rate difficulty: And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet thereof.

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


rate difficulty: In that day will the Lord of armies be a crown of glory, and a fair ornament, to the rest of his people;

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put on the stand?

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


rate difficulty: Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

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


rate difficulty: And there are left among the sons of Israel who have not shared their inheritance, seven tribes,

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


simplify: And he called to him a little child, and set him in the midst of them,

And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,


simplify: But Peter followed him afar off, unto the court of the high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.

But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.


rate difficulty: And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

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


simplify: for having received from God the Father honour and glory, such a voice being borne to him by the excellent glory: `This is My Son--the beloved, in whom I was well pleased;'

For he received honor and glory from God the Father, when from the glory of the Divine Majesty there were borne to his ears words such as these — ‘This is my dearly loved son, who brings me great joy.’


simplify: For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.


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

And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus.


simplify: And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.


simplify: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

For I have come to set — ‘a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


simplify: For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him.


simplify: But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise;

But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:


rate difficulty: and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. And afterwards the families of the Canaanites spread themselves abroad.

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


rate difficulty: And I hastened not from feeding after Thee, And the desperate day I have not desired, Thou--Thou hast known, The produce of my lips, before Thy face it hath been,

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


rate difficulty: Sons of Harim: three hundred and twenty.

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


simplify: And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth–el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth–el the priests of the high places which he had made.

And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.


rate difficulty: He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

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


simplify: And he hath on his garment and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.


rate difficulty: Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into the Jordan.

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


simplify: Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into 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.”


rate difficulty: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

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


rate difficulty: So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.

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


simplify: For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?


rate difficulty: The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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


rate difficulty: and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be showed to the priest;

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


rate difficulty: And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah; and he wrought that which was good and right and faithful before Jehovah his God.

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


simplify: O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.


rate difficulty: Yet to us God revealed it through his Spirit; for the Spirit fathoms all things, even the inmost depths of God’s being.


simplify: Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of Jehovah from me to speak unto thee?

Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of his face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?


rate difficulty: And having come to the house, he suffered no one to go in, except Peter, and James, and John, and the father of the child, and the mother;

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


simplify: Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:

Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:


rate difficulty: See, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so the soul of the son is mine: death will be the fate of the sinner's soul.

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


simplify: But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

Then Paul said, I am not off my head, most noble Festus, but my words are true and wise.


simplify: and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in their being there, the days were fulfilled for her bringing forth,


rate difficulty: His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

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


rate difficulty: Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

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


simplify: And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the Lord deliver them before me, shall I be your head?

Then Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, If you take me back to make war against the children of Ammon, and if with the help of the Lord I overcome them, will you make me your head?


rate difficulty: Then I saw new heavens and a new earth. The former heavens and the former earth had passed away; and the sea has ceased to be.

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


simplify: Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

So now make division of this land for a heritage to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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


rate difficulty: I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when thou shalt hear a sound of going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt go out to battle: for God is gone forth before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: That is why I delight in weakness, ill treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!

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


rate difficulty: And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not Jehovah, the God of Israel, commanded, saying, Go and draw unto mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

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


simplify: Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.

It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:


rate difficulty: Sustain me with grape-cakes, Support me with citrons, for I <FI>am<Fi> sick with love.

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


rate difficulty: And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.


simplify: Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.

Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.


rate difficulty: For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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


rate difficulty: The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the days were well-nigh come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

And it came about that when the days were near for him to be taken up, his face was turned to go to Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: But the Jews that were disobedient stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and made them evil affected against the brethren.

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


simplify: It is a trespass offering: he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.

It is an offering for his error: he is certainly responsible before the Lord.


simplify: For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.


rate difficulty: In the morning some Jewish men combined together, and took an oath that they would not eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at their passing over, that Elijah hath said unto Elisha, `Ask, what do I do for thee before I am taken from thee?' and Elisha saith, `Then let there be, I pray thee, a double portion of thy spirit unto me;'

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


rate difficulty: And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.


rate difficulty: For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.

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


rate difficulty: Every bed on which she has been resting will be unclean, as at the times when she normally has a flow of blood, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean, in the same way.

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


simplify: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, It shall be counted a curse to him.

He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.


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

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.

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


simplify: because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;

for you will be a witness for him to all the world of what you have just seen and heard.


simplify: But Sarai was barren; she had no child.


simplify: And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.


simplify: Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

Then Jonathan said, Now we will go over to these men and let them see us.


rate difficulty: And he has sacrificed oxen and fatted cattle and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the captain of the host; but Solomon thy servant has he not invited.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the Lord, that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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


rate difficulty: With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.

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


simplify: Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.

Go to the Lord for help so that you may have life; for fear that he may come like fire bursting out in the family of Joseph, causing destruction, and there will be no one to put it out in Beth-el.


simplify: and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan-aram:

And that Jacob had done as his father and mother said and had gone to Paddan-aram;


simplify: And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

And the children of Israel said to them, It would have been better for the Lord to have put us to death in the land of Egypt, where we were seated by the flesh-pots and had bread enough for our needs; for you have taken us out to this waste of sand, to put all this people to death through need of food.


simplify: If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

If it is possible, as far as rests with you, live peaceably with everyone.


rate difficulty: How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

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


rate difficulty: Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold, thou art fair: thine eyes are doves.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when David had made an end of speaking these words unto Saul, that Saul said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice, and wept.

Now when David had said these words to Saul, Saul said, Is this your voice, David, my son? And Saul was overcome with weeping.


rate difficulty: And he sent stones at David and at all the king's servants and at all the people and at all the men of war by his side, on the right hand and on the left.

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


rate difficulty: Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, saith Jehovah, him that offereth in the high place, and him that burneth incense to his gods.

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


simplify: But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

But when Paul was about to say something, Gallio said to the Jews, If this was anything to do with wrongdoing or crime, there would be a reason for me to give you a hearing:


rate difficulty: And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares?

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


rate difficulty: and the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of perfume,

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


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

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


simplify: for he taught them asonehaving authority, and not as their scribes.

for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.


simplify: And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.

Moved by the power of the Spirit, Jesus returned to Galilee. Reports about him spread through all that neighborhood;


rate difficulty: And Jesus coming up spoke to them, saying, All power has been given me in heaven and upon earth.

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


rate difficulty: and Benaiah son of Jehoiada <FI>is<Fi> over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar <FI>are<Fi> priests;

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


simplify: Wherefore, if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church.

Therefore, when I come, I will not forget his conduct in ridiculing us with his wicked tongue. Not content with that, he not only declines to recognize our friends who are followers himself, but actually prevents those who would, and expels them from the church.


rate difficulty: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.


simplify: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:


simplify: And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten; for he had many wives.

Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.


rate difficulty: The third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,


simplify: and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.'

yet, when sown, shoots up, and becomes larger than any other herb, and puts out great branches, so that even ‘the wild birds can roost in its shelter.’”


simplify: And again, whom should I serve? should I not serve in the presence of his son? as I have served in thy father’s presence, so will I be in thy presence.

And more than this! where is my place as a servant? is it not before his son? as I have been your father's servant, so will I be yours.


rate difficulty: And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

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


simplify: Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.


simplify: And it shall be, when thou hearest the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry-trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself; for then is Jehovah gone out before thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.


simplify: and the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

The stork and the heron, and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.


simplify: Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.


rate difficulty: And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker.

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


simplify: Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

My children, do not let anyone mislead you. The person who lives righteously is righteous — as Christ is righteous.


rate difficulty: And the earth bringeth forth tender grass, herb sowing seed after its kind, and tree making fruit (whose seed <FI>is<Fi> in itself) after its kind; and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good;

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

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


simplify: He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.


simplify: Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?


simplify: Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.

Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.


rate difficulty: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

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


rate difficulty: Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.


rate difficulty: And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of Jehovah is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face.

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


simplify: And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off:

And when he went into a certain small town he came across ten men who were lepers, and they, keeping themselves at a distance,


rate difficulty: Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;

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


rate difficulty: `When thou art coming in unto the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, thou dost not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

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


simplify: and having come to the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they bowed to him, and having opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh,

Entering the house, they saw the child with his mother, Mary, and fell at his feet and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasure chests, and offered to the child presents of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.


rate difficulty: And certain of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.

Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.


rate difficulty: and Noah, Daniel, and Job, in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--neither son nor daughter do they deliver; they, by their righteousness, deliver their own soul.


rate difficulty: And they come unto the threshing-floor of Atad, which <FI>is<Fi> beyond the Jordan, and they lament there, a lamentation great and very grievous; and he maketh for his father a mourning seven days,

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


simplify: And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

And the winged ones, lifting up their wings, went up from the earth before my eyes, with the wheels by their side: and they came to rest at the east doorway of the Lord's house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.


rate difficulty: For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

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simplify: For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.


simplify: and it leadeth astray those dwelling on the land, because of the signs that were given it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling upon the land to make an image to the beast that hath the stroke of the sword and did live,

and in consequence of the marvels which it was allowed to perform under the eyes of the Beast, it is able to deceive all who are living on the earth. It tells those who live on the earth to make a statue in honor of the Beast, who, despite the wound from the sword, yet lived.


rate difficulty: wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

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rate difficulty: The ninth, for the ninth month, <FI>is<Fi> Abiezer the Antothite, of the Benjamite, and on his course <FI>are<Fi> twenty and four thousand.

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


simplify: three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the candlestick:

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower, on all the branches.


simplify: For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Jehovah ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

And when the flame went up to heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were looking on; and they went down on their faces to the earth.


rate difficulty: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

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


rate difficulty: Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him with chains, to carry him to Babylon.

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


simplify: In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.


rate difficulty: But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but inGod who raises the dead;

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simplify: And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah.

And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part.


simplify: And Jehovah hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear),

And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;


rate difficulty: And the house of Israel have buried them--in order to cleanse the land--seven months.

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


simplify: If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:


simplify: to them they gave Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it;

To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;


simplify: And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria: and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.


simplify: And a certain ruler questioned him, saying, `Good teacher, what having done--shall I inherit life age-during?'

And one of the Presidents asked Jesus this question — “Good teacher, what must I do if I am to gain eternal life?”


rate difficulty: “I have observed all these,” he replied, “from childhood.”

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


rate difficulty: So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.


simplify: Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;


rate difficulty: And you will no longer put people in mind of the word of weight of the Lord: for every man's word will be a weight on himself; for the words of the living God, of the Lord of armies, our God, have been twisted by you.


simplify: Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, He also shall cry, but shall not be heard.

He whose ears are stopped at the cry of the poor, will himself get no answer to his cry for help.


rate difficulty: And Jehu took his bow in his hand, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out through his heart; and he sank down in his chariot.

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


simplify: And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

Then I saw, rising out of the earth, another wild Beast. It had two horns like those of a lamb, and its voice was like a dragon’s.


rate difficulty: To melt the heart, and to multiply the ruins, By all their gates I have set the point of a sword. Ah, it is made for brightness, Wrapped up for slaughter.


rate difficulty: If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

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


simplify: And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.

Then he took jewels of silver and jewels of gold and fair robes and gave them to Rebekah: and he gave things of value to her mother and her brother.


simplify: And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.


simplify: And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.


simplify: How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;


simplify: Wherefore Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved off the one half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

So Hanun took David's servants, and after cutting off half the hair on their chins, and cutting off the skirts of their robes up to the middle, he sent them away.


simplify: Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

For this cause I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take my words, every one from his neighbour.


simplify: This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:


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

And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.


simplify: So Solomon came from the high place that was at Gibeon, from before the tent of meeting, unto Jerusalem; and he reigned over Israel.

So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.


simplify: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:

Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:


simplify: Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.

It may be used for food in your houses: the unclean and the clean may take of it, as of the gazelle and the roe.


simplify: Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:


simplify: And the Philistines followed hard after Saul, and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi–shua, the sons of Saul.

And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.


simplify: For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.


rate difficulty: and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

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rate difficulty: and the sons of Israel serve Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

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


rate difficulty: to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand,

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


rate difficulty: And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

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


simplify: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.


rate difficulty: The twenty-second to Giddalti; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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


rate difficulty: The coats for Aaron and his sons they made of the best linen;

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


simplify: And having gone to the boat, he passed over, and came to his own city,

Afterwards Jesus got into a boat, and, crossing over, came to his own city.


simplify: And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.


simplify: Thou shalt winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them; and thou shalt rejoice in Jehovah, thou shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

And he sent through all Manasseh, and they came after him; and he sent to Asher and Zebulun and Naphtali, and they came up and were joined to the others.


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

Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


simplify: and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building <FI>it<Fi> , save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.'

“You who ‘destroy the Temple and build one in three days,’ save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!”


simplify: And the Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea-shore in multitude: and they came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth-aven.

And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.


rate difficulty: and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,

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


simplify: Now when he drew near to the gate of the city, behold, there was carried out one that was dead, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

Now when he came near the door of the town, a dead man was being taken out, the only son of his mother, who was a widow: and a great number of people from the town were with her.


rate difficulty: And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan swore unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

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


rate difficulty: His reply was: “How is it that you on your side break God’s commandments out of respect for your own traditions?


rate difficulty: But David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.


simplify: Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.


simplify: and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.

while some of the chief religious officials of the province, who were friendly to him, sent repeated entreaties to him not to trust himself inside.


simplify: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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


simplify: They shall eat the meal-offering, and the sin-offering, and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

Their food is to be the meal offering and the sin-offering and the offering for error; and everything given specially to the Lord in Israel will be theirs.


simplify: And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: howbeit his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.


simplify: The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.


simplify: Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.


simplify: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow:

And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;


simplify: Thou shalt have none other gods before me.


simplify: But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Jesus, however, turning to Peter, said: “Out of my way, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you look at things, not as God does, but as person does.”


simplify: And ye know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.

And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.


rate difficulty: For the battle was there spread over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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rate difficulty: And the man who takes away the goat for Azazel is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and then he may come back to the tent-circle.


simplify: And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,

On hearing this, the people and the city magistrates were much concerned;


rate difficulty: the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

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


rate difficulty: And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

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


rate difficulty: They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.


rate difficulty: And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

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


rate difficulty: And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

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


simplify: And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah.

And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.


simplify: And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near.


rate difficulty: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.


simplify: That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

This means that it is not the children born in the course of nature who are God’s children, but it is the children born in fulfillment of the Promise who are to be regarded as Abraham’s descendants.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.

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simplify: and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus:

and the loving kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.


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

And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.


rate difficulty: For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph saith unto them on the third day, `This do and live; God I fear!

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


simplify: And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.


rate difficulty: Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother;

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


rate difficulty: A soft answer turneth away fury; but a grievous word stirreth up anger.

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


simplify: And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.


simplify: and he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.

And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For,  He that would love life, And see good days, Let him refrain his tongue from evil, And his lips that they speak no guile:

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


simplify: Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.


rate difficulty: The children of Beth–lehem, an hundred twenty and three.


simplify: Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

But the growth of his hair was starting again after it had been cut off.


rate difficulty: And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore let the person who thinks that they stand take care that they do not fall.


rate difficulty: And ye know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.

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


rate difficulty: Or know ye not that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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


rate difficulty: and Israel is joined to Baal-Peor, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Noah, that went forth from the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: And taken hold have seven women on one man, In that day, saying, `Our own bread we do eat, And our own raiment we put on, Only, let thy name be called over us, Remove thou our reproach.'

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simplify: And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

Then going away from the prophets, he came to the house.


rate difficulty: But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote of them three thousand, and took much spoil.

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simplify: It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.


rate difficulty: But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

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


simplify: Then I went to the Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it; and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.

So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.


simplify: When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

When did we see you a stranger, and take you to our homes? Or naked, and clothe you?


simplify: And over the head of the living creature there was the likeness of a firmament, like the terrible crystal to look upon, stretched forth over their heads above.

And over the heads of the living beings there was the form of an arch, looking like ice, stretched out over their heads on high.


rate difficulty: Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:

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simplify: And Elisha said unto him, Go, say unto him, Thou shalt surely recover; howbeit Jehovah hath showed me that he shall surely die.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?


rate difficulty: They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the Lord, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

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

to fit his people for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ.


simplify: Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.

So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.


simplify: And it came to pass from that time forth, that half of my servants wrought in the work, and half of them held the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the coats of mail; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.

And from that time, half of my servants were doing their part of the work, and half kept the spears and body-covers and the bows and the metal war-dresses; and the chiefs were at the back of the men of Judah.


simplify: But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.


rate difficulty: And when they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to bear it after Jesus.

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rate difficulty: And ye came near to me all of you, and said, We will send men before us, who shall examine the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and of the cities to which we shall come.

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rate difficulty: let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set:

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simplify: And Jesse begat his firstborn Eliab, and Abinadab the second, and Shimma the third,

And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,


simplify: unceasingly remembering of you the work of the faith, and the labour of the love, and the endurance of the hope, of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the presence of our God and Father,

recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: And as for you, my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, between the rams and the he-goats.

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


simplify: He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;


rate difficulty: And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.


rate difficulty: You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.

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


rate difficulty: And he cried against the altar by the word of Jehovah, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith Jehovah: Behold, a son shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he sacrifice the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall they burn upon thee.

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


simplify: To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

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


rate difficulty: Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

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


rate difficulty: And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; no manner of servile work shall ye do.


rate difficulty: My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, departing from under their God.

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


simplify: and he, having gone away, spake with the chief priests and the magistrates, how he might deliver him up to them,

and he went and discussed with the chief priests and officers in charge at the Temple the best way of betraying Jesus to them.


rate difficulty: As we have said before, so say I now again, If any man preacheth unto you any gospel other than that which ye received, let him be anathema.

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


simplify: And there was opened the temple of God that is in heaven; and there was seen in his temple the ark of his covenant; and there followed lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.

And the house of God which is in heaven was open; and the ark of his agreement was seen in his house, and there were flames and voices and thunders and an earth-shock and a rain of ice.


rate difficulty: And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!

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


rate difficulty: And for this cause we also give thanks toGod unceasingly that, having received [the] word of [the] report ofGod by us, ye accepted, not men's word, but, even as it is truly,God's word, which also works in you who believe.

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


rate difficulty: And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers.

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


simplify: Jehovah hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and Jehovah hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son; and, behold, thou art taken in thine own mischief, because thou art a man of blood.

The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;


simplify: Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not.

A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;

So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;


rate difficulty: Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.


simplify: a wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.

An untrained ass, used to the waste land, breathing up the wind in her desire; at her time, who is able to send her away? all those who are looking for her will have no need to make themselves tired; in her month they will get her.


simplify: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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


simplify: And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

And he asked him: “What is your name?”“My name,” he said, “is Legion, for there are many of us;”


simplify: Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;


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

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


simplify: And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.


simplify: who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness:


simplify: And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.


simplify: And the disciples having come near, said to him, `Wherefore in similes dost thou speak to them?'

Afterwards his disciples came to him, and said: “Why do you speak to them in parables?”


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> they <FI>of<Fi> the sons of Israel who inherited in the land of Canaan, whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel, caused to inherit;

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


rate difficulty: And the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the sound of a great rushing, [saying,] Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place!

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


simplify: They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword; draw her away and all her multitudes.

Among those who have been put to the sword: they will give a resting-place with them to all their people.


simplify: And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye saved me not out of their hand.

And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.


simplify: Now it came to pass, while the multitude pressed upon him and heard the word of God, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;


simplify: And, behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was a ruler of the synagogue: and he fell down at Jesus’ feet, and besought him that he would come into his house:

Then there came a man named Jairus, who was a ruler in the Synagogue: and he went down at the feet of Jesus, desiring him to come to his house;


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

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


simplify: Take ye heed before him, and hearken unto his voice; provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgression: for my name is in him.

Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.


simplify: Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles.

‘Here is my chosen servant, who I love and who pleases me! I will breathe my spirit on him, and he will announce a time of judgment to the Gentiles.


simplify: take also your brother, and arise, go again unto the man:

And take your brother and go back to the man:


simplify: And Peter answering said to him, `Even if all shall be stumbled at thee, I will never be stumbled.'

“If everyone else falls away from you,” Peter answered, “I will never fall away!”


simplify: And Tamar his daughter-in-law bare him Perez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

And Tamar, his daughter-in-law, had Perez and Zerah by him. All the sons of Judah were five.


simplify: Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days:

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when Moses is coming down from mount Sinai (and the two tables of the testimony <FI>are<Fi> in the hand of Moses in his coming down from the mount), that Moses hath not known that the skin of his face hath shone in His speaking with him,

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


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

So, addressing the tree, he exclaimed: “May no one ever again eat of your fruit!”And his disciples heard what he said.


simplify: And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and axes. And this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.


simplify: And he cometh the third time, and saith to them, `Sleep on henceforth, and rest--it is over; the hour did come; lo, the Son of Man is delivered up to the hands of the sinful;

A third time he came, and said to them: “Sleep on now, and rest yourselves. Enough! My time has come. Look: the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of wicked people.


rate difficulty: for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

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


simplify: The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.


simplify: I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones.


simplify: And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year shall come tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.


simplify: and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;


simplify: Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.


simplify: Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;


rate difficulty: For even the hind in the field hath brought forth--to forsake <FI>it!<Fi> For there hath been no grass.

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


simplify: Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Cæsar’s.

Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's.


simplify: My son, despise not the chastening of Jehovah; Neither be weary of his reproof:

My son, do not make your heart hard against the Lord's teaching; do not be made angry by his training:


simplify: And he shall take the two goats, and set them before Jehovah at the door of the tent of meeting.

And he is to take the two goats and put them before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

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simplify: And he said unto them, How say they that Christ is David’s son?

But Jesus said to them: “How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David’s son?


simplify: For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.


rate difficulty: These ye shall offer unto Jehovah in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.

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


rate difficulty: Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.

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simplify: Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.


simplify: And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.


simplify: And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

Then Joseph said, Without God there will be no answer of peace for Pharaoh.


rate difficulty: Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withes which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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


rate difficulty: Before them the peoples are in anguish: all faces turn pale.

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


simplify: Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porchof the temple, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the inner chambers thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat;

Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;


simplify: And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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


rate difficulty: and from all things from which ye were not able in the law of Moses to be declared righteous, in this one every one who is believing is declared righteous;

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simplify: And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

Then the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow their blasts.


simplify: The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the mighty.

The decision of chance puts an end to argument, parting the strong.


simplify: Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.


simplify: And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.


simplify: in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;

On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.


rate difficulty: And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:

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simplify: And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to put to sea from thence, if by any means they could reach Phoenix, and winter there; which is a haven of Crete, looking north-east and south-east.

And as the harbour was not a good one in which to be for the winter, the greater number of them were for going out to sea, in order, if possible, to put in for the winter at Phoenix, a harbour of Crete, looking to the north-east and south-east.


simplify: Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher–shalal–hash–baz.

And the Lord said to me, Take a great writing-board, and on it put down in common letters, Maher-shalal-hash-baz;


simplify: to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;

That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;


simplify: And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Begone, begone, thou man of blood, and base fellow:

And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:


rate difficulty: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:

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


simplify: I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thy vaulted place, and break down thy lofty places; and they shall strip thee of thy clothes, and take thy fair jewels; and they shall leave thee naked and bare.

I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.


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

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


rate difficulty: `And I speak unto you, and ye have not hearkened, and provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and act proudly, and go up into the hill-country;

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


simplify: For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.

For like a coat they will be food for the insect, the worm will make a meal of them like wool: but my righteousness will be for ever, and my salvation to all generations.


simplify: And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward:

And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high;


rate difficulty: Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).

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


rate difficulty: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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


rate difficulty: And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.


simplify: There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.


simplify: But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.

What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.


rate difficulty: And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.


rate difficulty: to wit, that the Gentiles are fellow-heirs, and fellow-members of the body, and fellow-partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel,

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


simplify: For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

There was a time when I myself, unconscious of law, was alive; but when the Commandment was brought home to me, sin sprang into life, while I died!


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

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


simplify: I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?


simplify: They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.

They are to have linen head-dresses on their heads and linen trousers on their legs, and they are to have nothing round them to make their skin wet with heat.


rate difficulty: `So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

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rate difficulty: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

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rate difficulty: He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

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simplify: And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.


rate difficulty: as ye know how, as a father his own children, we used to exhort each one of you, and comfort and testify,

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simplify: Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.

Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.


simplify: So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

And so you will be able to put my honour to the test in time to come; if you see among my flocks any goats which are not marked or coloured, or any sheep which is not black, you may take me for a thief.


simplify: So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.


simplify: Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth–shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Taanach and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, driving them out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.


simplify: And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh: for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.

And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.


rate difficulty: And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

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rate difficulty: They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

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rate difficulty: and capture it, and smite it by the mouth of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and every person who <FI>is<Fi> in it--he hath not left a remnant--according to all that he did to Eglon--and doth devote it, and every person who <FI>is<Fi> in it.

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rate difficulty: in whom we have boldness and access in confidence by the faith of him.


rate difficulty: And the Canaanite--king Arad--dwelling in the south, heareth that Israel hath come the way of the Atharim, and he fighteth against Israel, and taketh <FI>some<Fi> of them captive.

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rate difficulty: The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.


rate difficulty: And to the others he said in mine ears, `Pass on into the city after him, and smite; your eye doth not pity, nor do ye spare;

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rate difficulty: who is image of the invisibleGod, firstborn of all creation;

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rate difficulty: And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.

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