simplify: And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.


rate difficulty: So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

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


simplify: If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.


rate difficulty: When she is shaking her wings on high, she makes sport of the horse and of him who is seated on him.

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


simplify: If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;


simplify: His archers compass me round about; He cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; He poureth out my gall upon the ground.

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.


simplify: for ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

For you have not come to the rest and the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.


simplify: And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

And no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to get the book open, or to see what was in it.


rate difficulty: Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

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


simplify: And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

Then his brothers went, and falling at his feet, said, Truly, we are your servants.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

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


simplify: And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

And he went forward a little, and falling down on his face in prayer, he said, O my Father, if it is possible, let this cup go from me; but let not my pleasure, but yours be done.


simplify: That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

that they should teach what is right, so as to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,


simplify: The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

To his dear friend Gaius, whom he sincerely loves, From the officer of the church.


simplify: Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

Let a follower in humble circumstances be proud of their exalted position, but a rich follower of their humiliation;


simplify: And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand:

And he put the chief wine-servant back in his old place; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


simplify: When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

The astrologers heard what the king had to say, and then continued their journey. The star which they had seen in the east led them on, until it reached, and stood over, the place where the child was.


simplify: and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.

So that no man might be able to do trade but he who has the mark, even the name of the beast or the number of his name.


rate difficulty: Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.

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


simplify: And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

Now there was in their synagogue at the time a man under the power of a foul spirit, who called out:


rate difficulty: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.


rate difficulty: `And when ye say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted, is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar do ye bow yourselves in Jerusalem?

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

and forgive us our wrong-doings,  as we have forgiven those who have wronged us;


simplify: And he said unto the vinedresser, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why doth it also cumber the ground?

And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?


simplify: Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.

You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.

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


simplify: Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded for thy wares with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and rubies.

Edom did business with you because of the great number of things which you made; they gave emeralds, purple, and needlework, and the best linen and coral and rubies for your goods.


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

But now that you have been set free from the control of sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever increasing holiness, and the end eternal life.


rate difficulty: And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the priests consented to receive no more money of the people, neither to repair the breaches of the house.

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


simplify: the hangings of the court, its pillars, and its sockets, and the screen for the gate of the court, the cords thereof, and the pins thereof, and all the instruments of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of meeting;

The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;


simplify: Now as soon as this letter cometh to you, seeing your master’s sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, a fenced city also, and armour;

Straight away, when you get this letter, seeing that your master's sons are with you, and that you have carriages and horses and a walled town and arms;


simplify: He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth–gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

Acting on their suggestion, he went with Jehoram, son of Ahab, king of Israel, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the bowmen.


rate difficulty: Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were overcome before them, went in flight by way of the waste land.


rate difficulty: or his sin which he hath sinned hath been made known unto him, then he hath brought in his offering, a kid of the goats, a perfect one, a female, for his sin which he hath sinned,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.

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


rate difficulty: For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

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


simplify: And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth–rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a thousand men, and of Ish–tob twelve thousand men.

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, they sent to the Aramaeans of Beth-rehob and Zobah, and got for payment twenty thousand footmen, and they got from the king of Maacah a thousand men, and from Tob twelve thousand.


rate difficulty: And these are the generations of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and to them were sons born after the flood.

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


rate difficulty: And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret,


rate difficulty: then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten in thy presence and drunk, and thou hast taught in our streets;

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


simplify: How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?


rate difficulty: This do therefore that we say to thee: We have four men who have a vow on them;

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


simplify: When therefore they were come together here, I made no delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded the man to be brought.

So, when they had come together here, straight away, on the day after, I took my place on the judge's seat and sent for the man.


simplify: Thou shalt not take up a false report: put not thy hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.


simplify: And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of food from the king.

And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.


simplify: to the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they sacrifice in the open field, even that they may bring them unto Jehovah, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest, and sacrifice them for sacrifices of peace-offerings unto Jehovah.

So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.


simplify: for the son of man is lord even of the sabbath.'

For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”


rate difficulty: In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.


rate difficulty: his offering <FI>is<Fi> one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty <FI>shekels<Fi> ; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present;

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the children of rebellion; that thou mayest make an end of their murmurings against me, that they die not.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.


simplify: and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, were lodging there.

To see if Simon, named Peter, was living there.


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If a man or a woman have vowed the special vow of a Nazarite, to consecrate themselves to Jehovah;

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


simplify: And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.


simplify: For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:

For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;


rate difficulty: And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom,

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


rate difficulty: And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

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


simplify: Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.


simplify: And Samuel grew, and Jehovah was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.

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


simplify: So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king’s service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.

So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.


simplify: Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: They are to be of irreproachable character, faithful to their partners, whose children are Christians and have never been charged with dissolute conduct or have been unruly.

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


simplify: And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of Jehovah: and they came through the upper gate unto the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

Then he took the captains of hundreds and the chiefs and the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord through the higher doorway into the king's house, and put the king on the seat of the kingdom.


rate difficulty: And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

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


simplify: Jehovah will command the blessing upon thee in thy barns, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto; and he will bless thee in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

The Lord will send his blessing on your store-houses and on everything to which you put your hand: his blessing will be on you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


rate difficulty: When the doors are shut in the street, and the sound of the crushing is low, and the voice of the bird is soft, and the daughters of music will be made low;

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


simplify: Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; he will come and save you.

Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.


simplify: And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.


simplify: Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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


rate difficulty: And the king turned his face, and blessed the whole congregation of Israel: and all the congregation of Israel stood.

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


simplify: for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God;

All Nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the sons of God.


rate difficulty: In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.

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


simplify: `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

But, should the servant be a bad servant, and say to themselves ‘My master is a long time in coming,’


rate difficulty: You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

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


simplify: If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

If her father will not give her to him on any account, he will have to give the regular payment for virgins.


rate difficulty: Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.


simplify: Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:

Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Makkedah and came to Libnah, and made an attack on it;


rate difficulty: And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

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


simplify: And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;


rate difficulty: And when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.


rate difficulty: And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

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


simplify: And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

And when he saw the traveller in the street of the town, the old man said, Where are you going? and where do you come from?


simplify: `because the letters indeed--saith one--<FI> are<Fi> weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

For people say “His letters are impressive and vigorous, but his personal appearance is insignificant and his speaking contemptible.”


rate difficulty: He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah sendeth Nathan unto David, and he cometh unto him, and saith to him: `Two men have been in one city; One rich and one poor;

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


simplify: Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations;

Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,


simplify: and he was seen for many days of those who did come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.

and he appeared for many days to those who had gone up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, and who are now witnesses for him to the people.


simplify: Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?'

Perhaps you will say to me — ‘How can anyone still be blamed? For who withstands his purpose?’


rate difficulty: And now, take to you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go ye unto My servant Job, and ye have caused a burnt-offering to ascend for you; and Job My servant doth pray for you, for surely his face I accept, so as not to do with you folly, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.

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


simplify: If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son.

If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.


rate difficulty: On reaching a place named Golgotha (a place named from its likeness to a skull),


simplify: Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.


rate difficulty: for if also an uncertain sound a trumpet may give, who shall prepare himself for battle?

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


rate difficulty: He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.


simplify: And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.

And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.


rate difficulty: and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.


rate difficulty: All these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.


simplify: And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.


rate difficulty: And I was like a tame lamb [that] is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, [saying,] Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, What are you talking about together while you go?


simplify: He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.

He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;

For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel;


simplify: because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been rent asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and no man had strength to tame him.

Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.


simplify: Stand in the gate of Jehovah’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah.

Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.


rate difficulty: He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

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


simplify: And I was weeping much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the scroll, nor to behold it,

At this I wept long, because no one could be found who was worthy to open the book or look within it.


rate difficulty: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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


rate difficulty: but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circumcision

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


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, in David's being with Edom, in the going up of Joab head of the host to bury the slain, that he smiteth every male in Edom--

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


simplify: And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.


rate difficulty: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.

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


simplify: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Like a dog going back to the food which he has not been able to keep down, is the foolish man doing his foolish acts over again.


simplify: And Jesus saith unto him, See thou tell no man; but go thy way, shew thyself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

And Jesus said to him, See that you say nothing about this to anyone; but go and let the priest see you and make the offering which was ordered by Moses, for a witness to them.


simplify: And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

And all the people put their clothing down in the way; and others got branches from the trees, and put them down in the way.


rate difficulty: And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

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


simplify: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion–geber.

Together they made ships to go to Tarshish, building them in Ezion-geber.


rate difficulty: To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

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


simplify: He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

He who keeps back his rod is unkind to his son: the loving father gives punishment with care.


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

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


rate difficulty: Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

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


rate difficulty: And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.

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simplify: For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.


simplify: For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect.


simplify: And the sailors seeking to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat to the sea, in pretence as <FI>if<Fi> out of the foreship they are about to cast anchors,

The sailors wanted to leave the ship, and had lowered the boat, on pretense of running out anchors from the bows,


rate difficulty: In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.


simplify: Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

Peter went down to the men and said: “I am the person you are looking for. What is your reason for coming?”


simplify: Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.


rate difficulty: Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

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rate difficulty: and didst find his heart stedfast before Thee, so as to make with him the covenant, to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give <FI>it<Fi> to his seed. `And Thou dost establish Thy words, for Thou <FI>art<Fi> righteous,

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rate difficulty: Even with inanimate things, such as a flute or a harp, though they produce sounds, yet unless the notes are quite distinct, how can the tune played on the flute or the harp be recognized?

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is ordered so that it may not be moved.

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

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simplify: And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.


rate difficulty: But Jesus said to them, Because of your hard hearts he gave you this law.


simplify: And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.


simplify: for since through man <FI>is<Fi> the death, also through man <FI>is<Fi> a rising again of the dead,

For, since through a man there is death, so, too, through a man there is a resurrection of the dead.


simplify: Should ye not hear the words which Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?

Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?


simplify: And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.


simplify: Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.


rate difficulty: And as they are going, Jesus began to say to the multitudes concerning John, `What went ye out to the wilderness to view? --a reed shaken by the wind?

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simplify: But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel have done according to the word of Moses, and they ask from the Egyptians vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments;

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simplify: And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.

And when he came back he said to his father and mother, I have seen a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines: get her now for me for my wife.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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


simplify: And John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting: and they come and say unto him, Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?


simplify: But the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,


simplify: And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.


rate difficulty: And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.

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rate difficulty: And as for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when there was still some distance to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

And it will be that if you truly give ear to the orders which I put before you this day, loving the Lord your God and worshipping him with all your heart and all your soul,


simplify: and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

And those who belong to Jesus, the Christ, have already crucified their earthly nature, with its passions and its cravings.


simplify: They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

They have put up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, but I had no knowledge of it; they have made images of silver and gold, so that they may be cut off.


rate difficulty: yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

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simplify: And they said unto him, Where wilt thou that we make ready?

And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready?


rate difficulty: He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

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simplify: and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.

And they could not make any answer to that.


simplify: And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

And the priest is to take some of the blood with his finger, and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of its blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar.


rate difficulty: And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

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simplify: And thirty thousand asses and five hundred,

And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,


simplify: Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;


simplify: and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwell therein, whether they are strong or weak, whether they are few or many;

And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;


simplify: Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.

Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.


simplify: How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?


simplify: and they sat and watched him there.

And they were seated there watching him.


rate difficulty: So, if Satan is in revolt against himself and is divided, he cannot last — his end has come!


simplify: For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Machir took wives for Huppim and for Shuppim, and the name of the one <FI>is<Fi> Maachah, and the name of the second Zelophehad, and Zelophehad hath daughters.

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simplify: And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband


rate difficulty: And I will turn the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, as at the beginning.

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rate difficulty: Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;

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simplify: Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away.

The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.


rate difficulty: For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.

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


simplify: and the priests killed them, and they made a sin-offering with their blood upon the altar, to make atonement for all Israel; for the king commanded that the burnt-offering and the sin-offering should be made for all Israel.

And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.


simplify: And Jesus having turned about, and having seen her, said, `Be of good courage, daughter, thy faith hath saved thee,' and the woman was saved from that hour.

Turning and seeing her, Jesus said: “Courage, daughter! Your faith has delivered you.” And at that very moment she became well.


rate difficulty: The ephod he made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen;


simplify: How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?


simplify: then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, In this thou shalt know that I am Jehovah: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.

So the Lord says, By this you may be certain that I am the Lord; see, by the touch of this rod in my hand the waters of the Nile will be turned to blood;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.

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simplify: that I may not seem as if I would terrify you by my letters.

That I may not seem to have the desire of causing you fear by my letters.


simplify: Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.

But Jesus began to tell the people this parable — “A man once planted a vineyard, and then let it out to tenants, and went abroad for a long while.


simplify: Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?


simplify: And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and in the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

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simplify: and Agrippa said to Festus, `This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

and, speaking to Festus, Agrippa added: “The man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to the Emperor.”


simplify: And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.

And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.


rate difficulty: I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.


simplify: Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they are unclean unto you.

But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.


simplify: And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.


rate difficulty: Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

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simplify: And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?

And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?


simplify: but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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


simplify: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

For ‘nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom’; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will be famines. This will be but the beginning of the birth-pangs.


rate difficulty: And of the children of Benjamin, the brethren of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

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simplify: For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For I am the least of the Apostles, having no right to be named an Apostle, because of my cruel attacks on the church of God.


simplify: And it came to pass at even, that the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the camp.

And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.


simplify: Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!


rate difficulty: And he goeth thence unto the inhabitants of Debir (and the name of Debir formerly <FI>is<Fi> Kirjath-Sepher),

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simplify: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.

But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.


rate difficulty: And now, engage, I pray thee, with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou canst set the riders upon them.

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simplify: And the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan–aram.

The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher; these are the sons whom Jacob had in Paddan-aram.


rate difficulty: And Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

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rate difficulty: (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

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rate difficulty: They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

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simplify: Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.


simplify: Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.

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


simplify: And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the purple, and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to crucify him.

And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.


simplify: They have healed also the hurt of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

And they have made little of the wounds of my people, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.


rate difficulty: And taking her by the hand, he said to her, Talitha cumi, which is, My child, I say to you, Get up.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

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


rate difficulty: But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

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simplify: A wrathful man stirreth up contention; But he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.


simplify: And Joses, who was surnamed by the apostles Barnabas--which is, having been interpreted, Son of Comfort--a Levite, of Cyprus by birth,

A Levite of Cyprian birth, named Joseph, (who had received from the apostles the additional name of ‘Barnabas’ — which means ‘The Consoler,’)


simplify: because mine eyes did see Thy salvation,


simplify: Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.


rate difficulty: So the Philistines were overcome, and did not come into the country of Israel again: and all the days of Samuel the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines.


simplify: The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

The open space is to be a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, with sides five cubits high, curtained with the best linen, with bases of brass.


simplify: For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;

For if, when we were haters of God, the death of his Son made us at peace with him, much more, now that we are his friends, will we have salvation through his life;


simplify: then saith he to them, `Exceedingly sorrowful is my soul--unto death; abide ye here, and watch with me.'

“I am sad at heart,” he said, “sad even to death; wait here and watch with me.”


rate difficulty: Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

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


simplify: And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word of the Lord, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.

And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not.


simplify: Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

And he who gives seed for putting into the field and bread for food, will take care of the growth of your seed, at the same time increasing the fruits of your righteousness;


simplify: As I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

By my life, says the Lord, even if Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, was the ring on my right hand, even from there I would have you pulled off;


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall see [it]; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall smite them with the sword.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which Jehovah hath commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe;

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rate difficulty: and filled was the sanctuary with smoke from the glory of God, and from His power, and no one was able to enter into the sanctuary till the seven plagues of the seven messengers may be finished.

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


rate difficulty: `As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

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


rate difficulty: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

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


rate difficulty: Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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


rate difficulty: While they were talking about these things and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went on their way with them;

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


rate difficulty: Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?


simplify: The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.


simplify: Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi.

Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.


simplify: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one


rate difficulty: and in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of men--seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and they gave glory to the God of the heaven.

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simplify: For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:


rate difficulty: In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

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


simplify: Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.


simplify: And he arose, and departed to his house.

And he got up and went away to his house.


rate difficulty: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

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simplify: I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

I beg you, then — I who am a prisoner in the Master’s cause — to live lives worthy of the call that you have received;


simplify: And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.

And the Levites, the children of the Kohathites and the Korahites, got to their feet and gave praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, with a loud voice.


simplify: Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, turning again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;


simplify: And ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God.

And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God.


simplify: Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;

And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;


simplify: And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.


rate difficulty: And in the days of Saul they made war with the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the east land of Gilead.

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


simplify: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

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


simplify: Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s death, we will also share his life.


simplify: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

At the judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the people of this generation, and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!


rate difficulty: And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.

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


rate difficulty: Now two others also, malefactors, were led with him to be put to death.

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


simplify: Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.  Unto the Galatians written from Rome.

May the blessing of Jesus Christ, our Lord, rest on your souls, friends. Amen.


rate difficulty: And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,

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


rate difficulty: The whole <FI>is<Fi> in writing from the hand of Jehovah, `He caused me to understand all the work of the pattern,' <FI>said David.<Fi>

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


simplify: And Simon also himself believed: and being baptized, he continued with Philip; and beholding signs and great miracles wrought, he was amazed.

And Simon himself had faith and, having had baptism, he went with Philip and, seeing the signs and the great wonders which he did, he was full of surprise.


simplify: For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

About this I three times entreated the Lord, praying that it might leave me.


rate difficulty: For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.


simplify: And I heard also a voice saying unto me, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.

And a voice came to my ears saying, Come, Peter; take them for food.


rate difficulty: But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

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


rate difficulty: and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.


rate difficulty: But Jesus went on: “Alas for you, too, you students of the law! You load people with loads that are too heavy to carry, but do not, yourselves, touch them with one of your fingers.


rate difficulty: This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear.


rate difficulty: And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled <FI>with<Fi> violence.

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


simplify: I am the Alpha and the Omega--the Beginning and End--the First and the Last.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the End.’)


rate difficulty: For everyone who exalts themselves will be humbled, and everyone who humbles themselves will be exalted.”

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


rate difficulty: And Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

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


simplify: And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.


rate difficulty: But what I say to you, I say to all, Watch.


simplify: Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:


rate difficulty: And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.

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


rate difficulty: Now, then, say to the men of Judah and to the people of Jerusalem, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am forming an evil thing against you, and designing a design against you: let every man come back now from his evil way, and let your ways and your doings be changed for the better.


rate difficulty: but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,

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


simplify: But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah’s anointed?

But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said, Is not death the right fate for Shimei, because he has been cursing the one marked by the holy oil?


simplify: When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

When I was with you day after day in the Temple Courts, you did not lay hands on me; but now your time has come, and the power of darkness.”


simplify: While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

Before the Pharisees separated, Jesus put this question to them —


rate difficulty: Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and sincerely in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and if ye have done to him according to the deserving of his hands;

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


simplify: They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.


rate difficulty: But thy hallowed things which thou hast, and what thou hast vowed, thou shalt take, and come to the place which Jehovah will choose;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save her.

For he came across her in the open country, and there was no one to come to the help of the virgin in answer to her cry.


simplify: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh.

In the same way the second and the third, up to the seventh.


simplify: Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.


rate difficulty: And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened to give heed unto the things which were spoken by Paul.

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Gad after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;


simplify: And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which are gone up from you.

And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.


simplify: Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

And now let Pharaoh make search for a man of wisdom and good sense, and put him in authority over the land of Egypt.


simplify: And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds; they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall beat down thy fortified cities, wherein thou trustest, with the sword.

They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.


rate difficulty: For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.

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


simplify: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.


simplify: that Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, I am Jehovah: speak thou unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak unto thee.

The Lord said to Moses, I am the Lord: say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, everything I am saying to you.


rate difficulty: Those who have Christian masters should not think less of them because they are also followers of Christ, but on the contrary they should serve them all the better, because those who are to benefit by their good work are dear to them as their fellow Christians.

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


simplify: Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.

So all the work which Solomon did for the house of the Lord was complete. And Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of God.


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

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


simplify: whom, having brought in a crowd together, and those who did work about such things, he said, `Men, ye know that by this work we have our wealth;

got these men together, as well as the workmen engaged in similar occupations, and said:   “Men, you know that our prosperity depends on this work,


rate difficulty: And now I am here to be judged because of the hope given by God's word to our fathers;


rate difficulty: If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.

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


rate difficulty: And their houses have been turned to others, Fields and wives together, For I stretch out My hand against the inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: and Jacob saith, `Sell to-day thy birthright to me.'

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


simplify: The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

the first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man from heaven.


rate difficulty: I have confidence to you-ward in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel saw the great power [with] which Jehovah had wrought against the Egyptians; and the people feared Jehovah, and believed in Jehovah, and in Moses his bondman.


rate difficulty: So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.

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


rate difficulty: In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

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


rate difficulty: The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.


simplify: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

For he is the servant of God to you for good. But if you do evil, have fear; for the sword is not in his hand for nothing: he is God's servant, making God's punishment come on the evil-doer.


rate difficulty: Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Ben–hadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,


rate difficulty: Behold then the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell, severity; but toward thee, God’s goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

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


rate difficulty: And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:


simplify: So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s.

So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.


simplify: And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons’ after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.

And Aaron's holy robes will be used by his sons after him; they will put them on when they are made priests.


simplify: And Noah builded an altar unto Jehovah, and took of every clean beast, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.

And Noah made an altar to the Lord, and from every clean beast and bird he made burned offerings on the altar.


simplify: The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.


simplify: For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made [each] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;


rate difficulty: And he said to me, `These words <FI>are<Fi> stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:

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


rate difficulty: And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.

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


rate difficulty: And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

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


simplify: They shall walk after the Lord: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;


rate difficulty: How do ye say, We <FI>are<Fi> wise, And the law of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.

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


simplify: and Jesus answering spake to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, `Is it lawful on the sabbath-day to heal?'

“Is it allowable,”said Jesus, addressing the students of the law and the Pharisees, “to work a cure on the Sabbath, or is it not?”


simplify: And I, Paul, myself, do call upon you--through the meekness and gentleness of the Christ--who in presence, indeed <FI>am<Fi> humble among you, and being absent, have courage toward you,

Now, I, Paul, make a personal appeal to you by the meekness and gentleness of the Christ — I who, “in your presence, am humble in my bearing towards you, but, when absent, am bold in my language to you” —


rate difficulty: 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 reign.

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


rate difficulty: even gold by weight, for <FI>things of<Fi> gold, for all instruments of service and service; for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of service and service;

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


rate difficulty: Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

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


simplify: And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

And then brought them before the Council. The high priest demanded an explanation from them.


rate difficulty: He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son ofGod has not life.

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


simplify: But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

But they, shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, came to Iconium.


simplify: And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

She had a wall great and high, with twelve doors, and at the doors twelve angels; and names on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.


simplify: And the child grew, and waxed strong, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.


rate difficulty: And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: The foxes walk upon it.

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


rate difficulty: and the candlesticks, and their lamps, for their burning according to the ordinance, before the oracle, of gold refined;

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


simplify: A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, saith Jehovah.

A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: A third time he came, and said to them: “Sleep on now, and rest yourselves. Enough! My time has come. Look: the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of wicked people.


simplify: The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked,


rate difficulty: For, if you show kindness only to those who show kindness to you, what thanks will be due to you? Even the outcast do that!


rate difficulty: Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: Now he was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: and they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, they asked for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.


simplify: And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and whatever more you may spend I will myself repay you on my way back.’


rate difficulty: And going out he saw a great crowd, and was moved with compassion about them, and healed their infirm.


simplify: For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:


rate difficulty: `And he hath brought in his guilt-offering to Jehovah, unto the opening of the tent of meeting, a ram <FI>for<Fi> a guilt-offering,

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


rate difficulty: And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,

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


rate difficulty: `And, now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Why are ye doing great evil unto your own souls, to cut off to you man and woman, infant and suckling, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave to you a remnant:

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


rate difficulty: But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,


simplify: for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink;

For I was in need of food, and you gave it not to me; I was in need of drink, and you gave it not to me:


rate difficulty: and as they are sailing he fell deeply asleep, and there came down a storm of wind to the lake, and they were filling, and were in peril.

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


simplify: Therefore, behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.


simplify: For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.

For your servant is conscious of his sin: and so, as you see, I have come today, the first of all the sons of Joseph, for the purpose of meeting my lord the king.


rate difficulty: See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


simplify: Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

And he was angry with his three friends, because they had been unable to give him an answer, and had not made Job's sin clear.


rate difficulty: And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

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


simplify: All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee on thy way, even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread lay a snare under thee: there is no understanding in him.

All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.


rate difficulty: And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.

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


simplify: And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I; send me.

And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.


rate difficulty: It may be that they will give ear, and that every man will be turned from his evil way, so that my purpose of sending evil on them because of the evil of their doings may be changed.

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


simplify: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

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


simplify: And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear fell upon him.

And Zacharias was troubled when he saw him, and fear came on him.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel:

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


rate difficulty: And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both men and cattle; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field.

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


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

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


simplify: and Jesus said to them, `Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with--to be baptized?'

“You do not know what you are asking,”Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup that I am to drink? Or receive the baptism that I am to receive?”


rate difficulty: Everyone who lives sinfully is living in violation of law. Sin is violation of law.

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


rate difficulty: ‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.’


simplify: And when Saul inquired of Jehovah, Jehovah answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.


simplify: But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.


simplify: but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.

But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.


simplify: Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.


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

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


simplify: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.


simplify: And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'

“I should like to hear this man myself,” Agrippa said to Festus.   “You will hear him tomorrow,” Festus answered.


rate difficulty: But you yourself will not be the builder of my house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.

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


simplify: Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:

Among other places Paul went to Derbe and Lystra. At the latter place they found a disciple, named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewess who had become a believer in Christ, while his father was a Greek,


simplify: Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.


simplify: And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.


simplify: And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her, and went in unto her.

And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.


simplify: For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.


rate difficulty: Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city.

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


simplify: Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--


rate difficulty: And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.

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


simplify: This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.

This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you.