simplify: Moreover the brazen altar, that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of Jehovah: and Solomon and the assembly sought unto it.

And the altar of brass which Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the Tent of the Lord; and Solomon and all the people went to give worship there.


simplify: and the Pharisees said to him, `Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'

“Look!” the Pharisees said to him, “why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?”


simplify: At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

At the west side, four thousand five hundred by measure, with their three doors, one for Gad, one for Asher, one for Naphtali.


rate difficulty: and Joseph findeth grace in his eyes and serveth him, and he appointeth him over his house, and all that he hath he hath given into his hand.

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


simplify: Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.


rate difficulty: Just at that time she was taken ill, and died; and they had washed her body and laid it out in an upstairs room.

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


simplify: And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What do you see? And I said, I see a boiling pot, and its face is from the north.


simplify: Likewise when all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and that were in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;


rate difficulty: But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

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


simplify: And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?


rate difficulty: persecutions, sufferings; what things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: and out of them all the Lord delivered me.

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


simplify: A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

A good person, from the good stores of their heart, brings out what is good; while a bad person, from their bad stores, brings out what is bad. For what fills someone’s heart will rise to their lips.


rate difficulty: And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, hear Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah,

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


simplify: Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:


rate difficulty: And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

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


rate difficulty: Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened [bread];

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


rate difficulty: and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,


simplify: whenever, therefore, thou mayest do kindness, thou mayest not sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues, and in the streets, that they may have glory from men; verily I say to you--they have their reward!

Therefore, when you do acts of charity, do not have a trumpet blown in front of you, as hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets so that people will praise them. There, I tell you, is their reward!


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship.


simplify: To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

To every one of them he gave three changes of clothing; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred bits of silver and five changes of clothing.


simplify: For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.


simplify: And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death; for they feared the people.

And the chief priests and the scribes were looking for a chance to put him to death, but they went in fear of the people.


rate difficulty: Then, lifting up his eyes, he saw Benjamin, his brother, his mother's son, and he said, Is this your youngest brother of whom you gave me word? And he said, God be good to you, my son.

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


simplify: For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up.

For he saw that for envy they had given him up.


rate difficulty: And they all said, Are you then the Son of God? and he said, You say that I am.

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


rate difficulty: but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

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


simplify: And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, using three hundred shekels of gold for every cover, and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.


rate difficulty: These are the things because of which the wrath of God comes,


rate difficulty: When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:

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


simplify: The good man out of the good treasure of the heart doth put forth the good things, and the evil man out of the evil treasure doth put forth evil things.

A good person, from his good stores, produces good things; while an evil person, from his evil stores, produces evil things.


simplify: The chief of the people; Parosh, Pahath–moab, Elam, Zatthu, Bani,

The chiefs of the people: Parosh, Pahath-moab, Elam, Zattu, Bani,


simplify: So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the Lord.

So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before Jehovah thy God:

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


rate difficulty: To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,


simplify: The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.

The hater of work puts his hand deep into the basin: lifting it again to his mouth is a weariness to him.


simplify: And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.


simplify: But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Hard-hearted and impenitent as you are, you are storing up for yourself wrath on the ‘day of wrath,’ when God’s justice as a judge will be revealed;


rate difficulty: And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.


simplify: My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.

My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.


rate difficulty: And the days of his weeping pass away, and Joseph speaketh unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, `If, I pray you, I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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


rate difficulty: For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.


simplify: And I saw, and I heard the voice of many messengers round the throne, and the living creatures, and the elders--and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands--

Then, in my vision, I heard the voices of many angels around the throne, and of the Creatures, and of the councillors. In number they were ‘ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands,’


rate difficulty: Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

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


simplify: And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.

But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.


simplify: And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

And the Pharisees said to him, Why are they doing what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?


simplify: And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

And it came about that when Jeremiah had come to the end of giving all the people the words of the Lord their God, which the Lord their God had sent him to say to them, even all these words,


rate difficulty: but for David's sake hath Jehovah his God given to him a lamp in Jerusalem, to raise up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem,

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob saith unto Laban, `Give up my wife, for my days have been fulfilled, and I go in unto her;'

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


simplify: All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.

In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.


simplify: And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

And say before the Lord your God, I have taken all the holy things out of my house and have given them to the Levite, and the man from a strange land, and him who has no father, and the widow, as you have given me orders: I have kept in mind all your orders, in nothing have I gone against them:


rate difficulty: and among these there hath not been a man of those numbered by Moses, and Aaron the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai,

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


rate difficulty: And the priest is to make an offering of it before the Lord and take away her sin, and she will be made clean from the flow of her blood. This is the law for a woman who gives birth to a male or a female.

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


simplify: Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:


simplify: But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judæa, and beginning from Galilee even unto this place.

But they became more violent than before, saying, He has made trouble among the people, teaching through all Judaea from Galilee to this place.


simplify: And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families.


rate difficulty: The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were thy traffickers: they furnished thy markets with all the choice spices, and with all precious stones and gold.

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


simplify: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

since you know that it is from the Master that you will receive the inheritance which will be your reward. You are serving Christ, the Master.


simplify: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, `Himself took our infirmities, and the sicknesses he did bear.'

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah — ‘He took our infirmities on himself, and bore the burden of our diseases.’


rate difficulty: There is none judging thy cause to bind up, Healing medicines there are none for thee.


simplify: but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.


rate difficulty: Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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


rate difficulty: And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

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


simplify: And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.


rate difficulty: from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon),

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


rate difficulty: Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.

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


rate difficulty: And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

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


simplify: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.


rate difficulty: And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

And he took the burned offering, offering it in the ordered way;


simplify: And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes.


rate difficulty: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

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


rate difficulty: His feet take him into the net, and he goes walking into the cords.


rate difficulty: And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

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


simplify: Can two walk together, except they be agreed?

Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?


rate difficulty: and the heart of Pharaoh is strong, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

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


rate difficulty: And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?

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


rate difficulty: When the man went forth eastward, a line was in his hand; and he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters: the waters were to the ankles.


simplify: Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord:


rate difficulty: And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.


simplify: every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news--Jesus the Christ.

and never for a single day, either in the Temple Courts or in private houses, did they cease to teach, or to tell the good news of Jesus, the Christ.


simplify: So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: and the multitudes having seen, wondered, and glorified God, who did give such power to men.

When the crowd saw this, they were awe-struck, and praised God for giving such power to human beings.


rate difficulty: For every one of them put down his rod on the earth, and they became snakes: but Aaron's rod made a meal of their rods.


simplify: and there they preached the gospel.

And went on preaching the good news there.


rate difficulty: for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

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


rate difficulty: Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

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


simplify: Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.


rate difficulty: And they put the two wreathen [cords] of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate;


simplify: Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within the three days (it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month); and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.


rate difficulty: `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst;

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


rate difficulty: And Abishai saith unto David, `God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once--and I do repeat <FI>it<Fi> to him.'

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


rate difficulty: Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him.

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


simplify: And Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth between the ranks; and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword: for the priest said, Slay her not in the house of Jehovah.

Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to the captains of hundreds who had authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the Lord.


simplify: And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.

And when they got up to go away, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, Now evening is coming on, so do not go tonight; see, the day is almost gone; take your rest here and let your heart be glad, and tomorrow early, go on your way back to your house.


simplify: your mother shall be utterly put to shame; she that bare you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the hindermost of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.


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


rate difficulty: The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah (the son of Jehoiada, a principal officer): [he was] head; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt say before Jehovah thyGod, I have brought away the hallowed things out of the house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me; I have not transgressed nor forgotten [any] of thy commandments:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And behold, two of them were going on the same day to a village distant sixty stadia from Jerusalem, called Emmaus;

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


simplify: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;


simplify: And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled from him.

And there was war again: and David went out fighting the Philistines, causing great destruction among them; and they went in flight before him.


simplify: And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.


simplify: And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

And it was made clear to them by God in a dream that they were not to go back to Herod; so they went into their country by another way.


rate difficulty: He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'

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


simplify: but, as it is written,  They shall see, to whom no tidings of him came, And they who have not heard shall understand.

But as it is said in the holy Writings, They will see, to whom the news of him had not been given, and those to whose ears it had not come will have knowledge.


rate difficulty: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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


simplify: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;


rate difficulty: to make her holy, after purifying her by the washing with the water, according to his promise;

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


rate difficulty: For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.


simplify: And the sons of Josiah: the first-born Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

And the sons of Josiah: the oldest Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.


simplify: `None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

No one can serve two masters, for either they will hate one and love the other, or else they will attach themselves to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.


simplify: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end.


rate difficulty: And Gehazi, servant of Elisha the man of God, saith, `Lo, my lord hath spared Naaman this Aramaean, not to receive from his hand that which he brought; Jehovah liveth; surely if I have run after him, then I have taken from him something.'

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


simplify: `Think ye that peace I came to give in the earth? no, I say to you, but rather division;

Do you think that I am here to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but to cause division.


rate difficulty: And Ephron was dwelling among the sons of Heth. And Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham, in the ears of the sons of Heth, [even] of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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


simplify: But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.


simplify: And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

And David took all his men with him, every man with his family: and they were living in the towns round Hebron.


simplify: But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:


simplify: and,  A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence;  for they stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.


rate difficulty: For that leaders led in Israel, For that the people willingly offered themselves, Bless Jehovah!

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


simplify: And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

And he gave orders to them, saying, Put me to rest with my people and with my fathers, in the hollow of the rock in the field of Ephron the Hittite,


simplify: and, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them:

And then I saw seven other heads, dry, thin, and wasted by the east wind, coming up after them:


simplify: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them;

And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and made them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves: and he was changed in form before them:


rate difficulty: So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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rate difficulty: because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;

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


rate difficulty: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

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


rate difficulty: But the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together; and they that forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.


rate difficulty: For he doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.

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


simplify: Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.


rate difficulty: Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

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


simplify: Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?


simplify: and they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them.

And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them:


rate difficulty: And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

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


rate difficulty: All those numbered of the camp of Reuben <FI>are<Fi> a hundred thousand, and one and fifty thousand, and four hundred and fifty, by their hosts; and they journey second.


simplify: And Solomon told out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand to hew in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.


simplify: Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.

Give the news in Migdol, make it public in Noph: say, Take up your positions and make yourselves ready; for on every side of you the sword has made destruction.


simplify: And this shall be the sign unto you, saith Jehovah, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

And this will be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will give you punishment in this place, so that you may see that my words will certainly have effect against you for evil:


rate difficulty: Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed <FI>her<Fi> up, Surely this <FI>is<Fi> the day that we looked for, We have found--we have seen.'

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


rate difficulty: Here is the endurance of the saints, who keep the commandments ofGod and the faith of Jesus.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.

and they will put him to death, but on the third day he will rise.” The disciples were greatly distressed.


rate difficulty: Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer; I would make supplication to my judge.

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


simplify: And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and the prince of the children of Issachar shall be Nethanel the son of Zuar.

And nearest to him will be the tribe of Issachar, with Nethanel, the son of Zuar, as their chief.


rate difficulty: And there came forth a spirit, and stood before Jehovah and said, I will entice him. And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith?


simplify: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Now in the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.


rate difficulty: He flung him into the bottomless pit and locked it, and set his seal on it; that he should not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be let loose for a while.

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


simplify: And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,

And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands;


rate difficulty: King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

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


rate difficulty: But if thou wilt go, do valiantly, be strong for the battle: God will cast thee down before the enemy; for God hath power to help, and to cast down.

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


simplify: I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;


rate difficulty: And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

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


rate difficulty: He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:

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


simplify: And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.


simplify: Him did God exalt with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.


rate difficulty: Yea, Jeremiah the prophet saith, `Amen! so may Jehovah do; Jehovah establish thy words that thou hast prophesied, to bring back the vessels of the house of Jehovah and all the removal from Babylon, unto this place.

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


simplify: But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, secretly took Joash, the son of Ahaziah, with the woman who took care of him, away from among the king's sons who were put to death, and put him in the bedroom; and they kept him safe from Athaliah, so that he was not put to death.


rate difficulty: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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


simplify: These are the commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.

These are the orders which the Lord gave to Moses for the children of Israel in Mount Sinai.


simplify: For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.

For which reason I was frequently kept from coming to you:


simplify: but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly.

But I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long.


simplify: And you--once being alienated, and enemies in the mind, in the evil works, yet now did he reconcile,

And it pleased God that you, once estranged from him and hostile towards him in your thoughts, intent only on wickedness —


simplify: Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of scripture which asks — ‘Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?’


simplify: The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.


simplify: (The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;


simplify: And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:


rate difficulty: And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

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


simplify: But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

“See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, so that you can bear witness before them.


rate difficulty: In reference to the prophets: Broken hath been my heart in my midst, Fluttered have all my bones, I have been as a man--a drunkard, And as a man--wine hath passed over him, Because of Jehovah, and of His holy words.

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


rate difficulty: In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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


simplify: And whenIsh-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.

And when Saul's son Ish-bosheth had news that Abner was dead in Hebron, his hands became feeble, and all the Israelites were troubled.


rate difficulty: but we have sent with him the brother whose praise [is] in the glad tidings through all the assemblies;


rate difficulty: The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

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


simplify: And Agrippa said unto Paul, `In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!'

But Agrippa said to Paul: “You are soon trying to make a Christian of me!”


simplify: and if it be meet for me also to go, with me they shall go.

and, if it appears to be worth while for me to go also, they will go with me.


simplify: said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'

“This man said ‘I am able to destroy the Temple of God, and to build it in three days.’”


simplify: And thou shalt put it under the ledge round the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar.

And put the network under the shelf round the altar so that the net comes half-way up the altar.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

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


rate difficulty: unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,

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


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

He even longed to satisfy his hunger with the bean-pods on which the pigs were feeding; and no one gave him anything.


simplify: And next to him repaired Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, another portion, over against the ascent to the armory at the turning of the wall.

And by his side was working Ezer, the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizpah, making good another part opposite the way up to the store of arms at the turning of the wall.


simplify: It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth from them all.

It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.


rate difficulty: This is the number of the sons of Merari, numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.

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


simplify: And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.

And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.


simplify: So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:

So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.


simplify: And he answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented himself, and went.

And he said in answer, I will not: but later, changing his decision, he went.


simplify: And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.


rate difficulty: And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;

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


rate difficulty: For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

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


rate difficulty: All the ox, he is to take away outside the circle of the tents into a clean place where the burned waste is put, and there it is to be burned on wood with fire.

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


simplify: Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

You have no thought for the Rock, your father, you have no memory of the God who gave you birth.


simplify: Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.


simplify: And the lord of the vineyard said, What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; it may be they will reverence him.

And the lord of the garden said, What am I to do? I will send my dearly loved son; they may give respect to him.


simplify: And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:


rate difficulty: and the little chamber one reed long and one reed broad, and between the little chambers five cubits, and the threshold of the gate, from the side of the porch of the gate from within, one reed.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I am perfected.

And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete.


rate difficulty: If they do not get the thief, let the master of the house come before the judges and take an oath that he has not put his hand on his neighbour's goods.

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


simplify: Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?


rate difficulty: `And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

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


simplify: To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.

So that we will be able to tell the good news in the districts beyond you, without trespassing on the sphere assigned to others, or boasting of what has been already done.


simplify: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

And pray that, in proportion to the wealth of his glory, he will strengthen you with his power by breathing his Spirit into your inmost soul,


rate difficulty: And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands;

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


simplify: For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Remember, friends, to you the call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.


simplify: and now, I commend you, brethren, to God, and to the word of His grace, that is able to build up, and to give you an inheritance among all those sanctified.

And now I commend you to the Lord and to the message of his love — a message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ’s people.


simplify: And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel; but Jehovah thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten down before Israel.

And while Samuel was offering the burned offering, the Philistines came near for the attack on Israel; but at the thunder of the Lord's voice that day the Philistines were overcome with fear, and they gave way before Israel.


rate difficulty: Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.

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


rate difficulty: I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus, answering, said, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he said, Master, say on.

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


simplify: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

Standing still, some distance off, they called out loudly: “Jesus! Sir! Pity us!”


simplify: For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.


rate difficulty: Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

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


simplify: And they slew the bullock, and brought the child to Eli.

And when they had made an offering of the ox, they took the child to Eli.


rate difficulty: And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

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


simplify: And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them.

but of the rest no one ventured to join them. On the other hand, the people were full of their praise,


rate difficulty: And he cast for it four rings of gold, in the four feet thereof; even two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

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


simplify: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;


simplify: I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.


simplify: They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more.

Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.


simplify: And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.


simplify: Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.


rate difficulty: They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

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


simplify: No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

No instrument of war which is formed against you will be of any use; and every tongue which says evil against you will be judged false. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness comes from me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Abishua begot Bukki, and Bukki begot Uzzi,

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


simplify: I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.


simplify: And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:


simplify: And the chief priests accused him of many things.

And the chief priests said a number of things against him.


simplify: That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

in the hope that they, being bound to one another by love, and keeping in view the full blessedness of a firm conviction, may be encouraged to strive for a perfect knowledge of God’s hidden truth,


simplify: By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.


rate difficulty: And they shall come at no dead person to become unclean; but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may become unclean.

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


simplify: Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!


rate difficulty: And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the king's property; Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of all store-houses in country places and in the towns and little towns and strong places;

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


rate difficulty: but those out of contention, announce the Christ, not purely, supposing to arouse tribulation for my bonds.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor my burden be heavy upon thee.

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


simplify: And David spake unto Jehovah when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.

And when David saw the angel who was causing the destruction of the people, he said to the Lord, Truly, the sin is mine; I have done wrong: but these are only sheep; what have they done? let your hand be against me and against my family.


simplify: And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Jehovah fought for Israel.

And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.


rate difficulty: `And to those standing by he said, Take from him the pound, and give to him having the ten pounds--

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


rate difficulty: And they have built out of thee the wastes of old, The foundations of many generations thou raisest up, And one calleth thee, `Repairer of the breach, Restorer of paths to rest in.'

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


simplify: prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

Let all things be tested; keep to what is good;


simplify: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.


simplify: and her spirit came back, and she arose presently, and he directed that there be given to her to eat;

The child’s spirit returned to her, and she instantly stood up; and Jesus ordered them to give her something to eat.


simplify: and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

but Paul felt that they ought not to take with them the man who had deserted them in Pamphylia, and had not gone on with them to their work.


simplify: If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the Lord saith, that will I speak?

Even if Balak gave me his house full of silver and gold, it would not be possible for me to go outside the orders of the Lord, doing good or evil at the impulse of my mind; whatever the Lord says I will say?


simplify: The Lord of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

The Lord of armies will be a cover for them; and they will overcome, crushing under foot the armed men; they will take their blood for drink like wine: they will be full like the sides of the altar.


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.


rate difficulty: All these events were reported to John by his disciples.

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rate difficulty: And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,


rate difficulty: O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw, and behold, ye had sinned against Jehovah yourGod: ye had made for yourselves a molten calf; ye had quickly turned aside from the way which Jehovah had commanded you.

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

On the next day, while these men were on their way, just as they were nearing the town, Peter went up on the housetop about midday to pray.


rate difficulty: And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

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


rate difficulty: `Take heed to thyself lest thou forget Jehovah who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

For this cause the Lord has said, Now I will let the fate of Jacob be changed, and I will have mercy on all the children of Israel, and will take care of the honour of my holy name.


rate difficulty: These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.


rate difficulty: not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

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rate difficulty: And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

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


simplify: The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,


simplify: and ye like to men waiting for their lord, when he shall return out of the wedding feasts, that he having come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

and be like servants who are waiting for their Master’s return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once.


simplify: and hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

And they gave payment to men who made designs against them and kept them from effecting their purpose, all through the time of Cyrus, king of Persia, till Darius became king.


rate difficulty: And joy and gladness is taken away out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there is no singing, neither is there shouting: the treaders tread out no wine in the presses, I have made the cry [of the winepress] to cease.


simplify: For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.


rate difficulty: And <FI>some<Fi> of the sons of the priests are mixing the mixture for spices.

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


rate difficulty: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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


simplify: Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.


rate difficulty: In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.


simplify: Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the Lord thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the Lord hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord doth drive them out from before thee.

And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.


rate difficulty: Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.

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


rate difficulty: The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Now it was time for Elisabeth to give birth, and she had a son.

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


simplify: For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.


simplify: And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.

And he said, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then the Lord said to me, The end has come to my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin.


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

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


rate difficulty: I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

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


simplify: and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

And on the pillar, four cups like almond flowers, every one with its bud and its flower:


simplify: And they that went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried out the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

And those who were in front made protests and said to him, Be quiet: but he said all the more, O Son of David, have mercy on me.


simplify: Then Jehovah put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth:

Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:


rate difficulty: and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.

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


simplify: And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

Now Laban had two daughters: the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.


rate difficulty: The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:


rate difficulty: The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy.

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rate difficulty: In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:

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simplify: which is come unto you; even as it is also in all the world bearing fruit and increasing, as it doth in you also, since the day ye heard and knew the grace of God in truth;

Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;


rate difficulty: These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God’s judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God’s kingdom, for the sake of which you are now suffering;

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


rate difficulty: And as to the stranger also, who is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake

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rate difficulty: And Gideon, the son of Joash, came to his end when he was very old, and his body was put in the resting-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

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


simplify: Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

Let no man go to law or make protests, for your people are like those who go to law with a priest.


rate difficulty: And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.


simplify: That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

so that with one heart and one voice you may praise the God and Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord.


rate difficulty: And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

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


simplify: Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work; her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.


rate difficulty: And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

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


simplify: I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

I am writing, adults in the faith, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the beginning. I am writing, young ones in the faith, to you, because you have conquered the evil one. I write, children, to you, because you have learned to know the Father.


rate difficulty: And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever?

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


rate difficulty: And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

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


rate difficulty: We are ofGod; he that knowsGod hears us; he who is not ofGod does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.


simplify: Only the firstling among beasts, which is made a firstling to Jehovah, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox or sheep, it is Jehovah’s.

But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.


simplify: And Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Jehovah: all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.


simplify: The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.

The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.


simplify: For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.


simplify: And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.


simplify: Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.


simplify: Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

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


rate difficulty: Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.

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


simplify: Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.


simplify: and he went away, and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how great things Jesus did to him, and all were wondering.

So the man went, and began to proclaim in the district of the Ten Towns all that Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.


rate difficulty: And people will bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.


simplify: Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

Then Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men who were with him, got up, and attacking Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, put to death him whom the king of Babylon had made ruler over the land.


simplify: ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.


rate difficulty: and the Levites stand with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

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


simplify: And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:

And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against the mouth of the hole, and let men keep watch by it:


simplify: They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.


rate difficulty: And when Elisha came into the house he saw the child dead, stretched on his bed.


rate difficulty: and the flesh and the skin he hath burnt with fire, at the outside of the camp.

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


rate difficulty: And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.

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


simplify: Behold, I will command, saith Jehovah, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

See, I will give orders, says the Lord, and make them come back to this town; and they will make war on it and take it and have it burned with fire: and I will make the towns of Judah waste and unpeopled.


rate difficulty: At this, with a loud shout, they stopped their ears and all rushed on him, forced him outside the city,


rate difficulty: and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built--to cast him down headlong,

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


simplify: And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord.

And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?


simplify: And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

And the people hearing it were surprised at his teaching.


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

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


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah concerning the house of the king of Judah: Thou art a Gilead unto me, the summit of Lebanon: verily I will make thee a wilderness, cities not inhabited.

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


simplify: And if I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I cannot contain.

And if I say, I will not keep him in mind, I will not say another word in his name; then it is in my heart like a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am tired of keeping myself in, I am not able to do it.


rate difficulty: out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two <FI>loaves<Fi> , of two tenth deals of flour they are, <FI>with<Fi> yeast they are baken, first-<FI> fruits<Fi> to Jehovah.

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


simplify: For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.


simplify: Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death.

Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.


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

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


rate difficulty: In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.


simplify: And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto Jehovah,

So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David; but David would not take it, but made an offering of it, draining it out to the Lord,


simplify: Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.


simplify: And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: And he took two oxen and, cutting them up, sent them through all the land of Israel by the hand of runners, saying, If any man does not come out after Saul and Samuel, this will be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord came on the people and they came out like one man.

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


rate difficulty: I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

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


rate difficulty: And the rest said, Let be; let us see whether Elijah cometh to save him.

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


rate difficulty: For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, And out of mount Zion they that escape: The zeal of Jehovah [of hosts] shall do this.

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


simplify: For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

because Herod stood in fear of John, knowing him to be an upright and holy man, and protected him. He had listened to John, but still remained much perplexed, and yet he found pleasure in listening to him.


rate difficulty: You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.


rate difficulty: What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh?

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


rate difficulty: And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?

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


simplify: He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.


simplify: In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women; and they shall tremble and fear because of the shaking of the hand of Jehovah of hosts, which he shaketh over them.

In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.


simplify: And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples whither Jehovah shall lead thee away.

And you will become a wonder and a name of shame among all the nations where the Lord will take you.


simplify: Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

and, as living stones, form yourselves into a spiritual house, to be a consecrated priesthood, for the offering of spiritual sacrifices that will be acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.


simplify: There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.


rate difficulty: And Judah went up; and Jehovah delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they smote of them in Bezek ten thousand men.


simplify: But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

But I will make an offering to you with the voice of praise; I will give effect to my oaths. Salvation is the Lord's.


simplify: And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

But afterwards, having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another road.


rate difficulty: I have been crucified with Christ. So it is no longer I that live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and, as for my present earthly life, I am living it by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.


simplify: And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai over the family of Haman.


simplify: And he washed the inwards and the legs with water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt-offering for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And the inside parts and the legs were washed with water and all the sheep was burned by Moses on the altar; it was a burned offering for a sweet smell: it was an offering made by fire to the Lord, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?


rate difficulty: For the inhabitress of Maroth waited anxiously for good; but evil hath come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

For this reason the Lord has said of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, He will have no son to take his place on the seat of David: his dead body will be put out to undergo the heat of the day and the cold of the night.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee prince over Israel,

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


simplify: Now therefore, behold, Jehovah hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets; and Jehovah hath spoken evil concerning thee.

And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of these prophets of yours; and the Lord has said evil against you.


simplify: And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.


rate difficulty: And they became very short of food in Samaria; for they kept it shut in till the price of an ass's head was eighty shekels of silver, and a small measure of doves' droppings was five shekels of silver.

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


simplify: Lo, left desolate to you is your house;

Verily, your house is left to you desolate!


simplify: And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve Jehovah your God; but who are they that shall go?

Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going?


rate difficulty: And the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the four winds of heaven from their place before the Lord of all the earth.

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


rate difficulty: any righteousness that I have being, not the righteousness that results from law, but the righteousness which comes through faith in Christ — the righteousness which is derived from God and is founded on faith.

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


rate difficulty: To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;

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


rate difficulty: And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his particular ability, and immediately went away out of the country.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: The earth mourneth and languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits.

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling.


rate difficulty: Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

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


rate difficulty: That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

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


rate difficulty: A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.


simplify: And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi–ezer?

And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?


simplify: And Jesus having been moved with compassion, having stretched forth the hand, touched him, and saith to him, `I will; be thou cleansed;'

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying as he did so: “I am willing; become clean.”


simplify: I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.

I know your life; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. If only you were either cold or hot!


rate difficulty: All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:

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


simplify: And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

And again, Give praise to the Lord, all you Gentiles; and let all the nations give praise to him.


rate difficulty: holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

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


rate difficulty: (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

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


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

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;


simplify: And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.

And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.


simplify: And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

They are to be joined with you in the care of the Tent of meeting, doing whatever is needed for the Tent: and no one of any other family may come near you.


rate difficulty: Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say,  Come ye to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon be built and established:


rate difficulty: For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle.


simplify: Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:


rate difficulty: And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was the chief of three; and he brandished his spear against three hundred and slew them; and he had a name among the three.

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


simplify: Which was the son of Maath, which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Semei, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Juda,

Mattith, Mattithiah, Shimei, Joseph, Josheh,


rate difficulty: And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

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


simplify: All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.


rate difficulty: `Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house <FI>are<Fi> they.

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


rate difficulty: These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

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