got all the people together and said to them, Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.


rate difficulty: All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The Lord thy God accept thee.

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


simplify: And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

But when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, and the shining of his face, they would not come near him for fear.


simplify: Lest I be full, and denythee, and say, Who is Jehovah? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.

For fear that if I am full, I may be false to you and say, Who is the Lord? or if I am poor, I may become a thief, using the name of my God wrongly.


simplify: But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?


rate difficulty: I tell you, unless a person receives the kingdom of God like a child, they will not enter it at all.”

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


simplify: Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


simplify: And the prince of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.

And of the tribe of the children of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel, the son of Ammihud.


rate difficulty: And this isthe blessingof Judah: and he said,  Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

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


simplify: Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.


simplify: And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.


rate difficulty: And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

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


simplify: Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

May God, who inspires our hope, grant you perfect happiness and peace in your faith, until you are filled with this hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

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


rate difficulty: Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.

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


simplify: Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,


simplify: And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.


simplify: Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.


rate difficulty: But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

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


rate difficulty: And they shall be terrified and ashamed of Ethiopia their confidence, and of Egypt their boast.

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


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

Then I heard ‘what seemed to be the shout of a vast throng, like the sound of many waters,’ and like the sound of loud peals of thunder, crying —  ‘Hallelujah! For the Lord is king, our God, the Almighty.


simplify: But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

What, then, is my conclusion? Simply this — I will pray with my spirit, but with my mind as well; I will sing with my spirit, but with my mind as well.


simplify: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

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


simplify: And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.


rate difficulty: Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

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


simplify: Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.


rate difficulty: The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.


simplify: But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.

And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.