rate difficulty: And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

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rate difficulty: and there was a widow in that city, and she came to him, saying, Avenge me of mine adverse party.

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rate difficulty: He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

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rate difficulty: And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

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rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah, theGod of hosts: Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

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rate difficulty: As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

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


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

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simplify: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

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


rate difficulty: Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;

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


simplify: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.


simplify: and I will turn thee about, and will lead thee on, and will cause thee to come up from the uttermost parts of the north; and I will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel;

And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:


simplify: The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.


simplify: Which say, It is not near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the flesh.

Who say, This is not the time for building houses: this town is the cooking-pot and we are the flesh.


simplify: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.


simplify: And on the second dayye shall offertwelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;

On the second day of the feast give an offering of twelve oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them;


rate difficulty: And sons of Carmi: Achar, troubler of Israel, who trespassed in the devoted thing.


simplify: Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

This had taken a considerable time, and sailing was already dangerous, for the Fast was already over; and so Paul gave this warning.


rate difficulty: `And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

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


simplify: Then the king commanded Ebed–melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Then the king gave orders to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with you three men from here and get Jeremiah out of the water-hole before death overtakes him.


rate difficulty: Ho, ho, come forth, and flee from the land of the north, saith the Lord: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language.

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rate difficulty: Watch and keep [them] until ye weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the chiefs of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

You are to make ready a way, and see that the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, is marked out into three parts, to which any taker of life may go in flight.


simplify: For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

For in one hour such great wealth has come to nothing. And every shipmaster, and all who are sailing on the sea, and sailors and all who get their living by the sea, were watching from far away,


rate difficulty: The sower soweth the word.

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


simplify: Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.


simplify: And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,

And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;


simplify: Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

which he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior;


simplify: Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

not even with a bag for the journey, or a change of clothes, or sandals, or even a staff; for the worker is worth his food.


simplify: And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, and shalt see, and shalt read all these words;

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


simplify: For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxed fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.

For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.


simplify: And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way.

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.


simplify: Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.


simplify: So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped Jehovah.

So Samuel went back after Saul, and Saul gave worship to the Lord.


rate difficulty: For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

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


rate difficulty: to such ordinances as ‘Do not handle, or taste, or touch’?

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


simplify: And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away.


rate difficulty: Thy morsel which thou hast eaten must thou vomit up, and thou wilt have wasted thy sweet words.

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


simplify: for where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.


rate difficulty: And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

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


simplify: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?


simplify: And the Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king’s seed in Edom.

So the Lord sent Hadad the Edomite to make trouble for Solomon: he was of the king's seed in Edom.


simplify: And they shall know that I am Jehovah their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them: I am Jehovah their God.

And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.


rate difficulty: And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote to thee a new commandment, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

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


rate difficulty: And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

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


simplify: Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Simeon were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;


simplify: And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

(But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)


rate difficulty: The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.

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


simplify: For the time will come when they will not endure the sound doctrine; but, having itching ears, will heap to themselves teachers after their own lusts;

For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;


simplify: And they sware unto Jehovah with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.


simplify: The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.


simplify: And this became known to all, both Jews and Greeks, that dwelt at Ephesus; and fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

And this came to the ears of all those, Jews and Greeks, who were living at Ephesus; and fear came on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was made great.


simplify: And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the Lord stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

And David, lifting up his eyes, saw the angel of the Lord there between earth and heaven, with an uncovered sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the responsible men, clothed in haircloth, went down on their faces.


simplify: and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha,

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,


simplify: 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!

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.


rate difficulty: All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

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


rate difficulty: and there was a voice out of the cloud saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

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


rate difficulty: Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: And he took them in his arms, and gave them a blessing, putting his hands on them.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.


simplify: Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.

And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: Therefore I also have smitten thee with a grievous wound; I have made thee desolate because of thy sins.

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simplify: And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.

So Jesus told his disciples to keep a small boat close by, so that the crowd would not crush him.


rate difficulty: With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

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


simplify: There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah—

There Abraham and Sarah his wife were put to rest, and there they put Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I put Leah to rest.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.

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


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

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


simplify: Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the Lord: unto us is this land given in possession.

Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all the children of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the people of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the Lord; this land is given to us for a heritage:


rate difficulty: For your people Israel you made yours for ever; and you, Lord, became their God.


rate difficulty: for this reason we have been comforted in you, brethren, in all our distress and tribulation, through your faith,


rate difficulty: And when they were going out from Jericho, a great number went after him.


simplify: For the Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.

The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.


simplify: And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days: who said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not go up to Jerusalem.

And meeting the disciples we were there for seven days: and they gave Paul orders through the Spirit not to go up to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he-goats.

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


simplify: In that time shall the present be brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the mount Zion.

In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.


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

And when he came, he saw the captains of the army seated together; and he said, I have something to say to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.


rate difficulty: and I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; but he that remaineth, he also shall belong to ourGod, and shall be as a leader in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

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


rate difficulty: Mine ordinances shall ye do and my statutes shall ye observe to walk therein: I am Jehovah yourGod.

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


simplify: Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.


rate difficulty: Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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


rate difficulty: Still, it is not everyone that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.

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


rate difficulty: Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

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


simplify: And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;


simplify: He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;


rate difficulty: and, after he had taken food, he felt his strength return.     Saul stayed for some days with the disciples who were at Damascus,


rate difficulty: And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;


simplify: Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.


rate difficulty: Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

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


rate difficulty: But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.


simplify: Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.


simplify: When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains quaked at thy presence.

While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.


rate difficulty: but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

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


rate difficulty: 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.


simplify: And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

Immediately afterwards Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and cross over in advance of him, while he dismissed the crowds.


simplify: And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:


simplify: Jehovah thy God, he will go over before thee; he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt dispossess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.

The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.


rate difficulty: And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, that he see not the ground with his eyes.


rate difficulty: And when Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.

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


simplify: And Joram said, Make ready. And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu, and found him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.


simplify: Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

Do not say, I will give punishment for evil: go on waiting for the Lord, and he will be your saviour.


rate difficulty: And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba; and he offered sacrifices to theGod of his father Isaac.


simplify: I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou have paid the very last mite.

I say to you, You will not come out of it till you have made payment to the very last farthing.


rate difficulty: The Son of man goes indeed, according as it is written concerning him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is delivered up; it were good for that man if he had not been born.

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


simplify: But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

But you must, servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.


simplify: When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.


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

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


rate difficulty: These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

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


simplify: I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

‘I, Jesus, sent my angel to bear testimony to you about these things before the churches. I am the Scion and the Offspring of David, the bright star of the Morning.’


simplify: The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar.


simplify: So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

So we went on building the wall; and all the wall was joined together half-way up: for the people were working hard.


simplify: These also aresayingsof the wise.   To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.


rate difficulty: and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.

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


rate difficulty: Thy lewdness and thine abominations, thou bearest them, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Neariah; Elioenai, and Hezekiah, and Azrikam, three.

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


rate difficulty: Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.

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


simplify: And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.


rate difficulty: Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.

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


rate difficulty: who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony [to be rendered] in its own times;


simplify: And this I say, brethren, the time henceforth is having been shortened--that both those having wives may be as not having;

What I mean, friends, is this — The time is short. Meanwhile, let those who have wives live as if they had none,


rate difficulty: Go in flight out of Babylon, so that every man may keep his life; do not be cut off in her evil-doing: for it is the time of the Lord's punishment; he will give her her reward.


simplify: And having heard these things Jesus wondered at him, and having turned to the multitude following him, he said, `I say to you, not even in Israel so much faith did I find;'

Jesus was surprised to hear these words from him; and, turning to the crowd which was following him, he said: “I tell you, nowhere in Israel have I met with such faith as this!”


simplify: And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.

So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.


simplify: In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

Now near that place there was some land, the property of the chief man of the island, who was named Publius; who very kindly took us into his house as his guests for three days.


rate difficulty: But thanks [be] toGod, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.

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simplify: And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose of the Lord shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.

And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.


rate difficulty: And he took his people, separating them into three bands, and was waiting secretly in the field; and when he saw the people coming out of the town, he went up and made an attack on them.

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


rate difficulty: In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

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


simplify: And they shall keep all the instruments of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.

Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea.


simplify: Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation that hath no shame;

Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;


simplify: And the border from the sea shall be Hazar–enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And this is the north side.

And this is the limit from the sea in the direction of Hazar-enon; and the limit of Damascus is to the north, and on the north is the limit of Hamath. This is the north side.


rate difficulty: and when did we see thee a stranger, and we received? or naked, and we put around?

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


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

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

And he said to them, Why are you full of fear? have you still no faith?


rate difficulty: In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: `Jehovah doth cause thee to go, and thy king whom thou raisest up over thee, unto a nation which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers, and thou hast served there other gods, wood and stone;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the second messenger did sound, and as it were a great mountain with fire burning was cast into the sea, and the third of the sea became blood,

Then the second angel blew; and what appeared to be a great mountain, burning, was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea became blood,


Do not put anyone to death without cause.


simplify: And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

All the nails used for the House and the open space round it were of brass.


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

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


simplify: And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man that is held in honor; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.

But the servant said to him, See now, in this town there is a man of God, who is highly honoured, and everything he says comes true: let us go there now; it may be that he will give us directions about our journey.


simplify: Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

“Scripture also says,” answered Jesus,   “You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”


simplify: For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do it; for how should my name be profaned? and my glory will I not give to another.

For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.


simplify: Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: They sank as lead in the mighty waters.

You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.


rate difficulty: And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The Chaldaeans made themselves into three bands, and came down on the camels and took them away, putting the young men to the sword, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

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


rate difficulty: and have said unto the elders of his city, Our son--this one--is apostatizing and rebellious; he is not hearkening to our voice--a glutton and drunkard;

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rate difficulty: And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who [desire to cross] from there pass over unto us.

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simplify: And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

And I saw a river of water of life, clear as glass, coming out of the high seat of God and of the Lamb,


simplify: This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;


simplify: And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And Jehovah said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.

And after that she gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said, Give her the name Lo-ruhamah; for I will not again have mercy on Israel, to give them forgiveness.


simplify: Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

Happy are your wives and happy these your servants whose place is ever before you, hearing your words of wisdom.


rate difficulty: Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.

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simplify: And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered;

And when you have seen it, you will be put to rest with your people, as your brother Aaron was:


simplify: And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

And others, testing him, were looking for a sign from heaven from him.


simplify: And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man once planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine-press, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.


simplify: To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion:

To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:


simplify: But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they be strong.

For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.


rate difficulty: And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.

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


simplify: And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it; for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

And be working for the peace of the land to which I have had you taken away prisoners, and make prayer to the Lord for it: for in its peace you will have peace.


rate difficulty: At their face trembled hath the earth, Shaken have the heavens, Sun and moon have been black, And stars have gathered up their shining.

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


rate difficulty: Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.

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


rate difficulty: and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.' Hitherto <FI>are<Fi> words of Jeremiah.

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


simplify: And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle shall be the first row;

And on it you are to put four lines of jewels; the first line is to be a cornelian, a chrysolite, and an emerald;


simplify: The Lord hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord God of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.

From his store-house the Lord has taken the instruments of his wrath: for the Lord, the Lord of armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldaeans.


simplify: And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place.

Then going away from the prophets, he came to the house.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

For this is what the Lord has said: How much more when I send my four bitter punishments on Jerusalem, the sword and need of food and evil beasts and disease, cutting off from it man and beast?


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.

So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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


rate difficulty: Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.

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


simplify: if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.

If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.


rate difficulty: And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

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


simplify: I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.


simplify: And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.


simplify: And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.


rate difficulty: for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

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simplify: Then shall an oath of the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.

If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.


simplify: According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.

As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.


rate difficulty: And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.


simplify: And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.

And I have said, I will take you up out of the sorrows of Egypt into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, into a land flowing with milk and honey.


rate difficulty: A blessing on that servant, who will be doing so when his lord comes.


rate difficulty: and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.'

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rate difficulty: And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;


rate difficulty: Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.

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simplify: Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.


simplify: When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

And when Jesus saw that the people came running together, he gave orders to the unclean spirit, saying to him, You, spirit, who are the cause of his loss of voice and hearing, I say to you, come out of him, and never again go into him.


simplify: And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the Lord: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth–shemite.

And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.


simplify: So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.


rate difficulty: And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.


rate difficulty: The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side:

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simplify: and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister, and the king’s friend;

Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;


rate difficulty: For, just as ‘Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights,’ so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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rate difficulty: And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet; and when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter.

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


simplify: And she said unto him, I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bare unto Nahor.

And she said to him, I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, Nahor's wife.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;


rate difficulty: And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

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


simplify: And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.


simplify: For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

For those who are living in the way of the flesh give their minds to the things of the flesh, but those who go in the way of the Spirit, to the things of the Spirit.


rate difficulty: and these their names: For the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zaccur.

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


simplify: And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.

They went with Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh in which is the breath of life.


simplify: these things, then, not being to be gainsaid, it is necessary for you to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

As these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and do nothing rash;


simplify: or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?

Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?


simplify: Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab.

Now Jehoshaphat had great wealth and honour, and his son was married to Ahab's daughter.


simplify: And all the people that came together to that sight, beholding the things which were done, smote their breasts, and returned.

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.


rate difficulty: `And the priests, the Levites, sons of Zadok, who have kept the charge of My sanctuary in the wandering of the sons of Israel from off Me, they draw near unto Me to serve Me, and have stood before Me, to bring near to Me fat and blood--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah:

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


rate difficulty: On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

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


simplify: So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: that ye be not quickly shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither through spirit, neither through word, neither through letters as through us, as that the day of Christ hath arrived;

not lightly to let your minds become unsettled, or disturbed by any revelation, or by any message, or by any letter, purporting to come from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is come.


simplify: Then the priest shall look upon him; and, behold, if the rising of the plague be reddish-white in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the appearance of leprosy in the skin of the flesh;

Then if the priest sees that the growth of the disease has become red and white on his head or on his brow where there is no hair, like the mark in the skin of a leper;


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, as he hath interpreted to us so it hath been, me he put back on my station, and him he hanged.'

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


rate difficulty: tribulation and distress, upon every soul of man that is working the evil, both of Jew first, and of Greek;


rate difficulty: An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

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


simplify: And I am persuaded, my brethren--I myself also--concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

I am persuaded, my friends — yes, I Paul, with regard to you — that you are yourselves full of kindness, furnished with all Christian learning, and well able to give advice to one another.


rate difficulty: and having stretched forth <FI>his<Fi> hand, he touched him, having said, `I will; be thou cleansed;' and immediately the leprosy went away from him.

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


simplify: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.


simplify: Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

I want you to bear in mind, friends, that all our ancestors were beneath the cloud, and all passed through the sea;


rate difficulty: And all the town came out to Jesus; and seeing him they made request that he would go away from their part of the country.


rate difficulty: But if she gives birth to a female child, then she will be unclean for two weeks, as when she is unwell; and she will not be completely clean for sixty-six days.

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


simplify: For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.

I say this because many impostors have left us to go into the world — people who do not acknowledge Jesus as Christ come in our human nature. It is that which marks someone as an impostor and an antichrist.


simplify: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding?


rate difficulty: My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,


simplify: Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;


simplify: Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set in it settings of stones — four rows of stones: [one] row, a sardoin, a topaz, and an emerald — the first row;

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


simplify: Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then they, in their turn, will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and did not supply your wants?’


simplify: The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.


simplify: Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:

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


simplify: My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave isreadyfor me.

My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.


simplify: When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.


rate difficulty: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

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


rate difficulty: Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,

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


rate difficulty: Then they laid their hands upon them, and they received [the] Holy Spirit.


simplify: And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for man shall not see me and live.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul saith to the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, `Inspect, I pray you, and see; who hath gone from us?' and they inspect, and lo, Jonathan and the bearer of his weapons are not.

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


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

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rate difficulty: And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

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


simplify: Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

Therefore, if what I eat makes a follower of the Lord fall, rather than make them fall, I will never eat meat again.


simplify: And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the Lord.

And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.


simplify: `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a person found and hid again, and then, in their delight, went and sold everything that they had, and bought that field.


simplify: Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

Therefore I tell you plainly that no one who speaks under the influence of the Spirit of God says ‘JESUS IS ACCURSED,’ and that no one can say ‘JESUS IS LORD,’ except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.


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

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


simplify: having been confident in thy obedience I did write to thee, having known that also above what I may say thou wilt do;

Even as I write, I have such confidence in your compliance with my wishes, that I am sure that you will do even more than I am asking.


rate difficulty: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

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


rate difficulty: and Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who are found with them, are abiding in Gibeah of Benjamin, and the Philistines have encamped in Michmash.

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


rate difficulty: If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

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


simplify: What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.

What is my reward, then? To present the good news free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.


simplify: For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.


rate difficulty: You, to whom the law was given as it was ordered by angels, and who have not kept it.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon buildeth Gezer, and Beth-Horon the lower,

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


rate difficulty: And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong.

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


rate difficulty: And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

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


simplify: And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

But the law is not based on faith; no, its words are —  ‘Those who practice these precepts will find life through them.’


rate difficulty: Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

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


simplify: Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves, and the land would be made waste.


simplify: And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering; seven sabbaths shall there be complete:

And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;


simplify: And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

One of the criminals who were hanging beside Jesus railed at him. “Are not you the Christ? Save yourself and us,” he said.


simplify: Let them bring forth, and declare unto us what shall happen: declare ye the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or show us things to come.

Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.


simplify: And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before Jehovah:

And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;


simplify: Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?


rate difficulty: The slothful hath hidden his hand in a dish, Even unto his mouth he bringeth it not back.

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


simplify: But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.


rate difficulty: And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

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


simplify: `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen--ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You scour land and sea to make a single convert, and, when they are gained, you make them twice as deserving of Gehenna as you are yourselves.


rate difficulty: and charged them that they should not make him known:


simplify: And I have winnowed them with a fan in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them of children, I have destroyed my people; they returned not from their ways.

And I have sent a cleaning wind on them in the public places of the land; I have taken their children from them; I have given my people to destruction; they have not been turned from their ways.


simplify: And the children of Israel went up and wept before Jehovah until even; and they asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I again draw nigh to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And Jehovah said, Go up against him.

Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and saying, Am I to go forward again to the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.


simplify: And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying,


rate difficulty: and I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city.

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


rate difficulty: You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.

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


rate difficulty: And have smitten thy bow out of thy left hand, Yea, thine arrows out of thy right I cause to fall.

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


simplify: I have therefore my glorying in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.

So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.


rate difficulty: And lo, [there was] a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent together and wholly unable to lift her head up.

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


simplify: For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

on behalf of which I am an ambassador — in chains! Pray that, in telling it, I may speak fearlessly as I ought.


simplify: Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:

Then his lord sent for him and said, You evil servant; I made you free of all that debt, because of your request to me:


simplify: and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find <FI>it<Fi> so, happy are those servants.

Whether it is late at night, or in the early morning that he comes, if he finds all as it should be, then happy are they.


simplify: but their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates also day and night that they might kill him:

But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death:


rate difficulty: Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

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


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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah was very angry with Aaron to destroy him: and I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.


rate difficulty: and a knob under two branches of it, and [again] a knob under two branches of it, and [again] a knob under two branches of it, for the six branches that proceed out of the lamp-stand.

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


simplify: Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, laying one thing to another, to find out the account;

Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,


rate difficulty: Then Delilah said to Samson, See, you have been making sport of me with false words; now, say truly how may you be put in bands?

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


simplify: I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by the Holy Spirit,


simplify: As for Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water.

As for Samaria, her king is cut off, like mist on the water.


rate difficulty: If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.

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


simplify: Out of the north cometh golden splendor: God hath upon him terrible majesty.

A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.


simplify: And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every whit, unto Jehovah thy God: and it shall be a heap for ever; it shall not be built again.

And take all the goods into the middle of its open space, burning the town and all its property with fire as an offering to the Lord your God; it is to be a waste for ever; there is to be no more building there.


simplify: for through faith we walk, not through sight--

For we guide our lives by faith, and not by what we see.


simplify: And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.


rate difficulty: They began talking to one another about their being short of bread;


simplify: And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.


rate difficulty: The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.


rate difficulty: Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

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


simplify: for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men--especially of those believing.

With that aim we toil and struggle, for we have set our hopes on the living God, who is the Savior of all, and especially of those who hold the faith.


simplify: The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;


simplify: Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

So it is no longer I who do it, but the sin living in me.


simplify: and they said, `Some, John the Baptist, and others, Elijah, and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.'

“Some say John the Baptist,” they answered, “Others, however, say that he is Elijah, while others again say Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”


simplify: So Joab and Abishai his brother slew Abner, because he had slain their brother Asahel at Gibeon in the battle.

So Joab and Abishai his brother put Abner to death, because he had put to death their brother Asahel in the fight at Gibeon.


rate difficulty: So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.


rate difficulty: And now, when this letter comes to you, seeing your master's sons are with you, and there are with you chariots, and horses, and a fortified city, and armour,

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


simplify: For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of all that openeth the womb, even the first-born of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.


rate difficulty: Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph said to them, That is it that I have spoken to you, saying, Ye are spies.

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


rate difficulty: We asked their names also, to inform thee, that we might write the names of the men that were the chief of them.

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


simplify: And after they had held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, hearken unto me:

After they had finished speaking, James addressed the Council.   “Friends,” he began, “hear what I have to say.


simplify: wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --

That is why it is said —  ‘When he went up on high, he led his captives into captivity. And gave gifts to humanity.’


simplify: So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth–el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.


simplify: And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

And Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of Joses, saw where he was put.


simplify: And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.


rate difficulty: and in the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded: its blossoms shot forth, its clusters ripened into grapes.

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


simplify: The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.

Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.


rate difficulty: but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, [the blood] of Christ,

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


rate difficulty: that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same concern one for another.

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


simplify: who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

He then, seeing Peter and John going into the Temple, made a request to them.


simplify: For if the ministration of condemnation hath glory, much rather doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?


rate difficulty: Doth not Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, Jehovah our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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


rate difficulty: and he made us ‘a kingdom of priests in the service of God,’ his Father! — to Him be ascribed glory and dominion for ever. Amen.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

Now when Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two stones in his hand, he was not conscious that his face was shining because of his talk with God.


simplify: In the year that king Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated in his place, high and lifted up, and the Temple was full of the wide skirts of his robe.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring the sheaf of the first-fruits of your harvest unto the priest:

Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;


simplify: And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam went with Balak, and they came unto Kiriath-huzoth.

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


simplify: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

that we should enhance his glory — we who have been the first to rest our hopes on the Christ.


simplify: Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.


rate difficulty: Only, take great heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah yourGod, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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


rate difficulty: for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

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


simplify: Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.

Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.


rate difficulty: His bones are tubes of bronze, his members are like bars of iron.

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


simplify: He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?

He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?


rate difficulty: You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:


simplify: Ye were bought with a price; become not bondservants of men.

It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.


simplify: And the ark of Jehovah was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.


simplify: But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.


simplify: And, walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew his brother, casting a drag into the sea, for they were fishers,

As Jesus was going along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the Sea, for they were fishermen.


rate difficulty: But first seek his kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things will be added for you.

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


rate difficulty: But after a little time, a very violent wind, named Euraquilo, came down from it with great force.

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


rate difficulty: What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

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


simplify: And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.

Then the chief priests brought a number of charges against him.


simplify: And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah unto its place, which he had prepared for it.

And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.


rate difficulty: There is no straw given to thy bondmen, and they say to us, Make brick; and behold, thy bondmen are beaten, but it is the fault of thy people.

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


rate difficulty: and to Hosah, of the sons of Merari, <FI>are<Fi> sons: Shimri the head (though he was not first-born, yet his father setteth him for head),

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


rate difficulty: Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;


rate difficulty: And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

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


simplify: And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.

Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.


rate difficulty: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and set aside the understanding of the understanding ones.


rate difficulty: and they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and the Levites concerning any matter, nor concerning the treasures.

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


simplify: Now when Tou king of Hamath heard how David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah;

Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,


rate difficulty: And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

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


rate difficulty: And by their hand hath Melatiah the Gibeonite strengthened, and Jadon the Meronothite, men of Gibeon and of Mizpah, to the throne of the governor beyond the River.

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


simplify: A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the Lord their God.

A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.


simplify: that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger <FI>is<Fi> the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

none of you overreaching or taking advantage of their fellow follower of the Lord in such matters. ‘The Lord takes vengeance’ on all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared.


rate difficulty: Your new moons and your set feasts my soul hateth: they are a burden to me; I am wearied of bearing [them].

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


rate difficulty: Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.

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


rate difficulty: He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.


rate difficulty: They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.


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

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


simplify: And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.


rate difficulty: And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.


rate difficulty: See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

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


rate difficulty: (And Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, Jehovah's priest in Shiloh, wore the ephod.) And the people did not know that Jonathan was gone.

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


rate difficulty: Gather the people together, the men, and the women, and the children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah yourGod, and take heed to do all the words of this law;

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


simplify: And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

And he went away from there to the country of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, desiring that no man might have knowledge of it: and he was not able to keep it secret.


simplify: Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

Keep before your mind Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David, as told in the good news entrusted to me;


rate difficulty: The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, Toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


simplify: for not that for others release, and ye pressured, <FI>do I speak,<Fi>

For our object is not to give relief to others and bring distress on you. It is a matter of a fair balance.


simplify: Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah hath cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great tempest in the sea, and the ship hath reckoned to be broken;

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


rate difficulty: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us?' --and they were being stumbled at him.


rate difficulty: the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;

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


rate difficulty: And he brought them before the king of Moab: and they dwelt with him all the while that David was in the hold.

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


rate difficulty: And they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught.


rate difficulty: In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.


simplify: And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.

And the time of Jehu's rule over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.


rate difficulty: Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.


simplify: The word that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

The word which the Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, of how Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, would come and make war on the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: and he goeth out before Asa, and saith to him, `Hear, me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with you--in your being with Him, and if ye seek Him, He is found of you, and if ye forsake Him, He forsaketh you;

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


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let a potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that formeth it, What makest thou? Or thy work, He hath no hands?

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


rate difficulty: To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in thine own country.

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


simplify: And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.


simplify: The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.


rate difficulty: There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.


simplify: to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up in their height, even all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why have you given your ass blows these three times? See, I have come out against you to keep you back, because your purpose is not pleasing to me.


simplify: because Thou wilt not leave my soul to hades, nor wilt Thou give Thy Kind One to see corruption;

For you will not abandon my soul to the place of death, Nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.