simplify: and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, and Hammon with its suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its suburbs.

And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.


simplify: and on the third <FI>day<Fi> with our own hands the tackling of the ship we cast out,

and, on the following day, threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.


rate difficulty: But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and sent up no present to the king of Assyria as [he had done] from year to year. And the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.

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


simplify: And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.

And two others, evil-doers, were taken with him to be put to death.


rate difficulty: For what is there wherein ye were made inferior to the rest of the churches, except it be that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this wrong.

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


simplify: And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,

Then he rose from praying, and came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow.


simplify: Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.


simplify: David himself said in the Holy Spirit,  The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.


rate difficulty: Whoso is keeping the law is an intelligent son, And a friend of gluttons, Doth cause his father to blush.

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


rate difficulty: The Son of man has come eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a man [that is] eating and wine-drinking, a friend of tax-gatherers, and of sinners: — and wisdom has been justified by her children.

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


rate difficulty: For our citizenship is in the heavens, whence also a Saviour we await--the Lord Jesus Christ--

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

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


simplify: and this voice we--we did hear, out of heaven borne, being with him in the holy mount.

These were the words that we heard, borne to our ears from heaven, when we were with him on that sacred mountain.


simplify: and he sent them to proclaim the reign of God, and to heal the ailing.

He sent them out as his messengers, to proclaim the kingdom of God, and to work cures.


rate difficulty: I commend to your care our sister, Phoebe, who is a minister of the church at Cenchreae;

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


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


simplify: For by thee I run upon a troop; By my God do I leap over a wall.

By your help I have made a way through the wall which was shutting me in: by the help of my God I have gone over a wall.


simplify: And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.


simplify: And the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

And the Spirit said to Philip, Go near, and get on his carriage.


simplify: And when he cut the hair of his head (now it was at every year’s end that he cut it; because it was heavy on him, therefore he cut it); he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king’s weight.

And when he had his hair cut, (which he did at the end of every year, because of the weight of his hair;) the weight of the hair was two hundred shekels by the king's weight.


rate difficulty: And Micah said, As Jehovah liveth, even what myGod shall say, that will I declare.

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


simplify: In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it cometh.

In that day men will go out quickly to take the news, causing fear in untroubled Ethiopia; and bitter pain will come on them as in the day of Egypt; for see, it is coming.


simplify: And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

Now when Ahithophel saw that his suggestion was not acted on, he got his ass ready, and went back to his house, to the town where he came from, and having put his house in order, he put himself to death by hanging; so he came to his end and was put in the resting-place of his father.


rate difficulty: And the third messenger did sound, and there fell out of the heaven a great star, burning as a lamp, and it did fall upon the third of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters,

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel: Houses and fields and vineyards shall again be purchased in this land.


simplify: 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.

And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


simplify: And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became, as he grew up, an archer.

And God was with the boy, and he became tall and strong, and he became a bowman, living in the waste land.


simplify: No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.

No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.


simplify: The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

The heart of the man of good sense gets knowledge; the ear of the wise is searching for knowledge.


simplify: Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.

You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.


simplify: As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

This was in fulfillment of what is said in the writings of the prophet Isaiah —  ‘The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness: “Make ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.


rate difficulty: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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


rate difficulty: And yet, ask, I pray thee, <FI>One of<Fi> the beasts, and it doth shew thee, And a fowl of the heavens, And it doth declare to thee.

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


simplify: for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

For from the day when I took Israel up, till this day, I have had no house, but have gone from tent to tent, and from living-place to living-place.


rate difficulty: Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.

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


rate difficulty: For there shall be no more any false vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.

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


simplify: But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

but, as soon as the crop is ready, immediately he ‘puts in the sickle because harvest has come’.”


rate difficulty: Must a follower sue a fellow follower? In front of unbelievers?

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


rate difficulty: So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

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


rate difficulty: Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

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


rate difficulty: And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

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


simplify: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Let your cry come to me, and I will give you an answer, and let you see great things and secret things of which you had no knowledge.


rate difficulty: And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or wife, or brethren, or parents, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake,

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,


simplify: But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit--

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


simplify: The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting.


rate difficulty: To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

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


simplify: And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth–peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

And the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his resting-place to this day.


rate difficulty: and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: He that observeth the wind will not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds will not reap.

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


simplify: But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.


simplify: Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.


rate difficulty: Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

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


rate difficulty: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

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


simplify: And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;


simplify: Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!


simplify: Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.


rate difficulty: And the chief of the house of the father of the families of the Kohathites shall be Elizaphan the son of Uzziel.

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


rate difficulty: And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, that were on this side the Jordan, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon

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


simplify: even as it is right for me to be thus minded on behalf of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as, both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers with me of grace.

So it is right for me to take thought for you all in this way, because I have you in my heart; for in my chains, and in my arguments before the judges in support of the good news, making clear that it is true, you all have your part with me in grace.


simplify: Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves.


simplify: Which of these three, thinkest thou, proved neighbor unto him that fell among the robbers?

Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves?


simplify: And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.

“Go,” he said. The spirits came out, and entered the pigs; and the whole drove rushed down the steep slope into the Sea, and died in the water.


simplify: Which devour widows’ houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.”


rate difficulty: The ransom of a man’s life is his riches; But the poor heareth no threatening.

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


simplify: And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,


simplify: Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Do all things without protests and arguments;


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> a copy of a letter that they have sent unto him, unto Artaxerxes the king: `Thy servants, men beyond the river, and at such a time;

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


simplify: How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?


simplify: And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.


simplify: And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.

And that day Saul took David and would not let him go back to his father's house.


rate difficulty: Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

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


simplify: And of the singers: Eliashib. And of the porters: Shallum, and Telem, and Uri.

And of the music-makers, Eliashib; and of the door-keepers, Shallum and Telem and Uri.


rate difficulty: And Heber begot Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah took me from following the flock, and Jehovah said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

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


rate difficulty: As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.

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


rate difficulty: Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant;

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


simplify: for I was afraid of thee, because thou art an austere man; thou takest up what thou didst not lay down, and reapest what thou didst not sow.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a stern man. You take what you have not planted, and reap what you have not sown.’


rate difficulty: And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, whom thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Salute you doth Epaphras, who <FI>is<Fi> of you, a servant of Christ, always striving for you in the prayers, that ye may stand perfect and made full in all the will of God,

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


simplify: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

Foolish Galatians! Who has been fascinating you — you before whose eyes Jesus Christ was depicted on the cross?


rate difficulty: For by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance <FI>is<Fi> in a multitude of counsellors.


rate difficulty: The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home, or born abroad — their nakedness shalt thou not uncover.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions.

It was not until the third day that they found him in the Temple Courts, sitting among the teachers, now listening to them, now asking them questions.


simplify: Is not this that in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.

Is not this the cup from which my lord takes wine and by which he gets knowledge of the future? Truly, you have done evil.


simplify: and chiefly those going behind the flesh in desire of uncleanness, and lordship despising; presumptuous, self-complacent, dignities they are not afraid to speak evil of,

especially those who, following the promptings of their lower nature, indulge their polluting passions and despise all control. Audacious and self-willed, they feel no awe of the celestial beings, maligning them,


simplify: Ye shall do no servile work; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.


rate difficulty: and immediately Jesus spake to them, saying, `Be of good courage, I am <FI>he<Fi> , be not afraid.'

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


rate difficulty: And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.

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


simplify: `Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers--also ye;

Stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.


simplify: Erastus did remain in Corinth, and Trophimus I left in Miletus infirm;

Erastus remained at Corinth, and I left Thophimus ill at Miletus.


rate difficulty: This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:


rate difficulty: Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

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


simplify: He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.

Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.


simplify: But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

But the groom answered ‘I tell you, I do not know you.’


rate difficulty: and my anger shall burn, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

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


simplify: And Jehovah hath done unto thee, as he spake by me: and Jehovah hath rent the kingdom out of thy hand, and given it to thy neighbor, even to David.

And the Lord himself has done what I said: the Lord has taken the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbour David;


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

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth,


rate difficulty: So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son.

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


simplify: Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed.

From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.


rate difficulty: Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that have the hoof cloven: the camel, and the hare, and the coney; because they chew the cud but part not the hoof, they are unclean unto you.


simplify: Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Jehovah.

Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord.


simplify: If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;


rate difficulty: It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh-barnea.


rate difficulty: Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh speaketh unto Joseph, saying, `Thy father and thy brethren have come unto thee:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this of your hand? saith the Lord.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.

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


simplify: And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.

Coming to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus, as was his custom, went on the Sabbath into the synagogue, and stood up to read the scriptures.


simplify: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.


simplify: And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.


rate difficulty: When I speak like this, I am not speaking as the Master would, but as a fool might, in boasting so confidently.

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


simplify: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:


simplify: And the Lord shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.


simplify: The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.


simplify: And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

And the children were fighting together inside her, and she said, If it is to be so, why am I like this? So she went to put her question to the Lord.


simplify: And the way of peace have they not known:

and the path of peace they do not know.’


simplify: And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother of David slew him.

And when he was purposing to put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimei, David's brother, put him to death.


rate difficulty: However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what had occurred;

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simplify: On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses.


rate difficulty: and he joineth the five curtains apart, and the six curtains apart.

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simplify: And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and women, all the people of Ai.


rate difficulty: therefore behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male, him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

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rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, As ye have been a reviling among nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel, So I save you, and ye have been a blessing, Do not fear, let your hands be strong.

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simplify: Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Beth–el, and there he spake with us;

He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;


simplify: And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

So he kept them safe from the children of Israel, and did not let them be put to death.


simplify: Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.


simplify: And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

And everyone was weeping and mourning for her.   “Do not weep,”Jesus said, “she is not dead; she is asleep.”


simplify: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

But if you do not let men have forgiveness for their sins, you will not have forgiveness from your Father for your sins.


rate difficulty: And the king of Syria said, Well! go, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand [shekels] of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

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


rate difficulty: then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.

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


rate difficulty: He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

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


rate difficulty: Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

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


simplify: And through the hands of the apostles came many signs and wonders among the people, and they were with one accord all in the porch of Solomon;

Many signs and wonders continued to occur among the people, through the instrumentality of the apostles, whose custom it was to meet all together in the Colonnade of Solomon;


simplify: Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.


simplify: I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.


simplify: As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.


simplify: And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.


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

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


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass in that day, I answer--an affirmation of Jehovah, I answer the heavens, and they answer the earth.

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


simplify: For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

For the poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.


simplify: And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren; and Joseph’s kindred was made known unto Pharaoh.

In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.


rate difficulty: Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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


simplify: Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

Make this come to the minds of the nations, make a statement openly against Jerusalem, that attackers are coming from a far country and their voices will be loud against the towns of Judah.


rate difficulty: Then give ear from heaven your living-place, answering with forgiveness, and give to every man, whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; (for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of the children of men;)


simplify: And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.

And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.


simplify: How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.


rate difficulty: And he gathered an host, and smote the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.

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


simplify: And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

His command is this — that we should put our trust in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, in accordance with the command that he gave us.


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

So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.


simplify: Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had to do all the public business of Israel, in relation to judges and men in authority.


simplify: Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

His answer was: “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’


rate difficulty: There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: and Judas Iscariot, who did also deliver him up; and they come into a house.

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


rate difficulty: and the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not dispossess them.


rate difficulty: And I will make you free from all your unclean ways: and at my voice the grain will come up and be increased, and I will not let you be short of food.


rate difficulty: Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him: “Teacher, restrain your disciples.”


simplify: And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their sojournings, wherein they sojourned.

And I made an agreement with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their wanderings.


rate difficulty: When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

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


simplify: Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, Is it not so, if peace and truth shall be in my days?

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?


simplify: Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking foolishly) I am more so; I have had more experience of hard work, of prisons, of blows more than measure, of death.


simplify: For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their journeys.


simplify: As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.


rate difficulty: Although my house be not so beforeGod, Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in every way and sure; For [this is] all my salvation, and every desire, Although he make [it] not to grow.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

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


rate difficulty: only rebel not against Jehovah; and fear not the people of the land; for they shall be our food. Their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.


simplify: and sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.


simplify: And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?


rate difficulty: Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.


rate difficulty: And while he had not yet given answer; [he said,] Yea, go back to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the cities of Judah, and abide with him in the midst of the people; or go wheresoever it seemeth right in thy sight to go. And the captain of the body-guard gave him provisions and a present, and let him go.

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


simplify: And the third messenger did pour out his vial to the rivers, and to the fountains of the waters, and there came blood,

Then the third angel emptied his bowl on the rivers and springs of water; and it turned to blood.


rate difficulty: And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?


rate difficulty: And come in doth a spoiler unto every city, And no city doth escape, And perished hath the valley, And destroyed been the plain, as Jehovah said.

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


simplify: And Israel said unto Joseph, Are not thy brethren feeding the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.


simplify: And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Put in writing, There is a blessing on the dead who from now on come to their end in the Lord: yes, says the Spirit, that they may have rest from their troubles; for their works go with them.


simplify: Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

Then he said, May God's punishment come on me if Elisha, the son of Shaphat, keeps his head on his body after this day.


simplify: It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

It has been made sharp to give death; it is polished so that it may be like a thunder-flame: ...


simplify: yea, I beseech you, that I may not when present show courage with the confidence wherewith I count to be bold against some, who count of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.


rate difficulty: Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

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


rate difficulty: And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and smote a thousand men therewith.

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


simplify: Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.

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


simplify: And when they came to Jesus, they besought him instantly, saying, That he was worthy for whom he should do this:

And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying,


simplify: Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat of the things of the temple, and they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?

Do you not see that the servants of the holy things get their living from the Temple, and the servants of the altar have their part in the food which is offered on the altar?


simplify: And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to enquire of the Lord, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;

But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,


simplify: And he said, Whether they are come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they are come out for war, take them alive.

And he said, If they have come out for peace, take them living, and if they have come out for war, take them living.


simplify: who shall render to each according to his works;

for ‘he will give to everyone what their actions deserve.’


simplify: And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;


simplify: But if they be prophets, and if the word of Jehovah be with them, let them now make intercession to Jehovah of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.

But if they are prophets, and if the word of the Lord is with them, let them now make request to the Lord of armies that the vessels which are still in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem, may not go to Babylon.


simplify: So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.


rate difficulty: For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.

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


simplify: I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.


simplify: And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And an angel of the Lord came to them, and the glory of the Lord was shining round about them: and fear came on them.


simplify: But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

And the Chaldaean army went after King Zedekiah and overtook him on the other side of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.


simplify: And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.

And one of the Pharisees made a request that he would take a meal with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house and took his seat at the table.


simplify: Behold, therefore, I have smitten my hand at thy dishonest gain which thou hast made, and at thy blood which hath been in the midst of thee.

See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.


rate difficulty: Give honour to widows who are truly widows.

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


simplify: But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

As God is true, our word to you is not Yes and No.


simplify: When she saw that she was stedfastly minded to go with her, then she left speaking unto her.

And when she saw that Ruth was strong in her purpose to go with her she said no more.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: The children of Israel will again make prayer to me for this, that I may do it for them; I will make them increased with men like a flock.

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


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

Now about that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan.


rate difficulty: Now a great number of people went with him.


simplify: When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, give diligence to come unto me to Nicopolis: for there I have determined to winter.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis: for it is my purpose to be there for the winter.


rate difficulty: and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;


rate difficulty: And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: and observed to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you to day.

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


rate difficulty: Now on the mountain side there was a great herd of pigs getting their food.


rate difficulty: And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

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


simplify: He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;


simplify: and they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

The people were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the teachers of the law.


rate difficulty: And all the people who had come together to see it, when they saw the things which were done, went back again making signs of grief.

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


simplify: Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Jehovah said unto him, Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.


simplify: And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

“Yes,” they answered, “we can.”   “You will indeed drink the cup that I am to drink,”Jesus said, “and receive the baptism that I am to receive,


simplify: On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:


rate difficulty: Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.


rate difficulty: When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

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


simplify: And Moses spake unto Jehovah, saying,


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

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


rate difficulty: And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

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


simplify: Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.

And they were not kind to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, in reward for all the good he had done to Israel.


simplify: And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.

And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.


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

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


rate difficulty: And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.

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


simplify: In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.


simplify: Do I speak these things after the manner of men? or saith not the law also the same?

Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?


simplify: And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, even all the worked ornaments.


rate difficulty: David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

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


rate difficulty: `And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he doth lift up from it, the fat which is covering over the inwards, and all the fat which <FI>is<Fi> on the inwards,

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


rate difficulty: because if our heart may condemn--because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

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


rate difficulty: For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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


simplify: The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread,

The table and its rods and all its vessels, and the holy bread;


rate difficulty: Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,

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


simplify: And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.

Then he said to the people, When you see a cloud coming up in the west, straight away you say, There will be rain; and so it is.


simplify: And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And Jesus said, Who was touching me? And when they all said, It is not I, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the people are pushing round you on every side.


simplify: Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.


rate difficulty: and he will reign over the descendants of Jacob for ever; And to his kingdom there will be no end.”

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


rate difficulty: And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I brought unto thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit;

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


simplify: And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.


simplify: And as for the likeness of their faces, they were the faces which I saw by the river Chebar, their appearances and themselves; they went every one straight forward.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose form I saw by the river Chebar; when they went, every one of them went straight forward.


simplify: and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God,

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, which said — ‘See! The tent of God is set up among people. God will live among them, and they will be his Peoples, and God himself will be among them,


simplify: Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

Then Saul went down flat on the earth, and was full of fear because of Samuel's words: and there was no strength in him, for he had taken no food all that day or all that night.


simplify: And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.


rate difficulty: because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

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


rate difficulty: And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.

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


simplify: And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God made the beast of the earth after its sort, and the cattle after their sort, and everything moving on the face of the earth after its sort: and God saw that it was good.


simplify: And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,

May our God and Father himself, and Jesus, our Lord, make the way plain for us to come to you.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth–el, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.

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


rate difficulty: And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.

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


simplify: And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.


simplify: and when they did complete all the things written about him, having taken <FI>him<Fi> down from the tree, they laid him in a tomb;

and, after carrying out everything written about him, they took Jesus down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.


simplify: And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

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


rate difficulty: And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.


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

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.


rate difficulty: Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

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


simplify: Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

Then take the oil and put it on his head.


rate difficulty: But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

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


rate difficulty: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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


rate difficulty: And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;


rate difficulty: And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of Jehovah was against the city with a very great discomfiture: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great; and tumors brake out upon them.

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


simplify: For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

Though you may have thousands of instructors in the faith of Christ, yet you have not many fathers. It was I who, through union with Christ Jesus, became your father by means of the good news.


rate difficulty: And Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rab-shakeh, Speak, we pray thee, to thy servants in Syriac, for we understand it; and speak not to us in the Jewish [language] in the ears of the people that are upon the wall.

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


simplify: O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.


simplify: And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.


simplify: why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

Why do you all hold it incredible that God should raise the dead?


rate difficulty: Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wildernessyieldeththem bread for their children.

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


rate difficulty: Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

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


simplify: And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they should kill David.

And Saul gave orders to his son Jonathan and to all his servants to put David to death. But Saul's son Jonathan had great delight in David.


rate difficulty: As land shall it be his for a possession in Israel; and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

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


simplify: It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

He is pulling it out, and it comes out of his back; and its shining point comes out of his side; he is overcome by fears.


rate difficulty: And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.

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


simplify: Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

For this cause nets are round your feet, and you are overcome with sudden fear.


simplify: Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.

Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;


rate difficulty: No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,


rate difficulty: Sing ye to Jehovah, praise Jehovah, For He hath delivered the soul of the needy From the hand of evil doers.


simplify: And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.


simplify: `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

Blessed will they be who wash their robes, that they may have the right to approach the Tree of life, and may enter the city by the gates.


simplify: And they were astonished beyond measure, saying unto themselves, `And who is able to be saved?'

“Then who can be saved?” they exclaimed in the greatest astonishment.


rate difficulty: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

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


simplify: And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.


rate difficulty: Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

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


rate difficulty: `And those who are left of you--I have also brought a faintness into their heart in the lands of their enemies, and the sound of a leaf driven away hath pursued them, and they have fled--flight from a sword--and they have fallen, and there is none pursuing.

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


rate difficulty: in order that I may come to you in joy byGod's will, and that I may be refreshed with you.


simplify: Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.

You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous one! Must not God be opposed to you?


rate difficulty: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

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


simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

So now let me be my lord's servant here in place of the boy, and let him go back with his brothers.


simplify: Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ: that, whether I come and see you or be absent, I may hear of your state, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the gospel;

Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;


rate difficulty: Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananel.

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


simplify: that no flesh may glory before Him;

so that in his presence no one should boast.


rate difficulty: and Esau went unto Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.

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


simplify: Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.

Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

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


simplify: And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh;

And I will give them a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in them; and I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh:


simplify: who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;


rate difficulty: The wind hath wrapped her up in its wings, and they shall be ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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


simplify: Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;

Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:


simplify: Wherefore of these men which have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,

For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


simplify: therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round?

Do not then ask anxiously ‘What can we get to eat?’ or ‘What can we get to drink?’ or ‘What can we get to wear?’


simplify: But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

But again you have put shame on my name, and you have taken back, every one his man-servant and his servant-girl, whom you had sent away free, and you have put them under the yoke again to be your servants and servant-girls.


simplify: And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar:

All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

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


simplify: Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.


simplify: from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;


simplify: And David answered and said, Behold the spear, O king! let then one of the young men come over and fetch it.

Then David said, Here is the king's spear! let one of the young men come over and get it.


rate difficulty: He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.


simplify: if others do partake of the authority over you--not we more? but we did not use this authority, but all things we bear, that we may give no hindrance to the good news of the Christ.

If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the good news of the Christ.


simplify: Now when they beheld the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.


simplify: And David said to him, Wilt thou bring me down to this troop? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this troop.

And David said to him, Will you take me down to this band? And he said, If you give me your oath that you will not put me to death or give me up to my master, I will take you to them.


simplify: But the word of God grew and multiplied.

But the word of the Lord went on increasing.


rate difficulty: Asahel, the brother of Joab, was one of the thirty; and Elhanan, the son of Dodai, of Beth-lehem,

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


rate difficulty: Behold, to-morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since its foundation until now.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Cesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?

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


simplify: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.


simplify: And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

And the ruler, when they come in, is to come among them, and is to go out when they go out.


rate difficulty: So the Lord gave Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem salvation from the power of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, and from all others, giving them rest on every side.

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


simplify: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.


simplify: So Ben–hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel–beth–maachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

So Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as all the land of Naphtali.


rate difficulty: And I also, I have given to them statutes not good, And judgments by which they do not live.

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


rate difficulty: Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; And hearken unto Israel your father.

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


simplify: Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Therefore remember from what you have fallen, and repent, and live the life that you lived before; or else, I will come and remove your Lamp from its place, unless you repent.


simplify: A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;


rate difficulty: The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor: he that hateth covetousness shall prolong [his] days.

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


simplify: and it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand until I have passed by:

And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past:


rate difficulty: And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants, and in the sight of the people.


simplify: and so for the other side: on this hand and that hand by the gate of the court were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.


rate difficulty: nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.

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


rate difficulty: Zebulun <FI>is<Fi> a people who exposed its soul to death, Naphtali also--on high places of the field.

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


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

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


simplify: and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.


rate difficulty: but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

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


simplify: And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.

And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.


rate difficulty: Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;


simplify: And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.

And he said to the people, Come away now from the tents of these evil men, without touching anything of theirs, or you may be taken in the punishment of their sins.


simplify: Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;


rate difficulty: And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee.

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


simplify: When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.


simplify: And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.


rate difficulty: And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.


rate difficulty: and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;

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


rate difficulty: And Asa cried unto the Lord his God, and said, Lord, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O Lord, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee.

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


simplify: Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

And a great number of those who were experts in strange arts took their books and put them on the fire in front of everyone: and when the books were valued they came to fifty thousand bits of silver.


rate difficulty: The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and the sow, for it is dividing the hoof, and not <FI>bringing<Fi> up the cud, unclean it <FI>is<Fi> to you; of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come.

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


rate difficulty: And with the remainder thereof he maketh agod, his graven image; he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me, for thou art mygod.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.

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


rate difficulty: Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What [shall be] the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah the third day?

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


rate difficulty: He that hath an evil eye hasteth after wealth, and knoweth not that poverty shall come upon him.

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


simplify: And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw nothing; and they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

And Saul got up from the earth, and when his eyes were open, he saw nothing; and he was guided by the hand into Damascus.


simplify: Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

And you, the steward said to the next, ‘how much do you owe?’ ‘Seventy quarters of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Here is your agreement,’ the steward said; ‘make it fifty-six.’


rate difficulty: Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

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


simplify: who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God--<FI> the day doth not come<Fi> .

who so opposes himself to everyone that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!


simplify: In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.


rate difficulty: and saith before his brethren and the force of Samaria, yea, he saith, `What <FI>are<Fi> the weak Jews doing? are they left to themselves? do they sacrifice? do they complete in a day? do they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish? --and they burnt!'

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


simplify: And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be put to shame: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.


simplify: Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the chiefs of Israel went up:


simplify: And those officers provided victuals for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon’s table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.

And those overseers, every man in his month, saw that food was produced for Solomon and all his guests, they took care that nothing was overlooked.


rate difficulty: Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: as for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of our God; and I had made ready for the building.

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


simplify: And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

Just at that time some people had come to tell Jesus about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices.


simplify: The locusts have no king, Yet go they forth all of them by bands;

The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;


rate difficulty: — In the wilderness: Beth-Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

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


rate difficulty: `And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

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


simplify: So he went and did according unto the word of the Lord: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.


simplify: And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.

And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name and have glory in your praise.


simplify: But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.


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

And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.


rate difficulty: And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit.

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


simplify: But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

But it is my hope that you will have no doubt that we are truly Christ's.


simplify: And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father,


rate difficulty: behold, Jehovah will smite with a great plague thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy substance;

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


rate difficulty: And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: By long forbearing is a ruler persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

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


simplify: And of the sons of Zerah; Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.


rate difficulty: I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

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


simplify: And the sister of Tahpenes bare him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh’s house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh’s household among the sons of Pharaoh.

And the sister of Tahpenes had a son by him, Genubath, whom Tahpenes took care of in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was living in Pharaoh's house among Pharaoh's sons.


simplify: Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;


simplify: And after these things I saw, and lo, opened was the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven;

After this I saw that the inmost shrine of the tent of testimony in heaven was opened,


rate difficulty: So Ahab sent to all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

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


rate difficulty: And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to the Lord, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?

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


simplify: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

Men were cruel to him, but he was gentle and quiet; as a lamb taken to its death, and as a sheep before those who take her wool makes no sound, so he said not a word.


rate difficulty: And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;


simplify: And they came, both men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought brooches, and ear-rings, and signet-rings, and armlets, all jewels of gold; even every man that offered an offering of gold unto Jehovah.

They came, men and women, all who were ready to give, and gave pins and nose-rings and finger-rings and neck-ornaments, all of gold; everyone gave an offering of gold to the Lord.