simplify: Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.


simplify: In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.


simplify: And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy; and he was cured from that very hour.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

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


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

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


simplify: Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.


simplify: He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.


simplify: These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, threescore thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of the Zebulunites as they were numbered, sixty thousand, five hundred.


rate difficulty: And Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah.

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


simplify: But ye that forsake Jehovah, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that fill up mingled wine unto Destiny;

But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;


simplify: And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.


simplify: And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.


rate difficulty: Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her handmaid.

And Laban gave Rachel his servant-girl Bilhah to be her waiting-woman.


rate difficulty: And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them; so all the land of the Amorites, the people of that land, became Israel's.

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


rate difficulty: But thou, Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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


simplify: But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.

Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.


rate difficulty: and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.


simplify: and he was not able there any mighty work to do, except on a few infirm people having put hands he did heal <FI>them<Fi> ;

And he could not work any miracle there, beyond placing his hands on a few infirm persons, and curing them;


rate difficulty: Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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


rate difficulty: The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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


simplify: And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s brother, and that he was Rebekah’s son: and she ran and told her father.

And Rachel, hearing from Jacob that he was her father's relation and that he was the son of Rebekah, went running to give her father news of it.


simplify: Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armourbearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah,

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, who had the care of the arms of Joab, son of Zeruiah,


rate difficulty: They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

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


simplify: Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;


rate difficulty: And Saul is afraid of the presence of David, for Jehovah hath been with him, and from Saul He hath turned aside;

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


simplify: The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.


simplify: in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.


simplify: In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won,

Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the message, they may, apart from the message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,


simplify: But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:

And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used:


rate difficulty: and they sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn that song save the hundred [and] forty-four thousand who were bought from the earth.

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


simplify: Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

Then he went up to Paul, arrested him, ordered him to be doubly chained, and proceeded to inquire who he was, and what he had been doing.


rate difficulty: And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

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


rate difficulty: As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.


simplify: Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.


rate difficulty: Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, And dost give trouble to Me in all these, Lo, even I also thy way at first gave up, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And I did not this thought for all thine abominations.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:


rate difficulty: And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

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


simplify: And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.

And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.


rate difficulty: `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

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


simplify: And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.

And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet.


rate difficulty: and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother <FI>is<Fi> dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'

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


simplify: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.


rate difficulty: The people of the land have used oppression, And have taken plunder violently away, And humble and needy have oppressed, And the sojourner oppressed--without judgment.

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


simplify: Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.


rate difficulty: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Who <FI>is<Fi> he that declareth me wicked? Lo, all of them as a garment wear out, A moth doth eat them.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore I ask that ye may not faint at my tribulations for you, which are your glory.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: `The salt <FI>is<Fi> good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

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


rate difficulty: for he loves our nation, and himself has built the synagogue for us.


rate difficulty: And when the Syrians saw that they were routed before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river; and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer [went] before them.

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


simplify: for He saith, `In an acceptable time I did hear thee, and in a day of salvation I did help thee, lo, now <FI>is<Fi> a well-accepted time; lo, now, a day of salvation,' --

For he says —  ‘At the time for acceptance I listened to you, And on the day of deliverance I helped you.’  Now is the time for acceptance! Now is the day of deliverance!


simplify: And immediately Jesus having known in himself that out of him power had gone forth, having turned about in the multitude, said, `Who did touch my garments?'

Jesus at once became aware of the power that had gone out from him, and, turning around in the crowd, he said: “Who touched my clothes?”


rate difficulty: And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

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


simplify: Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?


rate difficulty: And Gaal son of Ebed cometh--also his brethren--and they pass over into Shechem, and the masters of Shechem trust in him,

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


simplify: Wherefore, my brethren beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my beloved.

So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.


simplify: And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.


simplify: Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

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


simplify: And he denied before all, saying, `I have not known what thou sayest.'

But Peter denied it before them all. “I do not know what you mean,” he replied.


simplify: The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence; the sword shall pursue thee.

The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.


rate difficulty: And there was also a superscription over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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


simplify: and there died the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, even they that had life; and the third part of the ships was destroyed.

And destruction came on a third part of the living things which were in the sea, and on a third part of the ships.


rate difficulty: And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee; but one thing I require of thee: that is, thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

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


simplify: What soldier ever serveth at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?


simplify: And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.


rate difficulty: So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.

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


rate difficulty: See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?


simplify: Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish, they sit in black upon the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.

Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.


simplify: Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

And the Levites who made the music, all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and brothers, robed in fair linen, were in their places with their brass and corded instruments at the east side of the altar, and with them a hundred and twenty priests blowing horns;)


simplify: Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.


simplify: and he took the seven loaves and the fishes; and he gave thanks and brake, and gave to the disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes.

And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.


simplify: Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.


rate difficulty: All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen [it].

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


simplify: Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

I might rather ask ‘Who are you who are arguing with God?’ Does a thing which a person has moulded say to the person who has moulded it ‘Why did you make me like this?’


rate difficulty: and Isaac expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people, aged and satisfied with days; and bury him do Esau and Jacob his sons.

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


simplify: This also cometh forth from Jehovah of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.


rate difficulty: And Dannah, and Kirjath–sannah, which is Debir,

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


simplify: And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith Jehovah of hosts.

And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.


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

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


rate difficulty: And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,


simplify: Of the Amramites, and the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:

Of the Amramites, of the Izharites, of the Hebronites, of the Uzzielites:


simplify: His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.


simplify: We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

We give praise to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, making prayer for you at all times,


simplify: and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, This is my body, which is for you: this do in remembrance of me.

And when it had been broken with an act of praise, he said, This is my body which is for you: do this in memory of me.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The valley of Hamon–gog.

And it will come about in those days, that I will give to Gog a last resting-place there in Israel, in the valley of Abarim on the east of the sea: and those who go through will be stopped: and there Gog and all his people will be put to rest, and the place will be named, The valley of Hamon-gog.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.

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


rate difficulty: And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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


rate difficulty: And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

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


simplify: And the disciples did as Jesus appointed them; and they made ready the passover.

And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.


rate difficulty: These are the words of the Lord, who has given the sun for a light by day, ordering the moon and stars for a light by night, who puts the sea in motion, causing the thunder of its waves; the Lord of armies is his name.

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


rate difficulty: This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.

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


simplify: And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.


rate difficulty: for he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him through the power of God toward you.

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


rate difficulty: And Jahzah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

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


simplify: Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?


simplify: And he having come to the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus saith to them, `Believe ye that I am able to do this?' They say to him, `Yes, sir.'

When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him; and Jesus asked them: “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” “Yes, Master!” they answered.


simplify: But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

But, when I saw that they were not dealing straightforwardly with the truth of the good news, I said to Peter, before them all, “If you, who were born a Jew, adopt Gentile customs, instead of Jewish, why are you trying to compel the Gentile converts to adopt Jewish customs?”


simplify: And the men did so, and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home;

And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:


simplify: And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

And make a priest's bag for giving decisions, designed like the ephod, made of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen.


simplify: (I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,

(I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,


rate difficulty: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

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


rate difficulty: We realize that we come from God, while all the world is under the influence of the evil one.


simplify: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.

So that they may see and be wise and give their mind to it, and that it may be clear to them all that the hand of the Lord has done this, and that the Holy One of Israel has made it.


rate difficulty: Both great and small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried; and none shall lament for them, or cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them.

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


rate difficulty: I also will do this unto you — I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and fever, which shall cause the eyes to fail, and the soul to waste away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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


simplify: So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.


simplify: And when these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the Spirit, having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, to go on to Jerusalem, saying--`After my being there, it behoveth me also to see Rome;'

Sometime after these events Paul resolved to go through Macedonia and Greece, and then make his way to Jerusalem. “And after I have been there,” he said, “I must visit Rome also.”


rate difficulty: And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. And Baruch read [it] in their ears.

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


rate difficulty: I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;


simplify: And they come again to Jerusalem, and in the temple, as he is walking, there come unto him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,

They came to Jerusalem again. While Jesus was walking about in the Temple Courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the councillors came up to him.


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

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


simplify: And Aaron shall burn thereon incense of sweet spices: every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn it.

And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights.


simplify: How long wilt thou go hither and thither, O thou backsliding daughter? for Jehovah hath created a new thing in the earth: A woman shall encompass a man.

How long will you go on turning this way and that, O wandering daughter? for the Lord has made a new thing on the earth, a woman changed into a man.


simplify: For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

Even for an upright person scarcely anyone will die. For a really good person perhaps some one might even dare to die.


simplify: The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty fallen!

The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!


rate difficulty: Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

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


rate difficulty: and Pashhur smiteth Jeremiah the prophet, and putteth him unto the stocks, that <FI>are<Fi> by the high gate of Benjamin, that <FI>is<Fi> by the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the apostles gather themselves together unto Jesus; and they told him all things, whatsoever they had done, and whatsoever they had taught.

And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.


rate difficulty: Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

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


rate difficulty: If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;

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


rate difficulty: and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

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


rate difficulty: Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king commandeth his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, said the king, he shall eat at my table, as one of the king’s sons.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

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


rate difficulty: For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.

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


simplify: Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.


simplify: in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.


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

I say this so that it doesn't seem as if I am trying to overawe you by my letters.


simplify: that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,


rate difficulty: And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father’s house?

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


rate difficulty: But still, give ear to this word which I am saying to you and to all the people:


simplify: Then again I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a flying roll.

Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.


rate difficulty: and also our cattle doth go with us, there is not left a hoof, for from it we do take to serve Jehovah our God; and we--we know not how we do serve Jehovah till our going thither.'

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


rate difficulty: And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

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


simplify: Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.


simplify: And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and took his place at the doorway into the town; then Abimelech and his people got up from the place where they had been waiting.


simplify: for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

especially for kings and all who are in high positions, in order that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in a deeply religious and reverent spirit.


rate difficulty: Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins.

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


simplify: Then the angel of Jehovah put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there went up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Jehovah departed out of his sight.

Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.


simplify: Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this worthless fellow, even Nabal; for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thy handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.


simplify: He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.


rate difficulty: and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

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


simplify: and my word and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power--

My message and my proclamation were not delivered in the persuasive language of philosophy, but were accompanied by the manifestation of spiritual power,


rate difficulty: and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

Lord, in trouble our eyes have been turned to you, we sent up a prayer when your punishment was on us.


rate difficulty: The tents of desolators are in peace, and they that provokeGod are secure; into whose handGod bringeth.

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


simplify: Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city.

And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.


simplify: That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

or rather that both you and I may find encouragement in each other’s faith.


rate difficulty: In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.

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


simplify: But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You are a stiff-necked people: if I come among you, even for a minute, I will send destruction on you; so take off all your ornaments, so that I may see what to do with you.


rate difficulty: And the frogs shall come up both upon thee and upon thy people, and upon all thy bondmen.

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


simplify: Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.


simplify: Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?


simplify: And it came to pass, when the days of his service were fulfilled, he went away to his house,

And, as soon as his term of service was finished, he returned home.


rate difficulty: Then she said, Here is my servant Bilhah, go in to her, so that she may have a child on my knees, and I may have a family by her.

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


simplify: And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened?

And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard?


rate difficulty: Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

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


rate difficulty: `And he who stealeth a man, and hath sold him, and he hath been found in his hand, is certainly put to death.

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


rate difficulty: the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim,

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


rate difficulty: They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

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


simplify: Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.

Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.


rate difficulty: And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.

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


rate difficulty: And when they were departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

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


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

Who is there to separate us from the love of the Christ? Will trouble, or difficulty, or persecution, or hunger, or nakedness, or danger, or the sword?


rate difficulty: — who led them through the depths, like a horse in the wilderness, [and] they stumbled not?

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


rate difficulty: It is not what enters a person’s mouth that ‘defiles’ them, but what comes out from their mouth — that does defile them!”

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


simplify: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,


rate difficulty: And if it appear still in the garment, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin, it is a [leprosy] breaking out: thou shalt burn with fire that wherein the sore is.

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


rate difficulty: When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

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


simplify: neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;


rate difficulty: And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.


rate difficulty: For the Lord has said, David will never be without a man to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel;

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


rate difficulty: And say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:

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


rate difficulty: And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath not spoken to blot out the name of Israel from under the heavens, and saveth them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Joash.

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


rate difficulty: The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.

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


simplify: and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.


rate difficulty: And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

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


rate difficulty: They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

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


simplify: And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

And in the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea.


rate difficulty: But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.


rate difficulty: And Esau saith unto his father, `One blessing hast thou my father? bless me, me also, O my father;' and Esau lifteth up his voice, and weepeth.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

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


rate difficulty: and it came to pass, that he remained many days in Joppa, with a certain one, Simon a tanner.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to nations that are rebellious, which have rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day.

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


simplify: That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

So that, having been given righteousness through grace, we might have a part in the heritage, the hope of eternal life.


simplify: And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute unto their brethren.

And I made controllers over the store-houses, Shelemiah the priest and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and with them was Hanan, the son of Zaccur the son of Mattaniah: they were taken to be true men and their business was the distribution of these things to their brothers.


simplify: At the end of every three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase in the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:


simplify: Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.

Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.


rate difficulty: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

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


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

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


simplify: And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters: beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each.

Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one.


simplify: And he commanded the multitudes to sit down upon the ground,

Telling the crowd to sit down on the ground,


rate difficulty: Look even out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.

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


rate difficulty: And, the shekel <FI>is<Fi> twenty gerah: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels--is your maneh.


simplify: saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!

Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!


simplify: Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.


simplify: And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.


simplify: but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.


rate difficulty: And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots;


simplify: (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir);

(By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)


simplify: For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

judge for yourselves, for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard.”


rate difficulty: `And we dwell in a valley over-against Beth-Peor.

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


rate difficulty: In that day will Jehovah of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the remnant of his people;

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


rate difficulty: And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

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


rate difficulty: for all that the world can offer — the gratification of the earthly nature, the gratification of the eye, the pretentious life — belongs, not to the Father, but to the world.

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


simplify: `But, lo, the hand of him delivering me up <FI>is<Fi> with me on the table,

Yet see! The hand of the man who is betraying me is beside me on the table!


simplify: And David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men that were with him, unto Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

So David and the six hundred men who were with him went over to Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,

As the days before his being taken up to heaven were growing few, Jesus set his face resolutely in the direction of Jerusalem; and he sent on messengers in advance.


simplify: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind


rate difficulty: And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

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


rate difficulty: And the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall shout aloud over Babylon; for out of the north the spoilers shall come against her, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

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


simplify: Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Alas for you! You build the monuments of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.


rate difficulty: He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.

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


simplify: And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.


simplify: I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I, John, your brother, who have a part with you in the trouble and the kingdom and the quiet strength of Jesus, was in the island which is named Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.


rate difficulty: For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, my daughter, who is a virgin, and his concubine; let me bring them out, and humble ye them, and do to them as is good in your sight; but to this man do not so vile a thing.

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


rate difficulty: And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

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


simplify: And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

Jesus went into a house; and again a crowd collected, so that they were not even able to eat their food.


rate difficulty: And the Jews who <FI>are<Fi> in Shushan have been assembled, on the thirteenth day of it, and on the fourteenth of it, even to rest on the fifteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.

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


rate difficulty: On the first day of the Festival of the unleavened bread, the disciples came up to Jesus, and said: “Where do you wish us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?”

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


rate difficulty: Would you keep yourselves till they were old enough? would you keep from having husbands for them? No, my daughters; but I am very sad for you that the hand of the Lord is against me.

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


rate difficulty: And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-Gilead, who had stolen them from the open place of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, the day the Philistines had smitten Saul in Gilboa;

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


simplify: said with a loud voice, `Stand up on thy feet upright;' and he was springing and walking,

said loudly: “Stand upright on your feet.”   The man leaped up, and began walking about,


rate difficulty: And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.

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


rate difficulty: And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

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


simplify: Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, Though he hide it under his tongue,

Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;


rate difficulty: Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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


simplify: My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:


rate difficulty: And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

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rate difficulty: Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

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


rate difficulty: and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee--an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.


simplify: and blessed be thy discretion, and blessed be thou, that hast kept me this day from bloodguiltiness, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

A blessing on your good sense and on you, who have kept me today from the crime of blood and from taking into my hands the punishment for my wrongs.


rate difficulty: grieving most of all over what he had said — that they would never see his face again. Then they escorted him to the ship.


simplify: Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

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rate difficulty: and he said, Cornelius, thy prayer was heard, and thy kind acts were remembered before God;

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rate difficulty: Salute you doth the <FI>assembly<Fi> in Babylon jointly elected, and Markus my son.

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


rate difficulty: In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it <FI>is<Fi> not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

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simplify: And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;

Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;


rate difficulty: He stirreth up the sea by his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

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rate difficulty: for, if thou diligently hearken to his voice, and hast done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with thine enemies, and have distressed those distressing thee.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.

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


simplify: As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

As it is not possible for the army of heaven to be numbered, or the sand of the sea measured, so will I make the seed of my servant David, and the Levites my servants.


rate difficulty: And also thus said the king: Blessed be Jehovah, theGod of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it.

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


simplify: For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

I wrote to you in sore trouble and distress of heart and with many tears, not to give you pain, but to let you see how intense a love I have for you.


simplify: Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;


simplify: And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be Jehovah, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept back his servant from evil: and the evil-doing of Nabal hath Jehovah returned upon his own head. And David sent and spake concerning Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

And David, hearing that Nabal was dead, said, May the Lord be praised, who has taken up my cause against Nabal for the shame which he put on me, and has kept back his servant from evil, and has sent on Nabal's head the reward of his evil-doing. And David sent word to Abigail, desiring to take her as his wife.


simplify: yet for love’s sake I rather beseech, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now a prisoner also of Christ Jesus:

Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:


simplify: And these are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass-offering unto Jehovah: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

Now these are the gold images which the Philistines sent as a sin-offering to the Lord; one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron;


simplify: And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alpheus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

And when he went by, he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and he said to him, Come with me. And he got up, and went with him.


rate difficulty: These were born to the giant in Gath, and they fall by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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rate difficulty: AndGod said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;


rate difficulty: But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him — those who have received the call in accordance with his purpose.

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


rate difficulty: Shall any take him when he is on the watch, Or pierce through his nose with a snare?


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

And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.


simplify: for this cause, therefore, I called for you to see and to speak with <FI>you<Fi> , for because of the hope of Israel with this chain I am bound.'

This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am here in chains.”


rate difficulty: that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof thou hast said, My name shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

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


simplify: Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.


rate difficulty: If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.

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


rate difficulty: The God who made the world and all things that are in it — he, Lord as he is of heaven and Earth, does not live in temples made by hands,

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


simplify: For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.


rate difficulty: And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon having made him king in the land of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And when Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

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


simplify: For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if ye receive a different spirit, which ye did not receive, or a different gospel, which ye did not accept, ye do well to bear with him.

For if anyone comes preaching another Jesus from the one whose preachers we are, or if you have got a different spirit, or a different sort of good news from those which came to you, how well you put up with these things.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.


simplify: and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written,  He shall give his angels charge concerning thee:  and,  On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down; for it is in the Writings, He will give his angels care over you; and, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.


simplify: And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.


simplify: For how many soever be the promises of God, in him is the yea: wherefore also through him is the Amen, unto the glory of God through us.

For he is the Yes to all the undertakings of God: and by him all the words of God are made certain and put into effect, to the glory of God through us.


simplify: and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

He opened the bottomless pit, and from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air grew dark because of the smoke from the pit.


simplify: and Jesus did no more answer anything, so that Pilate wondered.

But Jesus still made no reply whatever; at which Pilate was astonished.


simplify: as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:


simplify: And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.


rate difficulty: And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

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


rate difficulty: Say to the people, Come away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram.

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


simplify: if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,

For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,


simplify: But there Jehovah will be with us in majesty, a place of broad rivers and streams, wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.

But there the Lord will be with us in his glory, ... wide rivers and streams; where no boat will go with blades, and no fair ship will be sailing.


rate difficulty: the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,


rate difficulty: And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.


simplify: And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

The coat is to be made of the best linen, worked in squares; and you are to make a head-dress of linen, and a linen band worked in needlework.


simplify: Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon (the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin),

Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:


simplify: And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid upon the South, and upon Ziklag, and had smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire,

Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made an attack on the South and on Ziklag, and had overcome Ziklag and put it on fire;


simplify: O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!


rate difficulty: And he put the priest's bag on him, and in the bag he put the Urim and Thummim.


rate difficulty: Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.


rate difficulty: The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth–shemesh, and Elon–beth–hanan:

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simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword.

The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.


rate difficulty: “The time has come, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the good news.”

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.


rate difficulty: For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.


rate difficulty: And he says to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of robbers.

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


rate difficulty: Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him,

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


simplify: Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the money which is brought into the house of Jehovah, which the keepers of the threshold have gathered of the people:

Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people;


simplify: And he looked up, and saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury.

And looking up, he saw the men of wealth putting their offerings in the money-box.


simplify: I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of thee.

And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you.


simplify: and they, immediately, having left the boat and their father, did follow him.

and they at once left their boat and their father, and followed him.


rate difficulty: and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And it was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour,

And it was now about the sixth hour; and all the land was dark till the ninth hour;


rate difficulty: And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its suburbs, Gibbethon and its suburbs,

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simplify: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it:

And Joshua and all Israel with him went on to make an attack on Debir;


rate difficulty: And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the he-goats.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Is the lamp brought to be put under the bushel, or under the bed, and not to be put on the stand?

And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?


simplify: And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bullock: it is the sin-offering for the assembly.

Then let the ox be taken away outside the tent-circle, that it may be burned as the other ox was burned; it is the sin-offering for all the people.


rate difficulty: Go and say to David, The Lord says, Three things are offered to you: say which of them you will have, so that I may do it to you.


simplify: Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.

It said — ‘Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.’


simplify: And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war, and let them go against the Midianites, and avenge the Lord of Midian.

So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.


rate difficulty: but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

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rate difficulty: A wise sonhearethhis father’s instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.

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


rate difficulty: For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

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


rate difficulty: He takes away the wisdom of the rulers of the earth, and sends them wandering in a waste where there is no way.

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


simplify: And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.

And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.


rate difficulty: And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Dear brothers, do not be surprised, as if it was something strange, if your faith is tested as by fire:


rate difficulty: Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

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


rate difficulty: In this year of jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast showed great lovingkindness unto David my father, and hast made me king in his stead.

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


simplify: Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,

Then one of the twelve, who was named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests and said,


simplify: And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.

And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.


simplify: And Zilpah Leah’s handmaid bare Jacob a second son.

And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son.


simplify: Moreover let the children of Israel keep the passover in its appointed season.

Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.


simplify: namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.


simplify: And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.


simplify: For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;


rate difficulty: And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to one another, Who shall roll us away the stone out of the door of the sepulchre?

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


simplify: And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping.


simplify: For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

For you have the memory, my brothers, of our trouble and care; how, working night and day, so that we might not be a trouble to any of you, we gave you the good news of God.


simplify: And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;


simplify: For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and of what has come to your ears.


rate difficulty: But each in his own rank: [the] first-fruits, Christ; then those that are the Christ's at his coming.

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simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.


simplify: Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance.


rate difficulty: Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

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


simplify: And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.


simplify: He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.

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


rate difficulty: Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

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


rate difficulty: and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

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


rate difficulty: And the priest saith, `The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou didst smite in the valley of Elah, lo, it is wrapped in a garment behind the ephod, if it thou dost take to thyself, take; for there is none other save it in this <FI> place<Fi> .' And David saith, `There is none like it--give it to me.'

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


simplify: And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.

And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people.


rate difficulty: Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto thegods unto whom they have burned incense; but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

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


rate difficulty: and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

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


simplify: Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.


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


rate difficulty: And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

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


simplify: And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.


simplify: and they having gone to the boat the wind lulled,

When they had got into the boat, the wind dropped.


rate difficulty: And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that I will take away your horses from you, and will give your war-carriages to destruction:

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rate difficulty: And the king Zedekiah saith unto Jeremiah, `I am fearing the Jews who have fallen unto the Chaldeans, lest they give me into their hand, and they have insulted me.'

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I anointed thee king over Israel, and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul;

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


simplify: But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him: “I order you, by the living God, to tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

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


rate difficulty: The poison of dragons <FI>is<Fi> their wine And the fierce venom of asps.

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


simplify: For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: At that season Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou didst hide these things from the wise and understanding, and didst reveal them unto babes:

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rate difficulty: And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

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simplify: Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who joined in their worship, as well as daily in the public Square with those who happened to be there.


simplify: That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.


rate difficulty: that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

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simplify: And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.


simplify: Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.


rate difficulty: And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

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


rate difficulty: Then David called one of the young men and said, Draw near, [and] fall on him. And he smote him that he died.

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


rate difficulty: Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;


simplify: But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.


rate difficulty: And I said to them, Do not let the doors of Jerusalem be open till the sun is high; and while the watchmen are in their places, let the doors be shut and locked: and let the people of Jerusalem be put on watch, every one in his watch, opposite his house.


simplify: And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And his disciples said to him, You see the people round you on every side, and you say, Who was touching me?


rate difficulty: Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

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


rate difficulty: and the one tribe he hath for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have fixed on, out of all the tribes of Israel.

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simplify: For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.


rate difficulty: And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?

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


simplify: And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart: and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to burn incense.

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