rate difficulty: Yet the firm foundation ofGod stands, having this seal, [The] Lord knows those that are his; and, Let every one who names the name of [the] Lord withdraw from iniquity.

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rate difficulty: And for the third time the Lord said Samuel's name. And he got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. Then it was clear to Eli that the voice which had said the child's name was the Lord's.

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


simplify: And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.

And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.


rate difficulty: Saying, Come back now, everyone from his evil way and from the evil of your doings, and keep your place in the land which the Lord has given to you and to your fathers, from times long past even for ever:

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


simplify: Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Stand your ground, then, ‘with truth for your belt,’ and ‘with righteousness for your breast-plate,’


simplify: And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

And all those who were of the faith were one in heart and soul: and not one of them said that any of the things which he had was his property only; but they had all things in common.


rate difficulty: And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

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simplify: who also made us sufficient as ministers of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.


simplify: And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

And why are you troubled about clothing? See the flowers of the field, how they come up; they do no work, they make no thread:


rate difficulty: And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.

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


simplify: Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the likeness of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.

But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.


rate difficulty: Lo, this <FI>is<Fi> the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'

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


simplify: A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.


rate difficulty: It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.


rate difficulty: and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,


rate difficulty: And the Spirit came upon Amasai, the chief of the captains, [and he said,] Thine [are we], David, And with thee, thou son of Jesse: Peace, peace be to thee! And peace be to thy helpers! For thyGod helps thee. And David received them, and made them chiefs of bands.

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


rate difficulty: Those then that had been scattered went through [the countries] announcing the glad tidings of the word.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.


simplify: Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.


rate difficulty: At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat.


rate difficulty: Remember the wife of Lot.


simplify: And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.


simplify: I will pass through all thy flock to-day, removing from thence every speckled and spotted one, and every black one among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.

Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.


rate difficulty: and Laban saith to him, `Only my bone and my flesh <FI>art<Fi> thou;' and he dwelleth with him a month of days.

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


simplify: if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:


simplify: about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for sentence against him.

Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him.


simplify: And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples: “Why does your teacher eat in the company of tax-gatherers and outcasts?”


simplify: Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus.


simplify: And they judged the people at all seasons: the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but every small matter they judged themselves.

And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.


rate difficulty: For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

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


simplify: Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.

Saying, You went to men without circumcision, and took food with them.


rate difficulty: For I have bent Judah for me, I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will raise up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and make thee like the sword of a mighty man.

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


simplify: And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.

And never again will the shining of lights be seen in you; and the voice of the newly-married man and the bride will never again be sounding in you: for your traders were the lords of the earth, and by your evil powers were all the nations turned out of the right way.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

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


simplify: And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.

The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place, in front of the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside: and there they are to this day.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus saith to him, `See, thou mayest tell no one, but go, thyself shew to the priest, and bring the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.'

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.


simplify: and if the ear may say, `Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body;' it is not, because of this, not of the body?

Or if the ear says ‘Since I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ it does not because of that cease to belong to the body.


rate difficulty: Shuppim also, and Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, the sons of Aher.

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


simplify: For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.

Because whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have more; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


simplify: would ye therefore tarry till they were grown? would ye therefore stay from having husbands? nay, my daughters, for it grieveth me much for your sakes, for the hand of Jehovah is gone forth against me.

Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.


simplify: And those going before and those following were crying out, saying, `Hosanna! blessed <FI>is<Fi> he who is coming in the name of the Lord;

and those who led the way, as well as those who followed, kept shouting: “‘God save him! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’


simplify: Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.


rate difficulty: that thou wilt do us no wrong, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done to thee nothing but good, and have let thee go in peace; thou art now blessed of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only cut off the hair of their heads.

They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.


simplify: and immediately was the fountain of her blood dried up, and she knew in the body that she hath been healed of the plague.

At once her bleeding stopped, and she felt in herself that she was cured of her complaint.


rate difficulty: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.


simplify: Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.


simplify: And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.

And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.


rate difficulty: The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,

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


simplify: `Worthy art Thou, O Lord, to receive the glory, and the honour, and the power, because Thou--Thou didst create the all things, and because of Thy will are they, and they were created.'

‘Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive all praise, and honor, and power, for you did create all things, and at your bidding they came into being and were created.’


simplify: So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:

So that I come again to my father's house in peace, then I will take the Lord to be my God,


simplify: Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.


rate difficulty: Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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


rate difficulty: And when this took place, all the others in the island who had diseases came and were made well.

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


simplify: And go quickly, and tell his disciples, He is risen from the dead; and lo, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.

And go quickly and give his disciples the news that he has come back from the dead, and is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as I have said to you.


simplify: Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

(Saul's son Ish-bosheth was forty years old when he became king over Israel, and he was ruler for two years.) But Judah was on the side of David.


simplify: Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass.

I tell you, even the present generation will not pass away, until all these things have taken place.


rate difficulty: And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

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


rate difficulty: And for fear of him the watchmen were shaking, and became as dead men.

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


simplify: And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.

He kept for himself the first part, for his was the ruler's right: he put in force the righteousness of the Lord, and his decisions for Israel.


rate difficulty: Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;


simplify: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

so, while Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came up to him privately and said: “Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign of your coming, and of the close of the age.”


simplify: And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.


rate difficulty: For whenever you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death — until he comes.

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


rate difficulty: Hast thou with him spread out the sky, firm, like a molten mirror?

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


rate difficulty: Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

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


simplify: because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to make me angry, they and their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem.


simplify: As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them by their families, by their fathers’ houses;

The sons of Merari are to be numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;


rate difficulty: And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel did not put them to death, because the chiefs of the people had taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. And all the people made an outcry against the chiefs.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the Lord; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

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


simplify: because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

For it is new life to us to know that you are holding fast to the Lord.


simplify: Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

And he said to them, A certain man gave a great feast, and sent word of it to a number of people.


rate difficulty: Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

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


simplify: Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.


simplify: Now all this is come to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,

Now all this took place so that the word of the Lord by the prophet might come true,


rate difficulty: And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and I was sent to speak unto thee, and to bring thee these good tidings.

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


simplify: And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.


simplify: And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,

After listening to these parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees saw that it was about them that he was speaking;


rate difficulty: And they build the high places of Baal, that <FI>are<Fi> in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come up on my heart to do this abomination, so as to cause Judah to sin.


simplify: Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.


rate difficulty: Thus will I do unto this place, saith the Lord, and to the inhabitants thereof, and even make this city as Tophet:

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


rate difficulty: Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

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


rate difficulty: And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.

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


simplify: And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

And news was given to Saul that David had been seen, and the men who were with him: now Saul was in Gibeah, seated under the tree in the high place, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were in their places before him.


simplify: Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;

You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:


simplify: And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an army of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and he came unto Mareshah.

And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.


simplify: Have I need of mad men, that ye have brought this fellow to play the mad man in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?


rate difficulty: And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought <FI>it<Fi> from the hand of the enemies of David;

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


simplify: And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.

And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.


simplify: And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

Then, in my vision, I heard the voices of many angels around the throne, and of the Creatures, and of the councillors. In number they were ‘ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands,’


rate difficulty: and by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad one,

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


simplify: Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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!


rate difficulty: And seen are the streams of the sea, Revealed are foundations of the world, By the rebuke of Jehovah, From the breath of the spirit of His anger.

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


simplify: Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea; And his chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.

Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.


simplify: Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.

Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.


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


rate difficulty: in [the] word of truth, in [the] power ofGod; through the arms of righteousness on the right hand and left,

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


simplify: And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:


rate difficulty: And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was chronicler;

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


simplify: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.


simplify: The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.


simplify: And he said, Hear now my words: if there be a prophet among you, I Jehovah will make myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak with him in a dream.

And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.


rate difficulty: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

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


rate difficulty: let them turn from evil and do good, Let them seek for peace and follow after it;

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


simplify: And when they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.

And when they saw the star they were full of joy.


simplify: Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.


simplify: But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the law, in bondage, awaiting the faith that was destined to be revealed.


simplify: And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

Jesse of David the King. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother was Uriah’s widow,


simplify: <FI> him,<Fi> whose presence is according to the working of the Adversary, in all power, and signs, and lying wonders,

For at the coming of the Lord there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude —


simplify: Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

Does it seem a small thing to you to have taken your food on good grass-land while the rest of your grass-land is stamped down under your feet? and that after drinking from clear waters you make the rest of the waters dirty with your feet?


rate difficulty: Who shall not fear [thee], O Lord, and glorify thy name? for [thou] only [art] holy; for all nations shall come and do homage before thee; for thy righteousnesses have been made manifest.

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


simplify: He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.

He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.


rate difficulty: And David saith, `What have I done now? is it not a word?'

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


rate difficulty: the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

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


simplify: Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord God.

At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs, And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the finest of the wheat; And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.

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


simplify: And a great sign was seen in the heaven, a woman arrayed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars,

Then a great portent was seen in the heavens — a woman whose robe was the sun, and who had the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.


rate difficulty: Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And utter a parable unto the rebellious house, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Set on a pot, set it on, and also pour water into it:

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


simplify: and one said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren do stand without, seeking to speak to thee.'

Someone told him this, and Jesus replied:


rate difficulty: Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.


simplify: And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.

And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.


simplify: And she yet again bare a son, and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.


simplify: Now it came to pass upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armour, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on the other side. But he told not his father.

Now one day Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was with him, looking after his arms, Come, let us go over to the Philistine force over there. But he said nothing to his father.


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

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


simplify: If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.

If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.


rate difficulty: that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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


rate difficulty: Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new life from God; and everyone who loves him who gave that life loves him who has received it.

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


rate difficulty: O Jehovah, Thou appointest peace to us, For, all our works also Thou hast wrought for us.

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


simplify: And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and the word of their witness; and loving not their lives they freely gave themselves up to death.


rate difficulty: and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering unto every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.


rate difficulty: whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

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


rate difficulty: I tell you that people will be forgiven everything — their sins, and all the slanders that they utter;

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


simplify: And when he took the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each one harps and golden vials full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints,

And, when he had taken the book, the four Creatures and the twenty-four councillors prostrated themselves before the Lamb, each of them holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense. (These are the prayers of Christ’s people.)


rate difficulty: It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

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


rate difficulty: and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

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


simplify: or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;


simplify: And Jehovah said unto him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A rod.

And the Lord said to him, What is that in your hand? And he said, A rod.


rate difficulty: And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.

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


rate difficulty: A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

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


simplify: and to give a sacrifice, according to that said in the Law of the Lord, `A pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.'

And also to offer the sacrifice required by the law of the Lord — ‘a pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons.’


simplify: But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle (I know that ye have much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you,

But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;


rate difficulty: A growling lion, and a ranging bear, <FI>Is<Fi> the wicked ruler over a poor people.

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


simplify: And when David’s young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

And when David's young men came, they said all this to Nabal, in David's name, and said nothing more.


rate difficulty: All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred and eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.

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


rate difficulty: And when he was come, straightway he came to him, and saith, Rabbi; and kissed him.

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


simplify: The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.

The children of Hashum, two hundred and twenty-three.


simplify: And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So Joab the son of Zeruiah went first up, and was chief.

And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.


simplify: (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;

And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;


rate difficulty: `And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring--her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

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


rate difficulty: But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

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


rate difficulty: And I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.


rate difficulty: In Gibeon hath Jehovah appeared unto Solomon, in a dream of the night, and God saith, `Ask--what do I give to thee?'

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


simplify: And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.


rate difficulty: And the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah, for their families, is unto the border of Edom; the wilderness of Zin southward, at the extremity of the south;


simplify: having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection both of the just and unjust.

Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.


simplify: Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;


simplify: And the disciples of John told him of all these things.

And the disciples of John gave him an account of all these things.


simplify: Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Sheba, and Dedan and her traders, Tarshish with all her traders, will say to you, Have you come to take our goods? have you got your armies together to take away our property by force? to take away silver and gold, cattle and goods, to go off with great wealth?


rate difficulty: Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?

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


simplify: And this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt say in thy heart, Who hath borne me these, seeing I had lost my children and was desolate, an exile, and driven about? and who hath brought up these? behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?

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


rate difficulty: there hath not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua hath not proclaimed before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the infants, and the sojourner who is going in their midst.

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


simplify: As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.


rate difficulty: And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

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


rate difficulty: In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

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


rate difficulty: Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

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


rate difficulty: and ye have served there gods, work of man's hands, wood and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

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


simplify: And Jesus was going on with them, and now when he is not far distant from the house the centurion sent unto him friends, saying to him, `Sir, be not troubled, for I am not worthy that under my roof thou mayest enter;

So Jesus went with them. But, when he was no great distance from the house, the captain sent some friends with the message — “Do not trouble yourself, Sir; for I am unworthy to receive you under my roof.


rate difficulty: But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.

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


simplify: And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,


simplify: wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

Therefore, as I said, we do not lose heart. No, even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.


simplify: Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?


rate difficulty: A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

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


simplify: And the children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.


rate difficulty: I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

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


simplify: If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; And if he be thirsty, give him water to drink:

If your hater is in need of food, give him bread; and if he is in need of drink, give him water:


simplify: But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!


rate difficulty: Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

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


simplify: I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

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


rate difficulty: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

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


rate difficulty: Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.


simplify: Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.


simplify: I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.


rate difficulty: In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.


simplify: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.


rate difficulty: The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,

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


rate difficulty: And he went up from thence to Beer–sheba.


rate difficulty: And it is not only by his arrival that we are encouraged, but also by the encouragement which he received from you; for he tells us of your strong affection, your penitence, and your zeal on my behalf — so that I am happier still.

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


simplify: And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

“John’s disciples,” they said to Jesus, “Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!”


simplify: And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.


rate difficulty: While they make up heavy loads and pile them on other people’s shoulder’s they decline, themselves, to lift a finger to move them.

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


simplify: I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even unto me:

I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:


rate difficulty: for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

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


rate difficulty: Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

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


rate difficulty: My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished--graves <FI>are<Fi> for me.

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


rate difficulty: If thou dost turn back, O Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, unto Me turn back, And if thou dost turn aside Thine abominations from My face, Then thou dost not bemoan.

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


rate difficulty: they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

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


rate difficulty: And having become clearly conscious [in himself], he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was surnamed Mark, where were many gathered together and praying.

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


rate difficulty: and a house of the villages which have no wall round about, on the field of the country is reckoned; redemption is to it, and in the jubilee it goeth out.


rate difficulty: And if thine offering be an oblation [prepared] in the cauldron, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.


simplify: And the time that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

And David was living in the land of the Philistines for the space of a year and four months.


rate difficulty: So he made ready a great feast for them, and when they had had food and drink, he sent them away and they went back to their master. And no more bands of Aramaeans came into the land of Israel.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off!

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

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


simplify: Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?


rate difficulty: And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel.

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


simplify: These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

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


simplify: For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Indeed, our main ground for satisfaction is this — Our conscience tells us that our conduct in the world, and still more in our relations with you, was marked by a purity of motive and a sincerity that were inspired by God, and was based, not on worldly policy, but on the help of God.


simplify: till I come, give heed to the reading, to the exhortation, to the teaching;

Until I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.


rate difficulty: And the seventh let what was in his vessel come out on the air; and there came out a great voice from the house of God, from the high seat, saying, It is done.


rate difficulty: surely as I sware to thee by Jehovah, God of Israel, saying, Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne in my stead; surely so I do this day.'

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


simplify: And they journeyed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents in the waste land of Sinai.


rate difficulty: And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.


rate difficulty: So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And I will have your veils violently parted in two, and will make my people free from your hands, and they will no longer be in your power for you to go after them; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: but at the place that Jehovah thyGod will choose, to cause his name to dwell in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the time that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: It shall be a continual burnt-offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before Jehovah, where I will meet with you, to speak there with thee.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Jehovah, and served him not.

And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.


rate difficulty: And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah setteth the adversaries of Rezin on high above him, And his enemies he joineth together,

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


simplify: The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.


simplify: Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

Who has made open the doors of his face? Fear is round about his teeth.


simplify: A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.


simplify: He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.


simplify: So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

So will the king of Assyria take away the prisoners of Egypt and those forced out of Ethiopia, young and old, unclothed and without shoes, and with backs uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.


rate difficulty: A curse will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the increase of your cattle, and the young of your flock.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old.


simplify: Rejoice, O ye nations, withhis people: For he will avenge the blood of his servants, And will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.


rate difficulty: And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

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


rate difficulty: the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

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


rate difficulty: And they took his land for a heritage, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, whose lands were on the other side of Jordan to the east;

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


simplify: And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

All the orders given by the king to the priests and Levites, in connection with any business or stores, were done with care.


simplify: and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

We entreat you also, friends — warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with everyone.


rate difficulty: And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.

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


simplify: as also in all the epistles, speaking in them concerning these things, among which things are certain hard to be understood, which the untaught and unstable do wrest, as also the other Writings, unto their own destruction.

It is the same in all his letters, when he speaks in them about these subjects. There are some things in them difficult to understand, which untaught and weak people distort, just as they do all other writings, to their own ruin.


rate difficulty: And Balaam answereth and saith unto the servants of Balak, `If Balak doth give to me the fulness of his house of silver and gold, I am not able to pass over the command of Jehovah my God, to do a little or a great thing;

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


rate difficulty: For the tenths which the children of Israel give as a lifted offering to the Lord I have given to the Levites as their heritage. and so I have said to them, Among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.


simplify: And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.

“Moses,” they said, “permitted a man to ‘draw up in writing a notice of separation and divorce his wife.’”


rate difficulty: `And, now, know and consider what thou dost; for evil hath been determined against our lord, and against all his house, and he <FI>is<Fi> too much a son of worthlessness to be spoken to.'

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


simplify: But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.

But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.


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

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


simplify: But Jesus turning and seeing her said, Daughter, be of good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well. And the woman was made well from that hour.


rate difficulty: Thus do ye say each unto his neighbour, And each unto his brother: What hath Jehovah answered? And what hath Jehovah spoken?

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


simplify: And one hour, as it were, having intervened, a certain other was confidently affirming, saying, `Of a truth this one also was with him, for he is also a Galilean;'

About an hour later another man declared positively: “This man also was certainly with him. Why, he is a Galilean!”


simplify: Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.


simplify: wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

Therefore always receive one another as friends, just as the Christ himself received us, to the glory of God.


simplify: The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.


rate difficulty: And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:


simplify: Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.


simplify: Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him.


rate difficulty: For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.

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


simplify: And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.


rate difficulty: Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

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


simplify: `The salt <FI>is<Fi> good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

Yes, salt is good; but, if the salt itself should lose its strength, what will be used to season it?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah hath smitten Israel as the reed is moved by the waters, and hath plucked Israel from off this good ground that He gave to their fathers, and scattered them beyond the River, because that they made their shrines, provoking Jehovah to anger;

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


rate difficulty: The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

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


simplify: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.


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

You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.


simplify: And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

And I was looking for a man among them who would make up the wall and take his station in the broken place before me for the land, so that I might not send destruction on it: but there was no one.


rate difficulty: And he ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I did not call: lie down again. And he went and lay down.

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


simplify: Then were the king’s scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king’s satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.


simplify: And the Levites were purified, and they washed their clothes; and Aaron offered them as an offering before the Lord; and Aaron made an atonement for them to cleanse them.

And the Levites were made clean from sin, and their clothing was washed, and Aaron gave them for a wave offering before the Lord; and Aaron took away their sin and made them clean.


simplify: After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

And as you went through the land viewing it for forty days, so for forty years, a year for every day, you will undergo punishment for your wrongdoing, and you will see that I am against you.


simplify: And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.

In order that they may be responsible to him and to all Israel for the care of the Tent of meeting, and to do the work of the House;


rate difficulty: For this reason I Paul, prisoner of the Christ Jesus for you nations,


rate difficulty: Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.

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


rate difficulty: then he hath brought near for the son of the herd a present of flour, three-tenth deals, mixed with oil, a half of the hin;

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


simplify: the shewing therefore of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf, to them shew ye, even in the face of the assemblies.

Show them, therefore — so that the churches may see it — the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you.


simplify: and if Christ <FI>is<Fi> in you, the body, indeed, <FI>is<Fi> dead because of sin, and the Spirit <FI>is<Fi> life because of righteousness,

but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life as a consequence of righteousness.


simplify: and ye shall begin to hear of wars, and reports of wars; see, be not troubled, for it behoveth all <FI>these<Fi> to come to pass, but the end is not yet.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; take care not to be alarmed, for such things must occur; but the end is not yet here.


simplify: Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:

And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:


simplify: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.


simplify: There went with us also certain of the disciples of Cesarea, and brought with them one Mnason of Cyprus, an old disciple, with whom we should lodge.

And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.


simplify: But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

but holding the truth in a spirit of love, we will grow into complete union with him who is our head — Christ himself.


rate difficulty: But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.

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


simplify: And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.

And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;


rate difficulty: Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times.

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


simplify: Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

Then at the memory of your ways you will be overcome with shame, when I take your sisters, the older and the younger, and give them to you for daughters, but not by your agreement.


simplify: And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah;

And I will make my agreement with you; and you will be certain that I am the Lord:


simplify: Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction.


simplify: And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.


simplify: In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.

In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.


simplify: For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the Lord will answer him by myself:

When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:


rate difficulty: That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?

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


simplify: and that he was buried, and that he hath risen on the third day, according to the Writings,

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


rate difficulty: This man began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the cause of God to him more carefully still.

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


simplify: But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

But Paul said to them, They have given us who are Romans a public whipping without judging us, and have put us in prison. Will they now send us out secretly? no, truly, let them come themselves and take us out.


rate difficulty: Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

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


simplify: And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.


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


rate difficulty: But they, being come to Jesus, besought him diligently, saying, He is worthy to whom thou shouldest grant this,

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


simplify: Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; And let them say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth.

Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.


simplify: They shall not pour out wine-offerings to Jehovah, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted; for their bread shall be for their appetite; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.

They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.


simplify: And we have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches;

We are sending with him one of the Lord's followers whose fame in the service of the good news has spread through all the churches;


rate difficulty: Be not wise in thine own eyes; fear Jehovah, and depart from evil:

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


rate difficulty: And that in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it fast, and bring forth fruit with patience.

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


simplify: Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

So he had discussions in the Synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and every day in the market-place with those who were there.


rate difficulty: The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

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


simplify: Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.


simplify: and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened unto my voice in all that I commanded you:

And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:


rate difficulty: These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.

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


rate difficulty: It will be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.

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


rate difficulty: The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.


rate difficulty: All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth them with words, but they are gone.

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


simplify: And they slew a bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:


rate difficulty: If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

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


simplify: I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.

I will make my arrows red with blood, my sword will be feasting on flesh, with the blood of the dead and the prisoners, of the long-haired heads of my haters.


rate difficulty: And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?


rate difficulty: And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

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


rate difficulty: and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet,


simplify: And if they blow but one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.


rate difficulty: neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

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


rate difficulty: As the noise of chariots, on the tops of the mountains they skip, As the noise of a flame of fire devouring stubble, As a mighty people set in array for battle.


rate difficulty: But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;

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


rate difficulty: `And lo, I am going, to-day, in the way of all the earth, and ye have known--with all your heart, and with all your soul--that there hath not fallen one thing of all the good things which Jehovah your God hath spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there hath not failed of it one thing.

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


rate difficulty: The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

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


simplify: One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning;


rate difficulty: and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

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


simplify: And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh;

Then Samuel sent for the people to come together before the Lord at Mizpah;


simplify: But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,


simplify: And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

But one of the councillors said to me — ‘Do not weep. The Lion conquered — the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Scion of David — and can therefore open the book with its seven seals.’


simplify: And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.

The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.


rate difficulty: And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which I have given you today.

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


simplify: Come with me from Lebanon, mybride, With me from Lebanon: Look from the top of Amana, From the top of Senir and Hermon, From the lions’ dens, From the mountains of the leopards.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.


rate difficulty: For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.


rate difficulty: And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

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


simplify: For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

For as a band goes tightly round a man's body, so I made all the people of Israel and all the people of Judah tightly united to me; so that they might be a people for me and a name and a praise and a glory: but they would not give ear.


rate difficulty: It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it together.


simplify: And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


simplify: While he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, Come in; for thou art a worthy man, and bringest good tidings.

And while the words were on his lips, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest, came; and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a man of good faith and the news which you have for us will be good.


rate difficulty: `And on the second day twelve bullocks, sons of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones;

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


rate difficulty: And Moses doth as Jehovah hath commanded him, and taketh Joshua, and causeth him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the company,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.


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

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


simplify: Again I say, may no one think me to be a fool; and if otherwise, even as a fool receive me, that I also a little may boast.

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


simplify: And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.

And anyone who has been sleeping in the house will have to have his clothing washed; and anyone who takes food in that house will have to have his clothing washed.


simplify: And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

And Jacob said to his people, Get stones together; and they did so; and they had a meal there by the stones.


rate difficulty: And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent on the other side of Migdal-Eder.

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


rate difficulty: Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!

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


simplify: But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.


simplify: A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.


simplify: And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters that are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town.


simplify: And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.

Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.


simplify: And the Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they pitched in Gilboa.

And the Philistines came together and put their forces in position in Shunem; and Saul got all Israel together and they took up their positions in Gilboa.


simplify: And having let away the multitudes, he went into the boat, and did come to the borders of Magdala.

Then, after dismissing the crowds, Jesus got into the boat, and went to the neighborhood of Magadan.


simplify: Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord of hosts.

So her young men will be falling in her streets, and all the men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

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simplify: and threescore and twelve thousand oxen,


simplify: Thou shalt sow, but shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but shalt not anoint thee with oil; and the vintage, but shalt not drink the wine.

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.


simplify: Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.


rate difficulty: But I say to you that Elijah has come, and they had no knowledge of him, but did to him whatever they were pleased to do; the same will the Son of man undergo at their hands.

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simplify: Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.


simplify: And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death,

Meanwhile the chief priests and the whole of the High Council were trying to get such false evidence against Jesus, as would warrant putting him to death,


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh saith to him, `But, what art thou lacking with me, that lo, thou art seeking to go unto thine own land?' and he saith, `Nay, but thou dost certainly send me away.'

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


rate difficulty: And he called the twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.

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


rate difficulty: And they began to reason among themselves, who then of them it may be, who is about to do this thing.

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


simplify: For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.


rate difficulty: and they said, `What need yet have we of testimony? for we ourselves did hear <FI>it<Fi> from his mouth.'

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


simplify: O Jehovah, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart, you have done all these great things and let them be seen.


rate difficulty: But having different gifts, according to the grace which has been given to us, whether [it be] prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;

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rate difficulty: Because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spoke against this place and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and didst rend thy garments and weep before me, I also have heard [thee], saith Jehovah.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.

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