simplify: And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the Lord, which David the king had made to praise the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.

And the priests were in their places, and the Levites with their instruments of music for the Lord's song, which David the king had made for the praise of the Lord whose mercy is unchanging for ever, when David gave praise by their hand; and the priests were sounding horns before them; and all Israel were on their feet.


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

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


simplify: This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

This is he who came by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by blood.


rate difficulty: And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.

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simplify: So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

So they put up the tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father's women before the eyes of all Israel.


simplify: These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore, and among the sons of Merari.

These were the divisions of door-keepers, of the sons of the Korahites and of the sons of Merari.


rate difficulty: Why do you give your money for what is not bread, and the fruit of your work for what will not give you pleasure? Give ear to me, so that your food may be good, and you may have the best in full measure.

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


simplify: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

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,


rate difficulty: And Rephah was his son, and Resheph, and Telah his son, and Tahan his son,

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


rate difficulty: and command the people, saying, `When ye see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests, the Levites, bearing it, then ye journey from your place, and have gone after it;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: in the hope rejoicing; in the tribulation enduring; in the prayer persevering;

rejoicing in your hope; steadfast under persecution; persevering in prayer;


simplify: And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.

And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.


‘Honor your father and mother’ — this is the first Commandment with a promise —


rate difficulty: And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

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


simplify: and the messenger did put forth his sickle to the earth, and did gather the vine of the earth, and did cast <FI>it<Fi> to the great wine-press of the wrath of God;

The angel brought his sickle down on the earth and gathered the fruit of the Vine of Earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.


rate difficulty: The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.


simplify: Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

And Jesus said, I put the question to you, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to take it away?


rate difficulty: I entreat you to make my happiness complete — Live together animated by the same spirit and in mutual love, one in heart, animated by one Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: `Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah, and lo, a greater than Jonah here!

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


simplify: They were put to shame because they had hoped; They came thither, and were confounded.

They were put to shame because of their hope; they came and their hope was gone.


simplify: but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

But, even to this day, whenever Moses is read, a veil lies on their hearts.


rate difficulty: and come to the king, and speak after this manner to him. And Joab put the words into her mouth.


rate difficulty: And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

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


rate difficulty: Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

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


rate difficulty: Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

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


simplify: And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

And he took a cup and, having given praise, he gave it to them, saying,


rate difficulty: but Paul thought it not well to take with them him who had abandoned them, [going back] from Pamphylia, and had not gone with them to the work.

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


rate difficulty: Brutish is every man by knowledge, Put to shame is every refiner by a graven image, For false <FI>is<Fi> his molten image. And there is no breath in them.

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


simplify: We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt for nought; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:

Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:


rate difficulty: But I have built a house of habitation for thee, even a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.

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


rate difficulty: Woe <FI>to<Fi> Asshur, a rod of Mine anger, And a staff in their hand <FI>is<Fi> Mine indignation.

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


rate difficulty: But the disciples did not understand his meaning and were afraid to question him.

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


rate difficulty: and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, `Prophesy;' and the officers were striking him with their palms.


simplify: And one of the evil-doers who were hanged, was speaking evil of him, saying, `If thou be the Christ, save thyself and us.'

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. “Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us,” he said.


rate difficulty: And they ran and fetched him thence; and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.


rate difficulty: And these are the names of those that were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

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


simplify: be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.


simplify: And if it spread much abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.

And if it is increasing on the skin, the priest will say that he is unclean: it is a disease.


rate difficulty: therefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will even do according to thine anger and according to thine envy, as thou hast done out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.


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

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


simplify: And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

and saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth.


rate difficulty: Keeping instruction is the path to life; but he that forsaketh reproof goeth astray.

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


rate difficulty: the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;


rate difficulty: And ye have been satisfied at My table with horse and rider, Mighty man, and every man of war, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

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


rate difficulty: Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

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


simplify: Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.


simplify: And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.

And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.


simplify: And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.

And they went on from the waste land of Sinai and put up their tents in Kibroth-hattaavah.


rate difficulty: asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

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


simplify: And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

And about the ninth hour Jesus gave a loud cry, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is, My God, my God, why are you turned away from me?


rate difficulty: Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, let it be done exactly for the house of the God of heaven; for why should there be wrath against the realm of the king and his sons?

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


simplify: And the king said, And where is thy master’s son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, To day shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.

And the king said, And where is your master's son? And Ziba said, He is still at Jerusalem: for he said, Today Israel will give back to me the kingdom of my father.


simplify: And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my wrath, it upheld me.

And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.


rate difficulty: And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.


simplify: Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;'

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


rate difficulty: The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.

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


simplify: So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.


simplify: and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked

And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers


rate difficulty: For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; and Jehovah delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah, the God of their fathers. So they executed judgment upon Joash.


rate difficulty: And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass--that they have died.

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


rate difficulty: The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

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


simplify: In those days Jehovah began to cut off from Israel: and Hazael smote them in all the borders of Israel;

In those days the Lord was angry first with Israel; and Hazael made attacks on all the land of Israel,


rate difficulty: Let [your] women be silent in the assemblies, for it is not permitted to them to speak; but to be in subjection, as the law also says.


simplify: Then the men feared Jehovah exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto Jehovah, and made vows.

Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.


simplify: The simple inherit folly; But the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

Foolish behaviour is the heritage of the simple, but men of good sense are crowned with knowledge.


simplify: Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And he made the cover all of gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.


simplify: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

never returning evil for evil, or abuse for abuse, but, on the contrary, blessing. It was to this that you were called — to obtain a blessing!


rate difficulty: Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?


rate difficulty: And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto death; abide here and watch.


simplify: Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:

But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:


simplify: And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?


rate difficulty: And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man;


simplify: They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.


simplify: His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; He returneth to the days of his youth.

Then his flesh becomes young again, and he comes back to the days of his early strength;


simplify: For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Indeed I tell you that, unless you obey God's commands better than of the teachers of the law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: Many signs and wonders continued to occur among the people, through the instrumentality of the apostles, whose custom it was to meet all together in the Colonnade of Solomon;

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


simplify: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


rate difficulty: and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and the house of his father; only their infants, and their flock, and their herd, have they left in the land of Goshen;


rate difficulty: From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

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


simplify: to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living thing that may not be eaten.

Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.


rate difficulty: The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.

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


rate difficulty: And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.


rate difficulty: And what if God, intending to reveal his displeasure and make his power known, bore most patiently with the objects of his displeasure, though they were fit only to be destroyed,

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


simplify: Even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:

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


simplify: For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.


simplify: And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.


rate difficulty: Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.

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


simplify: When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Jesus was surprised to hear this, and said to those who were following him: “Never I tell you, in any Israelite have I met with such faith as this!


rate difficulty: and the thing is sought out, and found, and they are hanged both of them on a tree, and it is written in the book of the Chronicles before the king.

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


simplify: And he saith unto them, Let us go elsewhere into the next towns, that I may preach there also; for to this end came I forth.

And he said to them, Let us go to other parts into the nearest towns, so that I may give teaching there, because for this purpose I came.


rate difficulty: Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!


rate difficulty: And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

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


simplify: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

They must learn, listening quietly to their teachers and showing them all deference.


simplify: Through the window she looked forth, and cried, The mother of Siseracriedthrough the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?

Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?


simplify: But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.


simplify: And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar.

And this is the law for the meal offering: it is to be offered to the Lord before the altar by the sons of Aaron.


rate difficulty: With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.


simplify: `And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'

As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity.”


rate difficulty: And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, who brought him again from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.


simplify: He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Anyone who is not with me is against me, and the person who does not help me to gather is scattering.


simplify: Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

Give orders to Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law for the burned offering: the offering is to be on the fire-wood on the altar all night till the morning; and the fire of the altar is to be kept burning.


rate difficulty: And the king of Egypt speaketh to the midwives, the Hebrewesses, (of whom the name of the one <FI>is<Fi> Shiphrah, and the name of the second Puah),

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


rate difficulty: But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

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


simplify: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,


rate difficulty: She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.

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


simplify: and Jehovah sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.


simplify: Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?


simplify: And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.

And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.


simplify: And Peter answering said to Jesus, `Sir, it is good to us to be here; if thou wilt, we may make here three booths--for thee one, and for Moses one, and one for Elijah.'

“Master,” exclaimed Peter, interposing, “it is good to be here; if you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”


simplify: For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

As the sun rises, and the hot wind blows, ‘the grass withers, its flower fades,’ and all its beauty is gone. So is it with the rich . In the midst of their pursuits they will come to an untimely end.


rate difficulty: `But if I, by the Spirit of God, do cast out the demons, then come already unto you did the reign of God.

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


simplify: to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

To whom God was pleased to give knowledge of the wealth of the glory of this secret among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the walls of the house;


rate difficulty: And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

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


simplify: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Which is really no good news at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

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


rate difficulty: And the land is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; for they have violated the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.


simplify: And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.


simplify: And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

And they went out to put her body into the earth, but nothing of her was to be seen, only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.


simplify: And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

In the interval before daybreak Paul kept urging them all to take something to eat.   “It is a fortnight today,” he said, “that, owing to your anxiety, you have gone without food, taking nothing.


simplify: the rings, and the nose-jewels;


simplify: And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

While Peter was still perplexed as to the meaning of the vision that he had seen, the men sent by Cornelius, having enquired the way to Simon’s house, came up to the gate,


simplify: For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will carry off, and there shall be none to deliver.

For I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the children of Judah; I, even I, will give him wounds and go away; I will take him away, and there will be no helper.


rate difficulty: But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word ofGod, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men beforeGod.

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


rate difficulty: The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

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


simplify: And they crucify him, and part his garments among them, casting lots upon them, what each should take.

And he was nailed to the cross; and they made a division of his clothing among them, putting to the decision of chance what everyone was to take.


rate difficulty: Then King David sent, and had him taken from Lo-debar, from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel.

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


rate difficulty: When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;


rate difficulty: and on the morrow, having left the horsemen to go with him, returned to the fortress.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

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


rate difficulty: And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and the stone upon the well’s mouth was great.

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


rate difficulty: So Abner, with twenty men, came to Hebron, to David. And David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.


simplify: And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.


rate difficulty: Of the beginning of your dough ye do give to Jehovah a heave-offering--to your generations.

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


rate difficulty: You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.

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


simplify: and Paul answered, `What do ye--weeping, and crushing mine heart? for I, not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, am ready, for the name of the Lord Jesus;'

It was then that Paul made the reply: “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart like this? For my part, I am ready not only to be bound, but even to suffer death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”


rate difficulty: And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

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


simplify: And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, `Come and behold!'

When the Lamb broke the second seal, I heard the second Creature crying — ‘Come.’


rate difficulty: And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

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


simplify: But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

But if any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one of these towns;


rate difficulty: Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.

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


rate difficulty: And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.


rate difficulty: But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.


rate difficulty: For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people.

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


simplify: And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying as he did so: “I am willing; become clean.”


rate difficulty: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?

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


rate difficulty: And Nathan saith, `My lord, O king, thou hast said, Adonijah doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne;

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


rate difficulty: Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.


simplify: And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed.

You will have food in full measure, and give praise to the name of the Lord your God, who has done wonders for you:


rate difficulty: And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear came on him.

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


simplify: And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.


rate difficulty: Let no one say, when they are tempted, “It is God who is tempting me!” For God, who cannot be tempted to do wrong, does not himself tempt anyone.


rate difficulty: And now know and consider what thou wilt do, for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household; and he is such a son of Belial, that one cannot speak to him.

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


simplify: Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! ‘God save him from on high!’”


rate difficulty: and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons;

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


rate difficulty: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;

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


simplify: Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.

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


simplify: And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.


rate difficulty: Now Peter and they that were with him were heavy with sleep: but when they were fully awake, they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.


simplify: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.


rate difficulty: And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.

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


rate difficulty: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: The hands of merciful women have boiled their own children, They have been for food to them, In the destruction of the daughter of my people.

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


simplify: And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.

And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.


rate difficulty: But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me--I repay!

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


rate difficulty: Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.


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

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?


rate difficulty: That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.


rate difficulty: Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; and he that guardeth his master shall be honoured.

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


rate difficulty: And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.


rate difficulty: and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem--many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

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


simplify: And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?


simplify: It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.

His skin is wasted by disease, and his body is food for the worst of diseases.


simplify: And they said unto them even as Jesus had said: and they let them go.

And they said to them the words which Jesus had said; and they let them go.


rate difficulty: And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides--there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour <FI>Are<Fi> the shame of the house of thy lord.

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


simplify: Also in Horeb ye provoked Jehovah to wrath, and Jehovah was angry with you to destroy you.

Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.


rate difficulty: and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

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


rate difficulty: After sighting Cyprus and leaving it on the left, we sailed to Syria, and put into Tyre, where the ship was to discharge her cargo.

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


simplify: Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

Not that I am looking for an offering, but for fruit which may be put to your credit.


rate difficulty: Producing the fruit of the lips, `Peace, peace,' to the far off, and to the near, And I have healed him, said Jehovah.

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


simplify: For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: The sons of Ezer; Bilhan, and Zavan, and Jakan. The sons of Dishan; Uz, and Aran.

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


rate difficulty: And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

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


rate difficulty: Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

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


rate difficulty: For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

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


rate difficulty: What profit hath he that worketh from that wherein he laboureth?

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


rate difficulty: A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

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


simplify: For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Lord, becamest their God.

For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.


simplify: And he went up unto them to the boat, and the wind lulled, and greatly out of measure were they amazed in themselves, and were wondering,

Then he got into the boat with them, and the wind dropped. The disciples were utterly amazed,


simplify: Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother’s was good.


rate difficulty: and even if unlearned in word--yet not in knowledge, but in every thing we were made manifest in all things to you.

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


rate difficulty: Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah heard the voice of your words, when ye spoke to me; and Jehovah said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people that have spoken to thee: they have well spoken all that they have spoken.

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


rate difficulty: so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What thereforeGod has joined together, let not man separate.


simplify: And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.

And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is there to this day.


rate difficulty: and forty sockets of silver he hath made under the twenty boards, two sockets under the one board for its two handles, and two sockets under the other board for its two handles.

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


rate difficulty: And the waters went slowly back from the earth, and at the end of a hundred and fifty days the waters were lower.


simplify: All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold;

My friends, whatever may be the temptations that beset you from time to time, always regard them as a reason for rejoicing,


simplify: No meal-offering, which ye shall offer unto Jehovah, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, even though he were yet alive amongst the living: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof; it shall not be revoked; and none shall through his iniquity assure his life.

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


rate difficulty: And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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


simplify: He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?


simplify: I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord God.

I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his hard work, because they were working for me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

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


rate difficulty: And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.


rate difficulty: In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

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


rate difficulty: One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.

Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name.


simplify: And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,

Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,


rate difficulty: Every sabbath day he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, on the part of the children of Israel: [it is] an everlasting covenant.

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


simplify: and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

And it will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.’


rate difficulty: And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.

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


simplify: On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:

On the eighth day Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, chief of the children of Manasseh:


rate difficulty: Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets; and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith Jehovah.


rate difficulty: and all those dwelling at Lydda, and Saron saw him, and did turn to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

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


rate difficulty: So they hired thirty and two thousand chariots, and the king of Maachah and his people; who came and pitched before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered themselves together from their cities, and came to battle.


simplify: And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

For two whole years Paul stayed in a house which he rented for himself, welcoming all who came to see him,


rate difficulty: And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.


rate difficulty: The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.


simplify: Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.


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

For so has the Lord said to me, Go, let a watchman be placed; let him give word of what he sees:


simplify: Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the King of Jacob.

Put forward your cause, says the Lord; let your strong argument come out, says the King of Jacob.


simplify: Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Has God ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments and signs and wonders, by war and by a strong hand and a stretched-out arm and great acts of wonder and fear, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt, before your very eyes?


simplify: And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.


simplify: And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden candlesticks;

And turning to see the voice which said these words to me, I saw seven gold vessels with lights burning in them;


simplify: Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,

Joel, the brother of Nathan, Mibhar, the son of Hagri,


rate difficulty: `And ye shall be delivered up also by parents, and brothers, and kindred, and friends, and they shall put of you to death;

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


rate difficulty: Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.

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


rate difficulty: And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah;

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


simplify: 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:

Or for a male sheep, give as a meal offering two tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with a third part of a hin of oil:


rate difficulty: And David inspecteth the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, and setteth over them heads of thousands and heads of hundreds,

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


simplify: See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all.

Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.


rate difficulty: Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, — they break out; and blood toucheth blood.

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


simplify: Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: Thereby good shall come unto thee.

Put yourself now in a right relation with him and be at peace: so will you do well in your undertakings.


simplify: But the voice answered me again from heaven, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

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


simplify: I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


simplify: And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought also exceeding much spoil out of the city.

And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head; its weight was a talent of gold and it had stones of great price in it; and it was put on David's head, and he took a great store of goods from the town.


rate difficulty: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

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


simplify: And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they saddled it.

And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.


simplify: These things command and teach.

Let these be your orders and your teaching.


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, at the king's seeing Esther the queen standing in the court, she hath received grace in his eyes, and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre that <FI>is<Fi>  in his hand, and Esther draweth near, and toucheth the top of the sceptre.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,

One day, when Zechariah was officiating as priest before God, during the turn of his division,


rate difficulty: And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two full years from off the neck of all the nations. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

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


rate difficulty: And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

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


simplify: and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

He is before all things, and in him all things have being.


simplify: And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.

And the seven angels who had the seven punishments came out from the house of God, clothed with linen, clean and bright and with bands of gold about their breasts.


simplify: And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.)


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;


simplify: Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.


simplify: and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

Flee from the passions of youth, but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, in the company of those who, with a pure heart, invoke the Lord.


simplify: For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.


rate difficulty: The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?


rate difficulty: And ye shall make a separation between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean, and ye shall not make yourselves an abomination by beast, or by fowl, or by anything that creepeth on the ground which I have separated for you, declaring [it] as unclean.

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


simplify: A man’s belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.

With the fruit of a man's mouth his stomach will be full; the produce of his lips will be his in full measure.


rate difficulty: Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;

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


simplify: Shall flocks and herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?


rate difficulty: from wine and strong drink he doth keep separate; vinegar of wine, and vinegar of strong drink he doth not drink, and any juice of grapes he doth not drink, and grapes moist or dry he doth not eat;

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, No fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat shall ye eat.

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


simplify: What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.


rate difficulty: And the Levites shall declare and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice:

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


rate difficulty: Then the end, when he gives up the kingdom to him [who is]God and Father; when he shall have annulled all rule and all authority and power.


rate difficulty: And straightway, when they were come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

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


simplify: And they gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew Har-Magedon.

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


rate difficulty: Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

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


rate difficulty: `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people--a righteous judgment.

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


rate difficulty: thence they journeyed to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And the Lord said to me, There is an evil design at work among the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.


simplify: Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.


simplify: In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.


simplify: Say unto them, As I live, saith Jehovah, surely as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:


rate difficulty: saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat? making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances for deceit:

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


rate difficulty: And the men say unto her, `We are acquitted of this thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear:

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


simplify: In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed thee and thou wast not cleansed, thou shalt not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.

As for your unclean purpose: because I have been attempting to make you clean, but you have not been made clean from it, you will not be made clean till I have let loose my passion on you in full measure.


simplify: And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men.

And the Egyptians were forcing the people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all dead men.


rate difficulty: And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord God?

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


simplify: So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah.

So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.


simplify: But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.


simplify: And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well.


simplify: These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites; of Becher, the family of the Becherites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.


simplify: Thy silver and thy gold is mine; thy wives also and thy children, even the goodliest, are mine.

And they said to him, Ben-hadad says, Your silver and your gold are mine; and your wives and children are mine.


simplify: sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

and to be discreet, pure-minded, domesticated, good women, respecting the authority of their husbands, in order that God’s message may not be maligned.


simplify: to enrol himself with Mary, who was betrothed to him, being great with child.

To be put on the list with Mary, his future wife, who was about to become a mother.


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

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain alone by themselves. There his appearance was transformed before their eyes,


rate difficulty: Suddenly Jesus met them. “Welcome!” he said. The women went up to him, and clasped his feet, bowing to the ground before him. Then Jesus said to them:


simplify: and he was withdrawing himself in the desert places and was praying.

but Jesus used to withdraw to lonely places and pray.


simplify: and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee. Is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?

And said to her, Whose daughter are you? is there room in your father's house for us?


rate difficulty: With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his oblation with the sacrifice of his peace-offerings for thanksgiving.

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


simplify: `Lay ye to your ears these words, for the Son of Man is about to be delivered up to the hands of men.'

“Listen carefully to my words. For the Son of Man is destined to be betrayed into the hands of his fellow men.”


simplify: as a man who is gone abroad, having left his house, and given to his servants the authority, and to each one his work, did command also the porter that he may watch;

It is like a man going on a journey, who leaves his home, puts his servants in charge — each having their special duty — and orders the porter to watch.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Elpaal: Eber, and Misham, and Shemed, who built Ono and Lod, with the towns thereof;

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


rate difficulty: Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, We will hear thee concerning this yet again.

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


simplify: Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

They were Simon (whom Jesus also named Peter), and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,


simplify: But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.

But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.


simplify: `And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;

‘Child,’ the father answered, ‘you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours.


rate difficulty: Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

They were upright in the eyes of God, keeping all the rules and orders of God, and doing no wrong.


rate difficulty: none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;

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


simplify: But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother.

But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Issachar, having understanding for the times, to know what Israel should do; their heads <FI>are<Fi> two hundred, and all their brethren <FI>are<Fi> at their command.

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


rate difficulty: And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and there fell many wounded, even unto the entrance of the gate.

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


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

and asked — ” Are you ‘the coming one,’ or are we to look for someone else?”


simplify: She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.

She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.


simplify: but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circumcision

But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision


simplify: And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel come in, --all the company--to the wilderness of Zin, in the first month, and the people abide in Kadesh, and Miriam dieth there, and is buried there.

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


simplify: onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.


simplify: And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.


rate difficulty: Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

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


rate difficulty: Peter says to him, Even if I am put to death with you, I will not be false to you. So said all the disciples.

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


rate difficulty: There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites who dwelt at Gibeon; they took all in battle.


rate difficulty: And it hath continued--The escaped of the house of Judah That hath been left--to take root beneath, And hath made fruit upward.

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


rate difficulty: And David spake unto Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

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


simplify: according as Abraham did believe God, and it was reckoned to him--to righteousness;

It is just as it was with Abraham —  ‘He had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.’


simplify: But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.


rate difficulty: And why have ye brought the assembly of Jehovah into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our beasts?

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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


simplify: to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

To Titus, my true child in our one faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Savior, bless you and give you peace.


simplify: And they journeyed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped in Hor-haggidgad.

And they went on from Bene-jaakan, and put up their tents in Hor-haggidgad.


simplify: And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.


simplify: And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.


rate difficulty: And Micah said, If thou return at all in peace, Jehovah has not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O peoples, all of you!

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


rate difficulty: Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.

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


rate difficulty: Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

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


simplify: And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place.


simplify: And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.


simplify: And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

And Saul said to his servants, Then get me a man who is an expert player, and make him come to me.


rate difficulty: Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

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


simplify: And we--we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son--Saviour of the world;

Moreover, our eyes have seen — and we are testifying to the fact — that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.


simplify: The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.


simplify: The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.

The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.


rate difficulty: And the chief priests said a number of things against him.

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


simplify: and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.


rate difficulty: And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.


rate difficulty: And the king was sorrowing for his son all the time.

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


simplify: If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.


simplify: Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits.


simplify: Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.


rate difficulty: And between the passages where Jonathan sought to pass over unto the station of the Philistines <FI>is<Fi> the edge of a rock on the one side, and the edge of a rock on the other side, and the name of the one is Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

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


simplify: And their father gave them great gifts, of silver, and of gold, and of precious things, with fortified cities in Judah: but the kingdom gave he to Jehoram, because he was the first-born.

And their father gave them much silver and gold and things of great value, as well as walled towns in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the oldest.


simplify: And he built up the altar of Jehovah, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah, the God of Israel.

And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.


rate difficulty: And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

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


simplify: The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.


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

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


simplify: And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,

And the sons of Ephraim: Shuthelah and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eleadah his son, and Tahath his son,


rate difficulty: `And, going on, proclaim saying that, the reign of the heavens hath come nigh;

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


rate difficulty: And that first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armourbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were an half acre of land, which a yoke of oxen might plow.

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


rate difficulty: And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

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


simplify: And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.


rate difficulty: And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,

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


simplify: and having called with a loud voice, he said, `What--to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God the Most High? I adjure thee by God, mayest thou not afflict me!'

shrieking out in a loud voice: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? For God’s sake do not torment me!”


rate difficulty: Bread-<FI> corn<Fi> is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed <FI>it<Fi> hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.

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


simplify: And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

And in my passion the peoples were crushed under my feet, and broken in my wrath, and I put down their strength to the earth.


rate difficulty: And he said, I am theGod of thy father, theGod of Abraham, theGod of Isaac, and theGod of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look atGod.

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


simplify: Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

It was then that one of the Twelve, named Judas Iscariot, made his way to the chief priests,


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that the first-born said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.


rate difficulty: They shall lick dust like the serpent; like crawling things of the earth, they shall come trembling forth from their close places. They shall turn with fear to Jehovah ourGod, and shall be afraid because of thee.


simplify: Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.


simplify: Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

It was while I was traveling to Damascus on an errand of this kind, entrusted with full powers by the chief priests,


simplify: And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that were proclaimed by me, that it is not according to man,

I remind you, friends, that the good news which I told is no mere human invention.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail: (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand);

And the Lord said to Moses, Put out your hand and take it by the tail: (and he put out his hand and took a grip of it and it became a rod in his hand:)


simplify: And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.


simplify: And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

And Laban said to him, Truly, you are my bone and my flesh. And he kept Jacob with him for the space of a month.


rate difficulty: This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

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


simplify: Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

He may be given forty blows, not more; for if more are given, your brother may be shamed before you.


rate difficulty: And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

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


rate difficulty: And [as for] thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, [and] wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

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


simplify: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.


simplify: And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.


rate difficulty: And Abram departed as Jehovah had said to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

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


simplify: The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;


simplify: But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.

But he said before them all that it was false, saying, I have no knowledge of what you say.


simplify: In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;


simplify: And she arose, and went away, and laid by her vail from her, and put on the garments of her widowhood.

Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.


simplify: Whether any inquire about Titus, he is my partner and my fellow-worker to you-ward; or our brethren, they are the messengers of the churches, they are the glory of Christ.

If any question comes up about Titus, he is my brother-worker, working with me for you; or about the others, they are the representatives of the churches to the glory of Christ.


simplify: Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

and they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me.


rate difficulty: Sons of Gibbar, ninety and five.

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


simplify: To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.


simplify: But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

while we, for our part, will devote ourselves to prayer, and to the delivery of the message.”


rate difficulty: And Peter having risen, did run to the tomb, and having stooped down he seeth the linen clothes lying alone, and he went away to his own home, wondering at that which was come to pass.

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


simplify: He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig-tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.


simplify: And when they come nigh to Jerusalem, to Bethphage, and Bethany, unto the mount of the Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,

When they had almost reached Jerusalem, as far as Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent on two of his disciples.


simplify: And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.


rate difficulty: and now, is not Boaz of our acquaintance, with whose young women thou hast been? lo, he is winnowing the threshing-floor of barley to-night,

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


rate difficulty: But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.


simplify: The Lord thundered from heaven, and the most High uttered his voice.

The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.


rate difficulty: And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.

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


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

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.


rate difficulty: But, `Jehovah liveth, who brought up The sons of Israel out of the land of the north, And out of all the lands whither He drove them,' And I have brought them back to their land, That I gave to their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;

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


rate difficulty: And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.


rate difficulty: Where then is the glorying? It is excluded. By what manner of law? of works? Nay: but by a law of faith.

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


simplify: That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:


rate difficulty: And the king said, Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, [As] thy soul liveth, my lord, O king, there is no turning to the right hand or to the left from aught that my lord the king has spoken; for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words into the mouth of thy bondmaid:

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


simplify: And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman. And Abijam his son became king in his place.