simplify: Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?


simplify: Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:

So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:


rate difficulty: — Thou shalt make thyself no moltengods.

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


rate difficulty: `God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,

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


simplify: Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel.

Let all the children of Israel be numbered, by the names of their fathers' families, all those of twenty years old and over who are able to go to war in Israel.


simplify: and the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.


simplify: Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.


rate difficulty: And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.

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


rate difficulty: Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.


simplify: And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.


simplify: But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all;

Jesus, however, became aware of it, and went away from that place. A number of people followed him, and he cured them all;


rate difficulty: The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

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


rate difficulty: He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.

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


rate difficulty: And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.


rate difficulty: your flock he doth tithe, and ye are to him for servants.

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


rate difficulty: For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.

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


simplify: In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see.


simplify: When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:

When a strong man is keeping guard, fully armed, over his own mansion, his property is in safety;


simplify: And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

And Barak said to her, If you will go with me then I will go; but if you will not go with me I will not go.


simplify: All the commandment which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware unto your fathers.

Take care to keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may have life and be increased and go in and take as a heritage the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, undertook to give you.


rate difficulty: Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

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


rate difficulty: And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam.


simplify: For he that is not against us is on our part.


simplify: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

And this good news of the kingdom will be given through all the world for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.


rate difficulty: And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine.


simplify: And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

When her masters saw that there was no hope of further profit from her, they seized Paul and Silas, dragged them into the public square to the authorities,


simplify: And the king of Sodom said unto Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the prisoners and take the goods for yourself.


simplify: therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.


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

The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.


simplify: Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth;

Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.


rate difficulty: But the man would not be kept there that night, and he got up and went away and came opposite to Jebus (which is Jerusalem); and he had with him the two asses, ready for travelling, and his woman.

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


rate difficulty: And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to hold the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, [with] cymbals, lutes and harps.

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


simplify: and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

“No,” replied Paul, “I am standing at the Emperor’s court, where I ought to be tried. I have not wronged the Jews, as you yourself are well aware.


simplify: Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;


simplify: And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the men subject to taskwork.

And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them.


rate difficulty: But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

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


simplify: And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:


rate difficulty: And sent them three days' journey away: and Jacob took care of the rest of Laban's flock.

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


simplify: but I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.

But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.


rate difficulty: He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

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


simplify: And they made ready the present against Joseph’s coming at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there.


simplify: And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;


rate difficulty: Because, she said to herself, if I may but put my hand on his robe, I will be made well.

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


rate difficulty: Do not be a hard master to him, but have the fear of God before you.


rate difficulty: And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.


simplify: Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

Jediael, the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,


simplify: And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which be Cesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.

“The Emperor’s,” they said; and Jesus replied: “Well then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”


rate difficulty: And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar,

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


simplify: And the asses were thirty thousand and five hundred; of which Jehovah’s tribute was threescore and one.

The number of asses was thirty thousand, five hundred, of which the Lord's part was sixty-one.


simplify: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Husbands, have love for your wives, even as Christ had love for the church, and gave himself for it;


simplify: And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.

And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.


simplify: Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

Every year the child’s parents used to go to Jerusalem at the Passover Festival.


rate difficulty: where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched.


rate difficulty: The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?


simplify: And these are the names of the men that shall stand with you. Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur.

These are the names of those who are to be your helpers: from Reuben, Elizur, the son of Shedeur;


simplify: And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

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


rate difficulty: And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

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


rate difficulty: This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

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


simplify: And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

“The one that took pity on him,” was the answer; on which Jesus said: “Go and do the same yourself.”


rate difficulty: And I saw the seven angels that stand before God; and there were given unto them seven trumpets.

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


rate difficulty: Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the threshing-floor, but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

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


simplify: And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

and their bodies were removed to Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.


rate difficulty: Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

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


rate difficulty: and the table and its vessels, and the pure candlestick and all its vessels, and the altar of the perfume,

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

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


simplify: Now the Lord had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,

Now the day before Saul came, the word of God had come to Samuel, saying,


simplify: But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

But, friends, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the truth.


simplify: `Lo, the virgin shall conceive, and she shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel,' which is, being interpreted `With us <FI>he is<Fi> God.'

‘The virgin will conceive and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel’  — a word which means ‘God is with us.’


rate difficulty: For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

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


simplify: And it repented Jehovah that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.


simplify: And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.


simplify: And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

And he said to his servant, Come, let us go on to one of these places, stopping for the night in Gibeah or Ramah.


simplify: And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.

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


rate difficulty: but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

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


simplify: And thou shalt take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

And you are to take this money from the children of Israel to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting, to keep the memory of the children of Israel before the Lord and to be the price of your lives.


rate difficulty: and sons of the wife of Hodiah sister of Nahom: Abi-Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maachathite.


rate difficulty: For I will not see you now in passing, for I hope to remain a certain time with you, if the Lord permit.


rate difficulty: So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

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


rate difficulty: Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.

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


simplify: Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Give the men harder work, and see that they do it; let them not give attention to false words.


rate difficulty: Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

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


rate difficulty: Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.

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


simplify: then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

Then I will make strong the seat of your kingdom, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be ruler in Israel.


simplify: And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

And they were wondering among themselves which of them it was who would do this thing.


rate difficulty: But to this day, at the reading of the law of Moses, a veil is over their heart.


rate difficulty: can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

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


rate difficulty: The earth shall be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.


simplify: And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:

And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the children of Israel went forward on their journey:


simplify: as when fire kindleth the brushwood, and the fire causeth the waters to boil; to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;


rate difficulty: And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel which they offer unto Jehovah,

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


rate difficulty: Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

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


rate difficulty: There are many devices in a man’s heart; But the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

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


simplify: And they presented the burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head: and he burnt them upon the altar.

And they gave him the parts of the burned offering, in their order, and the head, to be burned on the altar.


rate difficulty: But they began arguing together: “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say ‘Why did not you believe him?’


simplify: To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God’s people, by faith in me.’


simplify: With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be inclosed in settings of gold.

With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold.


simplify: According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.

In fulfillment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skillful master; but someone else is now building on it. Let everyone take care how they build;


rate difficulty: Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.


rate difficulty: Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:

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


rate difficulty: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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


rate difficulty: Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:


simplify: And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you put yourselves against me today? is it right for any man in Israel to be put to death today? for I am certain today that I am king in Israel.


rate difficulty: Ho Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

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


simplify: And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him.

But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction.


simplify: That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:


rate difficulty: Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.


rate difficulty: Sons of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

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


simplify: And he said to them, `Did ye not read what David did, when he was hungry, himself and those with him--

“Have not you read,” replied Jesus, “what David did, when he and his companions were hungry —


rate difficulty: When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

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


rate difficulty: No one, therefore, should slight him. See him safely on his way to me, for I am expecting him with some of our friends.


simplify: One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.

One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.


simplify: conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other’s; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.


rate difficulty: When they may say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

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


simplify: And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children shall see it, and be glad; their heart shall rejoice in the Lord.

And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.


rate difficulty: Jesus entered Jerusalem, and went into the Temple Courts; and, after looking around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

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


rate difficulty: Give them, Jehovah — what wilt thou give? — give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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


rate difficulty: `And ye have brought near, besides the bread, seven lambs, perfect ones, sons of a year, and one bullock, a son of the herd, and two rams; they are a burnt-offering to Jehovah, with their present and their libations, a fire-offering of sweet fragrance to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.


rate difficulty: [These were] all the cities of the children of Merari according to their families, which remained of the families of the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.

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


simplify: And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:

And I came today to the water-spring, and I said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if it is your purpose to give a good outcome to my journey,


rate difficulty: In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah of Hosts is high in judgment, And the Holy God sanctified in righteousness,


simplify: Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.


simplify: The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

Slaves, always obey your earthly masters, not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had but to please people alone, but giving them ungrudging service, in your respect for the Master.


simplify: Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only.

However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.


simplify: Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.

Have no fear, you worm Jacob, and you men of Israel; I will be your helper, says the Lord, even he who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel.


rate difficulty: And this <FI>is<Fi> the thing <FI>for<Fi> which Joshua circumciseth <FI>them<Fi> : all the people who are coming out of Egypt, who are males, all the men of war have died in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out of Egypt,

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


simplify: Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Now when they had said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they let Haman have news of it, to see if Mordecai's behaviour would be overlooked: for he had said to them that he was a Jew.


simplify: And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

And all men went to be numbered, everyone to his town.


rate difficulty: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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


simplify: And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but also Rebecca, having conceived by one--Isaac our father--

Nor is that all. There is also the case of Rebecca, when she was about to bear children to our ancestor Isaac.


simplify: Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to him with her sons, bowing to the ground, and begging a favor.


simplify: I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,

I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.


simplify: We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.


rate difficulty: And the voice of one talking to me came to my ears from inside the house; and the man was by my side.

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


To Simon he gave the second name of Peter;


simplify: And Baal–hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.


simplify: A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.

The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.


rate difficulty: <FI> With<Fi> supplications doth the poor speak, And the rich answereth fierce things.

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


simplify: Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

You will be food for the fire; your blood will be drained out in the land; there will be no more memory of you: for I the Lord have said it.


rate difficulty: And so, through this knowledge of yours, the weak person is ruined — someone for whose sake Christ died!

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


rate difficulty: The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

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


rate difficulty: Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.


simplify: Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So they went unto the city where the man of God was.

Then Saul said to his servant, You have said well; come, let us go. So they went to the town where the man of God was.


rate difficulty: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.

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


rate difficulty: And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that smites this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the livingGod?

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


simplify: Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

The purpose in the heart of a man is like deep water, but a man of good sense will get it out.


simplify: There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.


rate difficulty: Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shineth unto all that are in the house.

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


simplify: For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.


simplify: For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.


simplify: As soon as ye are come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he goeth up to the high place to eat; for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are bidden. Now therefore get you up; for at this time ye shall find him.

When you come into the town you will see him straight away, before he goes up to the high place for the feast: the people are waiting for his blessing before starting the feast, and after that the guests will take part in it. So go up now and you will see him.


rate difficulty: And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

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


simplify: and I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands;

And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.


simplify: he shall be great, and Son of the Highest he shall be called, and the Lord God shall give him the throne of David his father,

The child will be great and will be called ‘Son of the Most High,’ and the Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David,


rate difficulty: And she came and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.


simplify: And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

Any part of the dead body of one of these, falling on anything, will make it unclean; if it is an oven or a cooking-pot it will have to be broken: they are unclean and will be unclean to you.


simplify: But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

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


simplify: Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.


simplify: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, I pray thee, let me go and pay in Hebron my vow which I have vowed to Jehovah.

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


simplify: For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

For I will send punishment on those who are living in the land of Egypt, as I have sent punishment on Jerusalem, by the sword and by need of food and by disease:


rate difficulty: Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.

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


simplify: that make a man an offender in his cause, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nought.

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.


rate difficulty: You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;


rate difficulty: Ish–bosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.

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


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

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”


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

But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;


rate difficulty: and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,


simplify: And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed.

And all the oxen for the peace-offerings, twenty-four oxen, the male sheep sixty, and the he-goats sixty, the he-lambs of the first year sixty. This was given for the altar after the holy oil was put on it.


rate difficulty: Her hand she hath spread forth to the poor, Yea, her hands she sent forth to the needy.

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


simplify: Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel: Now shall it be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!


rate difficulty: Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:

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


simplify: If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.

If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.


simplify: And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

So his mother's family said all this about him in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem: and their hearts were turned to Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.


rate difficulty: and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Azgad, two thousand three hundred twenty and two.


rate difficulty: A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.


rate difficulty: And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

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


simplify: Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

Then Saul said, I have done wrong: come back to me, David my son: I will do you no more wrong, because my life was dear to you today truly, I have been foolish and my error is very great.


simplify: Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the Lord for a burnt offering;

Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;


simplify: In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.

In that day will the young growth of the Lord be beautiful in glory, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride of those who are still living in Israel.


rate difficulty: If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.

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


simplify: For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

For a number gave false witness against him and their witness was not in agreement.


rate difficulty: This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

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


rate difficulty: But, whatever town you go to visit, if the people do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say


simplify: Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:


simplify: that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;


rate difficulty: And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they carried off: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and built the cities, and dwelt in them.


rate difficulty: And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even; and the blood ran out of the wound into the bottom of the chariot.

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


simplify: But Rahab the harlot, and her father’s household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt in the midst of Israel unto this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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


rate difficulty: And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

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


simplify: These may ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that may ye eat.

These you may have for food of all things living in the water: anything living in the water, in the seas or rivers, which has special parts for swimming and skin formed of thin plates, may be used for food.


simplify: The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.


simplify: And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.


rate difficulty: Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah to do evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Urijah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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


rate difficulty: Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;

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


simplify: Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

and whom he called — even us — Not only from among the Jews but from among the Gentiles also!


simplify: and he charged them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse;

And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;


rate difficulty: For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.


simplify: Then the tribe of Benjamin: and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.

Then the tribe of Benjamin, with Abidan, the son of Gideoni, as their chief.


rate difficulty: Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were sons of Abiel.

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


rate difficulty: for nothing shall be impossible withGod.


simplify: And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;


rate difficulty: to that proved Christian Apelles; to the household of Aristobulus;


simplify: And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

And Jonathan took off the robe he had on and gave it to David, with all his military dress, even to his sword and his bow and the band round his body.


simplify: Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.

Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.


simplify: And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, so did they.

And Moses and Aaron did so: as the Lord gave them orders, so they did.


simplify: for Herod was fearing John, knowing him a man righteous and holy, and was keeping watch over him, and having heard him, was doing many things, and hearing him gladly.

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


rate difficulty: Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

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


simplify: Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing to you, but an old command, which you have had from the first. That old command is the message to which you listened.


simplify: and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.


simplify: For all the riches which God hath taken away from our father, that is ours and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.


rate difficulty: And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;

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


rate difficulty: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the mountain of Gaash.

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


simplify: Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.

Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon, with Abishai, his brother, at their head.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.

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


simplify: Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?

Then Joab came to Absalom in his house and said to him, Why have your servants put my field on fire?


simplify: On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the Lord.

Let it be used for food on the same day; do not keep any part of it till the morning: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus alone.

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


simplify: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

A promise which our twelve tribes, by earnest service night and day, hope to see fulfilled. It is for this hope, your Majesty, that I am accused — and by Jews themselves!


rate difficulty: All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal [him].

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


simplify: And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Jehovah is in the midst of us, because ye have not committed this trespass against Jehovah: now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah.

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.


simplify: `And no one a patch of undressed cloth doth sew on an old garment, and if not--the new filling it up doth take from the old and the rent doth become worse;

“No one ever sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if they do, the patch tears away from it — the new from the old — and a worse tear is made.


simplify: For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him.

For when John came to you, walking in the path of righteousness, you did not believe him, but tax-gatherers and prostitutes did; and yet you, though you saw this, even then were not sorry, nor did you believe him.


simplify: Lift ye up a banner upon the high mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

Put up a flag on a clear mountain-top, make a loud outcry to them, give directions with the hand, so that they may go into the doors of the great ones.


simplify: He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.

It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy.


simplify: And till the day was about to be, Paul was calling upon all to partake of nourishment, saying, `Fourteen days to-day, waiting, ye continue fasting, having taken nothing,

In the interval before daybreak Paul kept urging them all to take something to eat.   “It is a fortnight today,” he said, “that, owing to your anxiety, you have gone without food, taking nothing.


rate difficulty: Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, and countest me for thine enemy?

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


simplify: For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.”


simplify: And let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.


simplify: And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.

And when the people saw him, they gave praise to their god; for they said, Our god has given into our hands the one who was fighting against us, who made our country waste, and who put great numbers of us to death.


simplify: he said, Give place: for the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.


rate difficulty: And Joseph <FI>is<Fi> a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goeth out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passeth over through all the land of Egypt;

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


simplify: And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.

And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.


rate difficulty: Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;

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


simplify: Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

And I have given orders that if anyone makes any change in this word, one of the supports is to be pulled out of his house, and he is to be lifted up and fixed to it; and his house is to be made waste for this;


rate difficulty: Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

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


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

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty.

The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.


rate difficulty: `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

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


rate difficulty: remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

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


simplify: Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?


simplify: If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people also shall go to their place in peace.

If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.


rate difficulty: For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:

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


simplify: Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.


simplify: So they set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait that were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.


simplify: and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and as it were the very heaven for clearness.

And they saw the God of Israel; and under his feet there was, as it seemed, a jewelled floor, clear as the heavens.


simplify: So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.


simplify: The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.

The Lord has taken away those who were judging you, he has sent your haters far away: the King of Israel, even the Lord, is among you: you will have no more fear of evil.


simplify: and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death--death even of a cross,

he appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death — to death on a cross!


simplify: And he said unto him, Why, O son of the king, art thou thus lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.

And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.


rate difficulty: each according as he has received a gift, ministering it to one another, as good stewards of [the] various grace ofGod.

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast seen a man hasty in his words! More hope of a fool than of him.

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


simplify: Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

and they cried in a loud voice —  ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was sacrificed to receive all power, and wealth, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and praise, and blessing.’


simplify: When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.


rate difficulty: For the eyes of Jehovah run to and fro through the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of those whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly; for from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

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


rate difficulty: and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

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


rate difficulty: By the hand of Elasah, the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah, the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah, king of Judah, sent to Babylon, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,) saying,

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


rate difficulty: and Zebadiah, and Arad, and Eder,


simplify: And Hazar–gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth–palet,

And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet;


simplify: That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.


simplify: The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.


simplify: And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.

And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars.


simplify: Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.


rate difficulty: Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:

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


rate difficulty: And David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on [his] way.


rate difficulty: I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;

But the people of that place, recognizing Jesus, sent out to the whole country around, and brought to him all who were ill,


rate difficulty: The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And she riseth and boweth herself--face to the earth--and saith, `Lo, thy handmaid <FI>is<Fi> for a maid-servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.'

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


simplify: At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong horses, at the rushing of his chariots, and at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to their children for feebleness of hands;

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


rate difficulty: And after a song of praise to God they went out to the Mountain of Olives.

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


simplify: And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.


rate difficulty: The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:

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


rate difficulty: I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.


rate difficulty: Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.

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


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

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.


simplify: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.


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

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


rate difficulty: And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

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


rate difficulty: having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names inscribed, which are those of the twelve tribes of [the] sons of Israel.

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


simplify: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

And I will be ever among the children of Israel, and will not go away from my people.


simplify: And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

Taking the five loaves and the two fishes, Jesus looked up to heaven, and said the blessing; he broke the loaves into pieces, and gave them to his disciples for them to serve out to the people, and he divided the two fishes also among them all.


rate difficulty: And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.


simplify: In all places wherein I have walked with all Israel, spake I a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to be shepherd of my people, saying, Why have ye not built me a house of cedar?

In all the places where I have gone with all Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, whom I made the keepers of my people, Why have you not made for me a house of cedar?


simplify: Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?


simplify: I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that lift up the yoke on their jaws; and I laid food before them.

I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.


simplify: Should I lie against my right? my wound is incurable without transgression.

Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.


simplify: The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty and four thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to war.

There were forty-four thousand, seven hundred and sixty of the sons of Reuben and of the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, all strong men, expert in the use of the body-cover, the sword, and the bow, and in the art of war, all able to take up arms.


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

But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.


simplify: And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

And suppose that the other should answer from inside ‘Do not trouble me; the door is already fastened, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’;


simplify: Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.


rate difficulty: And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

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


simplify: And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.


rate difficulty: but they shouted, saying, Crucify, crucify him.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


simplify: But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.

But why did you go out? to see a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.


simplify: He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;


rate difficulty: with the same also the robbers, who were crucified with him, were reproaching him.

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


rate difficulty: Who was pleasing to God; and he had a desire to make a holy tent for the God of Jacob.

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


rate difficulty: Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

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


simplify: Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle of the Lord: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah was with Joseph, and extended mercy to him, and gave him favour in the eyes of the chief of the tower-house.

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


simplify: Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.


simplify: And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

And those which went among thorns are those who have given hearing, and go on their way, but they are overcome by cares and wealth and the pleasures of life, and they give no fruit.


rate difficulty: Then he let Barabbas go free: but after having Jesus whipped, he gave him up to be put to death on the cross.


rate difficulty: But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

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


simplify: Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.


simplify: And thy brethren also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring thou near with thee, that they may be joined unto thee, and minister unto thee: but thou and thy sons with thee shall be before the tent of the testimony.

Let your brothers, the family of Levi, come near with you, so that they may be joined with you and be your servants: but you and your sons with you are to go in before the ark of witness.


rate difficulty: And I will put a division between my people and thy people: by to-morrow shall this sign be.

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


rate difficulty: and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window--being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long--he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Gad build Dihon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,


rate difficulty: And they removed from Bene-Jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.

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


rate difficulty: And thou hast said in that day: `I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.

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


rate difficulty: and Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,

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


rate difficulty: Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?


simplify: And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.

Made an attempt to get a view of Jesus, and was not able to do so, because of the people, for he was a small man.


simplify: And of them also will I take for priests and for Levites, saith Jehovah.

And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Ephraim is become like a silly dove without understanding: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.


rate difficulty: And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

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


rate difficulty: And the people of Israel were overcome there by the servants of David, and there was a great destruction that day, and twenty thousand men were put to the sword.

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simplify: And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.

Then Gideon went in and made ready a young goat, and with an ephah of meal he made unleavened cakes: he put the meat in a basket and the soup in which it had been cooked he put in a pot, and he took it out to him under the oak-tree and gave it to him there.


rate difficulty: And there was a prophetess, Anna, daughter of Phanuel, of [the] tribe of Asher, who was far advanced in years, having lived with [her] husband seven years from her virginity,

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


simplify: But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (then saith he to the sick of the palsy), Arise, and take up thy bed, and go unto thy house.

But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.


rate difficulty: For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?

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


simplify: The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The twenty-first Hothir, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, And I, behold, I have given thee the charge of my heave-offerings, even all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, as a portion for ever.

And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

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


simplify: But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of Jehovah of hosts hath spoken it.

But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.


simplify: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

What agreement can you be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the living God. That is what God meant when he said —  ‘I will live among them, and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they will be my people.


rate difficulty: And the elders of Jabesh said to him, Allow us seven days, and we will send messengers into all the districts of Israel; and if there be no man to deliver us, we will come out to thee.

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


rate difficulty: Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner did their fathers to the false prophets.


simplify: Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;


simplify: But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

But Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, sent out our fathers the first time.


simplify: And she said unto her mistress, Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.

And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.


rate difficulty: He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

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


simplify: that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

Then you will have no cause for grief, and my lord's heart will not be troubled because you have taken life without cause and have yourself given punishment for your wrongs: and when the Lord has been good to you, then give a thought to your servant.


rate difficulty: And they shall take all the instruments of service, wherewith they serve in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers' skin, and shall put them upon a pole.

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


simplify: The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.


simplify: and the demons were calling on him, saying, `If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'

and the foul spirits began begging Jesus: “If you drive us out, send us into the drove of pigs.”


simplify: And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

“You will indeed drink my cup,” he said, “but as to a seat at my right and at my left — that is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”


simplify: But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not at all his will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.

But as for Apollos, the brother, I had a great desire for him to come to you with the brothers, but it was not his pleasure to come now; but he will come when he has a chance.


simplify: And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:

And wonders will be seen in heaven, and signs on the earth, blood and fire and smoke:


simplify: And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.


simplify: so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

Therefore he who sets himself against the authorities is resisting God’s appointment, and those who resist will bring a judgment on themselves.


simplify: And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:


rate difficulty: And the king saith, `What--to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah? for--let him revile; even because Jehovah hath said to him, Revile David; and who saith, Wherefore hast Thou done so?'

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


simplify: Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.

Says the Lord who takes up our cause; the Lord of armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill the sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering.

And he is to put his hand on the head of the sin-offering and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering.


rate difficulty: And Moses commandeth the sons of Israel, saying, `This <FI>is<Fi> the land which ye inherit by lot, which Jehovah hath commanded to give to the nine tribes and the half of the tribe;

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


simplify: And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

And the brothers straight away sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea: and they, when they came there, went to the Synagogue of the Jews.


rate difficulty: And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

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


simplify: As for the Levites, in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, there were recorded the heads of fathers’houses; also the priests, in the reign of Darius the Persian.

The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were listed as heads of families; and the priests, when Darius the Persian was king.


simplify: And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men, I pray thee, arise and play before us. And Joab said, Let them arise.

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.


simplify: And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah called again, Samuel! And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I did not call, my son: lie down again.

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


rate difficulty: And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

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


rate difficulty: A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.

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


simplify: The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.


rate difficulty: Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?


rate difficulty: I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

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


simplify: besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.


rate difficulty: And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.


simplify: Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.

Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall in no wise enter therein.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.


simplify: and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,


simplify: And coming to the house salute it,


rate difficulty: and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised;


rate difficulty: Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in authority over the people, saying,

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


simplify: And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

You are to take two beryl stones, on which the names of the children of Israel are to be cut:


simplify: If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;


rate difficulty: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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


simplify: `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him;

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the ‘king of Israel’! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.


simplify: And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.


rate difficulty: For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.


rate difficulty: For this is my blood, that of the [new] covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.


simplify: and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.'

and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone who wrongs us; and take us not into temptation.’”