rate difficulty: And they got them together into the place which is named in Hebrew Armageddon.

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simplify: And the children of Israel were mustered, and were victualled, and went against them: and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.


rate difficulty: MyGod hath rejected them, because they hearkened not unto him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

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rate difficulty: And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild roe.

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


simplify: Because with lies ye have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad, and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive;

Because with your false words you have given pain to the heart of the upright man when I had not made him sad; in order to make strong the hands of the evil-doer so that he may not be turned from his evil way and get life:


simplify: But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.


rate difficulty: and now I beseech thee, Kyria, not as writing to thee a new command, but which we had from the beginning, that we may love one another,

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rate difficulty: Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; butGod will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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


simplify: Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,


rate difficulty: Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

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


simplify: Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.


rate difficulty: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:


rate difficulty: And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tent of meeting, and fell upon their faces: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto them.

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simplify: And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.


simplify: And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say, The Lord hath need of him.

And if anyone says to you, Why are you taking him? say, The Lord has need of him.


rate difficulty: And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands.

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


rate difficulty: And if the man said to him, First let the fat be burned, then take as much as you will; then the servant would say, No, you are to give it to me now, or I will take it by force.


rate difficulty: and their brethren: Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

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


rate difficulty: For whosoever has, to him shall be given; and he who has not, even what he has shall be taken from him.


simplify: When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.


simplify: The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know it.

The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.


simplify: And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,


rate difficulty: Give my greeting, also, to the church that meets at their house, as well as to my dear friend Epaenetus, one of the first in Roman Asia to believe in Christ;

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


simplify: And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah saved them by a great victory.

And he took up his position in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack, and overcame the Philistines; and the Lord gave a great salvation.


rate difficulty: As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.


simplify: If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.


simplify: Return to thy house, and declare how great things God hath done for thee. And he went his way, publishing throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done for him.

Go back to your house and let them have news of all the great things which God has done for you. And he went away, giving word through all the town of the great things which Jesus had done for him.


rate difficulty: Use diligence to come before winter. Eubulus salutes thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and the brethren all.

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


rate difficulty: But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

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


rate difficulty: These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he had a name among the three mighty men.

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


simplify: And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ.


simplify: For I say that Christ hath been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given unto the fathers,

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,


rate difficulty: And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and, after scourging Jesus, gave him up to be crucified.

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


rate difficulty: So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, there hath been a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: `Son of man,

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


rate difficulty: So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

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


rate difficulty: `And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him--the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities,

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


simplify: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;


simplify: His breath kindleth coals, And a flame goeth forth from his mouth.

His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.


simplify: And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest:

Then let him take to the Lord the offering for his wrongdoing; giving to the priest for his offering, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you:


simplify: and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named--that upon another's foundation I might not build--

yet always with the ambition to tell the good news where Christ’s name had not previously been heard, so as to avoid building on another’s foundations.


simplify: And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the loose woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath.


simplify: So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

So they went on worshipping the Lord, and made for themselves, from among all the people, priests for the high places, to make offerings for them in the houses of the high places.


simplify: that set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.


simplify: And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

and, if the woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she is guilty of adultery.”


simplify: That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!


simplify: And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;


simplify: Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

As a consequence, many of them became believers in Christ, besides a considerable number of Greek women of position, and of men also.


simplify: Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Synagogue of the Jews:


simplify: And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel, the whole company, journey from Kadesh, and come in unto mount Hor,

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


rate difficulty: But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.


simplify: Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.


simplify: For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord.


simplify: Boast not thyself of to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.


rate difficulty: And Naboth said to Ahab, Jehovah forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

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


simplify: because he was numbered among us, and did receive the share in this ministration,

for he was one of our number and had his part allotted him in this work of ours.”


simplify: And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.


rate difficulty: A gracious woman retaineth honour, And terrible <FI>men<Fi> retain riches.

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


simplify: And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor.


rate difficulty: `Because that Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations--he hath done evil above all that the Amorites have done who <FI>are<Fi> before him, and causeth also Judah to sin by his idols;

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


simplify: And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter around your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.


rate difficulty: But I speak to you that are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

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


simplify: And out of his mouth proceedeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.

And out of his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which he overcomes the nations: and he has rule over them with a rod of iron: and he is crushing with his feet the grapes of the strong wrath of God the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: If I beheld the sun when it shone, or the moon walking in brightness,

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make on the breastplate chains of laced work, of wreathen work, of pure gold.

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


simplify: The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

The Lord grant that he may find mercy at the hands of the Lord on ‘that day.’ The many services that he rendered at Ephesus you have the best means of knowing.


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

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


rate difficulty: he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,

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


rate difficulty: And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah’s wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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


rate difficulty: because on account of the work of the Christ he drew near to death, having hazarded the life that he might fill up your deficiency of service unto me.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

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


simplify: He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous:  But with kings upon the throne  He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.


simplify: Egypt is a very fair heifer; but destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.


simplify: Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had showed me.

Then I gave an account to those who had been taken prisoners of all the things which the Lord had made me see.


simplify: For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.


rate difficulty: And Omri lieth with his fathers, and is buried in Samaria, and Ahab his son reigneth in his stead.


simplify: for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:


simplify: And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the Lord: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: if of any one the work doth remain that he built on <FI>it<Fi> , a wage he shall receive;

If anyone’s work, which they have built on that foundation, still remains, they will gain a reward.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto them, Can ye make the sons of the bride-chamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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


simplify: And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.

Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,


simplify: And I will appoint over them four kinds, saith the Lord: the sword to slay, and the dogs to tear, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and destroy.

And I will put over them four divisions, says the Lord: the sword causing death, dogs pulling the dead bodies about, and the birds of heaven, and the beasts of the earth to take their bodies for food and put an end to them.


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Josiah, and his kind acts, according as it is written in the law of Jehovah,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Jehovah, worshipping Jehovah.

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


simplify: The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

The twisted cord is put secretly in the earth to take him, and the cord is placed in his way.


rate difficulty: make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham said, I will give you my oath.

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


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

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


simplify: And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

And you are to make them linen trousers, covering their bodies from the middle to the knee;


simplify: And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.


simplify: The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.

The word of the Lord which came to Joel, the son of Pethuel.


simplify: and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away;

And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away:


rate difficulty: (and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that [the] thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.

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


simplify: Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

But the woman came, and, bowing to the ground before him, said: “Master, help me.”


rate difficulty: and from Jerusalem, and from Idumæa, and beyond the Jordan, and about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood that was on the altar, and sprinkled [it] on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him; and hallowed Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

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


simplify: Saying, Master, Moses wrote unto us, If any man’s brother die, having a wife, and he die without children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

“Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that —  ‘Should a man’s married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.’


simplify: Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.

You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.


rate difficulty: And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim; but Jehovah will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.

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


simplify: But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.


rate difficulty: So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

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


simplify: one he-goat, to make atonement for you.


simplify: For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people.

And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations.


rate difficulty: And sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maid-servant: Dan and Naphtali.

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


rate difficulty: Then the line goes up to Beth-hoglah, past the north of Beth-arabah, and up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;

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


simplify: And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: “Can one blind person guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?


simplify: and I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.


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

And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.


rate difficulty: And the disciples went and did as Jesus had given them orders,

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


simplify: Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.

Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.


rate difficulty: Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

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


rate difficulty: So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.


rate difficulty: And her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return: and he returned.

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


rate difficulty: For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope [of life].


simplify: And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

And Jesus, when he was teaching in the Temple, said, How do the scribes say that the Christ is the Son of David?


simplify: And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king’s face.

And the king said, Let him go to his house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom went back to his house and did not see the face of the king.


simplify: And of the Levites, certain courses in Judah were joined to Benjamin.

And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have put you over all the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: for this might have been sold for much and been given to the poor.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

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


rate difficulty: Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,


simplify: For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

For he says, Are not all my captains kings?


rate difficulty: And they will see his face; and his name will be on their brows.


rate difficulty: and my temptation, which [was] in my flesh, ye did not slight nor reject with contempt; but ye received me as an angel ofGod, as Christ Jesus.

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


simplify: And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;

And on the fourth day ten oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:


rate difficulty: delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,


rate difficulty: Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

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


simplify: And Zanoah, and En–gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam;


simplify: For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not.


simplify: and the second took her, and died, neither left he seed, and the third in like manner,

and the second took her, and died without family; and so did the third.


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.

And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.


simplify: Thou shalt fear Jehovah thy God; and him shalt thou serve, and shalt swear by his name.

Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.


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


rate difficulty: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: and they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls that were therein.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and having cast him forth outside of the city, they were stoning <FI>him<Fi> --and the witnesses did put down their garments at the feet of a young man called Saul--

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


simplify: For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

For these are the days of punishment, in which all the things in the Writings will be put into effect.


rate difficulty: And he took the ox which they had made, burning it in the fire and crushing it to powder, and he put it in the water and made the children of Israel take a drink of it.

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


simplify: In that day, saith the Lord, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;

In that day, says the Lord, I will get together her who goes with uncertain steps, I will get together her who has been sent away, and her on whom I have sent evil;


rate difficulty: Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.

And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.


simplify: Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the Lord.

And great peoples and strong nations will come to give worship to the Lord of armies in Jerusalem and to make requests for grace from the Lord.


rate difficulty: A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

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


rate difficulty: Pay her back the treatment with which she has treated you; yes, repay twice over what her actions deserve; in the cup which she mixed for you, mix for her as much again;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah shall be seen over them; and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will go with whirlwinds of the south.


rate difficulty: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

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


simplify: `And other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it did wither, through not having moisture.

Other seed fell on rock, and, as soon as it began to grow, because it had no moisture, it withered away.


rate difficulty: All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;


rate difficulty: and having come to his own country, he was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, `Whence to this one this wisdom and the mighty works?


simplify: And they sang one to another in praising and giving thanks unto Jehovah, saying, For he is good, for his lovingkindness endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised Jehovah, because the foundation of the house of Jehovah was laid.

And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place.


rate difficulty: And he shall offer the second for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin which he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

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


rate difficulty: And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand: Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

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


simplify: The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.


simplify: Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.

And Boaz went up to the public place of the town, and took his seat there: and the near relation of whom he had been talking came by; and Boaz, crying out to him by name, said, Come and be seated here. And he came and was seated.


simplify: and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.


rate difficulty: And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

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


simplify: They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.


rate difficulty: But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

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


simplify: And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?


simplify: This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

Therefore rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith,


rate difficulty: Or for a ram, thou shalt prepare for a meal-offering two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with the third part of a hin of oil:

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.


simplify: And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

And at the death of Jair his body was put to rest in the earth in Kamon.


simplify: Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

“You heard his blasphemy? What is your verdict?” They all condemned him, declaring that he deserved death.


rate difficulty: And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest’s that offereth it.

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


simplify: But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them.

But from the first, male and female made he them.


simplify: And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

And the boards are to be plated with gold, having gold rings for the rods to go through: and the rods are to be plated with gold.


simplify: But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.


simplify: But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;


simplify: And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.

And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


rate difficulty: Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spake before Jehovah, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?

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


simplify: And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.


simplify: And he put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

These he put on the ephod, over the arm-holes, to be stones of memory for the children of Israel, as the Lord had said to Moses.


simplify: And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

And from that day Saul was looking with envy on David.


simplify: And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.

This is what I will do,’ he said; ‘I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them;


simplify: And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?

And now your purpose is to keep the children of Judah and Jerusalem as men-servants and women-servants under your yoke: but are there no sins against the Lord your God to be seen among yourselves?


rate difficulty: And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.

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


simplify: The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.


rate difficulty: whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.

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


simplify: For, lo, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith Jehovah of hosts.

For see, I am starting to send evil on the town which is named by my name, and are you to be without any punishment? You will not be without punishment: for I will send a sword on all people living on the earth, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking like servants upon the earth.

I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.


rate difficulty: The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

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


simplify: The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.

The door-keepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred and thirty-eight.


simplify: I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men:

First of all, then, I ask that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings should be offered for everyone,


rate difficulty: And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

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


rate difficulty: He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

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


simplify: Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.


simplify: and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed men that were in the camp.

And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.


rate difficulty: The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

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


simplify: And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them.


rate difficulty: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.

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


rate difficulty: Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

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


rate difficulty: And now I commend you to the Lord and to the message of his love — a message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ’s people.

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


rate difficulty: Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Cesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: and in the fifteenth day of this month <FI>is<Fi> a festival, seven days unleavened food is eaten;

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


simplify: And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the Lord, and the most holy things.

And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things.


rate difficulty: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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


rate difficulty: Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.

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


simplify: And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

And Joseph said to his father, Not so, my father, for this is the older; put your right hand on his head.


rate difficulty: And the first day of unleavened bread, when they slew the passover, his disciples say to him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?

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


rate difficulty: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

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


rate difficulty: How is it broken down! how do they wail! how hath Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all that are round about him.


rate difficulty: And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)

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


simplify: And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

And every man's holy things will be his: whatever a man gives to the priest will be his.


rate difficulty: and he hath broken the standing pillars of the house of the sun, that <FI>is<Fi> in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt he doth burn with fire.'

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


rate difficulty: Now, at the feast, the Governor was accustomed to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might choose.

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


simplify: `And to every one who is asking of thee, be giving; and from him who is taking away thy goods, be not asking again;

Give to everyone who asks of you; and, when anyone takes away what is yours, do not demand its return.


simplify: and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,


rate difficulty: In the church God has appointed, first, apostles, secondly preachers, thirdly teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of ‘tongues.’

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


simplify: Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir–haresh.

For this cause the cords of my heart are sounding for Moab, and I am full of sorrow for Kir-heres.


simplify: So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and officers among your tribes.

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.


rate difficulty: Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the sabbath day.

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


rate difficulty: She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

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


rate difficulty: and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

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


rate difficulty: concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been gone into I may have something to write:

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


simplify: And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.

And Jonathan gave his bow and arrows to the boy, and said to him, Take these and go back to the town.


rate difficulty: And Moses entered into the midst of the cloud, and went up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

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


rate difficulty: Forgive thy people Israel, whom thou, Jehovah, hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel; and the blood shall be expiated for them.

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


rate difficulty: And now, Lord, let your words about your servant and about his family be made certain for ever, and do as you have said.

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


rate difficulty: And nothing common, nor that maketh an abomination and a lie, shall at all enter into it; but those only who [are] written in the book of life of the Lamb.

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


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

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


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

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


simplify: And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

and to give relief to you who are suffering, as well as to us, at the appearing of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ‘in flaming fire.’


simplify: and three are who are testifying in the earth<Fi> , the Spirit, and the water, and the blood, and the three are into the one.

that of the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and these three are at one.


rate difficulty: And when they put themselves against him, and said evil words, he said, shaking his clothing, Your blood be on your heads, I am clean: from now I will go to the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.


simplify: And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

And he would not let Maacah his mother be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had the image cut down and burned by the stream Kidron.


rate difficulty: And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.


rate difficulty: The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.

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


rate difficulty: And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the top of the mountains. And Zebul said unto him, Thou seest the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.

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


simplify: And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.


rate difficulty: And Jonadab saith unto the king, `Lo, the sons of the king have come; as the word of thy servant, so it hath been.'

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


simplify: And Ismaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty; and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite,

And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;


simplify: And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.


rate difficulty: I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of tumult.

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


simplify: And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.

But Paul took Silas and went away with the blessing of the brothers.


simplify: Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.


simplify: As for the prince, he shall sit therein as prince to eat bread before Jehovah; he shall enter by the way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out by the way of the same.

But the ruler will be seated there to take his food before the Lord; he will go in by the covered way to the door, and will come out by the same way.


rate difficulty: And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

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


simplify: And seeing a fig tree by the way side, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only; and he saith unto it, Let there be no fruit from thee henceforward for ever. And immediately the fig tree withered away.

And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.


rate difficulty: And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph, and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asarel.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Their mind is taken away; now they will be made waste: he will have their altars broken down, he will give their pillars to destruction.

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


simplify: As for me, I have not hastened from being a shepherd after thee; neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was before thy face.

As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.


rate difficulty: Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,


simplify: And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.

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


simplify: And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

And everyone who has given up houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or child, or land, for my name, will be given a hundred times as much, and have eternal life.


rate difficulty: Even young children despise me; I rise up, and they speak against me.


rate difficulty: Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

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


simplify: Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.


rate difficulty: And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

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


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

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


simplify: And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way by the South, and go up into the hill-country:

So Moses sent them to have a look at the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up into the South and into the hill-country;


rate difficulty: Thus the law has proved a guide to lead us to Christ, in order that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass from that day and forward, that he appointeth it for a statute and for an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: for neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.


simplify: behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:

See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;


rate difficulty: But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the livingGod, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.

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


simplify: in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,


simplify: For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:

It is the love of the Christ which compels us, when we reflect that, as one died for all, therefore all died;


simplify: For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:

For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;


rate difficulty: But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Cesar.

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


rate difficulty: To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

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


rate difficulty: Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


simplify: for I say unto you, I shall not eat it, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

For I say to you, I will not take it till it is made complete in the kingdom of God.


simplify: Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.


rate difficulty: And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which they have committed.

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


rate difficulty: And he was with them going in and going out at Jerusalem,


simplify: Thus said Jehovah, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;


rate difficulty: To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

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


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

And they gave him a hearing as far as this word; then with loud voices they said, Away with this man from the earth; it is not right for him to be living.


simplify: And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people.

And cutting off his head and taking away his war-dress, they sent word into the land of the Philistines round about, to take the news to their gods and to the people.


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

Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;


simplify: This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.


simplify: As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

Like a diamond harder than rock I have made your brow: have no fear of them and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.


simplify: For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.


simplify: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understandingthy kinswoman:

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:


rate difficulty: And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

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


simplify: And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,


rate difficulty: And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.

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


simplify: and they questioned him, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou dost say and teach rightly, and dost not accept a person, but in truth the way of God dost teach;

These spies asked Jesus a question. They said: “Teacher, we know that you are right in what you say and teach, and that you do not take any account of a person’s position, but teach the way of God honestly;


rate difficulty: You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.


rate difficulty: and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying:


simplify: He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the righteous, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.


rate difficulty: I am not laying a command on you, but I am making use of the earnestness shown by others to test the genuineness of your affection.

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


simplify: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as it were an error which proceedeth from the ruler:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, like an error which comes by chance from a ruler:


simplify: And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

And said, O my lord, we only came down the first time to get food;


simplify: Salute Urbanus our fellow-worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

Give my love to Urbanus, a worker in Christ with us, and to my dear Stachys.


rate difficulty: one cup of ten [shekels] of gold, full of incense;

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


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

Now the angel of the Lord came and took his seat under the oak-tree in Ophrah, in the field of Joash the Abiezrite; and his son Gideon was crushing grain in the place where the grapes were crushed, so that the Midianites might not see it.


rate difficulty: And another angel came out of the altar, having power over fire, and called with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripened.

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


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

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


simplify: And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

But Earth came to her help, and opened her mouth and drank up the river which the Dragon had poured out of its mouth.


simplify: Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?


simplify: but took leave of them, saying, `It behoveth me by all means the coming feast to keep at Jerusalem, and again I will return unto you--God willing.' 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.


simplify: Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

See, all you who make a fire, arming yourselves with burning branches: go in the flame of your fire, and among the branches you have put a light to. This will you have from my hand, you will make your bed in sorrow.


simplify: And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

And Abner, the son of Ner, with the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.


rate difficulty: One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


simplify: Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.


simplify: But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.


rate difficulty: Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

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


simplify: leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

While your offering is still before the altar, first go and make peace with your brother, then come and make your offering.


simplify: For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature — they are two contrary principles — so that you cannot do what you wish.


simplify: who did both put to death the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and did persecute us, and God they are not pleasing, and to all men <FI>are<Fi> contrary,

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


simplify: And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.


rate difficulty: The children of Gibeon, ninety and five.


simplify: Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.


rate difficulty: and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope;

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


simplify: But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

As for profane legends and old wives’ tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;


simplify: And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,


rate difficulty: Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

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


simplify: And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!


rate difficulty: And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe even these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

And if they have no faith even in these two signs and will not give ear to your voice, then you are to take the water of the Nile and put it on the dry land: and the water you take out of the river will become blood on the dry land.


rate difficulty: The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz hath seen:

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


simplify: And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.

And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.


rate difficulty: And the king said, Whoever speaks to thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

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


simplify: and said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the lading and the ship, but also of our lives.

Saying, Friends, I see that this journey will be one of great damage and loss, not only to the goods and the ship, but to ourselves.


rate difficulty: `Go, and thou hast spoken unto Hananiah, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Yokes of wood thou hast broken, and I have made instead of them yokes of iron;

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


simplify: Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire.

Her holy ones were cleaner than snow, they were whiter than milk, their bodies were redder than corals, their form was as the sapphire:


simplify: Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king commandeth his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king’s sons.

Then Ziba said to the king, Every order which you have given to your servant will be done. As for Mephibosheth, he had a place at David's table, like one of the king's sons.


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

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


rate difficulty: They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.

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


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when the king heard the words of the law, that he rent his garments.


simplify: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

So that what was said by Isaiah the prophet might come true,


rate difficulty: The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.


simplify: And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.

And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.


simplify: A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

By a soft answer wrath is turned away, but a bitter word is a cause of angry feelings.


simplify: And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.

And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.


rate difficulty: To enable you, as well as others, to know all that concerns me and what I am doing, Tychicus, our dear friend and faithful helper in the Master’s cause, will tell you everything.

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


rate difficulty: And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

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


rate difficulty: Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.

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


simplify: The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.

The Governor, however, said to them: “Which of these two do you wish me to release for you?”  “Barabbas,” they answered.


simplify: Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.


rate difficulty: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvellously with this people, to do marvellously, even with wonder, and the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hid.

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


rate difficulty: Fulfil the week of this one, and we will give thee the other also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

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


simplify: And he brought me to the north gate: and he measureditaccording to these measures;

And he took me to the north doorway: and he took the measure of it by these measures;


simplify: And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

And their eyes were made open. And Jesus said to them sharply, Let no man have knowledge of it.


simplify: Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.

The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.


rate difficulty: And the priest will put some of the oil which is in his hand on the point of the ear of the man who is to be made clean and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place where the blood of the offering for wrongdoing was put;

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


rate difficulty: Thus will I execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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


simplify: O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.

O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.


simplify: Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.


rate difficulty: And he sleepeth, and dreameth a second time, and lo, seven ears are coming up on one stalk, fat and good,

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


simplify: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

And, because you do not run to the same extremes of profligacy as others, they are astonished, and malign you.


rate difficulty: A deep impression was made on everyone, and many wonders and signs were done at the hands of the apostles.

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


rate difficulty: And he turneth and sendeth a third head of fifty and his fifty, and the third head of fifty goeth up, and cometh in, and boweth on his knees over-against Elijah, and maketh supplication unto him, and speaketh unto him, `O man of God, let be precious, I pray thee, my soul and the soul of thy servants--these fifty--in thine eyes.

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


rate difficulty: Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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


simplify: But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

But the women had the fear of God, and did not do as the king of Egypt said, but let the male children go on living.


rate difficulty: Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.

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


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


rate difficulty: That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,

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


simplify: And now, O Jehovah my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in.

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.


simplify: And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp to thy brethren;

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;


simplify: Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.

But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.


rate difficulty: And their goods will no longer be taken by the nations, and they will not again be food for the beasts of the earth; but they will be living safely and no one will be a cause of fear to them.

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


simplify: Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,


simplify: Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.


rate difficulty: The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And He saith, `Hear, I pray you, My words: If your prophet is of Jehovah--in an appearance unto him I make Myself known; in a dream I speak with him;

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


rate difficulty: And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of Jehovah thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

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


simplify: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

and they did not repent of their murders, or their sorceries, or their licentiousness, or their thefts.


simplify: And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto Jehovah concerning the frogs which he had brought upon Pharaoh.

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh.


simplify: Upon the which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

Looking intently at it, I began to distinguish quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds;


simplify: I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

I will take you as my bride in good faith, and you will have knowledge of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and they shall put it and all the vessels thereof within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it upon the frame.

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


simplify: And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.


simplify: There is that scattereth, and increaseth yet more; And there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth only to want.

A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.


simplify: But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;

But opening his house freely to guests; a lover of what is good, serious-minded, upright, holy, self-controlled;


rate difficulty: Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

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


rate difficulty: `Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.

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


rate difficulty: Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

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


rate difficulty: the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the unfaithful.

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


rate difficulty: and their present, flour mixed with oil, three-tenth deals for the bullock, two-tenth deals for the one ram,

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


simplify: But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.

But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.


simplify: Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;


rate difficulty: Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

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


simplify: To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear,

That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,


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

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


simplify: And he, having risen, went to his house,


rate difficulty: and saith, `If to the king <FI>it be<Fi> good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I <FI>be<Fi> good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters--a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite--that he wrote to destroy the Jews who <FI>are<Fi> in all provinces of the king,

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


simplify: And he answering said to them, `He who is sowing the good seed is the Son of Man,

He answered: “The sower of the good seed is the Son of Man.


rate difficulty: Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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


simplify: But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.

But after I am come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.


simplify: But if the scall spread much in the skin after his cleansing;

But if the disease in his skin becomes worse after he has been made clean,


simplify: And when he knocked at the door of the gate, a maid came to answer, named Rhoda.

And he gave a blow on the door, and a young girl came to it, named Rhoda.


rate difficulty: a servant--wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free--use <FI>it<Fi> rather;

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


simplify: For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.