rate difficulty: And the anointed priest shall take of the blood of the bullock, and bring it to the tent of meeting:

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


simplify: Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.


rate difficulty: We give praise to God at all times for you, keeping you in memory in our prayers;

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


rate difficulty: `At that time hath Jehovah separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, to stand before Jehovah, to serve Him, and to bless in His name, unto this day,

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


simplify: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God am holy.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.


simplify: And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.


rate difficulty: Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

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


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

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


simplify: And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.


rate difficulty: At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;

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


simplify: And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.


simplify: always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

are always learning, and yet never able to attain to a real knowledge of the truth.


rate difficulty: Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.

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


rate difficulty: And Barak said to her, If thou goest with me, then I will go, but if thou goest not with me, I will not go.

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


rate difficulty: and if any one may take away from the words of the scroll of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the scroll of the life, and out of the holy city, and the things that have been written in this scroll;'

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.

And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food.


rate difficulty: And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, as every day required: and they set apart that which was for the Levites; and the Levites set apart that which was for the sons of Aaron.

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


simplify: and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.

And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west.


simplify: for I say to you, that to every one having shall be given, and from him not having, also what he hath shall be taken from him,

‘I tell you,’ he answered, ‘that, to him who has, more will be given, but, from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.


rate difficulty: The tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun <FI>is<Fi> Eliab son of Helon;


rate difficulty: To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight; so that in one of these towns he might be kept from death:

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


simplify: this knowing, that our old man was crucified with <FI>him<Fi> , that the body of the sin may be made useless, for our no longer serving the sin;

We recognize the truth that our old self was crucified with Christ, in order that the body, the stronghold of sin, might be rendered powerless, so that we should no longer be slaves to sin.


simplify: And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;


simplify: And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.


simplify: but had certain questions against him of their own religion, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the women who are stitching bands on all arms and putting veils on the heads of those of every size, so that they may go after souls! Will you go after the souls of my people and keep yourselves safe from death?


rate difficulty: And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.


simplify: And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.

And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.


simplify: But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

But, on the death of Herod, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, and said:


rate difficulty: Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.

Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.


simplify: See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil;


simplify: According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.

He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.


simplify: Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

And I sent all my servants the prophets to you, getting up early and sending them, saying, Do not do this disgusting thing which is hated by me.


simplify: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

“The sower went out to sow his seed; and, as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path and was trodden on; and the wild birds ate it up.


rate difficulty: And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

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


simplify: And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;

And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;


simplify: When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.

When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And all the openings and the side-posts <FI>are<Fi> square--windows; and sight <FI>is<Fi> over-against sight three times.

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


simplify: A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

A copy of the writing, to be made public as an order in every division of the kingdom, was given out to all the peoples, so that the Jews might be ready when that day came to give punishment to their haters.


simplify: And it came to pass, that on the next day, when they were come down from the hill, much people met him.

The next day, when they had come down from the mountain, a great crowd met Jesus.


simplify: And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.


rate difficulty: And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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


simplify: And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.

And Absalom was the father of three sons and of one daughter named Tamar, who was very beautiful.


simplify: All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

All the Nethinim and the children of Solomon's servants were three hundred and ninety-two.


rate difficulty: so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

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


simplify: Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come?

Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?


simplify: Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar’s.

Let me see a penny. Whose image and name are on it? And they said, Caesar's.


simplify: Jesus saith to them, `Did ye never read in the Writings, A stone that the builders disallowed, it became head of a corner; from the Lord hath this come to pass, and it is wonderful in our eyes.

Then Jesus added: “Have you never read in the scriptures? — ‘The stone which the builders despised — Has now itself become the corner-stone; This corner-stone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’


simplify: Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death.

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;


simplify: having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise iniquity, and that give wicked counsel in this city;

Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:


simplify: For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.


rate difficulty: And all the children of Israel were crying out against Moses and Aaron in the waste land:

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


simplify: And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

While David was in Hebron he became the father of sons: the oldest was Amnon, son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;


simplify: For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:

For the family of Ahab will come to an end; every male of Ahab's family will be cut off, he who is shut up and he who goes free in Israel.


rate difficulty: Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

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


simplify: And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.

But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.


simplify: and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

And that you may take pride in being quiet and doing your business, working with your hands as we gave you orders;


simplify: And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:

And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;


simplify: I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I have knowledge of your troubles and how poor you are (but you have true wealth), and the evil words of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a Synagogue of Satan.


rate difficulty: Flee, turn back, dwell deep down, ye inhabitants of Dedan! For I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I visit him.

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


simplify: I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

I have been waiting for your salvation, O Lord.


simplify: His cheeks are as a bed of spices, Asbanks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.


simplify: And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.

And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.


rate difficulty: For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

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


simplify: And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

Get up,”he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”


simplify: and he not being persuaded, we were silent, saying, `The will of the Lord be done.'

So, as he would not be persuaded, we said no more to him, only adding — “The Lord’s will be done.”


rate difficulty: And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.

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


rate difficulty: And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:


rate difficulty: And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.


simplify: saying, `We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and didst reign;

saying —  ‘We thank you, Lord, our God, the Almighty, who is and who was, that you have assumed your great power and reigned.


rate difficulty: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

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


rate difficulty: These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and sons of Bilhan: Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

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


rate difficulty: And he put it to death; and Moses put some of the blood on and round the altar.

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


simplify: Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

Now as to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our meeting with him, it is our desire, my brothers,


rate difficulty: and he calleth the name of the one Jemima, and the name of the second Kezia, and the name of the third Keren-Happuch.

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


simplify: And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden of the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia;

And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;


rate difficulty: O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense.

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


simplify: Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.


simplify: his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


rate difficulty: and he findeth a fresh jaw-bone of an ass, and putteth forth his hand and taketh it, and smiteth with it--a thousand men.

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


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


simplify: And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.

and, after telling them the whole story, sent them to Jaffa.


rate difficulty: And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water; and afterwards he may come into the camp.

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


simplify: But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.


simplify: and he said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon;

And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;


simplify: and in the hades having lifted up his eyes, being in torments, he doth see Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom,

In the place of death he looked up in his torment, and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side.


rate difficulty: And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

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


rate difficulty: When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.


rate difficulty: and for the altar of incense, refined gold by weight; and the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim of gold, which spread out [their wings] and cover the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,


simplify: That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.

Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.


rate difficulty: And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.


rate difficulty: And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

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


simplify: But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.

But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.


rate difficulty: And he died according to the word of Jehovah that Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead, in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; for he had no son.


simplify: Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.


simplify: And all the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

And from all over the earth they came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.


simplify: and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing <FI>them<Fi> .

They drove out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were infirm, and cured them.


rate difficulty: These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;

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


simplify: forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.


simplify: Watch ye and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation; the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

Watch and pray,” he said to them all, “so that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak.”


rate difficulty: And Zichri, a mighty one of Ephraim, slayeth Maaseiah son of the king, and Azrikam leader of the house, and Elkanah second to the king.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith Jehovah, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

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


simplify: `And that servant having come, told to his lord these things, then the master of the house, having been angry, said to his servant, Go forth quickly to the broad places and lanes of the city, and the poor, and maimed, and lame, and blind, bring in hither.

On his return the servant told his master all these answers. Then in anger the owner of the house said to his servant ‘Go out at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.’


rate difficulty: having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in thee; which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and, I am persuaded, in thee also.

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


simplify: Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God--

To all in Rome who are dear to God and have been called to become Christ’s people, from Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, who has been called to become an apostle, and has been set apart to tell God’s good news.


simplify: He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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


simplify: But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.

But some of them said, He sends out evil spirits by Beelzebul, the ruler of evil spirits.


simplify: So Samuel called unto Jehovah; and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.

So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.


simplify: He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.

He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


rate difficulty: And the chief priests accused him of many things.

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


simplify: Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

It is, then, on Christ’s behalf that we are acting as ambassadors, God, as it were, appealing to you through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf — Be reconciled to God.


simplify: Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;

Take Aaron, and his sons with him, and the robes and the holy oil and the ox of the sin-offering and the two male sheep and the basket of unleavened bread;


simplify: After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

After him Hananiah, the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, were making good another part. After him Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, made good the wall opposite his room.


rate difficulty: And he said, Who told thee that thou art naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee not to eat?

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


rate difficulty: From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off.

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


simplify: the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

The two tribes and the half-tribe have been given their heritage on the other side of Jordan at Jericho, on the east looking to the dawn.


simplify: And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.


simplify: Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.


simplify: And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

And when the fifth stamp was undone, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been put to death for the word of God, and for the witness which they kept.


rate difficulty: And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

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


rate difficulty: and Rachel saith, `With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.

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


rate difficulty: A fool’s lips enter into contention, And his mouth calleth for stripes.

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


rate difficulty: [other] than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching [the] resurrection of [the] dead.

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


rate difficulty: And Jonathan said, Do not have such a thought: for if I saw that my father was designing evil against you, would I not give you word of it?

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


simplify: That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


simplify: For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:


simplify: Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.

Ha! for that day is so great that there is no day like it: it is the time of Jacob's trouble: but he will get salvation from it.


simplify: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.


rate difficulty: The heart of the wise maketh his mouth intelligent, and upon his lips increaseth learning.

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


rate difficulty: and they give to them the cities of refuge, Shechem and its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Gezer and its suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And she riseth, she and her daughters-in-law, and turneth back from the fields of Moab, for she hath heard in the fields of Moab that God hath looked after His people, --to give to them bread.

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


simplify: They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?

They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?


simplify: and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, In the morning Jehovah will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he shall choose will he cause to come near unto him.

And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him.


rate difficulty: In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.

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


rate difficulty: These people are not drunk, as you suppose; for it is only now nine in the morning! No!


rate difficulty: With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

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


rate difficulty: Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?

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


simplify: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.


simplify: and ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods; and ye shall destroy their name out of that place.

Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.


rate difficulty: For as you have been drinking on my holy mountain, so will all the nations go on drinking without end; they will go on drinking and the wine will go down their throats, and they will be as if they had never been.


rate difficulty: And after the space of about one hour another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this man also was with him; for he is a Galilæan.

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


simplify: Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David's kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners;


simplify: Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.

And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.


simplify: The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?

It is about John’s baptism. What was its origin? Divine or human?” But they began arguing among themselves: “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say to us ‘Why then did not you believe him?’


simplify: And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel.

Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.


simplify: God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for strong is he that executeth his word: for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can bear it?

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


simplify: So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.

So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones.


rate difficulty: But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.

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


rate difficulty: and if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.


rate difficulty: For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

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


simplify: I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?

I urged Titus to go, and I sent another follower with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did not we live in the same Spirit, and tread in the same footsteps?


rate difficulty: Your thanksgiving may be excellent, but the other is not helped by it.


simplify: And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the townsmen of Shechem; and the townsmen of Shechem were false to Abimelech;


simplify: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

In this there is a profound truth — I am speaking of Christ and his church.


simplify: But she came and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me.

But she came and gave him worship, saying, Help, Lord.


simplify: And many other things blasphemously spake they against him.

And they said a number of other evil things against him.


simplify: Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Islikea broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

Putting one's faith in a false man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a shaking foot.


simplify: Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

Then Abner, looking back, said, Is it you, Asahel? And he said, It is I.


simplify: sufficient to such a one is this punishment, that <FI>is<Fi> by the more part,

The man to whom I refer has been sufficiently punished by the penalty inflicted by the majority of you;


simplify: Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

Do not be deceived.  ‘Good character is marred by evil company.’


simplify: And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.


rate difficulty: Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.

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


rate difficulty: Beware of despising one of these little ones, for in heaven, I tell you, their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

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


simplify: Prepare ye slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers, that they rise not up, and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.

Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.


simplify: and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word.

and so many people collected together, that after a while there was no room for them even around the door; and he began to tell them his message.


simplify: And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.


simplify: I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness unto sanctification.

I am using words in the way of men, because your flesh is feeble: as you gave your bodies as servants to what is unclean, and to evil to do evil, so now give them as servants to righteousness to do what is holy.


simplify: The sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.


rate difficulty: And the border from the sea hath been Hazar-Enan, the border of Damascus, and Zaphon at the north, and the border of Hamath: and <FI>this is<Fi> the north quarter.

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


simplify: 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.

And in Jerusalem he made machines, the invention of expert men, to be placed on the towers and angles of the walls for sending arrows and great stones. And his name was honoured far and wide; for he was greatly helped till he was strong.


rate difficulty: While he yet spake, they come from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Teacher any further?

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

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


rate difficulty: and setteth in order upon it the arrangement of bread, before Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

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


simplify: And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?


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

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


simplify: And in the fifth year shall ye eat of the fruit thereof, that it may yield unto you the increase thereof: I am Jehovah your God.

But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And Jonathan riseth from the table in the heat of anger, and hath not eaten food on the second day of the new moon, for he hath been grieved for David, for his father put him to shame.

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


rate difficulty: And they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, so that they left him none remaining, and took possession of his land.


simplify: And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

And he gave some as Apostles, and some, prophets; and some, preachers of the good news; and some to give care and teaching;


simplify: And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.


rate difficulty: in one house it is eaten, thou dost not carry out of the house <FI>any<Fi> of the flesh without, and a bone ye do not break of it;

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


simplify: And he questioned the scribes, `What dispute ye with them?'

“What are you arguing about with them?”Jesus asked.


simplify: And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.


rate difficulty: It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

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


simplify: And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.

And then his brother came out, with the red thread round his hand, and he was named Zerah.


simplify: That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.


simplify: Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.

Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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


simplify: to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.


rate difficulty: `My lord, hear me: the land--four hundred shekels of silver; between me and thee, what <FI>is<Fi> it? --thy dead bury.'

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


simplify: Who hath first given unto me, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

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


simplify: and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,


simplify: `And when I did not see from the glory of that light, being led by the hand by those who are with me, I came to Damascus,

In consequence of that dazzling light I could not see, but my companions held me by the hand, until I reached Damascus.


rate difficulty: And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.


simplify: Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.


rate difficulty: and they bless Rebekah, and say to her, `Thou <FI>art<Fi> our sister; become thou thousands of myriads, and thy seed doth possess the gate of those hating it.'

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


simplify: Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.


simplify: A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.


simplify: O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.

O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.

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


rate difficulty: Then the first male child she has will take the rights of the brother who is dead, so that his name may not come to an end in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.

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


simplify: Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.


simplify: And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee will Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

So he gave them his blessing that day, saying, You will be the sign of blessing in Israel, for they will say, May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh; and he put Ephraim before Manasseh.


simplify: At Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

For the pillared way, on the west, four at the footway and two at the pillared way itself.


rate difficulty: And completed hath been Mine anger, And I have caused My fury to rest on them, And I have been comforted, And they have known that I, Jehovah, have spoken in My zeal, In My completing My fury on them.

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


rate difficulty: who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;

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


rate difficulty: who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Jehovah be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

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


simplify: And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.


simplify: And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side,


simplify: And day having come, the magistrates sent the rod-bearers, saying, `Let those men go;'

In the morning the Magistrates sent the police with an order for the men to be discharged.


simplify: `And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter;

The man who had received the single bag of gold came up, too, and said ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man; you reap where you have not sown, and gather up where you have not winnowed;


simplify: I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

And now it is my order that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and Levites in my kingdom, who are ready and have a desire to go to Jerusalem, are to go with you.


rate difficulty: The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

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


rate difficulty: for a navy of Tarshish hath the king at sea with a navy of Hiram; once in three years cometh the navy of Tarshish, bearing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

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


simplify: who did testify the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, as many things also as he did see.

who testified to the message of God and to the testimony to Jesus Christ, omitting nothing of what he had seen.


simplify: And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

Then after a time he went back to take her; and turning from the road to see the dead body of the lion, he saw a mass of bees in the body of the lion, and honey there.


rate difficulty: That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

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


rate difficulty: But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

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


rate difficulty: where we found brethren, and were entreated to tarry with them seven days: and so we came to Rome.

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


rate difficulty: For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast made a candlestick of pure gold, of beaten work is the candlestick made; its base, and its branch, its calyxes, its knops, and its flowers are of the same;

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


simplify: That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.

So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.


rate difficulty: And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.

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


simplify: The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

the twenty-four councillors prostrate themselves before him who is seated on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever, and throw down their crowns before the throne, saying —


rate difficulty: So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

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


rate difficulty: Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.


simplify: And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

And then he will send out the angels, and will get together his saints from the four winds, from the farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven.


simplify: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.


rate difficulty: All this, friends, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept — ‘Keep to what is written,’ that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another.

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


simplify: And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty:

And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:


rate difficulty: And David was displeased, because Jehovah had broken forth upon Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-uzzah, unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.


simplify: And if a man prevail against him that is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

And two attacked by one would be safe, and three cords twisted together are not quickly broken.


simplify: And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon unto mount Hermon;

At that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;


simplify: the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

The secrets of his heart are made clear; and he will go down on his face and give worship to God, saying that God is truly among you.


simplify: But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.


rate difficulty: and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.

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


rate difficulty: <FI> In<Fi> a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.

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


rate difficulty: But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

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


simplify: For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.


rate difficulty: And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

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


simplify: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

Jesus said in answer, The first is, Give ear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord;


simplify: and I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the land where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Clearing out from among you all those who are uncontrolled and who are sinning against me; I will take them out of the land where they are living, but they will not come into the land of Israel: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

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


simplify: For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.

For I will send out the nations before you and make wide the limits of your land; and no man will make an attempt to take your land while you go up to give worship to the Lord, three times in the year.


rate difficulty: but I have thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-workman and fellow-soldier, but your messenger and minister to my need,

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


simplify: And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.

And Mahlon and Chilion came to their end; and the woman was without her two sons and her husband.


rate difficulty: The upright man will never be moved, but evil-doers will not have a safe resting-place in the land.

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


simplify: And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king’s provinces:

And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:


simplify: Thou shalt not have in thy house diverse measures, a great and a small.

Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.


rate difficulty: and the border of their inheritance is Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-Shemesh,

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


simplify: unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

Became the property of Abraham before the eyes of the children of Heth and of all who came into the town.


simplify: This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.


simplify: And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

And at the end of their days of feasting, Job sent and made them clean, getting up early in the morning and offering burned offerings for them all. For, Job said, It may be that my sons have done wrong and said evil of God in their hearts. And Job did this whenever the feasts came round.


simplify: and shall not the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who with the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.


rate difficulty: How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.

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


rate difficulty: And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

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


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And Jehovah said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.

Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron.


simplify: That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?


rate difficulty: The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, andwith the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;


simplify: Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm ravageth, and fleeth away.

Let your traders be increased more than the stars of heaven:


simplify: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

and that, in union with him, everyone who believes in him is absolved from every sin from which under the law of Moses you could not be absolved.


rate difficulty: this <FI>is<Fi> the word that Jehovah spake concerning him: Trampled on thee, laughed at thee, Hath the virgin daughter of Zion, Behind thee shaken the head hath the daughter of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Abi–albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

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


rate difficulty: If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;

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


rate difficulty: And they were offended in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honour, unless in his country and in his house.

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


simplify: then I will walk contrary unto you in wrath; and I also will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Then my wrath will be burning against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for your sins.


simplify: And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Jehovah, these cities with their suburbs.

And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo, the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel, the son of Abner;

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


rate difficulty: “John’s baptism was a baptism on repentance,” rejoined Paul, “and John told the people (speaking of the ‘one coming; after him) that they should believe in him — that is in Jesus.”

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


rate difficulty: because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan at your presence, till your passing over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea which He dried up at our presence till our passing over;

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


rate difficulty: having come unto me and stood by <FI>me<Fi> , said to me, Saul, brother, look up; and I the same hour did look up to him;

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


simplify: And their words seemed to them as idle tales, and they believed them not.

But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.


rate difficulty: And he made offerings and had perfumes burned in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

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


simplify: In the multitude of people is the king’s glory; But in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.

A king's glory is in the number of his people: and for need of people a ruler may come to destruction.


simplify: And he led them out untilthey were over against Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing.


simplify: And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seem good to thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.

And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.


rate difficulty: Hearken now to my voice: I will give thee counsel, andGod shall be with thee. Be thou for the people withGod, and bring the matters beforeGod;

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


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

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


simplify: And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer–sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.


rate difficulty: Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?

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


simplify: And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.

And does not take it to the door of the Tent of meeting to make an offering to the Lord, that man will be cut off from among his people.


simplify: This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of hosts.

This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.


simplify: I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.


rate difficulty: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, my breast <FI>is<Fi> as wine not opened, Like new bottles it is broken up.


rate difficulty: In the same town there was a widow who went to him again and again, and said ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’


rate difficulty: Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

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


rate difficulty: and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand--all men of Ai.

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


rate difficulty: and I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here;

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


simplify: But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?


simplify: And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?

And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour?


simplify: Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, All that pertained to Saul and to all his house have I given unto thy master’s son.

Then the king sent for Ziba, Saul's servant, and said to him, All the property of Saul and of his family I have given to your master's son.


simplify: They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,

So the bearers of this letter were sent on their way, and went down to Antioch. There they called a meeting of all the followers,


simplify: How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

What do I suggest, then, friends? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of ‘tongues,’ or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith.


rate difficulty: and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

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


rate difficulty: And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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


simplify: and said, My lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

And said, My Lord, if now I have grace in your eyes, do not go away from your servant:


rate difficulty: And I answered them, and said to them, TheGod of the heavens, he will prosper us, and we his servants will arise and build; but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

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


rate difficulty: In his going unto Ziglag there have fallen unto him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zillthai, heads of the thousands that <FI>are<Fi> of Manasseh;

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


simplify: Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:

Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel, the son of Pedaiah;


rate difficulty: Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:

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


rate difficulty: And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.


simplify: Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

Even by the God of your father, who will be your help, and by the Ruler of all, who will make you full with blessings from heaven on high, blessings of the deep stretched out under the earth, blessings of the breasts and of the fertile body:


rate difficulty: And the cherubim spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat were the faces of the cherubim.

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


simplify: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with you;

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus be with you.


simplify: Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and lovingkindness, let not all the travail seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.


simplify: Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever his uncleanness be wherewith he is unclean, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

Or if he becomes unclean through touching unconsciously any unclean thing of man, whatever it may be, when it is made clear to him he will be responsible:


simplify: If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

When a person appears to be religious, yet does not bridle their tongue, but imposes on their own conscience, that person’s religious observances are valueless.


simplify: in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'

It is, then, on Christ’s behalf that we are acting as ambassadors, God, as it were, appealing to you through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf — Be reconciled to God.


simplify: And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague be somewhat dark, and the plague spread not in the skin, the priest shall pronounce him clean: it is but a scab: and he shall wash his clothes, and be clean.

And the priest is to see him again on the seventh day; and if the mark is less bright and is not increased on his skin, then let the priest say that he is clean: it is only a skin-mark, and after his clothing has been washed he will be clean.


rate difficulty: And he says to them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then, having arisen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.


simplify: Then I answered and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?

And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?


rate difficulty: If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, [in separating himself from them], he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.

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


simplify: Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on.

Then Samuel said to Saul, Say no more! Let me give you word of what the Lord has said to me this night. And he said to him, Say on.


rate difficulty: Be not hasty to go out of his sight; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatever pleaseth him,


simplify: And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return 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.


rate difficulty: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

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


simplify: And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he waxed exceeding strong.

The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power.


simplify: After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

Then he was seen by James; then by all the Apostles.


rate difficulty: And the king saith unto Joab, `Lo, I pray thee, thou hast done this thing; and go, bring back the young man Absalom.'

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


rate difficulty: The number of burned offerings which the people took in was seventy oxen, a hundred male sheep, and two hundred lambs: all these were for burned offerings to the Lord.

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


simplify: And Peter answering him said, `Sir, if it is thou, bid me come to thee upon the waters;'

“Master,” Peter exclaimed, “if it is you, tell me to come to you on the water.”


simplify: for these things being to you and abounding, do make <FI>you<Fi> neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For, when these virtues are yours, in increasing measure, they prevent your being indifferent to, or destitute of, a fuller knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: But sought to the Lord God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

But turning to the God of his father and keeping his laws, and not doing as Israel did.


simplify: And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger:

Burning their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom the Lord sent away from before them; they did evil things, moving the Lord to wrath;


simplify: And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.


simplify: And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s father’s brother, king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah, his father's brother, king in place of Jehoiachin, changing his name to Zedekiah.


simplify: And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?


rate difficulty: And they teach in Judah, and with them <FI>is<Fi> the Book of the Law of Jehovah, and they go round about into all cities of Judah, and teach among the people.

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


simplify: And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for our money faileth.

And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.


simplify: Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.

Her husband, Joseph, was a religious man and, since he did not want to disgrace her publicly, he resolved to put an end to their engagement privately.


rate difficulty: and he answereth and saith, `That which Jehovah doth put in my mouth--it do I not take heed to speak?'

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


simplify: and having beckoned to them with the hand to be silent, he declared to them how the Lord brought him out of the prison, and he said, `Declare to James and to the brethren these things;' and having gone forth, he went on to another place.

Peter signed to them with his hand to be silent, and then told them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison, adding: “Tell James and the others all this.” Then he left the house, and went away to another place.


rate difficulty: For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.

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


simplify: That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest discern the paths to the house thereof?

So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?


simplify: Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

What, I ask, is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

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


rate difficulty: And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not.

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


simplify: Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.


simplify: Then again he laid his hands upon his eyes; and he looked stedfastly, and was restored, and saw all things clearly.

Then again he put his hands on his eyes; and looking hard, he was able to see, and saw all things clearly.


rate difficulty: Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timothy, was not yea and nay, but in him is yea.

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we were preaching among you, even I and Silvanus and Timothy, was not Yes and No, but in him is Yes.


simplify: and an eye is not able to say to the hand, `I have no need of thee;' nor again the head to the feet, `I have no need of you.'

The eye cannot say to the hand ‘I do not need you,’ nor, again, the head to the feet ‘I do not need you.’


simplify: As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

When I sent for them, then they went away from me; they made offerings to the Baals, burning perfumes to images.


simplify: And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.


rate difficulty: for days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall make a palisaded mound about thee, and shall close thee around, and keep thee in on every side,


rate difficulty: The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.


rate difficulty: For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water.

Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.


rate difficulty: Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workmen.

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


simplify: and they having gone through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia, and having gone into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, they sat down,

The others went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. There they went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats.


rate difficulty: And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more upon the children of Israel.

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


simplify: For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.

For a man puts himself in danger, if he takes part in the holy meal without being conscious that it is the Lord's body.


simplify: And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.


rate difficulty: `And who <FI>is<Fi> the man that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not made it common? --let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man make it common.

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


rate difficulty: At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

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


simplify: But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that Jehovah hath showed me:

But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:


simplify: `Teacher, Moses said, If any one may die not having children, his brother shall marry his wife, and shall raise up seed to his brother.

“Teacher, Moses said — ‘should a man die without children, the man’s brother will become the husband of the widow, and raise a family for his brother.’


simplify: The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.


rate difficulty: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be hallowed in her.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when Joseph hath come unto his brethren, that they strip Joseph of his coat, the long coat which <FI>is<Fi> upon him,

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


simplify: And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favor in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he was come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, unto whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading.

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


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;

The word which came to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah; this was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.


rate difficulty: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.

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


simplify: because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror,

For, when anyone listens to it and does not practice it, they like a person looking at their own face in a mirror.


simplify: When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,

When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say —