simplify: Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.


simplify: And David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken; and David rescued his two wives.

And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.


simplify: And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.


rate difficulty: As God is true, the message that we brought you does not waver between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’!

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rate difficulty: All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.

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rate difficulty: And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

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rate difficulty: And the Pharisees seeing [it], said to his disciples, Why does your teacher eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?

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rate difficulty: But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

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


rate difficulty: `And if one person sin in ignorance, then he hath brought near a she-goat, daughter of a year, for a sin-offering;

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simplify: Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse; and will you be kept safe?


rate difficulty: And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

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rate difficulty: So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.


rate difficulty: And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.

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


simplify: for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'

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


simplify: And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and said unto them that were there, This fellow was also with Jesus of Nazareth.

And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first [month], on the first of the month, [that] the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

And put the oil on Aaron and his sons, making them holy to do the work of priests to me.


rate difficulty: and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, <FI>are<Fi> to the six branches which are coming out of the candlestick;

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


rate difficulty: and he sent Peter and John, saying, `Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;'

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


simplify: And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish.


rate difficulty: seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded that ye should do; and the glory of Jehovah shall appear to you.

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


simplify: Whoso despiseth the word bringeth destruction on himself; But he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.


simplify: envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

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


simplify: And the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.


rate difficulty: Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

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


simplify: For I am the Lord: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord God.

For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say I will do; it will not be put off: for in your days, O uncontrolled people, I will say the word and do it, says the Lord.


simplify: in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

His love is seen in this — not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.


simplify: Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,

You are bound, therefore, to obey, not only through fear of God’s punishments, but also as a matter of conscience.


simplify: `And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;

The servant who had received the five bags of gold went at once and traded with it, and made another five bags.


simplify: And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him.

And they took the young ass to Jesus, and put their clothing on him, and he got on his back.


simplify: Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with a perfect heart they offered willingly to Jehovah: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

Then the people were glad because their offerings were freely given, for with a true heart they freely gave what they had to the Lord; and David the king was full of joy.


simplify: He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.

He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.


simplify: And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub.

Their outstretched wings were twenty cubits across; one wing, five cubits long, touching the wall of the house, and the other, of the same size, meeting the wing of the other winged one.


rate difficulty: But we, my brothers, being away from you for a short time, in body but not in heart, had all the more desire to see your face;

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simplify: Salute ye every saint in Christ Jesus; there salute you the brethren with me;

Give my greeting to everyone of the people of Christ Jesus. The Lord's followers who are with me send your their greetings.


rate difficulty: (and he bade them teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):


rate difficulty: and if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings be really eaten on the third day, it is not pleasing; for him who is bringing it near it is not reckoned; it is an abominable thing, and the person who is eating of it his iniquity doth bear.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect.

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


simplify: And when a great multitude came together, and they of every city resorted unto him, he spake by a parable:

And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:


simplify: hearing of thy love and faith that thou hast unto the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints,

because I hear of the love and the faith which you show, not only to the Lord Jesus, but also to all his people;


simplify: And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:

And we said to him, We are true men, we have no evil designs;


simplify: He measured on the north side five hundred reeds with the measuring reed round about.

And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


simplify: Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;

A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;


simplify: And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.

The church, therefore, sent them on their journey, and they made their way through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling the story of the conversion of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the followers.


simplify: And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.

And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.


simplify: How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

How is Babylon taken! and the praise of all the earth surprised! how has Babylon become a cause of wonder among the nations!


rate difficulty: And the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance, and said, Save, O king!


simplify: Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;


rate difficulty: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.

For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.


simplify: and whoever shall deny me before men, I also will deny him before my Father who is in the heavens.

but, if anyone publicly disowns me, I, too, will disown him before my Father who is in heaven.


simplify: But if ye shall turn away from following me, ye or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:


simplify: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.

The memory of the upright is a blessing, but the name of the evil-doer will be turned to dust.


rate difficulty: and thou, lift up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand towards the sea, and cleave it, and the sons of Israel go into the midst of the sea on dry land.

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


simplify: But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the Lord.

But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God,

And all the angels were standing around the throne and the councillors and the four Creatures, and they prostrated themselves on their faces in front of the throne and worshiped God,


simplify: And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.


simplify: And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.


simplify: Then the woman said, Let thy handmaid, I pray thee, speak a word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.


rate difficulty: Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

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rate difficulty: Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.

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rate difficulty: And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath; these are the sons of Japhlet.

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


simplify: And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

In the course of his teaching, Jesus said: “See that you are on your guard against the teachers of the law, who delight to walk about in long robes, and to be greeted in the streets with respect,


simplify: This is the sum of the tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


rate difficulty: But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And they slaughtered the bullock, and brought the boy to Eli.

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


simplify: But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not sent for.


rate difficulty: and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, and that perfect gold;


simplify: Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,

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simplify: But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;


rate difficulty: And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.


rate difficulty: And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked upon him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; even he himself hasted to go out, because Jehovah had smitten him.

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


rate difficulty: yea, take silver and gold, and make crowns, and set [them] upon the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest;

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


rate difficulty: For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;


simplify: And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Of Gad he said, A blessing be on him who makes wide the limits of Gad: he takes his rest like a she-lion, taking for himself the arm and the crown of the head.


simplify: And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

And so great was his need that he would have been glad to take the pigs' food, and no one gave him anything.


rate difficulty: All kings of nations--all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,


rate difficulty: And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thyGod, therefore has the army of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

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


simplify: To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;


rate difficulty: The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

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


simplify: He hath given help to Israel his servant, That he might remember mercy

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,


simplify: It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

Evil-doing is disgusting to kings: for the seat of the ruler is based on righteousness.


simplify: and these are they by the way where the word is sown: and whenever they may hear, immediately cometh the Adversary, and he taketh away the word that hath been sown in their hearts.

The people meant by the seed that falls along the path are these — where the message is sown, but, as soon as they have heard it, Satan immediately comes and carries away the message that has been sown in them.


rate difficulty: and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man--one man for a tribe;

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


simplify: Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword.


simplify: And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.


simplify: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

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


simplify: and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised thee.

And writing on them all the words of this law, after you have gone over; so that you may take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said.


simplify: And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.

And Jesus, whose other name is Justus; these are of the circumcision: they are my only brother-workers for the kingdom of God, who have been a comfort to me.


rate difficulty: It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

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


rate difficulty: Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me.


rate difficulty: Verily I say to you, there hath not risen, among those born of women, a greater than John the Baptist, but he who is least in the reign of the heavens is greater than he.

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


simplify: Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?


simplify: What man is like Job, who drinketh up scorning like water?

What man is like Job, a man who freely makes sport of God,


rate difficulty: Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

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


rate difficulty: For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

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


simplify: Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Truly, this was the sin of your sister Sodom: pride, a full measure of food, and the comforts of wealth in peace, were seen in her and her daughters, and she gave no help to the poor or to those in need.


rate difficulty: So we wrought in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.

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


rate difficulty: every one that is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea, whom I have made.

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


simplify: And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the Lord:

Shaking out drops of oil with his right finger before the Lord seven times:


simplify: Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is the Christ, or, Here; believe it not.

Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;


rate difficulty: He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

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


rate difficulty: To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

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


rate difficulty: It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body: if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual [one].


rate difficulty: [seek him] that made the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name.


simplify: If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.


simplify: And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again.

Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.


simplify: then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;

Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;


simplify: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;


rate difficulty: And the watchman gave news of it to the king. And the king said, If he is coming by himself, then he has news. And the man was travelling quickly, and came near.


simplify: and he cried out, saying, `Jesus, Son of David, deal kindly with me;'

he shouted out: “Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me!”


simplify: Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are home-born in Israel shall dwell in booths;

For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:


rate difficulty: Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.


rate difficulty: But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel; and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites, in the order of their families.


simplify: Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.


simplify: Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.


rate difficulty: I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

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rate difficulty: And the bases he hath made; and the lavers he hath made on the bases;

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


rate difficulty: And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the sin-offering whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the sanctuary, shall one carry forth outside the camp; and they shall burn with fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

And if they do not have faith in you or give ear to the voice of the first sign, they will have faith in the second sign.


rate difficulty: Then he went on to say hard things to the towns where most of his works of power were done, because they had not been turned from their sins.


rate difficulty: `Son of man, the land--when it sinneth against Me to commit a trespass, and I have stretched out My hand against it, and broken for it the staff of bread, and sent into it famine, and cut off from it man and beast--

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


rate difficulty: Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.

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


simplify: And Jehovah shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know Jehovah in that day; yea, they shall worship with sacrifice and oblation, and shall vow a vow unto Jehovah, and shall perform it.

And the Lord will give the knowledge of himself to Egypt, and the Egyptians will give honour to the Lord in that day; they will give him worship with offerings and meal offerings, and will take an oath to the Lord and give effect to it.


simplify: and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity in it,

And when, on the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one body.


rate difficulty: And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread.

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


simplify: and this <FI>is<Fi> the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

Indeed, we have this command from God — ‘Those who love God must also love each other.’


simplify: if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

If, however, I do not happen to know the language, I will be a foreigner to those who speak it, and they will be foreigners to me.


simplify: Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

Then in that night Saul sent men to David's house to keep watch on him so as to put him to death in the morning: and David's wife Michal said to him, If you do not go away to a safe place tonight you will be put to death in the morning.


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.


simplify: Hear ye therefore the word of the Lord, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:

And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.


rate difficulty: And Jehu sent into all Israel; and all the servants of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not: and they entered into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to the other.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the brink of the river:

Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:


rate difficulty: Debate thy cause with thy neighbor himself, And disclose not the secret of another;

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


simplify: And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.


rate difficulty: They do not see--the men who are coming up out of Egypt from a son of twenty years and upward--the ground which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, for they have not been fully after Me;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

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


simplify: If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

If any of you use the gift of ‘tongues,’ not more than two, or at the most three, should do so — each speaking in his turn — and some one should interpret them.


simplify: And the Spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard those words, and his anger was kindled greatly.

And at their words, the spirit of God came on Saul with power, and he became very angry.


rate difficulty: And Elihu seeth that there is no answer in the mouth of the three men, and his anger burneth.

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


simplify: But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.


rate difficulty: and take your father, and your households, and come unto me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land.

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


simplify: And Seth lived after he begat Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:

And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: And Joab came to the king, and told him. And he called Absalom, and he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

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


simplify: Jehovah of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:


simplify: And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.


simplify: And he said to them, `Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in,

“Listen,”he answered, “when you have got into the city, a man carrying a pitcher of water will meet you; follow him into whatever house he enters;


rate difficulty: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

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


rate difficulty: And now I say to you, Do nothing to these men, but let them be: for if this teaching or this work is of men, it will come to nothing:


rate difficulty: Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

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


rate difficulty: Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

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


rate difficulty: And Moses saith unto them, `Let no man leave of it till morning;'

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; and when thou comest, anoint Hazael king over Syria;

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


simplify: And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?

And the women said, When we were burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes in her image and give her our drink offerings without the knowledge of our husbands?


simplify: But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?


simplify: I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.


rate difficulty: And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.


rate difficulty: But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.

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


rate difficulty: For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.

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


simplify: And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

And being let down in a basket from the wall through a window, I got free from his hands.


simplify: But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee, and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:

But see, O son of man, I will put bands on you, prisoning you in them, and you will not go out among them:


rate difficulty: My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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


rate difficulty: If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Though they be complete in number, and many as they be, even so shall they be cut down, and he shall pass away; and though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.

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


rate difficulty: in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, in the last trumpet, for it shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we--we shall be changed:


simplify: and they proclaim customs that are not lawful for us to receive nor to do, being Romans.'

“They are Jews, and they are teaching customs which it is not right for us, as Romans, to sanction or adopt.”


rate difficulty: And the fame of David went out into all lands; and Jehovah brought the fear of him upon all nations.


simplify: And I was alive apart from law once, and the command having come, the sin revived, and I died;

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


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:


rate difficulty: And a third are to be stationed at the king's house; and a third at the doorway of the horses: while all the people are waiting in the open spaces round the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,

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


rate difficulty: O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.


simplify: Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.


simplify: but he shall say, I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondman from my youth.

But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.


simplify: All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men.

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.


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

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


rate difficulty: “Come by yourselves privately to some lonely spot,”he said, “and rest for a while”— for there were so many people coming and going that they had not time even to eat.

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


rate difficulty: And when it rested, he said, Return, O Lord, unto the many thousands of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: so ye do lift up--ye also--the heave-offering of Jehovah from all your tithes which ye receive from the sons of Israel; and ye have given from it the heave-offering of Jehovah to Aaron the priest;

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


rate difficulty: And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

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


rate difficulty: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.


simplify: And it was told Saul that David was come to Keilah. And Saul said, God hath delivered him into mine hand; for he is shut in, by entering into a town that hath gates and bars.

And news was given to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, Now God has given him into my hands; for by going into a walled town with locked doors, he has let himself be shut in.


rate difficulty: — And on the east side ye shall measure between Hauran and Damascus, and Gilead and the land of Israel [by] the Jordan, from the border unto the east sea: this is the east side.

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


rate difficulty: And ye have remembered there your ways, And all your doings, In which ye have been defiled, And ye have been loathsome in your own faces, For all your evils that ye have done.

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


rate difficulty: For before harvest, when the flower is perfect, And the blossom is producing unripe fruit, Then hath <FI>one<Fi> cut the sprigs with pruning hooks, And the branches he hath turned aside, cut down.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

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


simplify: And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the message which thou hast sent unto me: I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of fir.

Then Hiram sent to Solomon, saying; The words you sent have been given to me: I will do all your desire in the question of cedar-wood and cypress-wood.


simplify: And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

My message and my proclamation were not delivered in the persuasive language of philosophy, but were accompanied by the manifestation of spiritual power,


simplify: And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.

And Paul had a vision in the night; a man of Macedonia came, requesting him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia and give us help.


rate difficulty: She is cruel to her young ones, as if they were not hers; her work is to no purpose; she has no fear.

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


simplify: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

Then I saw a great white throne, and him who was seated on it. ‘The earth and the heavens fled from his presence; no place was left for them.’


rate difficulty: for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

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


simplify: And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.


simplify: And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him:

So he had his war-carriage made ready and took his people with him:


simplify: They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.


rate difficulty: And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briars, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

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


rate difficulty: So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

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


simplify: Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner-stone thereof,

On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,


rate difficulty: And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite.

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


simplify: But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?

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


simplify: And they smote his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.

And they gave him blows on the head with a stick and put shame on him and, going down on their knees, gave him worship.


rate difficulty: The good bringeth forth favour from Jehovah, And the man of wicked devices He condemneth.

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


simplify: And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.


rate difficulty: The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


rate difficulty: And Joseph discerneth his brethren, but they have not discerned him,

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


simplify: But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

But what did you go out to see? a man in soft clothing? See now, those who have beautiful clothing and delicate food are in kings' houses.


simplify: And afterward, saith Jehovah, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, even such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.


rate difficulty: Of the children of Joseph: from Ephraim, Elishama, the son of Ammihud; from Manasseh, Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur,

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


simplify: Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

who will make use of the hypocrisy of lying teachers. These people’s consciences are seared,


simplify: And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.

Then Joram, turning his horses in flight, said to Ahaziah, Broken faith, O Ahaziah!


simplify: Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

You are the Lord, even you only; you have made heaven, the heaven of heavens with all their armies, the earth and all things in it, the seas and everything in them; and you keep them from destruction: and the armies of heaven are your worshippers.


rate difficulty: and Azariah the son of Hilkijah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house ofGod;

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Anah: Dishon. and sons of Dishon: Amram, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.


rate difficulty: And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.


simplify: in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--ye being gathered together, also my spirit--with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

I have decided — having been present in spirit at your meetings, when the power of the Lord Jesus was with us —


simplify: of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and Jehovah be with thee.

In gold and silver and brass and iron more than may be numbered. Up! then, and to work; and may the Lord be with you.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass at that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.

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


rate difficulty: And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest [of men], this parable:

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


rate difficulty: who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

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


rate difficulty: But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

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


simplify: And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.

And the ruler of the Synagogue was angry because Jesus had made her well on the Sabbath, and he said to the people, There are six days in which men may do work: so come on those days to be made well, and not on the Sabbath.


simplify: And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.

And they said, Lord, here are two swords. And he said, It is enough.


rate difficulty: So now it was not you who sent me here, but God: and he has made me as a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: and were laying them at the feet of the apostles, and distribution was being made to each according as any one had need.

And laid them at the apostles’ feet; and then everyone received a share in proportion to his wants.


simplify: And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.

And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.


rate difficulty: O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

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


simplify: I write not these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.


rate difficulty: And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.

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


rate difficulty: Yet there are some few among you at Sardis who did not soil their robes; they will walk with me, robed in white, for they are worthy.


rate difficulty: And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:

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


rate difficulty: He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

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


simplify: And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

Now after the death of Saul, when David, having come back from the destruction of the Amalekites, had been in Ziklag for two days;


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And she saith unto him, `How dost thou say, I have loved thee, and thy heart is not with me? these three times thou hast played upon me, and hast not declared to me wherein thy great power <FI>is<Fi> .'

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


simplify: I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in wrath.

I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.


simplify: As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine,

I beg you, as I did when I was on my way into Macedonia, to remain at Ephesus; that you may instruct certain people there not to teach new and strange doctrines,


simplify: And there shall be night no more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun; for the Lord God shall give them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

And there will be no more night; and they have no need of a light or of the shining of the sun; for the Lord God will give them light: and they will be ruling for ever and ever.


simplify: but let your word be, Yes, Yes, No, No, and that which is more than these is of the evil.

Let your words be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from what is evil.


rate difficulty: Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.


simplify: And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When you come to Babylon, see that you give them all these words;


rate difficulty: I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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


rate difficulty: And the Angel of Jehovah found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

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


simplify: And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it.

Then he took a cup, and, after saying the thanksgiving, gave it to them, and they all drank from it.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.

And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.


rate difficulty: Ben-Deker in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-Beth-hanan.

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


rate difficulty: and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.


simplify: I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

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


simplify: The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,

The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,


rate difficulty: So they went up to Baal-perazim, and David overcame them there, and David said, God has let the forces fighting against me be broken by my hand, as a wall is broken down by rushing water; so they gave that place the name of Baal-perazim.

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


rate difficulty: And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, that they might set [them] before [them]; and they set [them] before the crowd.

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


rate difficulty: Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people; out of Machir came down governors, and out of Zebulun they that handle the pen of the writer.

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


rate difficulty: Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.


simplify: For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.


rate difficulty: And the people shouted, saying, The voice of a god, and not of a man.


simplify: And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.


rate difficulty: and the priest hath made the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt-offering, and the priest hath made atonement for her before Jehovah, because of the issue of her uncleanness.

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


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

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


simplify: Say ye not, A conspiracy, concerning all whereof this people shall say, A conspiracy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be in dread thereof.

Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.


rate difficulty: Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,


rate difficulty: And she laid his garment by her until his lord came home.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

Jesus answered: “Can the groom’s friends mourn as long as the groom is with them? But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then.


rate difficulty: And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

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


simplify: And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,

And Uzzi was the father of Zerahiah, and Zerahiah was the father of Meraioth;


rate difficulty: The rich hath flocks and herds very many;

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


rate difficulty: And after Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.

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


rate difficulty: When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.


rate difficulty: And when they began the song of triumph and praise, Jehovah set liers-in-wait against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, who had come against Judah, and they were smitten.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,

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rate difficulty: And this <FI>is<Fi> the thing which ye do; every male, and every woman knowing the lying of a male, ye devote.'


rate difficulty: but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

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


simplify: Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.


simplify: For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;


simplify: Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat in the forefront of them, to go again to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them to rejoice over their enemies.

Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem went back, with Jehoshaphat at their head, coming back to Jerusalem with joy; for the Lord had made them glad over their haters.


rate difficulty: Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!


rate difficulty: Being myself an apostle to the Gentiles, I exalt my office, in the hope that I may stir my countrymen to rivalry, and so save some of them.

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


simplify: Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God.

Your servant has overcome lion and bear: and the fate of this Philistine, who is without circumcision, will be like theirs, seeing that he has put shame on the armies of the living God.


simplify: And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither.

Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.


rate difficulty: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassingness of the power may be ofGod, and not from us:


simplify: and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s handmaid: Dan and Naphtali;

The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali;


simplify: And the people came to Beth-el, and sat there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore.

And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.


simplify: But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.


simplify: The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.


simplify: But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off.


simplify: Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people:

But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:


simplify: And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.

Jesus was teaching on a Sabbath in one of the Synagogues,


rate difficulty: and at the west side <FI>are<Fi> hangings, fifty by the cubit; their pillars <FI>are<Fi> ten, and their sockets ten; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets <FI>are<Fi> silver;

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


simplify: and they asked him, saying, Teacher, Moses wrote unto us, that if a man’s brother die, having a wife, and he be childless, his brother should take the wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

Master, Moses said that if a man's brother comes to his end, having a wife, but no children, his brother is to take the wife, and get a family for his brother.


simplify: Then the princes of the fathers’houses, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the rulers over the king’s work, offered willingly;

Then the heads of families and the chiefs of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, with the controllers of the king's business, freely gave themselves;


simplify: And David said unto Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

Then David said to Achish, If now I have grace in your eyes, let me have a place in one of the smaller towns of your land, to be my living-place; for it is not right for your servant to be living with you in the king's town.


simplify: And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst thereof, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim; but Jehovah will lay low his pride together with the craft of his hands.

And if he puts out his hands, like a man stretching out his hands in swimming, the Lord will make low his pride, however expert his designs.


simplify: For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.


simplify: Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


simplify: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.


simplify: Thou art filled with shame, and not glory: drink thou also, and be as one uncircumcised; the cup of Jehovah’s right hand shall come round unto thee, and foul shame shall be upon thy glory.

You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.


simplify: for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother--let him die the death;

For while Moses said ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Let anyone who abuses their father or mother suffer death,’


rate difficulty: he saith also, `Lo, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt, go down thither, and buy for us from thence, and we live and do not die;'

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


rate difficulty: So then they that are of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

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


simplify: And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:

And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;


simplify: and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.

‘Yet, whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.’


simplify: But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

Here, however, I tell you, there is something greater than the Temple!


rate difficulty: Paul, calledto bean apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

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


simplify: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And I saw the dead, high and low, standing before the throne; and books were opened. Then another book was opened, the book of life; and the dead were judged, according to their actions, by what was written in the books.


rate difficulty: And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.

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


simplify: And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people.

And so comforting them with these and other words, he gave the good news to the people;


rate difficulty: Then hath Solomon caused to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah that he built before the porch,

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rate difficulty: and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to me, Son of man, take to heart, and let your eyes see and your ears be open to everything I say to you about all the rules of the house of the Lord and all its laws; and take note of the ways into the house and all the ways out of the holy place.

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


simplify: Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:


rate difficulty: chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek; these <FI>are<Fi> chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom; these <FI>are<Fi> sons of Adah.

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


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

The sons of Ezer: Bilhan and Zaavan, Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.


simplify: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

so as to make known his surpassing glory in dealing with the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared beforehand for glory,


rate difficulty: And Abram saith unto Sarai, `Lo, thine handmaid <FI>is<Fi> in thine hand, do to her that which is good in thine eyes;' and Sarai afflicted her, and she fleeth from her presence.

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


rate difficulty: And the messenger of Jehovah calleth unto Abraham a second time from the heavens,

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


rate difficulty: Now when Jesus came into the parts of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of man is?

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.


simplify: therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them; because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, I will send on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem all the evil which I said I would do to them: because I sent my words to them, but they did not give ear; crying out to them, but they gave no answer.


rate difficulty: For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?


rate difficulty: Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

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


rate difficulty: And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!


simplify: One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.

One witness may not make a statement against a man in relation to any sin or wrongdoing which he has done: on the word of two or three witnesses a question is to be judged.


rate difficulty: The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

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


rate difficulty: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

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


simplify: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

Then all the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the generals, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person, ‘hid themselves in the caves and under the rocks’ of the mountains;


simplify: For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

for the power of the horses lies in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like snakes, with heads, and it is with them that they do harm.


simplify: And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.

And he got up and went out of the Synagogue and went into the house of Simon. And Simon's wife's mother was very ill with a burning heat; and in answer to their prayers for her


simplify: And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

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


rate difficulty: And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds between thine arms? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

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


simplify: and when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that we should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the circumcision;

When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;


simplify: If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

If a man puts an ass or an ox or a sheep or any beast into the keeping of his neighbour, and it comes to death or is damaged or is taken away, without any person seeing it:


rate difficulty: And she said, I will do all you say.


simplify: Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail: for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there shalt thou be delivered; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies.

Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.


simplify: All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.

All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.


simplify: What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, 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: He who gives witness to these things says, Truly, I come quickly. Even so come, Lord Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.


simplify: and he was keeping silent, and did not answer anything. Again the chief priest was questioning him, and saith to him, `Art thou the Christ--the Son of the Blessed?'

But Jesus remained silent, and made no answer.   A second time the high priest questioned him. “Are you,” he asked, “the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?”


rate difficulty: Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;


simplify: Grace, mercy, peace shall be with us, from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

May grace, mercy, and peace be with us from God the Father, and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in all true love.


simplify: And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?

And when the Sabbath day had come, he was teaching in the Synagogue; and a number of people hearing him were surprised, saying, From where did this man get these things? and, What is the wisdom given to this man, and what are these works of power done by his hands?


simplify: and the spice, and the oil; for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.


simplify: and it came to pass, when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment by me, and fled, and got him out.

And hearing it he went running out without his coat.


simplify: And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple, and having looked round on all things, it being now evening, he went forth to Bethany with the twelve.

Jesus entered Jerusalem, and went into the Temple Courts; and, after looking around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.


simplify: But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.

“No, Lord, I cannot,” answered Peter, “for I have never eaten anything ‘defiled’ and ‘unclean’.”


rate difficulty: And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy handmaid; in all that Sarah saith unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.

But keep outside till he comes out and gives it to you.


simplify: Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.


simplify: And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

To this Peter and the apostles replied: “We must obey God rather than people.


rate difficulty: He esteemeth iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

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


rate difficulty: and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the nations whom Jehovah carried away before them; and they wrought wicked things to provoke Jehovah to anger;

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


rate difficulty: Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

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


simplify: By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith Jehovah.

By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.


simplify: And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.


simplify: And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.

And the ruler will be responsible for the burned offering and the meal offering and the drink offering, at the feasts and the new moons and the Sabbaths, at all the fixed feasts of the children of Israel: he will give the sin-offering and meal offering and burned offering and the peace-offerings, to take away the sin of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And thirty-six thousand oxen,

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


rate difficulty: and there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, `Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;

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


simplify: And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,

And Rebekah said to Jacob, her son, Your father said to your brother Esau in my hearing,


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

And you will come from your place in the inmost parts of the north, you and a great number of peoples with you, all of them on horseback, a great force and a strong army:


rate difficulty: And all Midian and Amalek and the sons of the east have been gathered together, and pass over, and encamp in the valley of Jezreel,

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


simplify: But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you,

But you would have nothing to do with the Holy and Upright One, and made request for a man of blood to be given to you,


simplify: Only thou shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children of Israel:

Only the tribe of Levi is not to be numbered among the children of Israel,


rate difficulty: And let these also first be proved; then let them serve as deacons, if they be blameless.

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rate difficulty: In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.


rate difficulty: For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.


simplify: And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.

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 David, desiring directions from the Lord, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? will you give them up into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up, for I will certainly give up the Philistines into your hands.


rate difficulty: And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto Jehovah, one shall open for him the gate that looketh toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he doth on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.

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


simplify: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

And you, too, by your union with him, after you had heard the message of the truth, the good news of your salvation — you believed in him and were sealed as his by receiving the holy Spirit, which he had promised.


simplify: For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God.


rate difficulty: And the king and all the people are sacrificing a sacrifice before Jehovah,


rate difficulty: Why then is death to be our fate? For if the voice of the Lord our God comes to us any more, death will overtake us, and we will be burned up in this great fire.

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


simplify: And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man that took them into his house to lodging.

And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.


simplify: And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.


simplify: for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink--not discerning the body of the Lord.

For the person who eats and drinks brings a judgment on themselves by their eating and drinking, when they do not discern the body.


rate difficulty: By the God of thy father who helpeth thee, And the Mighty One who blesseth thee, Blessings of the heavens from above, Blessings of the deep lying under, Blessings of breasts and womb; --

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


simplify: The children of Pashhur, a thousand two hundred forty and seven.

The children of Pashhur, a thousand, two hundred and forty-seven.


rate difficulty: And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;

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


simplify: from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do the work in the tent of meeting.

All those from thirty to fifty years old who are able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: Go and speak unto David, Thus saith Jehovah, I offer thee three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

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


simplify: and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering.

And two doves or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and one will be for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering.