simplify: O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.


rate difficulty: And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

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


rate difficulty: He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.

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


rate difficulty: and he said also to this one, And thou, become thou over five cities.

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


rate difficulty: There was nothing left that he devoured not; Therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

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


simplify: They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.


simplify: Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.

“Stop! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”


simplify: And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet also came in.

And while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.


simplify: Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

Come near, O sons of Jacob, and give ear to the words of Israel your father.


simplify: And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

Let the other lamb be offered at evening; like the meal offering of the morning and its drink offering, let it be offered as an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.


rate difficulty: As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and the coloured garments, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, for acting as priests in;


simplify: All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

These are the twelve tribes of Israel: and these are the words their father said to them, blessing them; to every one he gave his blessing.


rate difficulty: The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;

Son of man, let your face be turned to the south, let your words be dropped to the south, and be a prophet against the woodland of the South;


rate difficulty: Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.


simplify: Moreover the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

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


simplify: He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water.


simplify: And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

But he said in answer, You are not to put them to death; have you any right to put to death those whom you have not taken prisoner with your sword and your bow? put bread and water before them, so that they may have food and drink and go to their master.


simplify: Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Edrei.

Then turning we took the road to Bashan: and Og, king of Bashan, came out against us with all his people, and made an attack on us at Edrei.


simplify: Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?


simplify: But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.


simplify: that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

in the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God’s hidden truth,


simplify: Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.

So Urijah the priest did everything as the king said


rate difficulty: And the towns which the Philistines had taken were given back to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and all the country round them Israel made free from the power of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.

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


rate difficulty: and he took the seven loaves and the fishes; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

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


simplify: And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me:


rate difficulty: Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the Lord in Mizpeh.

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


simplify: But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy, for giving praise unto Jehovah.

And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.


simplify: `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Not everyone who says to me ‘Master! Master!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.


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

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


simplify: No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.

And Herod is of the same opinion, for he has sent him back to us; for, you see, he has done nothing for which I might put him to death.


rate difficulty: These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.


rate difficulty: And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.


simplify: And when Herod was about to bring him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and guards before the door kept the prison.

And when Herod was about to take him out, the same night Peter was sleeping in chains between two armed men, and the watchmen were keeping watch before the door of the prison.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this?

Who does not see by all these that the hand of the Lord has done this?


simplify: How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

As she gave glory to herself, and became more evil in her ways, in the same measure give her pain and weeping: for she says in her heart, I am seated here a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see sorrow.


simplify: And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire:


nor did Herod either; for he has sent him back to us. And, as a fact, he has not done anything deserving death;


simplify: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.


rate difficulty: For I was afraid of the anger and fury wherewith Jehovah was wroth against you to destroy you. And Jehovah listened unto me also at that time.

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


simplify: But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.


simplify: And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons.


simplify: And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.

And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.


rate difficulty: For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.

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


rate difficulty: And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.


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

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


simplify: Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.


rate difficulty: And he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits <FI>is<Fi> its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.

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


simplify: And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching,

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


simplify: And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:

And the Lord said, See, there is a place near me, and you may take your place on the rock:


simplify: Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,


rate difficulty: And the lad groweth, and the day cometh that he goeth out unto his father, unto the reapers,

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


simplify: Yet many years didst thou bear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

Year after year you put up with them, and gave witness against them by your spirit through your prophets: still they did not give ear: and so you gave them up into the hands of the peoples of the lands.


rate difficulty: The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.

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


simplify: To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...


rate difficulty: I do not speak as commanding [it], but through the zeal of others, and proving the genuineness of your love.


rate difficulty: And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


simplify: And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:


simplify: There is nothing better for a manthanthat he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.


simplify: For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:

For Job has said, I am upright, and it is God who has taken away my right;


rate difficulty: And all the meeting sent to the men of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, offering them peace.

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


rate difficulty: And the nations shall know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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


rate difficulty: Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?

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


simplify: And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.

And Judah said, The strength of the workmen is giving way, and there is much waste material; it is impossible for us to put up the wall.


simplify: Behold, the day, behold, it cometh: thy doom is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

See, the day; see, it is coming: the crowning time has gone out; the twisted way is flowering, pride has put out buds.


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

There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,

This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;


rate difficulty: A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.


simplify: Wherefore now rise up early in the morning with the servants of thy lord that are come with thee; and as soon as ye are up early in the morning, and have light, depart.

So get up early in the morning, with the servants of your lord who are with you, and go to the place I have given you, and have no evil design in your heart, for you are good in my eyes; but when there is light enough in the morning, go away.


rate difficulty: And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

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


simplify: For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

Because if the heritage is by the law, it is no longer dependent on the word of God; but God gave it to Abraham by his word.


simplify: And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,

And when it was day, the rulers of the people came together, with the chief priests and the scribes, and they took him before their Sanhedrin, saying,


simplify: On the first day of the first month shalt thou rear up the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

On the first day of the first month you are to put up the House of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

To the south it is Ephraim's, and to the north it is Manasseh's, and the sea is his limit; and they are touching Asher on the north, and Issachar on the east.


simplify: And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.


simplify: And all the city was moved, and the people ran together; and they laid hold on Paul, and dragged him out of the temple: and straightway the doors were shut.

And all the town was moved, and the people came running together and put their hands on Paul, pulling him out of the Temple: and then the doors were shut.


rate difficulty: Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.

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


simplify: `And the owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my son--the beloved, perhaps having seen this one, they will do reverence;

‘What should I do?’ said the owner of the vineyard. ‘I will send my son, who is very dear to me. Perhaps they will respect him.’


rate difficulty: For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.


rate difficulty: Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

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


rate difficulty: And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.

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


simplify: And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

And in all the acts of power and fear which Moses did before the eyes of all Israel.


simplify: And the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

The same day Pharaoh gave orders to the overseers and those who were responsible for the work, saying,


rate difficulty: (And there went up [some] of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the doorkeepers, and the Nethinim, to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.)

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


simplify: But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:


simplify: For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.


rate difficulty: Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah doth for Himself as He hath spoken by my hand, and Jehovah rendeth the kingdom out of thy hand, and giveth it to thy neighbour--to David.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.


rate difficulty: He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.

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


rate difficulty: And if a man gives to the Lord part of the field which is his property, then let your value be in relation to the seed which is planted in it; a measure of barley grain will be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

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


simplify: for I am pressed by the two, having the desire to depart, and to be with Christ, for it is far better,

My own desire is to depart and be with Christ, for this would be far better.


simplify: And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?


rate difficulty: Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

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


simplify: Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.

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


simplify: And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;


simplify: of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.


simplify: The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,


rate difficulty: And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and threescore and ten palm-trees: and they encamped there by the waters.


rate difficulty: Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;


rate difficulty: And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said, Jehovah hath broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

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


simplify: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.


rate difficulty: But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

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


simplify: That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:

I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy prophets, as well as the command of our Lord and Savior given to you through your apostles.


simplify: Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will Jehovah bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

And all the diseases and the pains not recorded in the book of this law will the Lord send on you till your destruction is complete.


rate difficulty: And the disciples having heard, did fall upon their face, and were exceedingly afraid,


simplify: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,


rate difficulty: And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest;

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


rate difficulty: For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah, and behold, I will deliver men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of their hand.

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


rate difficulty: With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

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


simplify: O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And they run and bring him thence, and he stationed himself in the midst of the people, and he is higher than any of the people from his shoulder and upward.

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


rate difficulty: If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.


simplify: And concerning the cities which ye shall give of the possession of the children of Israel, from the many ye shall take many; and from the few ye shall take few: every one according to his inheritance which he inheriteth shall give of his cities unto the Levites.

And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites.


simplify: And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

Now when the Philistines had news that the children of Israel had come together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the children of Israel, hearing of it, were full of fear.


simplify: And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.


rate difficulty: And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.

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


rate difficulty: which is his body, the fulness of him who fills all in all:

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


simplify: And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

Then the high priest stood forward, and questioned Jesus. “Have you no answer to make?” he asked. “What is this evidence which these men are giving against you?”


simplify: And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him.

Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.


simplify: in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Then he will ‘inflict punishment on those who refuse to know God, and on those who turn a deaf ear’ to the good news of Jesus, our Lord.


simplify: and he shall offer his oblation unto Jehovah, one he-lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish for a sin-offering, and one ram without blemish for peace-offerings,

And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,


simplify: every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

All scripture is God-breathed: helpful for teaching, for refuting error, for giving guidance, and for training others in righteousness;


simplify: And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.


simplify: And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The Lord make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon;


simplify: And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.

Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.


rate difficulty: And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

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


simplify: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

For God has rescued us from the tyranny of darkness, and has removed us into the kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,


rate difficulty: He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.

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


simplify: For yourselves have known, brethren, our entrance in unto you, that it did not become vain,

Yes, friends, you yourselves know that your reception of us was not without result.


rate difficulty: Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, on the mountains the feet of one proclaiming tidings, sounding peace! Celebrate, O Judah, thy festivals, complete thy vows, For add no more to pass over into thee doth the worthless, He hath been completely cut off!

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


simplify: And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated:


simplify: And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

Then Mary got up and went quickly into the high lands, to a town of Judah;


simplify: Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, even from the children of Hobab the brother-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far as the oak in Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh.

Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh.


rate difficulty: whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;

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


simplify: And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.


rate difficulty: and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.

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


rate difficulty: Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

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


simplify: For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek: for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich unto all that call upon him:

And the Jew is not different from the Greek: for there is the same Lord of all, who is good to all who have hope in his name:


simplify: and when she was baptized, and her household, she did call upon us, saying, `If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, having entered into my house, remain;' and she constrained us.

and, when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us to become her guests.   “Since you have shown your conviction,” she said, “that I really am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she insisted on our doing so.


simplify: And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.


simplify: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign.

And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.


rate difficulty: I send him to you expressly that you may learn our circumstances, and that he may give you encouragement.

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


simplify: But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

But by the seed which was sown on the good ground is meant the person who hears the message and understands it, and really yields a return, sometimes one hundred, sometimes sixty, sometimes thirty fold.”


rate difficulty: Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.

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


simplify: But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

But if God gives such clothing to the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is put into the oven, will he not much more give you clothing, O you of little faith?


simplify: With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;


simplify: If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.


rate difficulty: Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time; and shall we be saved?

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


rate difficulty: Put yourselves in array against Babylon round about: all ye that bend the bow, shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she hath sinned against the Lord.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, When I sent you forth without purse, and wallet, and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing.

And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.


simplify: Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.


simplify: And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son-in-law a second time.

And Saul said, I will give her to him, so that she may be a cause of danger to him, and so that the hands of the Philistines may be against him. So Saul said to David, Today you are to become my son-in-law for the second time.


rate difficulty: So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.


rate difficulty: For we know that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with him, and will bring us, with you, into his presence.

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


rate difficulty: Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah which flow softly, and rejoiceth in Rezin and in the son of Remaliah,

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


simplify: And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And anyone touching these things will be unclean, and his clothing will have to be washed and his body bathed in water and he will be unclean till evening.


simplify: And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:


rate difficulty: But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.

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


rate difficulty: and they cast down each his rod, and they become monsters, and the rod of Aaron swalloweth their rods;

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


simplify: Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

Now when the Pharisee in whose house he was saw it, he said to himself, This man, if he was a prophet, would be conscious what sort of woman this is who has put her hands on him, that she is a sinner.


simplify: And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea.


rate difficulty: And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Which the wise declare--And have not hid--from their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And now I say to you, Withdraw from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work have its origin from men, it will be destroyed;

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


rate difficulty: cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed--Christ,

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


simplify: And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

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


simplify: And they said unto them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.


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

Whatever is ordered by the God of heaven, let it be done completely for the house of the God of heaven; so that there may not be wrath against the kingdom of the king and his sons.


rate difficulty: This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

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


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.

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


rate difficulty: and letters he hath written to give reproach to Jehovah, God of Israel, and to speak against Him, saying, `As the gods of the nations of the lands that have not delivered their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah doth not deliver His people from my hand.'

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


simplify: And thirty and six thousand beeves,


rate difficulty: I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

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


simplify: And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended.

And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.


simplify: Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

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


simplify: I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.


simplify: Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

Take care, therefore, that the inner light is not darkness.


rate difficulty: For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

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


simplify: And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

And at the start, one came to him who was in his debt for ten thousand talents.


simplify: And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.


rate difficulty: It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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


simplify: And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the Lord their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long is this man to be the cause of evil to us? let the men go so that they may give worship to the Lord their God: are you not awake to Egypt's danger?


simplify: Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

But you will have your bed among those without circumcision, and will be put to rest with those who have been put to death with the sword.


simplify: And the children of Israel remembered not Jehovah their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;

And the children of Israel did not keep in their minds the Lord their God, who had been their saviour from all their haters on every side;


rate difficulty: Also out of the midst thereof, the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.

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


rate difficulty: For the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh.


simplify: And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;


simplify: And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not back: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

And the watchman gave them word, saying, He went up to them and has not come back again; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he is driving violently.


simplify: And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.

And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.


simplify: Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.


simplify: And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.


rate difficulty: Then said Saul to the people that were with him, Muster now, and see who is gone from us. And they mustered, and behold, Jonathan and his armour-bearer were not there.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

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


simplify: And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves.

They are not to come near any dead person so as to become unclean: but for a father or mother or son or daughter or brother or for a sister who has no husband, they may make themselves unclean.


rate difficulty: The sons of Simeon, after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;


simplify: And Amaziah took courage, and led forth his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and smote of the children of Seir ten thousand.

Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;


rate difficulty: I tell you that their master will put them in charge of the whole of his property.

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


rate difficulty: Is it not in that day--an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?

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


simplify: And if ye will not yet for these things hearken unto me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.

And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.


simplify: And they burn unto the Lord every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the Lord our God; but ye have forsaken him.

By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.


simplify: And all the fat thereof shall he take away, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor unto Jehovah; and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be forgiven.

And let all its fat be taken away, as the fat is taken away from the peace-offerings, and let it be burned on the altar by the priest for a sweet smell to the Lord; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.


rate difficulty: in the <FI>places<Fi> beyond you to proclaim good news, not in another's line in regard to the things made ready, to boast;

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


rate difficulty: Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

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


simplify: Now Peter was sitting without in the court: and a maid came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilæan.

Now Peter was seated in the open square outside the house: and a servant-girl came to him, saying, You were with Jesus the Galilaean.


simplify: for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles — that I should act as a priest of God’s good news, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: These shall lift up their voice, they shall shout; for the majesty of Jehovah they cry aloud from the sea.

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


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

So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.


simplify: For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

For what person is there who knows what a person is, except the person’s own spirit within them? So, also, no one comprehends what God is, except the Spirit of God.


rate difficulty: So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.

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


rate difficulty: Why wilt thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name: leave us not.

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


simplify: Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it.


simplify: And he took the fortified cities which pertained to Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.


simplify: And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and, behold, the multitude melted away, and they went hither and thither.

And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there.


rate difficulty: And everyone took with him an offering, vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and robes, and coats of metal, and spices, and horses, and beasts of transport, regularly year by year.

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


rate difficulty: And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have the oversight of the oil for the light, and the fragrant incense, and the continual oblation, and the anointing oil, — the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and of all that is therein, over the sanctuary, and over its furniture.

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


simplify: `Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

“Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the miracles which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.


simplify: And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.

And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.


simplify: Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; yet saidst thou not, It is in vain: thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint.

You were tired with your long journeys; but you did not say, There is no hope: you got new strength, and so you were not feeble.


rate difficulty: Dedan was thy trafficker in precious riding-cloths.

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


rate difficulty: Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.

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


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

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


simplify: And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.


simplify: And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.


simplify: And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city.

And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.


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

And after a time, Bath-shua, Judah's wife, came to her end; and after Judah was comforted for her loss, he went to Timnah, where they were cutting the wool of his sheep, and his friend Hirah of Adullam went with him.


simplify: Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazar–hatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

To Zedad, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the limit of Damascus and the limit of Hazar-hatticon, which is on the limit of Hauran.


rate difficulty: And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast made fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain, the outermost in the joining, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which is joining the second;

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


simplify: And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.

And David said to Ahimelech the priest, The king has given me orders and has said to me, Say nothing to anyone about the business on which I am sending you and the orders I have given you: and a certain place has been fixed to which the young men are to go.


rate difficulty: But after that our fathers had provoked theGod of the heavens to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, and he destroyed this house, and carried the people away unto Babylon.


rate difficulty: and all the people know, even all Israel, in that day, that it hath not been from the king--to put to death Abner son of Ner.

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


rate difficulty: But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations, whom Jehovah cast out from before the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;'

To another man Jesus said: “Follow me.”   “Let me first go and bury my father,” said the man.


simplify: And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

and from the throne there came a voice which said —  ‘Praise our God all you who serve him, You who worship him, both high and low.’


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, make to thee vessels of removal, and remove by day before their eyes, and thou hast removed from thy place unto another place before their eyes, it may be they consider, for a rebellious house they <FI>are<Fi> .

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


simplify: And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: having annulled the enmity in his flesh, the law of commandments in ordinances, that he might form the two in himself into one new man, making peace;

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


simplify: When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.


rate difficulty: and the rest of the people he hath given into the hand of Abishai his brother, and setteth in array to meet the Bene-Ammon.

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


simplify: And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.

And, when Herod had made further search for him and failed to find him, he closely questioned the Guard, and ordered them away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to stay at Caesarea.


rate difficulty: If any hath ears to hear--let him hear.'

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


simplify: Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

No one, therefore, should slight him. See him safely on his way to me, for I am expecting him with some of our friends.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

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


simplify: And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.

And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.


simplify: so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;


simplify: But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.


rate difficulty: Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

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


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

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and their dead bodies <FI>are<Fi> upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)

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


simplify: And Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.


rate difficulty: Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

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


rate difficulty: I have blotted out, as <FI>by<Fi> a thick cloud, Thy transgressions, And as <FI>by<Fi> a cloud thy sins, Return unto Me, for I have redeemed thee.

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


simplify: And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.


simplify: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

One of its heads seemed to me to have been mortally wounded, but its deadly wound had been healed. The whole earth followed the Beast, wondering;


simplify: For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.


rate difficulty: And ye shall not eat bread, or roast corn, or green ears, until the same day that ye have brought the offering of yourGod: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

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


simplify: And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

And, seeing that the man who had been made well was there with them, they were not able to say anything against it.


rate difficulty: And he made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits;


simplify: And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.


simplify: Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was round Jerusalem, shutting it in: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, in the house of the king of Judah.


simplify: It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.


simplify: And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,

And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,


simplify: Thus shall they know that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, even the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord God.

And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord.


simplify: And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets.

So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board.


simplify: And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

And the king in his wrath got up from the feast and went into the garden: and Haman got to his feet to make a prayer for his life to Esther the queen: for he saw that the king's purpose was evil against him.


rate difficulty: Yes, I am confident that this is so, and therefore I am sure that I will stay, and stay near you all, to promote your progress and joy in the faith;

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


rate difficulty: let, I pray thee, a little water be accepted, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree;

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


rate difficulty: And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad to the entrance of Egypt; for he became exceeding strong.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after they had departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said to David, Arise and pass quickly over the water; for thus has Ahithophel counselled against you.

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


rate difficulty: The inhabitants of Samaria shall be in terror for the calves of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced over it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

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


rate difficulty: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.

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


rate difficulty: Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:


simplify: And he said, It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome: but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

And Moses said, It is not the voice of men who are overcoming in the fight, or the cry of those who have been overcome; it is the sound of songs which comes to my ear.


simplify: For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

For God’s call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.


simplify: And thou--be speaking what doth become the sound teaching;

You should, however, speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound Christian teaching.


simplify: then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maid-servant thou shalt do likewise.

Then take a sharp-pointed instrument, driving it through his ear into the door, and he will be your servant for ever. And you may do the same for your servant-girl.


rate difficulty: When, for instance, you are going with your opponent before a magistrate, on your way to the court do your best to be quit of him; otherwise he might drag you before the judge, then the judge will hand you over to the bailiff of the court, and the bailiff throw you into prison.

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


simplify: then the soldiers did cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off.

So the soldiers cut the ropes which held the boat, and let her drift away.


simplify: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.


simplify: Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.


rate difficulty: And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee;

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


simplify: Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.


rate difficulty: And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

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


simplify: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:

Who, when they came there, made prayer for them, that the Holy Spirit might be given to them:


rate difficulty: And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;

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


rate difficulty: and they sat down in groups — in hundreds, and in fifties.


rate difficulty: And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.


rate difficulty: And Peter said, Behold, we have left all things and have followed thee.

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


rate difficulty: And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah sawit, and abhorred them, Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

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


simplify: And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

He made all races of the earth’s surface — fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements —


simplify: And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.

And with bent head the man gave worship to the Lord;


rate difficulty: for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.

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


simplify: I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.


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

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


rate difficulty: Do you not see that your bodies are part of the body of Christ? how then may I take what is a part of the body of Christ and make it a part of the body of a loose woman? such a thing may not be.

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


simplify: Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.


simplify: Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.


simplify: The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.


simplify: Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.

This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said to her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.


rate difficulty: No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

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


rate difficulty: Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

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


rate difficulty: and he who hath not set his heart unto the word of Jehovah leaveth his servants and his cattle in the field.

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And the Lord said, Go up; for to morrow I will deliver them into thine hand.

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, was in his place before it,) and said, Am I still to go on with the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother, or am I to give it up? And the Lord said, Go on; for tomorrow I will give him into your hands.


rate difficulty: And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

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


simplify: Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.


simplify: And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;


simplify: And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

And there will be great earthquakes, and plagues and famines in various places, and there will be terrible appearances and signs in the heavens.


rate difficulty: Great crowds followed him, and he cured them there.


simplify: Nay, but bymen of strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people;

No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:


simplify: And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; as ye do, so he shall do.

And if a man from another country or any other person living among you, through all your generations, has the desire to give an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, let him do as you do.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

This is what the Lord has said: A curse on the foolish prophets who go after the spirit which is in them and have seen nothing!


simplify: They also which saw it told them by what means he that was possessed of the devils was healed.

Those who had seen it told them how the possessed man had been delivered.


simplify: The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.

The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.


simplify: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.


rate difficulty: And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told [it] to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.

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


simplify: And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

Going further on, he saw two other men who were also brothers, James, Zebedee’s son, and his brother John, in their boat with their father, mending their nets. Jesus called them,


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

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


rate difficulty: Rebuke not an elder sharply, but exhort [him] as a father, younger [men] as brethren,

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


simplify: Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:


simplify: These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.

He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.


simplify: The appetite of the laboring man laboreth for him; For his mouth urgeth him thereto.

The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.


simplify: They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.


rate difficulty: And their father saith unto them, `Where <FI>is<Fi> this--the way he hath gone?' and his sons see the way that the man of God hath gone who came from Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

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


simplify: The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.


simplify: In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.


simplify: Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live; and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, will be with you, as ye say.

Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.


rate difficulty: So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

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


rate difficulty: the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

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


rate difficulty: for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:


rate difficulty: A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

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


simplify: Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.


rate difficulty: Then he sent out a second horseman, who came up to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said in answer, What have you to do with peace? come after me.


simplify: And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.

And of the sons of Azgad, Johanan, the son of Hakkatan; and with him a hundred and ten males.


simplify: Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.


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


simplify: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

So he settled there for a year and a half, and taught God’s message among the people.


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

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


simplify: And they answered, John the Baptist: but some say, Elias; and others, One of the prophets.

And they made answer, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but others, One of the prophets.


simplify: In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;


simplify: and I was advancing in Judaism above many equals in age in mine own race, being more abundantly zealous of my fathers' deliverances,

and how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.


simplify: and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,

The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold ornaments, precious stones, and pearls. In her hand she held a gold cup, full of idolatrous abominations, and the unclean fruits of her licentiousness;


simplify: according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abode among you: fear ye not.

The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.


rate difficulty: Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.


rate difficulty: And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.


simplify: Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.

Says the Lord, who has made these things clear from the earliest times.


simplify: let it not be! since how shall God judge the world?


simplify: But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

But they said nothing: because they had had an argument between themselves on the way, about who was the greatest.


simplify: every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

No one who maintains union with him lives in sin; no one who lives in sin has ever really seen him or learned to know him.


rate difficulty: And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look thereon:


simplify: and I say to you, that many from east and west shall come and recline (at meat) with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the reign of the heavens,

Yes, and many will come in from East and West and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven;


simplify: whenever therefore the lord of the vineyard may come, what will he do to these husbandmen?'

Now, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”


simplify: And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the Lord.

I will put the seat of my power in Elam, and in Elam I will put an end to kings and rulers, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: An abomination to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> every proud one of heart, Hand to hand he is not acquitted.

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


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

and referred to the resurrection of the Christ when he said that ‘he had not been abandoned to the place of death, nor had his body undergone corruption.’


rate difficulty: And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places.

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


simplify: Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

Therefore, when presenting your gift at the altar, if even there you remember that your brother or sister has something against you,


simplify: And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:

Some fell on rocky ground, where it had not much soil, and, because the soil wasn't deep, sprang up at once;


simplify: `Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

This is why I say to you: Do not be anxious about your life — what you can get to eat or drink, or about your body — what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?


rate difficulty: and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

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


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?

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


rate difficulty: that no one may say that to my own name I did baptize;


simplify: Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass?

Who has let the ass of the fields go free? or made loose the bands of the loud-voiced beast?


rate difficulty: And Esau said to his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me — me also, my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

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


simplify: thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;


simplify: And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear; for they are most rebellious.

And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.


rate difficulty: Eliel of Mahavim, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam, and Jithmah the Moabite,

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


rate difficulty: And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;


rate difficulty: And the stream of the brooks which turneth to the dwelling of Ar, And inclineth toward the border of Moab.

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