simplify: And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.


simplify: And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this that speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

And the scribes and Pharisees were having an argument, saying, Who is this, who has no respect for God? who is able to give forgiveness for sins, but God only?


simplify: Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)


rate difficulty: `And ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah, seven days in a year--a statute age-during to your generations; in the seventh month ye keep it a feast.

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


rate difficulty: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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


simplify: One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

The first Trouble is past: see, there are still two Troubles to come.


rate difficulty: And they come to Jesus, and they see the possessed of demons sitting [and] clothed and sensible, [him] that had had the legion: and they were afraid.

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


rate difficulty: The heart of man deviseth his way, but Jehovah directeth his steps.

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


rate difficulty: Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.

Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town.


simplify: And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.


simplify: The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.


simplify: And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

And Abraham went down on his face before the people of the land.


simplify: For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.


simplify: Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?


rate difficulty: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

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


rate difficulty: And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.

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


simplify: For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

for I see that you have fallen into the ‘bitterness of envy’ and the ‘fetters of sin.’”


rate difficulty: And it appointeth with the wicked his grave, And with the rich <FI>are<Fi> his high places, Because he hath done no violence, Nor <FI>is<Fi> deceit in his mouth.

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


rate difficulty: I am not saying this to condemn you. Indeed, I have already said that you are in our heart, to live and die together.

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


simplify: Now when she had weaned Lo–ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

Now when Lo-ruhamah had been taken from the breast, the woman gave birth to a son.


rate difficulty: Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.


simplify: These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,

These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,


simplify: When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?

If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?


simplify: The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;


simplify: Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, the Lord laid this burden upon him;

Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:


rate difficulty: And Remeth, and En–gannim, and En–haddah, and Beth–pazzez;

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


rate difficulty: For--a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

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


simplify: And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

And God kept Noah in mind, and all the living things and the cattle which were with him in the ark: and God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters went down.


simplify: But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.


simplify: For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Because in much wisdom is much grief, and increase of knowledge is increase of sorrow.


simplify: Most men will proclaim every one his own kindness; But a faithful man who can find?

Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?


rate difficulty: And let all the people come together at the door of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: And the people say unto Joshua, `Jehovah our God we serve, and to His voice we hearken.'

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


rate difficulty: and they say, `Let us call for the young person, and ask at her mouth;'


simplify: And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

“You do not know the meaning of this parable?”he went on; “Then how will you understand all the other parables?


simplify: And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.


simplify: But the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abi–ezer was gathered after him.

But the spirit of the Lord came on Gideon; and at the sound of his horn all Abiezer came together after him.


rate difficulty: Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

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


simplify: And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering; and the priest shall take of the blood of the trespass-offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;


rate difficulty: Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: And Abram said, Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me? seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus.

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


rate difficulty: Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, brother, I would have profit of thee in [the] Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ.

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


simplify: And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall never be unto thee.

And Peter, protesting, said to him, Be it far from you, Lord; it is impossible that this will come about.


simplify: And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

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


rate difficulty: and the people serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

And Moses said to the people, Let this day, on which you came out of Egypt, out of your prison-house, be kept for ever in memory; for by the strength of his hand the Lord has taken you out from this place; let no leavened bread be used.


rate difficulty: We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them!

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


simplify: And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the tent of meeting, saying,

They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,


rate difficulty: And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And let the chiefs of the people put their hands on its head before the Lord, and put the ox to death before the Lord.

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


simplify: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.


rate difficulty: But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; and they were before Judah, and the ambush behind them.

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


rate difficulty: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

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


simplify: And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

And not only that, but we exult in God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord, through whom we have now obtained this reconciliation.


rate difficulty: They shall dwell in it in safety, and shall build houses and plant vineyards; and they shall dwell in safety, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despised them round about them: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah theirGod.

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


simplify: And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.

And Jesus made them come to him, and said to them, You see that those who are made rulers over the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.


simplify: This is the ordinance of the law which the Lord hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, and upon which never came yoke:

This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:


simplify: Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hiddenplace.

Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.


simplify: And the garrison of the Philistines went out unto the pass of Michmash.

And the armed force of the Philistines went out to the narrow way of Michmash.


rate difficulty: The sixth, for the sixth month, <FI>is<Fi> Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, and on his course <FI>are<Fi> twenty and four thousand.

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


rate difficulty: that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

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


simplify: So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed, with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;

So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly;


simplify: And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:

And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.


simplify: The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your souls.

The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.


rate difficulty: And in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them (but it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had power over them that hated them),

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


rate difficulty: And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

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


simplify: For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.


simplify: These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.

These are to take their places on Mount Gerizim for blessing the people when you have gone over Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin;


simplify: But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why make ye trial of me, ye hypocrites?

But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?


simplify: The families of the sons of Kohath shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle southward.

The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.


rate difficulty: And they that saw it declared unto them how it befell him that was possessed with demons, and concerning the swine.

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


simplify: And they shall burn thy houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou shalt also give no hire any more.

And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.


simplify: For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

For the person who sows the field of their earthly nature will from that earthly nature reap corruption; while the one who sows the field of the spirit will from that spirit reap eternal life.


simplify: And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

And among birds these are to be disgusting to you, and not to be used for food: the eagle and the gier-eagle and the ospray;


simplify: and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


rate difficulty: and doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat who caused Israel to sin,

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


rate difficulty: it <FI>is<Fi> to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves--a statute age-during.

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


rate difficulty: Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there came forth two women, and the wind was in their wings; now they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between earth and heaven.

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


simplify: who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony to be borne in its own times;

Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;


rate difficulty: I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

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


simplify: And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

when suddenly a great earthquake occurred. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and seated himself on it.


rate difficulty: For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.


simplify: So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

So Israel was turned away from the family of David to this day.


rate difficulty: To take a spoil, and to take a prey, To turn back thy hand on inhabited wastes, And on a people gathered out of nations, Making cattle and substance, Dwelling on a high part of the land.

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


simplify: Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?


rate difficulty: As he is yet speaking, there come from the chief of the synagogue's <FI>house, certain<Fi> , saying--`Thy daughter did die, why still dost thou harass the Teacher?'

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


rate difficulty: For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s shall save it.

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


simplify: and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.


simplify: And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he knew not that Jehovah was departed from him.

Then she said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And awaking from his sleep, he said, I will go out as at other times, shaking myself free. But he was not conscious that the Lord had gone from him.


rate difficulty: and David saith unto Abishai, `Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself <FI>from<Fi> our eye.'

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.

But when they came to the tents of Israel, the Israelites came out and made a violent attack on the Moabites, so that they went in flight before them; and they went forward still attacking them;


simplify: Here I am: witness against me before Jehovah, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I taken a ransom to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

Here I am: give witness against me before the Lord and before the man on whom he has put the holy oil: whose ox or ass have I taken? to whom have I been untrue? who has been crushed down by me? from whose hand have I taken a price for the blinding of my eyes? I will give it all back to you.


simplify: Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Do not take as true any statement made against one in authority, but only if two or three give witness to it.


simplify: Foursquare it shall be and double; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof.

It is to be square, folded in two, a hand-stretch long and a hand-stretch wide.


simplify: For Jozacar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote him, and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: Going on a little further, he saw James, Zebedee’s son, and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness--deceit.

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


rate difficulty: Let another praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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


simplify: And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

When the child’s parents had done everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.


rate difficulty: She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

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


rate difficulty: as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.

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


simplify: The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.


simplify: and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.


rate difficulty: And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

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


rate difficulty: Remember ye to the age His covenant, The word He commanded--To a thousand generations,

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


simplify: Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation!

Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!


rate difficulty: And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

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


rate difficulty: but thou dost not cut off thy kindness from my house unto the age, nor in Jehovah's cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.'

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


rate difficulty: You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?

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


rate difficulty: Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;

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


simplify: And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.


simplify: Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion.


simplify: Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession; whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;


simplify: And he smote Moab, and measured them with a line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to death, and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.

And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.


simplify: And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul:

And God did special works of power by the hands of Paul:


rate difficulty: And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

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


rate difficulty: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;


rate difficulty: and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.

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


simplify: for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

The ground bears the crop of itself — first the blade, then the ear, and then the full grain in the ear;


rate difficulty: In the second year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, Jotham, the son of Uzziah, became king of Judah.


rate difficulty: And all the first-born--male--by the number of names, from a son of a month and upward, of their numbered ones, are two and twenty thousand two hundred and seventy and three.

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


rate difficulty: But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: and if thou declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear.'

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


rate difficulty: `Because that this people hath refused The waters of Shiloah that go softly, And is rejoicing with Rezin and the son of Remaliah,

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.

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


simplify: And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

And I will give my decision against them on account of all their evil-doing; because they have given me up, burning perfumes to other gods and worshipping the works of their hands.


simplify: When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.

When I have settled this matter, and have secured to the poor at Jerusalem the enjoyment of these benefits, I will go, by way of you, to Spain.


simplify: And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered around them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.


simplify: And he placed forces in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.

He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.


rate difficulty: But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

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


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

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


simplify: None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:


rate difficulty: But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness.

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


simplify: but in the place whither they have led him captive, there shall he die, and he shall see this land no more.

But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again.


rate difficulty: Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;

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


simplify: because of the day that cometh to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remaineth: for Jehovah will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.

Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.


simplify: And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.


rate difficulty: Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins, which he hath done, and feareth, and doeth not such like;

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


simplify: Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.

Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.


simplify: And it came to pass in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth day of the month, that the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle of the testimony.

Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.


simplify: Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:

Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother:


simplify: And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying,  Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands?

And the servants of Achish said to him, Is not this David, the king of the land? did they not make songs about him in their dances, saying, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?


simplify: `For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;

For ‘nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,’ and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.


rate difficulty: And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:

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


simplify: Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.


simplify: So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim;

So the people went out into the field against Israel, and the fight took place in the woods of Ephraim.


rate difficulty: `But what went ye out to see? --a man clothed in soft garments? lo, those wearing the soft things are in the kings' houses.

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


rate difficulty: And on the day after, when they had come out from Bethany, he was in need of food.


simplify: (for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),


simplify: came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately the issue of her blood stanched.

Came after him and put her hand on the edge of his robe, and straight away the flowing of her blood was stopped.


rate difficulty: And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: I heard the number of them.


rate difficulty: For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

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


rate difficulty: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

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


simplify: And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.


simplify: And they shall not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they have respect to that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.


rate difficulty: Peter saith unto him, Even if I must die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

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


simplify: Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

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


simplify: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

But, when one of you prays, let them go into their own room, shut the door, and pray to their Father who dwells in secret; and their Father, who sees what is secret, will reward them.


simplify: The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.


rate difficulty: For it has been shewn to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of [the house of] Chloe, that there are strifes among you.

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


simplify: And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.


simplify: And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then are ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all at the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?

And all the men of Judah gave this answer to the men of Israel, Because the king is our near relation: why then are you angry about this? have we taken any of the king's food, or has he given us any offering?


simplify: And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;

And after everything which has come on us because of our evil-doing and our great sin, and seeing that the punishment which you, O God, have given us, is less than the measure of our sins, and that you have kept from death those of us who are here;


simplify: But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man’s person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:

But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;


simplify: For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

For this was the reason why the good news of Jesus was given even to the dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but might be living before God in the spirit.


simplify: the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,

The twenty-first Jachin, the twenty-second Gamul,


simplify: But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

But when the green stem came up and gave fruit, the evil plants were seen at the same time.


rate difficulty: And when he had completed all his words in the hearing of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

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


rate difficulty: True, the Son of Man must go, as scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man ‘it would be better never to have been born!’”

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


simplify: And ye shall smite every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all fountains of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.


simplify: Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident, though a Jordan swell even to his mouth.

Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.


simplify: And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.

On Paul’s appearance, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made many serious charges, which they failed to establish.


simplify: Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.


simplify: But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.


simplify: And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him:

And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed:


simplify: And according to the doors of the chambers that were toward the south was a door at the head of the way, even the way directly before the wall toward the east, as one entereth into them.

And under the rooms on the south was a door at the head of the outer wall in the direction of the east as one goes in.


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

So with this money they got thirty-two thousand war-carriages, and the help of the king of Maacah and his people, who came and took up their position in front of Medeba. And the children of Ammon came together from their towns for the fight.


rate difficulty: And he heweth two tables of stone like the first, and Moses riseth early in the morning, and goeth up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah commanded him, and he taketh in his hand two tables of stone.

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


simplify: Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves a year old?

With what am I to come before the Lord and go with bent head before the high God? am I to come before him with burned offerings, with young oxen a year old?


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

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;


simplify: What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do?


simplify: And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.


rate difficulty: on the morrow, therefore--on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered--Paul was brought forth.

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


simplify: These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

These were the men who were waiting on the king, in addition to those placed by the king in the walled towns through all Judah.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that is right in my sight, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;

The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;


simplify: Wherefore glorify ye Jehovah in the east, even the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.

Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.


rate difficulty: And Machir took to wife the sister of Huppim and Shuppim, whose sister’s name was Maachah;) and the name of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters.

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


rate difficulty: then will I remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.

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


rate difficulty: And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

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


simplify: Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto Jehovah, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand: it shall be holy in all the border thereof round about.

And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.


simplify: for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;

For, when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was a stranger, you took me to your homes;


simplify: But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.


simplify: and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;


simplify: Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

‘Have no fear, Paul; you must appear before the Emperor, and God himself has given you the lives of all your fellow voyagers.’


simplify: And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you into the land of Israel, into the country which I made an oath to give to your fathers.


simplify: And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),


simplify: And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Jehovah to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.

Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.


rate difficulty: and whosoever will be first among you, let him be your bondman;


simplify: For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;


simplify: And he said unto him, Fear not; for the hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul my father knoweth.

And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.


simplify: And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

And the town was full of noise and trouble, and they all came running into the theatre, having taken by force Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia who were journeying in company with Paul.


simplify: Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

Of the increase of his rule and of peace there will be no end, on the seat of David, and in his kingdom; to make it strong, supporting it with wise decision and righteousness, now and for ever. By the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.


rate difficulty: And when they have scourged [him] they will kill him; and on the third day he will rise again.


simplify: Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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


rate difficulty: And they removed from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-perez.

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


rate difficulty: The desire of the sluggard killeth him; For his hands refuse to labor.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

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


rate difficulty: And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood to view afar off: and they two stood by Jordan.


rate difficulty: For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him


rate difficulty: But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.


simplify: with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Jehovah our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

With him is an arm of flesh; but we have the Lord our God, helping us and fighting for us. And the people put their faith in what Hezekiah, king of Judah, said.


simplify: On that day there came to him Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection: and they asked him,

On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,


simplify: And when the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;

And when the people of Jabesh-gilead had news of what the Philistines had done to Saul,


simplify: And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for this? say to him, By the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt, out of the prison-house:


rate difficulty: Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

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


simplify: Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Have I not taken Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Aramaeans from Kir?


rate difficulty: For he that has died is justified from sin.

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


simplify: Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;


simplify: O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.


simplify: Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.


simplify: So Moses went down unto the people, and spake unto them.

So Moses went down to the people and said this to them.


rate difficulty: The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah (that is, the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon),

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


rate difficulty: `And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe--not much more you, O ye of little faith?

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rate difficulty: for at that time, day by day, they come in unto David to help him, till it is a great camp, like a camp of God.

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simplify: And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

“Doubtless,”said Jesus, “you will remind me of the saying — ‘Doctor, cure yourself;’ and you will say ‘Do here in your own country all that we have heard that has been done at Capernaum.’


rate difficulty: Seven days shalt thou offer daily a goat for a sin-offering; they shall also offer a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.


rate difficulty: Better <FI>is<Fi> a little with the fear of Jehovah, Than much treasure, and tumult with it.

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simplify: Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.


rate difficulty: In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth <FI>it<Fi> in me.

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simplify: And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?


rate difficulty: But when it shall turn to [the] Lord, the veil is taken away.)


rate difficulty: And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.

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rate difficulty: butGod commends his love to us, in that, we being still sinners, Christ has died for us.

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simplify: And by weight he gave gold for the tables of shewbread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:

And gold by weight for the tables for the holy bread for every table, and silver for the silver tables;


simplify: To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

Keeping back his soul from the underworld, so that he may see the light of life.


simplify: since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

As so many are boasting of earthly things, I, too, will boast.


simplify: For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,


simplify: Set up a standard toward Zion: flee for safety, stay not; for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.


simplify: He saith unto him, Which? And Jesus said, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,


simplify: But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying,

As to the resurrection of the dead, have you not read these words of God —


simplify: But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy;


rate difficulty: A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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simplify: I marvel that ye are so quickly removing from him that called you in the grace of Christ unto a different gospel;

I am surprised that you are being so quickly turned away from him whose word came to you in the grace of Christ, to good news of a different sort;


rate difficulty: And they watched him if he would heal him on the sabbath, that they might accuse him.


rate difficulty: The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;

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rate difficulty: And Paul, rising up and making a sign with the hand, said, Israelites, and ye that fearGod, hearken.

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simplify: What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:


rate difficulty: Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.


rate difficulty: Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.


rate difficulty: In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.


simplify: And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs,

And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.


simplify: The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.


rate difficulty: And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

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rate difficulty: `And when a man smiteth the eye of his man-servant, or the eye of his handmaid, and hath destroyed it, as a freeman he doth send him away for his eye;

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simplify: Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,

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simplify: Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.


simplify: Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest of their slain.

And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.


rate difficulty: And I bring them in unto the land, That I did lift up My hand to give to them, And they see every high hill, and every thick tree, And they sacrifice there their sacrifices, And give there the provocation of their offering, And make there their sweet fragrance, And they pour out there their libations.

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simplify: For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.

For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.


rate difficulty: But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together;

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rate difficulty: and thorn and bramble it doth bring forth to thee, and thou hast eaten the herb of the field;

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rate difficulty: And he said to him, A certain man made a great supper and invited many.

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


rate difficulty: For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto God.

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


rate difficulty: Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

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


rate difficulty: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

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


simplify: And if his hair be fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald; yet is he clean.

And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean.


simplify: And what saddle soever he that hath the issue rideth upon shall be unclean.

And any leather seat on a horse on which the unclean man has been seated will be unclean.


rate difficulty: But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.


rate difficulty: And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants of theGod of the heavens and the earth, and build the house that was built these many years ago; and a great king of Israel built and completed it.


simplify: And as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he. But, behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose.

As John was drawing towards the end of his career, he said what do you suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But there is “one coming” after me, whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.’


rate difficulty: Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou--and doth live?

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rate difficulty: And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

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


rate difficulty: and he, having turned, and having looked on his disciples, rebuked Peter, saying, `Get behind me, Adversary, because thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

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


rate difficulty: And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.


rate difficulty: Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

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


simplify: And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bare, Ishmael.

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.


simplify: And Jesus said to them, `Are the sons of the bride-chamber able, while the bridegroom is with them, to fast? so long time as they have the bridegroom with them they are not able to fast;

Jesus answered: “Can the groom’s friends fast, while the groom is with them? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.


simplify: But they hearkened not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, and might not receive instruction.

But they gave no attention and would not give ear, but they made their necks stiff so that they might not give ear and might not get teaching.


rate difficulty: And, if their falling away has enriched the world, and their failure has enriched the Gentiles, how much more will result from their full restoration!

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rate difficulty: And the children of Israel were fruitful, and swarmed and multiplied, and became exceeding strong; and the land was full of them.


simplify: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:


simplify: For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you.


rate difficulty: And Hazael king of Syria died, and Ben-Hadad his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: and I say to you, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, ye do not fear the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling: --and ye have not hearkened to My voice.'

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: I speak by way of disparagement, as though we had been weak. Yet whereinsoever any is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.

I say this by way of shaming ourselves, as if we had been feeble. But if anyone puts himself forward (I am talking like a foolish person), I will do the same.


rate difficulty: and speaketh unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I--I chastise you with scorpions;'

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.


simplify: Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?

Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?


simplify: `And from the fig-tree learn ye the simile: when the branch may already become tender, and may put forth the leaves, ye know that nigh is the summer;

“Learn the lesson taught by the fig-tree. As soon as its branches are full of sap, and it is bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.


rate difficulty: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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


simplify: We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.

He said in our hearing, I will put an end to this Temple which is made with hands, and in three days I will make another without hands.


rate difficulty: A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

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


rate difficulty: Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.

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


rate difficulty: to you, then, who are believing <FI>is<Fi> the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner,

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rate difficulty: and their brethren of all the families of Issachar <FI>are<Fi> mighty of valour, eighty and seven thousand, all have their genealogy.

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simplify: And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:

And now, as you see, I am going to Jerusalem, a prisoner in spirit, having no knowledge of what will come to me there:


simplify: And it came to pass, when the kingdom of Rehoboam was established, and he was strong, that he forsook the law of Jehovah, and all Israel with him.

Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.


rate difficulty: But the storm being extremely violent on us, on the next day they threw cargo overboard,

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simplify: And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:


simplify: And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

And they put dust on their heads, and were sad, weeping and crying, and saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, in which was increased the wealth of all who had their ships on the sea because of her great stores! for in one hour she is made waste.


rate difficulty: And Gideon built there an altar to Jehovah, and called it Jehovah-shalom. To this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.


rate difficulty: On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

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


simplify: When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,


simplify: As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns were overturned by God, says the Lord, so no man will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.


rate difficulty: Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.

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simplify: then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.


rate difficulty: who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: And if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a plague of leprosy, and shall be shewed unto the priest:

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


rate difficulty: and a nail thou hast on thy staff, and it hath been, in thy sitting without, that thou hast digged with it, and turned back, and covered thy filth;

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simplify: `Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her — Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!


simplify: and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.


simplify: Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, and their men, to entreat the favor of Jehovah,

Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,


simplify: Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?

And goes in the company of evil-doers, walking in the way of sinners?


simplify: But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?

All who heard him were amazed.   “Is not this,” they asked, “the man who worked havoc in Jerusalem among those that invoke this name, and who had also come here for the express purpose of having such persons put in chains and taken before the chief priests?”


rate difficulty: Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

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simplify: And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the broad place on the east,

And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,


simplify: In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

In this year of Jubilee, let every man go back to his heritage.


simplify: And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them that they should tell no man what things they had seen, till the Son of man were risen from the dead.

And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.


rate difficulty: And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring-reed of six cubits, [each] of one cubit and a hand breadth. And he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

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


simplify: Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, smiting and wounding him.

Then he came across another man, and said, Give me a wound. And the man gave him a blow wounding him.


simplify: And they set the altar upon its base; for fear was upon them because of the peoples of the countries: and they offered burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah, even burnt-offerings morning and evening.

They put the altar on its base; for fear was on them because of the people of the countries: and they made burned offerings on it to the Lord, even burned offerings morning and evening.


simplify: He pursueth them, and passeth on safely, even by a way that he had not gone with his feet.

He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

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rate difficulty: And He did not make one <FI>only<Fi> , And He hath the remnant of the Spirit. And what <FI>is<Fi> the one <FI>alone<Fi> ! He is seeking a godly seed. And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And with the wife of thy youth, None doth deal treacherously.

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


rate difficulty: I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens; and all their host have I commanded.

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


rate difficulty: Blessings are upon the head of a righteous [man]; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence.


simplify: And concerning the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of holy things which were consecrated unto the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps.

And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass afterwards, that David asketh at Jehovah, saying, `Do I go up into one of the cities of Judah?' and Jehovah saith unto him, `Go up.' And David saith, `Whither do I go up?' and He saith, `To Hebron.'

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


simplify: O Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine own.

O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.


rate difficulty: And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;


simplify: and Solomon begat Rehoboam; and Rehoboam begat Abijah; and Abijah begat Asa;

And the son of Solomon was Rehoboam; and the son of Rehoboam was Abijah; and the son of Abijah was Asa;


simplify: Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,

Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,


simplify: And it shall have a hole for the head in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of a coat of mail, that it be not rent.

With a hole at the top, in the middle of it; the hole is to be edged with a band to make it strong like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, so that it may not be broken open.


rate difficulty: And when this cometh to pass (behold, it cometh), then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

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rate difficulty: And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;

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rate difficulty: Further, Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all those of Judah who are living in Egypt:

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simplify: Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.


simplify: For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.

For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto Balak, Spake I not also to thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,

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


simplify: The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

The land of Tappuah was the property of Manasseh; but Tappuah on the edge of Manasseh was the property of the children of Ephraim.


rate difficulty: And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed: and immediately the leprosy departed from him.

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


simplify: On that day there came near certain Pharisees, saying to him, `Go forth, and be going on hence, for Herod doth wish to kill thee;'

Just then some Pharisees came up to Jesus and said: “Go away and leave this place, for Herod wants to kill you.”


simplify: Wilt thou even annul my judgment? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be justified?

Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?


simplify: So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the goods before them.

So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.


simplify: And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him.

And David took Saul's sword and put the band round him over the metal coat, and was unable to go forward; for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, It is not possible for me to go out with these, for I am not used to them. So David took them off.


simplify: The sons of Levi, heads of fathers’houses, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.


simplify: And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.

And the house will have to be pulled down, the stones of it and the wood and the paste; and everything is to be taken out to an unclean place outside the town.


rate difficulty: And the sons of his wife Hodiah the sister of Naham, the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

And Jesus said, And I will not make clear to you by what authority I do these things.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and the good he did, are recorded in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


rate difficulty: Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

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


simplify: And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.

And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who was to have rule over all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was taken up to God and to his high seat.


rate difficulty: He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

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


rate difficulty: And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

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


rate difficulty: My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.


simplify: The covenantwhich he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;


rate difficulty: And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.

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


rate difficulty: And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.


simplify: Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child: wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?


simplify: The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

The fig-tree puts out her green fruit and the vines with their young fruit give a good smell. Get up from your bed, my beautiful one, and come away.


simplify: And it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

And word was given to Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Shechem were there together.


simplify: And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.

“Go into the city to a certain man,” he answered, “and say to him ‘The teacher says — My time is near. I will keep the Passover with my disciples at your house.’”


simplify: For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,


simplify: Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.

Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

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


simplify: The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel and Guni and Jezer and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.


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

A blessing on the coming kingdom of our father David: Glory in the highest.


simplify: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.


simplify: And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel.

And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel.


simplify: The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.

The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.