rate difficulty: We will make thee borders of gold with studs of silver.

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


simplify: Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.


rate difficulty: He buildeth his house as the moth, And as a booth which the keeper maketh.

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


simplify: The ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,

The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover;


simplify: forasmuch as he hath sent unto us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them?

For he has sent to us in Babylon saying, The time will be long: go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them.


simplify: And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.

And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah saith unto Zedekiah, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Hosts, God of Israel: If thou dost certainly go forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, then hath thy soul lived, and this city is not burned with fire, yea, thou hast lived, thou and thy house.

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


simplify: These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

Now these are the heads of families who were listed of those who went up with me from Babylon, when Artaxerxes was king.


simplify: And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

The Commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!


simplify: The children of Arah, six hundred fifty and two.

The children of Arah, six hundred and fifty-two.


simplify: `And those servants, having gone forth to the ways, did gather all, as many as they found, both bad and good, and the marriage-feast apartment was filled with those reclining.

The servants went out into the roads and collected all the people whom they found, whether bad or good; and the bridal-hall was filled with guests.


simplify: and they were not finding what they shall do, for all the people were hanging on him, hearing him.

Yet they could not see what to do, for the people all hung on his words.


simplify: And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him--being the sect of the Sadducees--were filled with zeal,

At this the high priest was roused to action, and he and all his supporters (who formed the party of the Sadducees), moved by jealousy,


simplify: And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man? Clearly he has come out to put shame on Israel: and it is certain that if any man overcomes him, the king will give that man great wealth, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's family free in Israel.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron,


rate difficulty: And the pillars of brass that <FI>are<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, that <FI>is<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken in pieces, and bear away their brass to Babylon.

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


simplify: and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;

for the rich will pass away ‘like the flower of the grass.’


rate difficulty: Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

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


simplify: saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

Saying, This man is teaching the people to give worship to God in a way which is against the law.


rate difficulty: then it hath been, that which at all cometh out from the doors of my house to meet me in my turning back in peace from the Bene-Ammon--it hath been to Jehovah, or I have offered up for it--a burnt-offering.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching [the] baptism of repentance for [the] remission of sins,

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


simplify: And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.

And between the way up to the angle and the sheep door, the gold-workers and the traders made good the wall.


simplify: And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;


simplify: Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them went into the temple, declaring the fulfilment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.

Then Paul took the men, and on the day after, making himself clean with them, he went into the Temple, giving out the statement that the days necessary for making them clean were complete, till the offering was made for every one of them.


rate difficulty: and others fell upon the good ground, and were giving fruit, some indeed a hundredfold, and some sixty, and some thirty.

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.

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


simplify: In your patience ye shall win your souls.

By going through all these things, you will keep your lives.


simplify: Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel; and he came into the house of Jehovah, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat.

Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.


simplify: And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, they delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the doors had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and they returned to Jerusalem.

And they came to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and gave him all the money which had been taken into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had got from Manasseh and Ephraim and those of Israel who had not been taken away as prisoners, and from all Judah and Benjamin and the people of Jerusalem.


simplify: And when they sought to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, because they took him for a prophet.

And though they had a desire to take him, they were in fear of the people, because in their eyes he was a prophet.


simplify: Geber the son of Uri was in the country of Gilead, in the country of Sihon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer which was in the land.

Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.


simplify: Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;


rate difficulty: He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

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


rate difficulty: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest she wear me out by her continual coming.

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


simplify: Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.


rate difficulty: Give thanks unto Jehovah, for he is good; For his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

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


simplify: And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he tookto wifewhen he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.


rate difficulty: And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: And he spake this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit thereon, and found none.

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


rate difficulty: For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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


rate difficulty: And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them,

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


simplify: And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

And the Lord God said, Now the man has become like one of us, having knowledge of good and evil; and now if he puts out his hand and takes of the fruit of the tree of life, he will go on living for ever.


simplify: The families of the sons of Kohath shall encamp on the side of the tabernacle southward.

The tents of the Kohathites are to be placed on the south side of the House.


simplify: And thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement: and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

Every day an ox is to be offered as a sin-offering, to take away sins: and by this offering on it, you will make the altar clean from sin; and you are to put oil on it and make it holy.


simplify: And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth–jeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah:

And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east, and to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:


simplify: And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

Then I saw the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, gathered together to fight with him who sat on the horse and with his army.


simplify: The length of one curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure.

Every curtain is to be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.


rate difficulty: And Abraham journeyeth from thence toward the land of the south, and dwelleth between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourneth in Gerar;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

He came to see us, and, taking Paul’s girdle, and binding his own feet and hands with it, said: “This is what the Holy Spirit says — ‘The man to whom this girdle belongs will be bound like this by the religious authorities in Jerusalem, and they will give him up to the Gentiles’.”


simplify: And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?


simplify: For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or on earth; as there are gods many, and lords many;

For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,


rate difficulty: If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

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


simplify: the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the good news.


rate difficulty: Here, further, it is sought in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

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


simplify: They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.


rate difficulty: He that shutteth his eyes, [it is] to devise froward things; biting his lips, he bringeth evil to pass.

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


simplify: I beseech you, brethren, become as I am, for I also am become as ye are. Ye did me no wrong:

My desire for you, brothers, is that you may be as I am, because I am as you are. You have done me no wrong;


simplify: And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.

And he said to the man, Get up and come forward.


simplify: Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.


rate difficulty: And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.


simplify: And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

And besides this, most of our fellow followers have gained confidence in the Lord through my chains, and now venture with far greater freedom to speak of God’s message fearlessly.


simplify: And Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, every man at the door of his tent: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled greatly; and Moses was displeased.

And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.


simplify: And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.

And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.


simplify: For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.


simplify: This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:

And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things.


simplify: Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.


simplify: and Malchiram, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

And Malchiram and Pedaiah and Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.


rate difficulty: Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee.

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


simplify: In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.


rate difficulty: And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them,

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


rate difficulty: And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.


rate difficulty: the children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth-hazzebaim, the children of Amon.

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


rate difficulty: And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

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


rate difficulty: These are the rules, decisions, and laws, which the Lord made between himself and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses.

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


rate difficulty: so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

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


rate difficulty: And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.

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


simplify: and no one was able in the heaven, nor upon the earth, nor under the earth, to open the scroll, nor to behold it.

But no one either in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the book or look within it.


simplify: And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt offering, or for a sacrifice in performing a vow, or peace offerings unto the Lord:

And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord:


simplify: They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the Lord, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people of the Lord go down to the gates.

Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.


simplify: And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.


simplify: and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, `The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;'

and the crowd, seeing what Paul had done, called out in the Lycaonian language: “The Gods have come down to us in human form.”


simplify: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

So, after consultation, they bought with them the ‘Potter’s Field’ for a burial-ground for foreigners;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of Jehovah, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every egress of the sanctuary.

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


simplify: For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.


rate difficulty: Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

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


simplify: And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.

And in the third, white horses; and in the fourth, horses of mixed colour.


rate difficulty: Their horses <FI>are<Fi> seven hundred thirty and six, their mules, two hundred forty and five,

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


rate difficulty: I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.


simplify: They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

They have made a bed for her among the dead, and all her people are round about her resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death with the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld: they have been given a place among those who have been put to the sword.


simplify: And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.


rate difficulty: And the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass thatGod smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

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


rate difficulty: and thou--thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age;

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


simplify: And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.

And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.


simplify: And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;

And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord


rate difficulty: Once have I spoken, and I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further.

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


rate difficulty: But I have against thee that thou permittest the woman Jezebel, she who calls herself prophetess, and she teaches and leads astray my servants to commit fornication and eat of idol sacrifices.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;


rate difficulty: And on the seven days of the feast he is to give a burned offering to the Lord, seven oxen and seven sheep without any mark on them, every day for seven days; and a he-goat every day for a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: `And if ye do not so, lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah, and know ye your sin, that it doth find you;

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


rate difficulty: To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.

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


simplify: For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

For even when we were with you we gave you orders, saying, If any man does no work, let him not have food.


simplify: When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regem–melech, and their men, to pray before the Lord,

Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.


simplify: And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.


rate difficulty: and this is the promise that He did promise us--the life the age-during.


rate difficulty: there is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness;


simplify: And the dogs shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled.

And Jezebel will become food for the dogs in the heritage of Jezreel, and there will be no one to put her body into the earth. Then, opening the door, he went in flight.


simplify: And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.


simplify: saying unto Aaron, Make us gods that shall go before us: for as for this Moses, who led us forth out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.


rate difficulty: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

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


simplify: And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.


simplify: But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

But Hezekiah did not do as had been done to him; for his heart was lifted up in pride; and so wrath came on him and on Judah and Jerusalem.


simplify: to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, that is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to burn incense before Jehovah; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as Jehovah spake unto him by Moses.

To be a sign, kept in memory for ever by the children of Israel, that no man who is not of the seed of Aaron has the right of burning spices before the Lord, so that he may not be like Korah and his band: as the Lord said to him by the mouth of Moses.


rate difficulty: A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.


rate difficulty: and now thou art saying, Go, say to my lord, Lo, Elijah--and he hath slain me!'

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


simplify: Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

The flesh of the men of war will be your food, and your drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of sheep and lambs, of he-goats, of oxen, all of them fat beasts of Bashan.


simplify: And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Stretching the outer tent over it, and covering it, as the Lord had given him orders.


simplify: what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:


simplify: In the mean time, when the many thousands of the multitude were gathered together, insomuch that they trod one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.


simplify: And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.

And Hazor will be a hole for jackals, a waste for ever: no one will be living in it, and no son of man will have a resting-place there.


simplify: If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

If the wrath of the ruler is against you, keep in your place; in him who keeps quiet even great sins may be overlooked.


simplify: Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

Then he said to them, Nation will be moved against nation and kingdom against kingdom:


rate difficulty: `And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;

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simplify: If, then, I also wrote to you--not for his cause who did wrong, nor for his cause who did suffer wrong, but for our diligence in your behalf being manifested unto you before God--

So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us.


simplify: And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.


rate difficulty: That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity.

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


simplify: And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet.

And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his feet.


rate difficulty: But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

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


simplify: And in that day thou shalt say, I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away and thou comfortest me.

And in that day you will say I will give praise to you, O Lord; for though you were angry with me, your wrath is turned away, and I am comforted.


simplify: He that giveth answer before he heareth, It is folly and shame unto him.

To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.


simplify: And I did so as I was commanded: I brought forth my stuff by day, as stuff for captivity, and in the even I digged through the wall with mine hand; I brought it forth in the twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their sight.

And I did as I was ordered: I took out my vessels by day, like those of one who is taken away, and in the evening I made a hole through the wall with a tent-pin; and in the dark I went out, taking my things on my back before their eyes.


simplify: And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Seth, Adam went on living for eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;

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


simplify: then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.


rate difficulty: And Jared lived after he had begotten Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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


simplify: Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; and his mother's name was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.


simplify: And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.


rate difficulty: And ye have said, `Wherefore?' Because Jehovah hath testified between thee And the wife of thy youth, That thou hast dealt treacherously against her, And she thy companion, and thy covenant-wife.

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


simplify: As for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as seemeth good and meet unto you.

As for me, here I am in your hands: do with me whatever seems good and right in your opinion.


rate difficulty: because there was born to you to-day a Saviour--who is Christ the Lord--in the city of David,

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


simplify: Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

Let your ear now take note and let your eyes be open, so that you may give ear to the prayer of your servant, which I make before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel, your servants, while I put before you the sins of the children of Israel, which we have done against you: truly, I and my father's people are sinners.


simplify: And he said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should take it to his heart.

And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Noah, Take all your family and go into the ark, for you only in this generation have I seen to be upright.

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


simplify: And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.

And Abdon, the son of Hillel, came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekites.


simplify: Fools and blind! for which <FI>is<Fi> greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

Blind indeed! Which is the more important? The offering? Or the altar which gives sacredness to the offering?


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as the crowd pressed on him to hear the word ofGod, that he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret:


simplify: By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;

By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;


rate difficulty: And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.

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


rate difficulty: Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

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


simplify: Then are there crucified with him two robbers, one on the right hand and one on the left.

Then two thieves were put on crosses with him, one on the right and one on the left.


simplify: And the days of Isaac were a hundred and fourscore years.

And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.


simplify: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

since your new life has come, not from perishable, but imperishable, seed, through the message of the Everliving God.


simplify: But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.


simplify: And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.


rate difficulty: he said, Withdraw, for the damsel is not dead, but sleeps. And they derided him.


rate difficulty: And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.

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


simplify: And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

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


simplify: And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power.


rate difficulty: And for the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites, who are left of the sons of Kohath, even the cities of their lot are of the tribe of Ephraim;


simplify: And for me, let it not be--to glory, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which to me the world hath been crucified, and I to the world;

But, for my part, may I never boast of anything except the cross of Jesus Christ, our Master, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.


rate difficulty: and it hath been, when ye come in unto the land which Jehovah giveth to you, as He hath spoken, that ye have kept this service;

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


simplify: But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof En–hakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

Then God made a crack in the hollow rock in Lehi and water came out of it; and after drinking, his spirit came back to him and he was strong again; so that place was named En-hakkore; it is in Lehi to this day.


simplify: And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued after them; and he took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.

And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.


rate difficulty: Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

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


simplify: For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

Look at the facts of your call, friends. There are not many among you who are wise, as people reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;


rate difficulty: And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his house, glorifying God.

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


simplify: Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

For which cause my desire is that you will make your love to him clear by your acts.


simplify: All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.  It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

All who are with me here send you their greeting. Give my greeting to our friends in the faith.    God bless you all.


rate difficulty: And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.


rate difficulty: And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

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


simplify: There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.

The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.


rate difficulty: Wherefore let him that speaks with a tongue pray that he may interpret.

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


rate difficulty: Say to Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin,

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


simplify: (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),

(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),


simplify: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.


rate difficulty: And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

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


simplify: For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

For, if the dead do not rise, then even Christ himself has not been raised,


rate difficulty: and to those in Hebron, and to all the places where David had gone up and down, he and his men.

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


rate difficulty: So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, I have graven thee upon the palms of [my] hands; thy walls are continually before me.

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


rate difficulty: It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.


rate difficulty: And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of Jehovah, that was before the porch of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in number.

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


simplify: The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.


simplify: And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of Jehovah in Shiloh: and the child was young.

Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young.


simplify: be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’


rate difficulty: And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.

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


simplify: The oblation that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be five and twenty thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in breadth.

The offering you will give to the Lord is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty-five thousand wide.


simplify: Jehovah will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish; But he thrusteth away the desire of the wicked.

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.


simplify: And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.


rate difficulty: And Saul saith unto David, `Blessed <FI>art<Fi> thou, my son David, also working thou dost work, and also prevailing thou dost prevail.' And David goeth on his way, and Saul hath turned back to his place.

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


simplify: And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

And no one ever puts new wine into old wine-skins; if they do, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins are lost. But new wine is put into fresh skins.”


rate difficulty: I saw in the night, and, behold, a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white.

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


rate difficulty: But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity.

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


rate difficulty: so I do to this place--an affirmation of Jehovah--and to its inhabitants, so as to make this city as Tophet;

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


simplify: And the second messenger did pour out his vial to the sea, and there came blood as of <FI>one<Fi> dead, and every living soul died in the sea.

Then the second angel emptied his bowl on the sea; and it turned to blood like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died — everything in the sea.


rate difficulty: My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

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


rate difficulty: And thou hast known that I--Jehovah, I have heard all thy despisings that thou hast spoken Against mountains of Israel, saying: A desolation, to us they were given for food.

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


simplify: and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'

But Jesus answered: “I tell you that if they are silent, the stones will call out.”


rate difficulty: Therefore will I scatter them as the stubble that passeth away by the wind of the wilderness.

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


simplify: Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps.

Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods.


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

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


simplify: Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?


simplify: And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be smitten before your enemies: they that hate you shall rule over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.


rate difficulty: As scripture says —  ‘There is not even one who is righteous,

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


simplify: In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.


simplify: `Go on, and standing, speak in the temple to the people all the sayings of this life;'

“Go,” he said, “and stand in the Temple Courts, and tell the people the whole message of this new life.”


simplify: Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think this way. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you.


simplify: Woe unto him that saith unto a father, What begettest thou? or to a woman, With what travailest thou?

Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?


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

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that even for a whole year they were gathered together with the church, and taught much people; and that the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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


rate difficulty: `And God spake thus, That his seed shall be sojourning in a strange land, and they shall cause it to serve, and shall do it evil four hundred years,

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah ourGod.

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


simplify: But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

But death will come to him in the place where they have taken him away prisoner, and he will never see this land again.


simplify: Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.


rate difficulty: For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.

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


rate difficulty: Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him. And I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.

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


simplify: But God raised him from the dead:


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> sons of the province who are going up--of the captives of the removal that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon removed to Babylon, and they turn back to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city--

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The words of the wicked are a lying-in-wait for blood; but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and two thousand men.

Then the children of Benjamin came out from Gibeah, cutting down twenty-two thousand of the Israelites that day.


rate difficulty: How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

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


simplify: who is on the right hand of God, having gone into heaven; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

Who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been put under his rule.


simplify: And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,

And Ahaz was the father of Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza;


simplify: And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,

And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands;


simplify: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water.

Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.


simplify: A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.


simplify: While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a person is the slave of anything to which they give way.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.

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


simplify: For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.


simplify: And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

And he said to them, Take care what you give ear to: in the same measure as you give you will get, and more will be given to you.


simplify: After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.

After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.


simplify: There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his: Brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.


rate difficulty: And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and wash them with water.

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


simplify: Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.

Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.


simplify: And they compel one passing by, Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.

And they made one, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, who was going by, coming from the country, go with them, so that he might take his cross.


simplify: All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

There were two hundred and twelve whose business it was to keep the doorway. These were listed by families in the country places where they were living, whom David and Samuel the seer put in their responsible positions.


rate difficulty: Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one band, and stood on the top of a hill.

And the men of Benjamin came together after Abner in one band, and took their places on the top of a hill.


simplify: Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: To Timothy, my dear child, from Paul who, by the will of God, is an apostle of Christ Jesus, charged to proclaim the life that comes from union with Christ Jesus. May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.

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


simplify: The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart; and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.


rate difficulty: and thence having sailed, on the morrow we came over-against Chios, and the next day we arrived at Samos, and having remained in Trogyllium, on the following day we came to Miletus,

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am sending a sword on you, cutting off from you man and beast.


rate difficulty: So also <FI>is<Fi> the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption;

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


simplify: Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.


rate difficulty: And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

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


simplify: But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that every where it is spoken against.

But we will be glad to hear from you what your views are, for, with regard to this sect, we are well aware that it is spoken against on all sides.”


simplify: behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and let it come to pass, that the maiden that cometh forth to draw, to whom I shall say, Give me, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher to drink;

Let it come about that, while I am waiting here by the water-spring, if a girl comes to get water and I say to her, Give me a little water from your vessel, and she says,


simplify: And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheep-shearers; let the king, I pray thee, and his servants go with thy servant.

And Absalom came to the king and said, See now, your servant is cutting the wool of his sheep; will the king and his servants be pleased to come?


rate difficulty: What then? That which Israel seeketh for, that he obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened:

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


rate difficulty: and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

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


simplify: and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.


rate difficulty: And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.

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


simplify: He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants.

He will take a tenth of your sheep: and you will be his servants.


rate difficulty: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

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


rate difficulty: and they have judged the people at all times; the hard matter they bring in unto Moses, and every small matter they judge themselves.


simplify: Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.


rate difficulty: Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

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


simplify: I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels a hundred talents; of gold a hundred talents;

Measuring into their hands six hundred and fifty talents of silver, and silver vessels, a hundred talents' weight, and a hundred talents of gold,


simplify: And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

And I will take the last of Judah, whose minds are fixed on going into the land of Egypt and stopping there, and they will all come to their end, falling in the land of Egypt by the sword and by being short of food and by disease; death will overtake them, from the least to the greatest, death by the sword and by need of food: they will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame.


simplify: All those that were numbered of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel numbered, by their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

And all the Levites who were numbered by Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,


simplify: Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and ye shall be taken away with it.

See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.


rate difficulty: And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father’s house free in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:

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


simplify: And moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement.


simplify: We have heard of the pride of Moab, thathe is very proud; even of his arrogancy, and his pride, and his wrath; his boastings are nought.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.


simplify: Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

or, if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?


rate difficulty: The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.

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


rate difficulty: even the censers of these sinners against their own lives; and let them be made beaten plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before Jehovah; therefore they are holy; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?


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

But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.


simplify: and the Jerusalem above is the free-woman, which is mother of us all,

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she it is who is our mother.


simplify: and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds.

I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:


simplify: But now I will not be unto the remnant of this people as in the former days, saith Jehovah of hosts.

But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

Therefore write of what you have seen and of what is happening now and of what is about to take place —


rate difficulty: saying, Say that his disciples coming by night stole him [while] we [were] sleeping.

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


simplify: Then David put garrisons in Syria–damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought gifts. Thus the Lord preserved 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.


rate difficulty: So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

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


rate difficulty: And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the treasures.

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


simplify: Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

And Jesus said to him, If you are able! All things are possible to him who has faith.


simplify: My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;


simplify: Son of man, behold, I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke: yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down.

Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

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


simplify: Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.


rate difficulty: And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.

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


simplify: For it seemeth to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not withal to signify the charges against him.

For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.


simplify: As silver is melted in the midst of the furnace, so shall ye be melted in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I the Lord have poured out my fury upon you.

As silver becomes soft in the oven, so you will become soft in it; and you will be certain that I the Lord have let loose my passion on you.


rate difficulty: preaching the reign of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness--unforbidden.

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


simplify: But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.

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


simplify: And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.

And the man of God said, Where did it go in? and when he saw the place where it had gone into the water, cutting a stick, he put it into the water, and the iron came up to the top of the water.


rate difficulty: And I will purge out from among you the rebels, and them that transgress against me; I will bring them forth out of the country where they sojourn, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And Judah cometh nigh unto him, and saith, `O, my lord, let thy servant speak, I pray thee, a word in the ears of my lord, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant--for thou art as Pharaoh.

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


rate difficulty: And the glory of Jehovah abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

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


simplify: The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,


simplify: for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

For the waster has come on her, even on Babylon, and her men of war are taken, their bows are broken: for the Lord is a rewarding God, and he will certainly give payment.


simplify: Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

And you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord of armies: Come back to me, says the Lord of armies, and I will come back to you.


simplify: And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,


rate difficulty: I myself, it is true, once thought it my duty to oppose in every way the name of Jesus of Nazareth;

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


simplify: I was eyes to the blind, And feet was I to the lame.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar was Nethaneel the son of Zuar.

And at the head of the army of the children of Issachar was Nethanel, the son of Zuar.


rate difficulty: Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.


simplify: But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Everyone of us, however, has been entrusted with some charge, each in accordance with the extent of the gift of the Christ.


rate difficulty: And they put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem; as it is recorded in the book of Moses.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,

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


simplify: And over the course of the second month was Dodai an Ahohite, and of his course was Mikloth also the ruler: in his course likewise 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.


simplify: Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


rate difficulty: and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Jehovah, were of burnished brass.

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


simplify: And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.

Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. On the Sabbath he taught the people.


simplify: They shall not dwell in Jehovah’s land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean food in Assyria.

They will have no resting-place in the Lord's land, but Ephraim will go back to Egypt, and they will take unclean food in Assyria.


simplify: With his mouth the godless man destroyeth his neighbor; But through knowledge shall the righteous be delivered.

With his mouth the evil man sends destruction on his neighbour; but through knowledge the upright are taken out of trouble.


simplify: `What man of you having a hundred sheep, and having lost one out of them, doth not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go on after the lost one, till he may find it?

“Who among you who has a hundred sheep, and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine out in the open country, and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?


simplify: For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

For I would be crushed by his storm, my wounds would be increased without cause.


simplify: And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

And come to the king and say these words to him. So Joab gave her words to say.


rate difficulty: They say to him, Why then did Moses give orders that a husband might give her a statement in writing and be free from her?

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


simplify: They have dealt treacherously against the Lord: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.

They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.


simplify: And the Lord having seen her, was moved with compassion towards her, and said to her, `Be not weeping;'

When he saw her, the Master was moved with compassion for her, and he said to her: “Do not weep.”


rate difficulty: there shall be both great earthquakes in different places, and famines and pestilences; and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and some smote him with the palms of their hands,

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


rate difficulty: And--ye turn back, and pollute My name, and ye cause each his man-servant and each his maid-servant, whom he had sent forth free, (at their pleasure,) to return, and ye subdue them to be to you for men-servants and for maid-servants.

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


simplify: And he set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, along by the altar and the house, by the king round about.

And he put all the people in position, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, by the altar and the house and all round the king.


simplify: But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.

But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.


rate difficulty: Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

And the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, and take your place there: and I will give you the stones on which I have put in writing the law and the orders, so that you may give the people knowledge of them.


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

He put forces in all the walled towns of Judah, and responsible chiefs in the land of Judah and in the towns of Ephraim, which Asa his father had taken.


rate difficulty: and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak,

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


simplify: The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

and now that the Son of Man has come, eating and drinking, they are saying ‘Here is a glutton and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and outcasts!’ And yet wisdom is vindicated by her actions.”


rate difficulty: His answer was: “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Put forth thy hand, and take it by the tail: (and he put forth his hand, and laid hold of it, and it became a rod in his hand);

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


simplify: in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.


simplify: Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.

Every male among the priests may take it for his food: it is most holy.


simplify: and they were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot.

These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.


simplify: and all his acquaintances stood afar off, and women who did follow him from Galilee, beholding these things.

All the friends of Jesus had been standing at a distance, with the women who accompanied him from Galilee, watching all this.


rate difficulty: If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

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


rate difficulty: And, hearing these words, one of those who were at table with him said to him, Happy is the man who will be a guest in the kingdom of God.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

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


rate difficulty: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

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


simplify: And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

And this is what he himself promised us — eternal life!


rate difficulty: Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: And the children of Anah were these; Dishon, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.

And these are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah his daughter.


simplify: And the king said, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king’s servant, and me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz said in answer, When Joab sent me, your servant, I saw a great outcry going on, but I had no knowledge of what it was.


simplify: In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land.

In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.


rate difficulty: And go forth doth thy name among nations, Because of thy beauty--for it <FI>is<Fi> complete, In My honour that I have set upon thee, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish–bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

And David gave orders to his young men and they put them to death, cutting off their hands and their feet and hanging them up by the side of the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and put it in its last resting-place with Abner's body in Hebron.


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, when we have come in unto the lodging-place, and open our bags, that lo, each one's money <FI>is<Fi> in the mouth of his bag, our money in its weight, and we bring it back in our hand;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

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


rate difficulty: Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

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


simplify: Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.

“Go,” he said, “and stand in the Temple Courts, and tell the people the whole message of this new life.”


rate difficulty: And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab

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


rate difficulty: Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a worker with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the message of the truth.

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


simplify: And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

And David said, What have I done now? was it not only a word?


simplify: And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast before the Lord to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.

Now it came about in the fifth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, in the ninth month, that it was given out publicly that all the people in Jerusalem, and all the people who came from the towns of Judah to Jerusalem, were to keep from food before the Lord.


simplify: but new wine into new skins is to be put, and both are preserved together;

But new wine must be put into fresh skins.


simplify: Yet say ye, Wherefore doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.


simplify: And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show of these two the one whom thou hast chosen,

And they made prayers and said, Lord, having knowledge of the hearts of all men, make clear which of these two has been marked out by you,


rate difficulty: And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth,

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


simplify: And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.


simplify: But the husbandmen, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and take his inheritance.

But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.


rate difficulty: All men have looked thereon; Man beholdeth it afar off.


simplify: Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive: He bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.

The Lord is the giver of death and life: sending men down to the underworld and lifting them up.


rate difficulty: Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.

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


simplify: Now there were at Antioch, in the church that wasthere, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

Now there were at Antioch, in the church there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon who was named Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, a relation of Herod the king, and Saul.


simplify: And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi, the son of Nahash of Rabbah, the Ammonite, and Machir, the son of Ammiel of Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,


simplify: Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!


simplify: And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

And we came to Jerusalem and were there for three days.


simplify: and cried out as they looked upon the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like the great city?

And crying out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What town is like the great town?


simplify: Know therefore this day, and lay it to thy heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.

So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord is God, in heaven on high and here on earth; there is no other God.


simplify: 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 present of thy servant.

Then he went back to the man of God, with all his train, and, taking his place before him, said, Now I am certain that there is no God in all the earth, but only in Israel: now then, take an offering from me.


simplify: and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits?

And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.


simplify: Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;


rate difficulty: Asher drove not out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;

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


rate difficulty: Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

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


rate difficulty: Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

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


rate difficulty: The same hour certain Pharisees came up, saying to him, Get out, and go hence, for Herod is desirous to kill thee.

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


rate difficulty: of Malluchi, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

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


simplify: I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer.

Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.