rate difficulty: Thou shalt no more be termed, Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed, Desolate: but thou shalt be called, My delight is in her, and thy land, Married; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

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rate difficulty: Envy not the man of violence, and choose none of his ways.

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


rate difficulty: Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

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rate difficulty: Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.

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simplify: Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Then, Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: “Leaders of the people and councillors,


rate difficulty: But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

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


simplify: And many spread their garments upon the way; and others branches, which they had cut from the fields.

And a great number put down their clothing in the way; and others put down branches which they had taken from the fields.


simplify: For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

This perfume could have been sold for more than a year's wages, and the money given to the poor.”


rate difficulty: And the days that Jeroboam reigned <FI>are<Fi> twenty and two years, and he lieth with his fathers, and reign doth Nadab his son in his stead.

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simplify: Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.


rate difficulty: he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

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rate difficulty: He will come and destroy those husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it they said, May it never be!


simplify: And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, I will not go.

And Barak said to her, If you will go with me then I will go; but if you will not go with me I will not go.


simplify: Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Gad: Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.


rate difficulty: `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that is killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto her, how often did I will to gather together thy children, as a hen her brood under the wings, and ye did not will.

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


rate difficulty: Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is lunatic, and suffers sorely; for often he falls into the fire and often into the water.

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


rate difficulty: Indeed, the same God who said ‘Out of darkness light will shine,’ has shone in on our hearts, so that we should bring out into the light the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of Christ.

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


rate difficulty: and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah,

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


simplify: and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into <FI>the house of<Fi> Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.

When Paul and Silas left the prison, they went to Lydia’s house, and, after they had seen the Lord's followers, and encouraged them, they left the place.


simplify: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.


simplify: There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.

There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.


simplify: And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;

Simeon gave them his blessing, and said to Mary, the child’s mother: “This child is appointed to be the cause of the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign much spoken against —


rate difficulty: It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.


simplify: Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

This being so, friends, what good will I do you, if I come to you and speak in ‘tongues,’ unless my words convey some revelation, or knowledge, or take the form of preaching or teaching?


rate difficulty: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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


simplify: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?


rate difficulty: And Saul built an altar unto Jehovah: the same was the first altar that he built unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:


simplify: Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your feast of weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;

And at the time of the first-fruits, when you give an offering of new meal to the Lord at your feast of weeks, there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work:


rate difficulty: And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

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


simplify: And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.


rate difficulty: And Jehu hath gone out unto the servants of his lord, and <FI>one<Fi> saith to him, `Is there peace? wherefore came this madman unto thee?' and he saith unto them, `Ye have known the man and his talk.'

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.

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


rate difficulty: For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things [are] true, whatsoever things [are] noble, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] amiable, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue and if any praise, think on these things.

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


simplify: Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.


simplify: After he had ended all his sayings in the ears of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

After he had come to the end of all his words in the hearing of the people, he went into Capernaum.


simplify: And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.


rate difficulty: he shouted out: “Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me!”


rate difficulty: So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.

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


rate difficulty: So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.


simplify: And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.


simplify: And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Ben–hadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.

And the servants of the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land went forward first; and when Ben-hadad sent out, they gave him the news, saying, Men have come out from Samaria.


simplify: And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

After dismissing the crowds, he went up the hill by himself to pray; and, when evening fell, he was there alone.


simplify: And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

Then there went out another horse, ‘a red horse,’ and to its rider was given the power to deprive the earth of peace, so that people should kill one another; and he was given a great sword.


simplify: This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

It was Hezekiah who had the higher spring of the water of Gihon stopped, and the water taken down on the west side of the town of David. In everything he undertook, Hezekiah did well.


simplify: And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Then make fifty gold hooks, joining the curtains together by the hooks, and in this way the House will be made.


rate difficulty: And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not labored, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

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rate difficulty: And as many as shall walk by this rule, peace upon them and mercy, and upon the Israel ofGod.

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


simplify: for my yoke <FI>is<Fi> easy, and my burden is light.'

for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”


simplify: But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

But again I ask ‘Did not the people of Israel understand? First there is Moses, who says — ‘I, the Lord, will stir you to rivalry with a nation which is no nation; Against an undiscerning nation I will arouse your anger.’


simplify: And they brought up the ark of Jehovah, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.


simplify: And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;


simplify: as it is taken off from the ox of the sacrifice of peace-offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of burnt-offering.

As it is taken from the ox of the peace-offering; and it is to be burned by the priest on the altar of burned offerings.


rate difficulty: And he all those hath not done, For even on the mountains he hath eaten, And the wife of his neighbour he hath defiled,

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simplify: And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.


rate difficulty: With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.

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simplify: And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.

At that very time Jesus had cured many people of diseases, afflictions, and wicked spirits, and had given many blind people their sight.


simplify: And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

And wonder came on them all and they said to one another, What are these words? for with authority and power he gives orders to the evil spirits and they come out.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand.

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


simplify: And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,


rate difficulty: and he said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:

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


simplify: And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.


simplify: And the woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God; and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.


simplify: His roots are wrapped about the stone-heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them.


simplify: Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?

Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?


simplify: `There shall be there the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth, when ye may see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the reign of God, and yourselves being cast out without;

There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.


rate difficulty: And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And she had her first son; and folding him in linen, she put him to rest in the place where the cattle had their food, because there was no room for them in the house.

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


rate difficulty: Seven days thou dost prepare a goat for a sin-offering daily, and a bullock, a son of the herd, and a ram out of the flock, perfect ones, do they prepare.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

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simplify: he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.


simplify: I say, thy counsel and strength for the war are but vain words: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?

You say you have a design and strength for war, but these are only words: now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?


simplify: And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.


simplify: Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?


simplify: But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

But omit the court outside the Temple, and do not measure that, for it has been given up to the nations; and the holy City will be under their heel for forty-two months.


simplify: But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

as he took his leave, “I will come back again to you, please God,” and then set sail from Ephesus.


rate difficulty: that shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions, and in the coming age life eternal.

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

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rate difficulty: Again, you younger ones should show deference to the older. And all of you should put on the badge of humility in mutual service, for ‘God is opposed to the proud, but gives his help to the humble.’


rate difficulty: But wisdom is justified of all her children.


simplify: And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land.

And Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, Go and make your offering to your God here in the land.


simplify: But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

Yet can we say ‘human’?” — They were afraid of the people, for everyone regarded John as undoubtedly a prophet.


simplify: and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thy God; and thou shalt eat the flesh.

Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.


simplify: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

For their downfall will come suddenly; and who has knowledge of the destruction of those in high positions?


simplify: At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.


rate difficulty: And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.


simplify: and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,

On an appointed day Herod, wearing his state robes, seated himself on his throne, and delivered an oration.


simplify: The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.

The children of Zattu, eight hundred and forty-five.


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah protested unto Joshua, saying,

And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said,


simplify: And Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people, and blessed them; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings.

And Aaron, lifting up his hands to the people, gave them a blessing; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burned offering, and the peace-offerings.


rate difficulty: And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon;

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rate difficulty: For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

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


simplify: And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.


rate difficulty: He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.

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


simplify: or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

Or else let my opponents here say what they found wrong in me when I was before the Council,


rate difficulty: Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

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


simplify: And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,


simplify: And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew him.

Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.


rate difficulty: And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.


rate difficulty: And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.

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


rate difficulty: For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.


simplify: Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel.

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


simplify: If then I do that which I would not, 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.


rate difficulty: And Cainan lived seventy years, and begot Mahalaleel.

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


simplify: And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou seen all this great multitude? behold, I will deliver it into thine hand this day; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Then a prophet came up to Ahab, king of Israel, and said, The Lord says, Have you seen all this great army? See, I will give it into your hands today, and you will see that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

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


simplify: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

‘There were three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.’


simplify: And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.


simplify: She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work.


simplify: and a great dissension having come, the chief captain having been afraid lest Paul may be pulled to pieces by them, commanded the soldiery, having gone down, to take him by force out of the midst of them, and to bring <FI>him<Fi> to the castle.

The dispute was becoming so violent, that the commanding officer, fearing that Paul would be torn in pieces between them, ordered the Guard to go down and rescue him from them, and take him into the Fort.


rate difficulty: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them.

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


simplify: And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yea, for so much.

And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.


simplify: That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbor!

So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.


simplify: But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?

But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?


rate difficulty: I also have a heart like you, I am not fallen more than you, And with whom is there not like these?

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


rate difficulty: In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

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


rate difficulty: And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

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simplify: while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why <FI>is<Fi> it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;'

While it was unsold, was not it your own? And after it was sold, was not the money at your own disposal? How did you come to think of such a thing? You have lied, not to people, but to God!”


simplify: And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

And when Peter came to Jerusalem, those who kept the rule of circumcision had an argument with him,


rate difficulty: (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

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


rate difficulty: You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

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


rate difficulty: And he gave orders to the men whom he sent, saying, This is what you are to say to all the men of Israel, Has ever an act like this been done from the day when the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day? Give thought to it, turning it over in your minds, and give your opinion of it.

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


simplify: Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;


simplify: Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul; He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

A man who takes part with a thief has hate for his soul; he is put under oath, but says nothing.


rate difficulty: Wherefore hath thy bull been swept away? He hath not stood, because Jehovah thrust him away.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh-Nechoh causeth Eliakim son of Josiah to reign instead of Josiah his father, and turneth his name to Jehoiakim, and Jehoahaz he hath taken away, and he cometh in to Egypt, and dieth there.

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


simplify: Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:

And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:


rate difficulty: But Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.

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


rate difficulty: And her mother-in-law saith to her, `Where hast thou gleaned to-day? and where hast thou wrought? may he who is discerning thee be blessed.' And she declareth to her mother-in-law with whom she hath wrought, and saith, `The name of the man with whom I have wrought to-day <FI>is<Fi> Boaz.'

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


rate difficulty: and thou hast said unto Pharaoh, Thus said Jehovah, My son, My first-born <FI>is<Fi> Israel,

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


rate difficulty: Then comes Jesus with them to a place named Gethsemane, and says to his disciples, Be seated here, while I go over there for prayer.

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


simplify: He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.


simplify: always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness;

“We owe it to your Excellency,” he said, “that we are enjoying profound peace, and we owe it to your foresight that this nation is constantly securing reforms — advantages which we very gratefully accept at all times and places.


simplify: And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Yea, the hind also in the field calveth, and forsaketh her young, because there is no grass.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah shewed me four craftsmen.

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


simplify: Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

Seeing that you are looking for a sign of Christ giving out his word in me; who is not feeble in relation to you, but is strong in you:


simplify: for sin, finding occasion, through the commandment beguiled me, and through it slew me.

For I was tricked and put to death by sin, which took its chance through the law.


rate difficulty: And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

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


rate difficulty: And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.

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


simplify: While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.


simplify: And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.


simplify: for God is not <FI>a God<Fi> of tumult, but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

for God is not a God of disorder, but of peace.) This custom prevails in all the churches of Christ’s people.


simplify: (and they said to him, Sir, he hath ten pounds) --

‘But, Sir,’ they said, ‘he has a hundred pounds already!’


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

Next, another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer in his hand; and a great quantity of incense was given to him, to mingle with the prayers of all Christ’s people on the golden altar before the throne.


simplify: The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

That place was named the valley of Eshcol because of the grapes which the children of Israel took from there.


rate difficulty: But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

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


rate difficulty: And all the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly that came out of Israel, and the sojourners that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

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


rate difficulty: Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

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


rate difficulty: First, I thank myGod through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world.

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


rate difficulty: Then he showeth them their work, And their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

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


simplify: Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

Of the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand: of the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand: of the tribe of Benjamin were marked twelve thousand.


simplify: And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,

And the skin of the ox and all its flesh, with its head and its legs and its inside parts and its waste,


rate difficulty: And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

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


rate difficulty: this <FI>is<Fi> the thing which Jehovah hath commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, To those good in their eyes let them be for wives; only, to a family of the tribe of their fathers let them be for wives;

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Go. And they came out, and went into the swine: and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep into the sea, and perished in the waters.

And he said to them, Go. And they came out, and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea and came to their end in the water.


rate difficulty: And the days that Solomon hath reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel <FI>are<Fi> forty years,

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


simplify: Two things have I required of thee; deny me them not before I die:

I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:


simplify: And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.

And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Now let us keep you while we make ready a young goat for you.


rate difficulty: Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says —  ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.’

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


simplify: And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

“Whether it is soon or late,” answered Paul, “I pray to God that not only you, but all who are listening to me, might today become just what I am myself — except for these chains!”


simplify: Teach me, and I will hold my peace; And cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.


rate difficulty: Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who [are] with me salute you.

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


simplify: The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.


rate difficulty: And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

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


simplify: Then said he unto me, These are the boiling-houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.


rate difficulty: And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.

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


simplify: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

your kingdom come, your will be done —  on earth, as in heaven.


simplify: And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes: lo, I give thee the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal-offering; I give it all.

And Ornan said to David, Take it, and let my lord the king do what seems right to him. See, I give you the oxen for burned offerings and the grain-cleaning instruments for fire-wood, and the grain for the meal offering; I give it all.


simplify: And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:


rate difficulty: Then he said, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.

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


simplify: And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.

He took them and sent them over the stream with all he had.


rate difficulty: Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim and the disgusting things he did, and all there is to be said against him, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah; and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.


simplify: Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.


simplify: The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

The kings of the earth set their array, And its rulers gathered together, Against the Lord and against his Christ.’


rate difficulty: saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

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


rate difficulty: And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.

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


rate difficulty: Greet all the Lord's followers with a sacred kiss.

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


simplify: Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw a basket of summer fruit.


simplify: For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,

For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,


simplify: A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.


simplify: Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?


simplify: If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them,


simplify: And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for an offering.

After that, the Levites will go in to do whatever has to be done in the Tent of meeting; you are to make them clean and give them as a wave offering.


rate difficulty: Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And he built there an altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because thereGod had appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother.


simplify: To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God;


simplify: The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,

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


simplify: I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;

I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:


rate difficulty: But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

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


rate difficulty: The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.


simplify: The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, His throne shall be established for ever.

The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.


rate difficulty: And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?


rate difficulty: And those who went in front, and those who came after, were crying, Glory: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord:


rate difficulty: Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that Jehovah hath avenged him of his enemies.

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


simplify: But he said unto them, I must preach the good tidings of the kingdom of God to the other cities also: for therefore was I sent.

But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.


simplify: for also the body is not one member, but many;

The human body, I repeat, consists not of one part, but of many.


simplify: and one out of the multitude answering said, `Teacher, I brought my son unto thee, having a dumb spirit;

“Teacher,” answered a man in the crowd, “I brought my son to see you, as he has a dumb spirit in him;


rate difficulty: And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts,

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


simplify: and the saying of the Lord doth remain--to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.

but the teaching of the Lord remains for ever.’  And that is the teaching of the good news which has been told to you.


simplify: Only the Lord give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law of the Lord thy God.

Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: and hath taken all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that are found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the house of the king, and the sons of the pledges, and turneth back to Samaria.

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


rate difficulty: Because Babylon goeth up to the heavens, And because it fenceth the high place of its strength, From Me come into it do spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Again also he sent unto him another captain of fifty with his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly.

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


simplify: God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.


rate difficulty: That word you yourselves have knowledge of, which was made public through all Judaea, starting from Galilee, after the baptism of which John was the preacher,

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


rate difficulty: Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

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


rate difficulty: For the word that he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places that are in the cities of Samaria, shall certainly come to pass.

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


simplify: Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.

O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.


rate difficulty: And I will be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron saw [it], and built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, To-morrow is a feast to Jehovah!

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


simplify: And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaare–oregim, a Beth–lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

And again there was war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan, the son of Jair the Beth-lehemite, put to death Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.


rate difficulty: And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.


simplify: a two-souled man <FI>is<Fi> unstable in all his ways.

vacillating as they are, irresolute at every turn.


simplify: `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says ‘I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I will never know misery.’


simplify: So all the generations from Abraham unto David are fourteen generations; and from David unto the carrying away to Babylon fourteen generations; and from the carrying away to Babylon unto the Christ fourteen generations.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.


rate difficulty: 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,


rate difficulty: because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!


rate difficulty: Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?


simplify: Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.


rate difficulty: And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

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


simplify: And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover: howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die.

And Elisha said to him, Go, say to him, You will certainly get better; but the Lord has made it clear to me that only death is before him.


rate difficulty: Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

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


simplify: And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, who this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

And Joab came into the house to the king and said, Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants who even now have kept you and your sons and your daughters and your wives and all your women safe from death;


rate difficulty: And he sendeth unto him a head of fifty and his fifty, and he goeth up unto him (and lo, he is sitting on the top of the hill), and he speaketh unto him, `O man of God, the king hath spoken, Come down.'

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


rate difficulty: Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.

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


rate difficulty: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.


rate difficulty: But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

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


rate difficulty: And Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

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


simplify: Yet, Lord, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.

But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.


simplify: Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;

All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:


rate difficulty: And in front of the rooms was a walk, ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long; and their doors were facing north.

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


simplify: For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Abide thou with me, fear not; for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: for with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.


rate difficulty: For, because the anger of Jehovah was against Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.


rate difficulty: And the king commandeth the whole of the people, saying, `Make ye a passover to Jehovah your God, as it is written on this book of the covenant.'

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


rate difficulty: if it is to minister to others, let us devote ourselves to our ministry; the teacher to their teaching,

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


rate difficulty: (And all the people who heard [it], and the tax-gatherers, justifiedGod, having been baptised with the baptism of John;

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


simplify: (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.


simplify: at once, therefore, I sent to thee; thou also didst do well, having come; now, therefore, are we all before God present to hear all things that have been commanded thee by God.'

Accordingly I sent to you at once, and you have been so good as to come. And now we are all here in the presence of God, to listen to all that you have been instructed by the Lord to say.”


simplify: Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.


simplify: `Provide not gold, nor silver, nor brass in your girdles,

Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or coins in your purses;


rate difficulty: From age to age his mercy rests On those who honor him.


simplify: And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

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


simplify: And I will scatter thee among the heathen, and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

And I will send you in flight among the nations and wandering among the countries; and I will completely take away out of you everything which is unclean.


simplify: And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.

And all the people would get up early in the morning and come to listen to him in the Temple Courts.


simplify: who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.


simplify: If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;


rate difficulty: And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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


rate difficulty: And Hazael saith, `But what, <FI>is<Fi> thy servant the dog, that he doth this great thing?' And Elisha saith, `Jehovah hath shewed me thee--king of Aram.'

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


simplify: But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them.


simplify: who also sealed us, and gave us the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.


simplify: If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.

It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

For this is what the Lord has said: Truly, I, even I, will go searching and looking for my sheep.


simplify: `Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Then the king will say to those on his right ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, enter into possession of the kingdom prepared for you ever since the beginning of the world.


simplify: Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honour, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like.

Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.


simplify: And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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


simplify: And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

And the armies which are in heaven went after him on white horses, clothed in delicate linen, white and clean.


simplify: Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt-offerings into the house of Jehovah.

Then on the fourteenth day of the second month they put the Passover lambs to death: and the priests and the Levites were shamed, and made themselves holy and took burned offerings into the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Abijah and his people smite among them a great smiting, and there fall wounded of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

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


rate difficulty: If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

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


simplify: And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.

And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.


simplify: He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.


simplify: He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, And the innocent shall divide the silver.

He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.


simplify: And he said, `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

“To you,”he said, “the knowledge of the hidden truths of the kingdom of God has been imparted, but to others in parables only, so that ‘though they have eyes they may not see, and though they have ears, they may not understand.’


simplify: Therefore hath Jehovah recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.


rate difficulty: that they may admonish the young women to be attached to [their] husbands, to be attached to [their] children,

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


simplify: And now this present which thy servant hath brought unto my lord, let it be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.


simplify: And Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he turned not to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

Asahel went running after Abner, not turning to the right or to the left.


simplify: And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.


rate difficulty: What are we to say, then? Is God guilty of injustice? Heaven forbid!


simplify: Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.

And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out.


rate difficulty: And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.


rate difficulty: And now, saith Jehovah, that formed me from the womb to be his servant, that I should bring Jacob again to him; (though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorified in the eyes of Jehovah, and myGod shall be my strength;)

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


simplify: Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.

Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.


simplify: And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice; for they will say, Jehovah hath not appeared unto thee.

And Moses, answering, said, It is certain that they will not have faith in me or give ear to my voice; for they will say, You have not seen the Lord.


simplify: And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

And some of them, turning in protest, gave him an order to be quiet: but he went on crying out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


simplify: and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me,

And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me,


rate difficulty: We know that we are ofGod, and the whole world lies in the wicked [one].

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


simplify: And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

And all Israel will put his body to rest, weeping over him, because he only of the family of Jeroboam will be put into his resting-place in the earth; for of all the family of Jeroboam, in him only has the Lord, the God of Israel, seen some good.


rate difficulty: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness there be;

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


rate difficulty: A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh <FI>is<Fi> grass, and all its goodliness <FI>is<Fi> As a flower of the field:

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


simplify: And turning to the woman, he said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thy house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath wetted my feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hair.

And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.


rate difficulty: He that giveth heed to the word shall find good; and whoso confideth in Jehovah, happy is he.

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


rate difficulty: for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.

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


simplify: And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.

And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.


rate difficulty: Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

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


rate difficulty: And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons.

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


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these that hear the word of God, and do it.

But he said to them in answer, My mother and my brothers are those who have knowledge of the word of God and do it.


simplify: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:

I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.


rate difficulty: for to the God of his father he hath sought, and in His commands he hath walked, and not according to the work of Israel.

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


simplify: Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: howl for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.


simplify: Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


simplify: to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?


rate difficulty: And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of bronze, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the couriers who kept the entrance of the king's house.

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


simplify: And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.

And I saw the seven angels who had their place before God; and seven horns were given to them.


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

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


simplify: But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.

but some of them said: “He drives out demons by the help of Beelzebul, the chief of the demons”;


simplify: Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!


rate difficulty: The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked,

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


rate difficulty: For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.

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


simplify: And Herod having died, lo, a messenger of the Lord in a dream doth appear to Joseph in Egypt,

But, on the death of Herod, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said:


rate difficulty: Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.

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


rate difficulty: Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone’s slave.

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


simplify: And Jesus questioned him, saying, `What is thy name?' and he said, `Legion,' (because many demons were entered into him,)

“What is your name?”Jesus asked.   “Legion,” he answered (for many demons had taken possession of him);


rate difficulty: when he shewed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the splendid magnificence of his grandeur many days, a hundred and eighty days.

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


simplify: Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

To the Thessalonian church in union with God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, from Paul, Silas, and Timothy. May God bless you and give you peace.


rate difficulty: And O Jehovah of Hosts, judging righteousness, Trying reins and heart, I do see Thy vengeance against them, For unto Thee I have revealed my cause.'

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


rate difficulty: in Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years, over all Israel and Judah.


rate difficulty: There will be no need for you to take up arms in this fight; put yourselves in position, and keep where you are, and you will see the salvation of the Lord with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: have no fear and do not be troubled: go out against them tomorrow, for the Lord is with you.


simplify: Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.


rate difficulty: As to the arches all round about, the length <FI>is<Fi> five and twenty cubits, and the breadth five cubits;


simplify: But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.


rate difficulty: And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for thou shalt go with this people into the land which Jehovah hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

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


rate difficulty: and for the tribe of the children of Asher, a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;


rate difficulty: Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

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


simplify: That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.


simplify: In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


rate difficulty: But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.


rate difficulty: And Benjamin begot Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, and Aharah the third,

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


simplify: Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these.

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.


simplify: And of Asher he said,  Blessed be Asher with children; Let him be acceptable unto his brethren, And let him dip his foot in oil.

And of Asher he said, Let Asher have the blessing of children; may he be pleasing to his brothers, and let his foot be wet with oil.


rate difficulty: And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.


simplify: And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why reason ye in yourselves, ye of little faith, because ye took no loaves?

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


simplify: Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.


simplify: For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It hath devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.


rate difficulty: We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

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


simplify: By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,

In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,


simplify: And Saul and all the people that were with him were gathered together, and came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise.


rate difficulty: for whosoever shall do the will ofGod, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

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


simplify: Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?


simplify: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.


rate difficulty: A place of the sapphire <FI>are<Fi> its stones, And it hath dust of gold.

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


simplify: So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.

So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.


simplify: And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it forth unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.

And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son.


rate difficulty: I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth,

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


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

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


simplify: And Moses took the wagons and the oxen, and gave them unto the Levites.

So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.


rate difficulty: And there were more head-men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar, and [thus] were they divided: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen heads of fathers' houses, and eight of the sons of Ithamar according to their fathers' houses.

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


simplify: For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.


simplify: Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.


simplify: Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; And he shall be for a haven of ships; And his border shall be upon Sidon.

The resting-place of Zebulun will be by the sea, and he will be a harbour for ships; the edge of his land will be by Zidon.


rate difficulty: The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

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


simplify: Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping him, and asking a certain thing of him.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.


rate difficulty: and now, my father laid on you a heavy yoke, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I--I chastise you with scorpions.'


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> their numbers, for the house of their fathers: Of Judah, heads of thousands, Adnah the head, and with him mighty ones of valour, three hundred chiefs.

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah: When seventy years shall be accomplished for Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in bringing you back to this place.

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


rate difficulty: To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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


simplify: And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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


simplify: But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

But love your enemies, and show them kindness, and lend to them, never despairing. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the thankless and the bad.


simplify: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!


rate difficulty: And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us go back, or my father may give up caring about the asses and be troubled about us.

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


rate difficulty: And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and if the cloud go not up then they journey not, until the day of its going up:


simplify: And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.


rate difficulty: For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

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


simplify: And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.


rate difficulty: What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:


simplify: And these are the golden emerods which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering unto the Lord; for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;


simplify: And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

But Reuben, hearing these words, got him out of their hands, saying, Let us not take his life.


simplify: And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.

And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town.


simplify: And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

And David said to Joab and all the people who were with him, Go in grief and put haircloth about you, in sorrow for Abner. And King David went after the dead body.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: also the Lord hath said unto me, Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;

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


rate difficulty: Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak: let us come near together to judgment.


rate difficulty: They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt not go into the house of feasting to sit with them, to eat and to drink.

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


simplify: And he spake unto them this parable, saying,


simplify: And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.


rate difficulty: And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.


simplify: But they cried out all together, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:—

But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free.


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

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


rate difficulty: I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

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


rate difficulty: And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

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


simplify: Having, then, such hope, we use much freedom of speech,

With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;


rate difficulty: You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.


rate difficulty: `Thus did your fathers in my sending them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land;


simplify: what think ye?' and they answering said, `He is worthy of death.'

What is your decision?” They answered: “He deserves death.”


rate difficulty: But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

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


rate difficulty: If not--unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

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


simplify: In that day, saith Jehovah, I will smite every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the peoples with blindness.

In that day, says the Lord, I will put fear into every horse and make every horseman go off his head: and my eyes will be open on the people of Judah, and I will make every horse of the peoples blind.


simplify: And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.

And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, You see how my son, the offspring of my body, has made designs against my life: how much more then may this Benjamite do so? Let him be, and let him go on cursing; for the Lord has given him orders.


simplify: But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the Lord appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.

But all the people said they were to be stoned. Then the glory of the Lord was seen in the Tent of meeting, before the eyes of all the children of Israel.


simplify: Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.


rate difficulty: Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.

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


simplify: and I have said unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go: behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born.

And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.


rate difficulty: and, speaking to Festus, Agrippa added: “The man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to the Emperor.”

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


simplify: They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?


simplify: Scoffers set a city in a flame; But wise men turn away wrath.

Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.