simplify: from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

For from him the whole body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigour of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.


simplify: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Who is false but he who says that Jesus is not the Christ? He is the Antichrist who has no belief in the Father or the Son.


simplify: Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.

Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.


rate difficulty: And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

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


simplify: and her parents were amazed, but he charged them to say to no one what was come to pass.

Her parents were amazed, but Jesus impressed on them that they were not to tell anyone what had happened.


simplify: and Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.


rate difficulty: We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before Jehovah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.

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


rate difficulty: These twenty years I have been with you; your sheep and your goats have had young without loss, not one of your he-goats have I taken for food.


rate difficulty: And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And Joseph said, Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle, if [your] money be all gone.

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


simplify: Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.


simplify: And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.

The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.


simplify: Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.


simplify: And everything that she lieth upon in her impurity shall be unclean: everything also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.

And everything on which she has been resting, while she is kept separate, will be unclean, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean.


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;

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


rate difficulty: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:

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


rate difficulty: And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was [set] upon David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.


simplify: Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he brake down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.


simplify: And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.

It is to be plated with the best gold, the top of it and the sides and the horns, with an edging of gold all round it.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.

For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people.


simplify: And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;


simplify: Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel diseases stretching on through long years.


rate difficulty: and putteth a force in all the fenced cities of Judah, and putteth garrisons in the land of Judah, and in the cities of Ephraim that Asa his father had captured.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he is not to get together a great army of horses for himself, or make the people go back to Egypt to get horses for him: because the Lord has said, You will never again go back that way.


simplify: And he asked them, But who say ye that I am? Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.

And he said to them, But who do you say I am? Peter said in answer, You are the Christ.


simplify: The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. And he said, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

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


simplify: And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;


rate difficulty: And unto man he said, Lo, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

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


simplify: If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;

If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,


rate difficulty: then will Jehovah drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.


rate difficulty: And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.

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


simplify: And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.


simplify: And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the Lord already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

And said to them, You are not to let these prisoners come here; for what you are designing to do will be a cause of sin against the Lord to us, making even greater our sin and our wrongdoing, which now are great enough, and his wrath is burning against Israel.


simplify: And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Jobab, Husham, from the country of the Temanites, became king in his place.


simplify: And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.


rate difficulty: Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

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


simplify: This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.

He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.


simplify: When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, he was very angry.


rate difficulty: Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

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


rate difficulty: O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,


rate difficulty: and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the king.'

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


simplify: The three and twentieth to Mahazioth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The twenty-third Mahazioth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white,

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


rate difficulty: And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

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


rate difficulty: At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.


rate difficulty: Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the offspring of thy kine, and the increase of thy sheep.

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


simplify: And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father’s house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and will say unto him, My brethren, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

And Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's people, I will go and give the news to Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's people, from the land of Canaan, have come to me;


simplify: For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

For he who makes use of tongues is not talking to men but to God; because no one has the sense of what he is saying; but in the Spirit he is talking of secret things.


rate difficulty: This they did, and got all the people seated.


simplify: For there must be also factions among you, that they that are approved may be made manifest among you.

For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.


simplify: Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:


rate difficulty: Our redeemer <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah of Hosts, His name <FI>is<Fi> the Holy One of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Ye say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith Jehovah of hosts; and ye have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.


rate difficulty: And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;

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


rate difficulty: I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on <FI>his<Fi> face, he besought him, saying, `Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;'

On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: “Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean.”


simplify: except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them--Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

except as to the one sentence that I shouted out as I stood among them — ‘It is about the resurrection of the dead that I am on my trial before you today’.”


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

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


simplify: And if thy hand or thy foot causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life maimed or halt, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.

And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.


simplify: And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, to do the service of the children of Israel in the tent of meeting, and to make atonement for the children of Israel; that there be no plague among the children of Israel, when the children of Israel come nigh unto the sanctuary.

And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.


simplify: He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.


simplify: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

But all this is the work of God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and gave us the Ministry of Reconciliation —


simplify: He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.


simplify: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,


simplify: Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.


simplify: But I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment, than for you.

But I say to you, It will be better for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judging, than for you.


rate difficulty: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

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


simplify: And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.

But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.


rate difficulty: This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

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


simplify: And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered unto them: and they continued a season in ward.

And the captain put them in Joseph's care, and he did what was needed for them; and they were kept in prison for some time.


simplify: if, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger;


simplify: And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.


rate difficulty: And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: and he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

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


simplify: Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.


rate difficulty: For scripture says —  ‘I will bring the philosophy of the philosophers to nought, and the shrewdness of the shrewd I will bring to nothing.’

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

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


simplify: And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,


rate difficulty: Amariah, Malluch, Hattush,

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


simplify: Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.


rate difficulty: And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

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


simplify: And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

After they had been set at liberty, the apostles went to their friends and told them what the chief priests and the councillors had said to them.


simplify: chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,


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

The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road.


simplify: Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. And Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.

Then David put armed forces in Damascus, and the Aramaeans became his servants and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.


simplify: And behold, there came to him a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And a leper came and gave him worship, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.


rate difficulty: And he came down with them to a level place, and a great band of his disciples, and a very great number of people from all Judaea and Jerusalem and from the parts of Tyre and Sidon by the sea, came to give hearing to him, and to be made well from their diseases;

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


rate difficulty: And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.

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


simplify: Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:


simplify: I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.


rate difficulty: And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and put the staves in the ark, and put the mercy-seat above on the ark.

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


rate difficulty: for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

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


simplify: And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did courteously lodge <FI>us<Fi> ;

In that neighborhood there was an estate belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He took us up to his house, and for three days entertained us most courteously.


simplify: And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock.

Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting: and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.


simplify: Unto an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Up to a hundred talents of silver, a hundred measures of grain, a hundred measures of wine, and a hundred measures of oil, and salt without measure.


rate difficulty: And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

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


rate difficulty: Of Abijah, Zichri; of Miniamin, of Moadiah, Piltai;

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


simplify: (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,')

(As scripture says —  ‘He scattered broadcast, he gave to the poor; His righteousness continues for ever.’


rate difficulty: For I have not sent them, saith Jehovah, yet they prophesy falsely in my name; in order that I should drive you out, and that ye should perish, ye, and the prophets who prophesy unto you.

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


simplify: And of Joseph he said,  Blessed of Jehovah be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath,

And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,


simplify: Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.

Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.


rate difficulty: But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.

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


simplify: Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,

It is to you, then, who believe in him that he is precious, but to those who do not believe he is ‘a stone which, though rejected by the builders, has now itself become the corner-stone,’


simplify: And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

Who get in the seed of Shihor, whose wealth is the trade of the nations.


rate difficulty: And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth–addar, unto Beth–horon the upper;

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


rate difficulty: And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.

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


simplify: Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For this reason the wrath of the Lord has been burning against his people, and his hand has been stretched out against them in punishment, and the hills were shaking, and their dead bodies were like waste in the open places of the town.


rate difficulty: Son of man, let your face be turned to the children of Ammon, and be a prophet against them:


rate difficulty: He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

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


simplify: And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clear olive oil for the lights, so that a light may be burning there at all times.


simplify: And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.


simplify: And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again; for what have I done to thee?

And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?


simplify: And he spake unto the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling wheels, even under the cherub, and fill both thy hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

And he said to the man clothed in linen, Go in between the wheels, under the winged ones, and get your two hands full of burning coals from between the winged ones and send them in a shower over the town. And he went in before my eyes.


simplify: And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

But meanwhile a woman, who had been suffering from hemorrhage for twelve years, came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak.


rate difficulty: The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:


simplify: Thou hast a few names even in Sardis who did not defile their garments, and they shall walk with me in white, because they are worthy.

Yet there are some few among you at Sardis who did not soil their robes; they will walk with me, robed in white, for they are worthy.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.


simplify: and assemble thou all the congregation at the door of the tent of meeting.

And let all the people come together at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.

Now the men of the town said to Elisha, You see that the position of this town is good; but the water is bad, causing the young of the cattle to come to birth dead.


simplify: And his father and his mother were marvelling at the things which were spoken concerning him;

And his father and mother were full of wonder at the things which were said about him.


rate difficulty: And even now the axe also lieth at the root of the trees: every tree therefore that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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


rate difficulty: One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

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


simplify: Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.

Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.


rate difficulty: Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;

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


simplify: And Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

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


simplify: For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

For what man is there in all the earth, who, hearing the voice of the living God as we have, out of the heart of the fire, has been kept from death?


simplify: And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.

And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.


rate difficulty: for Baruch son of Neriah is moving thee against us, in order to give us up into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death, and to remove us to Babylon.'

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


simplify: And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

And he has given to him, and to Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the power of training others.


rate difficulty: And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and Jehovah gave thunder and hail; and the fire ran along the ground; and Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.


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

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.


simplify: and openly he was speaking the word. And Peter having taken him aside, began to rebuke him,

He said all this quite openly. But Peter took Jesus aside, and began to rebuke him.


simplify: On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work therein:

On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;


simplify: And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.

So cutting away the hooks, and letting them go into the sea, and freeing the cords of the guiding-blades, and lifting up the sail to the wind, they went in the direction of the inlet.


rate difficulty: But now he is dead, why should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

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


simplify: And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.


rate difficulty: Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

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


rate difficulty: See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?

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


rate difficulty: And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

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


rate difficulty: In the twenty-seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Azariah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, began to reign.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, I will give you a young goat from the flock. And she said, What will you give me as a sign till you send it?


simplify: And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.


simplify: Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.


rate difficulty: `And anything on which she lieth in her separation is unclean, and anything on which she sitteth is unclean;

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


rate difficulty: And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.

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


rate difficulty: Sorrow in the heart of a man boweth down, And a good word maketh him glad.

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


rate difficulty: While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.

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


simplify: Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.


simplify: For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?

For when one says, I am of Paul; and another says, I am of Apollos; are you not talking like natural men?


rate difficulty: For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.


simplify: And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.


simplify: Many things I had to write, but I do not wish through ink and pen to write to thee,

I have a great deal to say to you, but I do not care to trust it to pen and ink in a letter.


rate difficulty: and the Egyptians pursue after them, and all the chariot horses of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his force, overtake them, encamping by the sea, by Pi-Hahiroth, before Baal-Zephon.

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


rate difficulty: And Nehemiah, that is, the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that explained to the people, said to all the people, This day is holy to Jehovah yourGod: mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept when they heard the words of the law.

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


simplify: And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.

And if it is possible for me to go there, they will go with me.


simplify: Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.

And of these, he will give one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, with the meal offering; and the priest will take away the sin of him who is to be made clean before the Lord.


simplify: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.


rate difficulty: The followers there had heard about us, and came out as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At sight of them Paul thanked God and was much cheered.

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


rate difficulty: In the streets of Lystra there used to sit a man who had no power in his feet; he had been lame from his birth, and had never walked.


rate difficulty: So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

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


rate difficulty: Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?

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


simplify: Therefore shall ye keep all the commandment which I command thee this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go over to possess it;

So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;


rate difficulty: For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless--without man, Surely also, woe to them, when I turn aside from them.

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


rate difficulty: I saw the Lord standing upon the altar; and he said, Smite the chapiter that the thresholds may shake; and break all of them in pieces, in the head; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not get away by flight, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

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


rate difficulty: For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.


rate difficulty: When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

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


simplify: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

And you will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land; and it will come about, in the last days, that I will make you come against my land, so that the nations may have knowledge of me when I make myself holy in you, O Gog, before their eyes.


simplify: Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven.

Then the priests and the Levites gave the people a blessing: and the voice of their prayer went up to the holy place of God in heaven.


simplify: And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.


simplify: and join them for thee one to another into one stick, that they may become one in thy hand.

Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.


rate difficulty: Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house of the Lord.

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


simplify: There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living.


simplify: In that hour was Jesus glad in the Spirit, and said, `I do confess to thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that Thou didst hide these things from wise men and understanding, and didst reveal them to babes; yes, Father, because so it became good pleasure before Thee.

At that same time, moved to exultation by the Holy Spirit, Jesus said:  “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the childlike! Yes, Father, I thank you that this has seemed good to you.


simplify: Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

Now it came to the ears of Shephatiah, the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah, the son of Pashhur, and Jucal, the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, that Jeremiah had said to all the people,


rate difficulty: The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.

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


simplify: And they shall be as mighty men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because the Lord is with them, and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

Together they will be like men of war, crushing down their haters into the earth of the streets in the fight; they will make war because the Lord is with them: and the horsemen will be shamed.


simplify: I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.

I will be as the dew to Israel; he will put out flowers like a lily, and send out his roots like Lebanon.


simplify: And a certain young man followed with him, having a linen cloth cast about him, over his naked body: and they lay hold on him;

And a certain young man went after him, with only a linen cloth about his body; and they put their hands on him;


rate difficulty: Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets.

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


rate difficulty: For godly sorrow worketh repentance unto salvation, a repentance which bringeth no regret: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

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


rate difficulty: Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass, when Adoni–zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;

Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;


simplify: And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath day.

And he was teaching in one of the Synagogues on the Sabbath.


rate difficulty: and they took possession of his land, and the land of Og the king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side the Jordan, toward the sun-rising;

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


simplify: (There are eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadesh–barnea.)

It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.


simplify: Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

Still, when in union with the Lord, woman is not independent of man, or man of woman;


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning.


simplify: They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.


simplify: Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

For as things are, it will come about, when my lord the king is sleeping with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son will be made outlaws.


rate difficulty: that the manslayer might flee thither, who should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not previously, that fleeing to one of these cities, he might live:

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


simplify: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the women that sew pillows upon all elbows, and make kerchiefs for the head of persons of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and save souls alive for yourselves?

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


rate difficulty: And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

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


rate difficulty: And such were some of you; but you have been washed, you have been made holy, you have been given righteousness in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

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


simplify: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;


simplify: And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.

But I may be with you for a time, or even for the winter, so that you may see me on my way, wherever I go.


simplify: Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.

And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.


rate difficulty: For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.


simplify: Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

And you are not to give ear to the prophets who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: for what they say is not true.


rate difficulty: May all who rule their conduct by this principle find peace and mercy — they who are the Israel of God.

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


rate difficulty: Of Iddo, Zechariah; of Ginnethon, Meshullam;

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


rate difficulty: And news of him went out through all Syria; and they took to him all who were ill with different diseases and pains, those having evil spirits and those who were off their heads, and those who had no power of moving. And he made them well.


simplify: neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.


simplify: And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again: “My children, how hard a thing it is to enter the kingdom of God!


simplify: Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

Two of every sort of bird and cattle and of every sort of living thing which goes on the earth will you take with you to keep them from destruction.


simplify: that even as the sin did reign in the death, so also the grace may reign, through righteousness, to life age-during, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

in order than, just as sin had reigned in the realm of death, so, too, might Loving-kindness reign through righteousness, and result in eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.


rate difficulty: As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, So honor is not seemly for a fool.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord.

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


simplify: They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:


simplify: And the sons of Shimei were, Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei.


rate difficulty: `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake--

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


simplify: And he will show you a large upper room furnished: there make ready.

And he will take you up to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready.


rate difficulty: Yet even if we — or if an angel from heaven were to tell you any other ‘good news’ than that which we told you, may he be accursed!

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


simplify: That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth–el: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.

For in the day when I give Israel punishment for his sins, I will send punishment on the altars of Beth-el, and the horns of the altar will be cut off and come down to the earth.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.

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


simplify: I have known, and am persuaded, in the Lord Jesus, that nothing <FI>is<Fi> unclean of itself, except to him who is reckoning anything to be unclean--to that one <FI>it is<Fi> unclean;

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is ‘defiling in itself.’ A thing is ‘defiling’ only to the person who holds it to be so.


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

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


rate difficulty: But, as soon as they saw Jesus, all the people, in great astonishment, ran up and greeted him.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse.

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


rate difficulty: And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

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


rate difficulty: Let every man keep the position in which he has been placed by God.

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


simplify: All these things spake Jesus in parables unto the multitudes; and without a parable spake he nothing unto them:

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:


simplify: Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in, and make their home there; and the last state of that person proves to be worse than the first.”


simplify: The kings came and fought; Then fought the kings of Canaan, In Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: They took no gain of money.

The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money.


simplify: Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the Lord.

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and for ever. And all the people said, So be it; and gave praise to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he put his hands on them, and went away.


simplify: And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.


simplify: And the persons were sixteen thousand; of whom Jehovah’s tribute was thirty and two persons.

And the number of persons was sixteen thousand, of which the Lord's part was thirty-two persons.


simplify: For they are my servants, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

For they are my servants whom I took out from the land of Egypt; they may not become the property of another.


simplify: Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;


simplify: And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was about to destroy, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the destroying angel, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


simplify: And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,


rate difficulty: How fair is thy love, my sister, my bride! How much better is thy love than wine! And the fragrance of thine oils than all manner of spices!

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


rate difficulty: God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. The heavens were covered with his glory, and the earth was full of his praise.

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


rate difficulty: And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.


simplify: And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

And the vision which I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came for the destruction of the town: and like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.


simplify: They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;


simplify: And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.


rate difficulty: And ye bare Succoth your king, and Chiun your images, The star of your god, that ye made for yourselves.

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simplify: My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;

My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,


rate difficulty: Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

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rate difficulty: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: One day, as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a girl possessed by a divining spirit, who made large profits for her masters by fortune-telling.

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


simplify: (who also, when he was in Galilee, were following him, and were ministering to him,) and many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem.

all of whom used to accompany Jesus when he was in Galilee, and attend on him — besides many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: (which have indeed an appearance of wisdom in voluntary worship, and humility, and harsh treatment of the body, not in a certain honour,) to [the] satisfaction of the flesh.

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simplify: And the cherubim mounted up: this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

And the winged ones went up on high: this is the living being which I saw by the river Chebar.


rate difficulty: How true that saying is! And it is on these subjects that I desire you to lay especial stress, so that those who have learned to trust in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing good. Such subjects are excellent in themselves, and of real use to humanity.

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


simplify: Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.


rate difficulty: that he may establish thee this day for a people unto himself, and [that] he may be to thee aGod, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

And he said to her, Let the children first have their food: for it is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.


simplify: There have been mighty kings also over Jerusalem, who have ruled over all the country beyond the River; and tribute, custom, and toll, was paid unto them.

Further, there have been great kings in Jerusalem, ruling over all the country across the river, to whom they gave taxes and payments in goods and forced payments.


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh hath said of the sons of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut upon them;

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simplify: and the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.

And the high places of Isaac will be unpeopled, and the holy places of Israel will be made waste; and I will come up against the family of Jeroboam with the sword.


rate difficulty: And everyone went to his own town to be registered.

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


simplify: and the disciples, according as any one was prospering, determined each of them to send for ministration to the brethren dwelling in Judea,

So the disciples, without exception, determined, in proportion to their means, to send something to help the followers living in Judea.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah hath riches and honour very much, and treasures he hath made to himself of silver, and of gold, and of precious stone, and of spices, and of shields, and of all <FI>kinds<Fi> of desirable vessels,

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


rate difficulty: Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

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


simplify: forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:


rate difficulty: The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,


rate difficulty: Orwho shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;

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


rate difficulty: Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel;

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rate difficulty: And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a place where God lives through the Spirit.

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


simplify: Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

Who was there among all the gods of those nations, which my fathers put to destruction, who was able to keep his people safe from my hands? and is it possible that your God will keep you safe from my hands?


rate difficulty: So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

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


simplify: And he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, which was the breadth of the tabernacle.

And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.


rate difficulty: And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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


rate difficulty: But if her husband have expressly annulled them on the day that he heard them, then nothing of that which is gone out of her lips as to her vows or the bond on her soul, shall stand: her husband hath annulled them; and Jehovah will pardon her.

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


rate difficulty: Then Moses and Aaron went away from the people to the door of the Tent of meeting; and, falling on their faces there, they saw the glory of the Lord.

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


simplify: Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

Let there be no turning to the right or to the left, keep your feet from evil.


rate difficulty: And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

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


simplify: And Jehovah of hosts will stir up against him a scourge, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be over the sea, and he will lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

And the Lord of armies will be shaking a whip against him, as when he overcame Midian at the rock of Oreb: and his rod will be lifted up against them as it was against the Egyptians.


simplify: For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah to wife.

For in Judah there were a number of people who had made an agreement by oath with him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah, the son of Arah; and his son Jehohanan had taken as his wife the daughter of Meshullam, the son of Berechiah.


rate difficulty: And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

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


simplify: In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;


simplify: And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.

So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.


simplify: much more, then, having been declared righteous now in his blood, we shall be saved through him from the wrath;

Much more, then, now that we have been pronounced righteous by virtue of the shedding of his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.


simplify: And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.

And when they had said more sharp words to them, they let them go, not seeing what punishment they might give them, because of the people; for all men were giving praise to God for what had taken place.


simplify: And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.


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


simplify: shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?

Was it not right for you to have mercy on the other servant, even as I had mercy on you?


simplify: Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them; for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.


rate difficulty: And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

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rate difficulty: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

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


simplify: Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Now if you put to death all this people as one man, then the nations who have had word of your glory will say,


rate difficulty: and Moza begot Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

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


simplify: And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben-hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?


rate difficulty: And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.


rate difficulty: And as they were going on the way, they came upon a certain water, and the eunuch said, `Lo, water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?'

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


rate difficulty: And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering.


rate difficulty: AndGod made the beast of the earth after its kind, and the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing of the ground after its kind. AndGod saw that it was good.


simplify: And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.


simplify: And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.

And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.


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

Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.


rate difficulty: And he shall take off from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

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


simplify: And she said unto her servants, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.


simplify: And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

And twelve lions were placed on the one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.


rate difficulty: Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.


simplify: And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.


rate difficulty: And his young ones suck up blood; and where the slain are, there is he.

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


rate difficulty: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)


simplify: They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.


rate difficulty: So Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the house of the Lord, and in the king's store-house.

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


simplify: Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.

Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

The Lord has said, See, a people is coming from the north country, a great nation will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.


simplify: Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

Even while laughing the heart may be sad; and after joy comes sorrow.


simplify: And over the course of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite, and his course; and Mikloth the ruler: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

And over the division for the second month was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, the ruler; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.

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


simplify: And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them.

And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.


simplify: Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

especially as you are so well-versed in all the customs and questions of the Jewish world. I beg you therefore to give me a patient hearing.


rate difficulty: And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

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


rate difficulty: As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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


rate difficulty: And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;

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


rate difficulty: Then he goes and takes seven other spirits worse than himself, and entering in, they dwell there; and the last condition of that man becomes worse than the first.


simplify: They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

“Master,” they replied, “we want our eyes to be opened.”


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the Lord; because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.

For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.


simplify: And Jehovah said, Thou hast had regard for the gourd, for which thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:

And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;


rate difficulty: and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange ‘tongues’ as the Spirit prompted their utterances.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.

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


simplify: And the priest shall look on the plague, after that it is washed: and, behold, if the plague have not changed his colour, and the plague be not spread; it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire; it is fret inward, whether it be bare within or without.

And if, after the mark has been washed, the priest sees that the colour of it is not changed and it is not increased, it is to be burned in the fire: the disease is working in it, though the damage may be inside or outside.


simplify: and if all were one member, where the body?

If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?


simplify: Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about.

Before your shame was uncovered? Now you have become like her a word of shame to the daughters of Edom and all who are round about you, the daughters of the Philistines who put shame on you round about.


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

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use.


simplify: Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.


simplify: For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it.

For they came up regularly with their oxen and their tents; they came like the locusts in number; they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land for its destruction.


rate difficulty: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

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


rate difficulty: And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.

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


rate difficulty: For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

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


simplify: Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.

and that is why that field is called the ‘Field of Blood’ to this very day.


simplify: And the people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Jehovah.

Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.


simplify: And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.

The little girl stood up at once, and began to walk about; for she was twelve years old. And, as soon as they saw it, they were overwhelmed with amazement;


rate difficulty: For in office <FI>are<Fi> the four chiefs of the gatekeepers, they are Levites, and they have been over the chambers, and over the treasuries of the house of God,

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


rate difficulty: They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

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


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered;

For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:


rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah to me, saying,


simplify: And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Jehovah commanded by Moses.

And Aaron and his sons did all the things about which the Lord had given orders through Moses.


rate difficulty: So Uzziah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the field of burial which belonged to the kings; for they said, He is a leper: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.


rate difficulty: So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.


simplify: Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And in addition, you may get, for money, servants from among the children of other nations who are living with you, and from their families which have come to birth in your land; and these will be your property.


simplify: Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.


simplify: That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.


simplify: That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered.


rate difficulty: And the messenger of Jehovah saith unto Manoah, `If thou detain me--I do not eat of thy bread; and if thou prepare a burnt-offering--to Jehovah thou dost offer it;' for Manoah hath not known that He <FI>is<Fi> a messenger of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the princes and all the people said unto the priests and to the prophets, This man is not worthy to die; for he hath spoken to us in the name of Jehovah ourGod.

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simplify: Then did he charge his disciples that they may say to no one that he is Jesus the Christ.

Then he charged his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.


simplify: And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.

And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.


rate difficulty: And there was much joy in that city.

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

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rate difficulty: They wind about in the paths of their course, they go off into the waste and perish.


simplify: And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

And he will put a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and they will be burned by him: and he will make Egypt clean as a keeper of sheep makes clean his clothing; and he will go out from there in peace.


simplify: Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;


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

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


simplify: Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Jehovah your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of Jehovah God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Jehovah.

Now give your heart and soul to the worship of the Lord your God; and get to work on the building of the holy place of the Lord God, so that you may put the ark of the Lord's agreement and the holy vessels of God in the house which is to be made for the name of the Lord.


simplify: And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.


simplify: He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;


simplify: From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country.