rate difficulty: For all his ordinances were before me; And as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.

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rate difficulty: and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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rate difficulty: I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

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simplify: And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

And they had the hands of a man under their wings; the four of them had faces on their four sides.


rate difficulty: And to Enoch was born Irad; and Irad begot Mehujael; and Mehujael begot Methushael; and Methushael begot Lemech.

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rate difficulty: They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

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rate difficulty: For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

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rate difficulty: and saith: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'

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simplify: So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

So David's young men, turning away, went back and gave him an account of everything he had said.


rate difficulty: And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

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rate difficulty: For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.

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rate difficulty: And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

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simplify: and they, having heard that he is alive, and was seen by her, did not believe.

yet even they, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe it.


rate difficulty: For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

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simplify: And they came nigh to the village whither they were going, and he made an appearance of going on further,

When they got near the village to which they were walking, Jesus appeared to be going further;


rate difficulty: `The nakedness of the wife of thy father thou dost not uncover; it <FI>is<Fi> the nakedness of thy father.

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


simplify: They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the Lord; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.

They will be taken away to Babylon, and there they will be till the day when I send their punishment on them, says the Lord. Then I will take them up and put them back in their place.


simplify: Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.

Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.


rate difficulty: And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

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simplify: But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.


rate difficulty: Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

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


rate difficulty: (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

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


rate difficulty: And if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith Jehovah.

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simplify: for our exhortation <FI>is<Fi> not out of deceit, nor out of uncleanness, nor in guile,

Our appeal to you was not based on a delusion, nor was it made from unworthy motives, or with any intention of misleading you.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

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simplify: But Pharaoh’s daughter came up out of the city of David unto her house which Solomon had built for her: then did he build Millo.

At that time Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her: then he made the Millo.


simplify: And there were shepherds in the same country abiding in the field, and keeping watch by night over their flock.

And in the same country there were keepers of sheep in the fields, watching over their flock by night.


rate difficulty: and Moses goeth into the midst of the cloud, and goeth up unto the mount, and Moses is on the mount forty days and forty nights.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and desiring to be filled from the crumbs that are falling from the table of the rich man; yea, also the dogs, coming, were licking his sores.

and who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.


simplify: Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:


simplify: For if that which passeth away was with glory, much more that which remaineth is in glory.

For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.


simplify: And evening having come, the boat was in the midst of the sea, and he alone upon the land;

When evening fell, the boat was out in the middle of the Sea, and Jesus on the shore alone.


rate difficulty: Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.


simplify: And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.

Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.


rate difficulty: And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,


simplify: And the servant took ten camels, of the camels of his master, and departed, having all goodly things of his master’s in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.


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

He put the coat on him, making it tight with its band, and then the robe, and over it the ephod, with its band of needlework to keep it in place.


simplify: All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.


simplify: And I heard the number of them that were sealed, a hundred and forty and four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the children of Israel:

And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.


rate difficulty: But the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm, he is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings:

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

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rate difficulty: And they girded sackcloth on their loins, and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-Hadad says, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

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


simplify: Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.


simplify: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah; and he shall be forgiven concerning whatsoever he doeth so as to be guilty thereby.

And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done


simplify: Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

Say to Aaron, If a man of your family, in any generation, is damaged in body, let him not come near to make the offering of the bread of his God.


simplify: He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.


rate difficulty: For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.

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simplify: When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

They wondered at his answer, and left him alone and went away.


rate difficulty: Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses.

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rate difficulty: And she wept before him the seven days, while they had the feast. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that he explained it to her, for she pressed him. And she explained the riddle to the children of her people.


simplify: `But what went ye out to see? --a prophet? yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet,

What, then, did you go for? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and far more than a prophet.


simplify: If thy brother be waxen poor, and hath sold away some of his possession, and if any of his kin come to redeem it, then shall he redeem that which his brother sold.

If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.


simplify: And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.

And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.


simplify: The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.


simplify: And Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;

And Ram was the father of Amminadab; and Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, chief of the children of Judah;


rate difficulty: There is a baptism that I must undergo, and how great is my distress until it is over!


simplify: I had many things to write unto thee, but I am unwilling to write them to thee with ink and pen:

I had much to say to you, but it is not my purpose to put it all down with ink and pen:


simplify: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

My prayer is that the God of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-glorious Father, may inspire you with wisdom and true insight through a fuller knowledge of himself;


simplify: Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, andput italso in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the words which the Lord had said by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, and he made a public statement and had it given out through all his kingdom and put in writing, saying,


simplify: He offered for his offering one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

He gave one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


simplify: And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;


rate difficulty: For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.

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rate difficulty: And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

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simplify: through which also ye are being saved, in what words I proclaimed good news to you, if ye hold fast, except ye did believe in vain,

and by means of which you are being saved. I would like to remind you of the words that I used in telling it to you, since you are still holding fast to it, and since it was not in vain that you became believers in Christ.


rate difficulty: Or if in the flesh, in the skin thereof, there is a burning inflammation, and the place of the inflammation become a bright spot white-reddish or white,

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simplify: Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.


rate difficulty: For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.


simplify: So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.


simplify: Of all clean birds ye may eat.


rate difficulty: By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil — No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the person who does not love others.

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simplify: The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;


simplify: His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.


simplify: And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

And Jehoshaphat was king over Judah: he was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for twenty-five years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.


simplify: So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

So will it be at the close of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous,


simplify: 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, even all their sins; and he shall put them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a man that is in readiness into the wilderness:

And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land.


rate difficulty: Till I put under your feet all those who are against you.


rate difficulty: My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.


rate difficulty: For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.


simplify: And he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, foursquare; and two cubits was the height thereof; the horns thereof were of one piece with it.

And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.


simplify: Whether then it be I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.


rate difficulty: Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

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simplify: The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The fifth captain for the fifth month was Shamhuth the Izrahite; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.


simplify: And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And they are singing a new song —  ‘You are worthy to take the book and break its seals, for you were sacrificed, and with your blood you did buy for God people of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,


simplify: And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.

During the days, Jesus continued to teach in the Temple Courts, but he went out and spent the nights on the hill called the ‘Mount of Olives.’


simplify: Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?

Do not you remember how, when I was with you, I used to speak to you of all this?


simplify: and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: `Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down?

But the righteousness which results from faith finds expression in these words — ‘Do not say to yourself “Who will go up into heaven?”’ — which means to bring Christ down —


simplify: But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.


simplify: For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.


rate difficulty: All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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simplify: And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,

And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had twice come to him in a vision;


simplify: And we, being exceedingly tempest-tossed, the succeeding <FI>day<Fi> they were making a clearing,

So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard,


rate difficulty: and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done iniquity, we have dealt perversely;

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


simplify: And Moses sent them, a thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.


simplify: And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

And the Levites, the children of the Kohathites and the Korahites, got to their feet and gave praise to the Lord, the God of Israel, with a loud voice.


simplify: Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

But give him freely from your flock and from your grain and your wine: in the measure of the wealth which the Lord your God has given you, you are to give to him.


simplify: He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.


simplify: So Solomon, and all the assembly with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tent of meeting of God, which Moses the servant of Jehovah had made in the wilderness.

Then Solomon, and all the men of Israel with him, went to the high place at Gibeon, because the Tent of meeting of God, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the waste land, was there.


simplify: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Who will say anything against the saints of God? It is God who makes us clear from evil;


rate difficulty: Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.

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simplify: And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it asunder:

And let him take them to the priest, who will first give the sin-offering, twisting off its head from its neck, but not cutting it in two;


rate difficulty: But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

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simplify: and, while men are sleeping, his enemy came and sowed darnel in the midst of the wheat, and went away,

But, while everyone was asleep, their enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away.


simplify: A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth; And the doings of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.


rate difficulty: And Moses' father-in-law said to him, The thing that thou art doing is not good.

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rate difficulty: And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

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


rate difficulty: and I pray unto Jehovah, and say, Lord Jehovah, destroy not Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast ransomed in Thy greatness; whom Thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand;

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


simplify: Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

Give us word of what will be after this, so that we may be certain that you are gods: yes, do good or do evil, so that we may all see it and be surprised.


simplify: And flight shall perish from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

And flight will be impossible for the quick-footed, and the force of the strong will become feeble, and the man of war will not get away safely:


rate difficulty: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

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simplify: And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

These were the words that we heard, borne to our ears from heaven, when we were with him on that sacred mountain.


simplify: He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.


simplify: The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

The kings of the earth were lifted up, the rulers came together, against the Lord, and against his Christ:


simplify: Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.


simplify: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.


rate difficulty: And thus did Hezekiah throughout Judah, and wrought what was good and right and true before Jehovah hisGod.

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rate difficulty: Doth man deceive God? but ye are deceiving Me, And ye have said: `In what have we deceived Thee?' The tithe and the heave-offering!

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


simplify: And thy renown went forth among the nations for thy beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord Jehovah.

You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.


simplify: Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.

There are some people whose sins are conspicuous and lead on to judgment, while there are others whose sins dog their steps.


simplify: And having sung a hymn, they went forth to the mount of the Olives;

They then sang a hymn, and went out to the Mount of Olives.


simplify: `And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word,

Those meant by the seed sown among the brambles are different; they are the people who hear the message,


simplify: Then two men shall be in the field, the one is received, and the one is left;

At that time, of two men on a farm one will be taken and one left;


rate difficulty: And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.


simplify: And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.


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

Ho! Zion, go in flight from danger, you who are living with the daughter of Babylon.


simplify: for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day.

For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.


simplify: For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.

For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”


rate difficulty: I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;

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simplify: The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,

The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephushesim,


rate difficulty: Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

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


rate difficulty: To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

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


simplify: of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of Aaron, Zadok:

Of Levi, Hashabiah, the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;


simplify: Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Can it be that, when one of you has a dispute with another, they dare to have their case tried before the heathen, instead of before Christ’s people?


rate difficulty: Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in the handling of thy bosom by the Egyptians for the breasts of thy youth.

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


rate difficulty: Righteousness guardeth him that is upright in the way; But wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

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


simplify: Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?


simplify: and I will send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee: I, Jehovah, have spoken it.

And I will send on you need of food and evil beasts, and they will be a cause of loss to you; and disease and violent death will go through you; and I will send the sword on you: I the Lord have said it.


rate difficulty: But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

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


simplify: that your glorying may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.

So that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being present with you again.


rate difficulty: one to whomGod giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yetGod giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.

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


simplify: And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?


simplify: Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

And the law came in addition, to make wrongdoing worse; but where there was much sin, there was much more grace:


rate difficulty: The people of Samaria will be full of fear because of the ox of Beth-aven; its people will have sorrow for it, and its priests will give cries of grief for its glory, for the glory has gone in flight.

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


simplify: and the officers having come, did not find them in the prison, and having turned back, they told,

But, when the officers got there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported that,


rate difficulty: And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

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


rate difficulty: So it came to pass, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

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


simplify: And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

“The Holy Spirit will descend on you,” answered the angel, “and the Power of the Most High will overshadow you; and therefore the child will be called ‘holy,’ and ‘Son of God.’


rate difficulty: And Elon the Zebulonite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

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


rate difficulty: The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

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


simplify: Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivva?


rate difficulty: Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came to thee; why is it [that] thou hast sent him away, and he is gone?

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


simplify: who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.

(Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.)


rate difficulty: And they made two settings of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.


rate difficulty: For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

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


simplify: For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Is it for the oxen that God careth,

For it says in the law of Moses, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. Is it for the oxen that God is giving orders?


simplify: Ascoals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, So is a contentious man to inflame strife.

Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.


rate difficulty: And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,


rate difficulty: and Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon; and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.


simplify: for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God--unknown; whom, therefore--not knowing--ye do worship, this One I announce to you.

For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription — ‘To an Unknown God.’ What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you.


simplify: And when the centurion, which stood over against him, saw that he so cried out, and gave up the ghost, he said, Truly this man was the Son of God.

The Roman officer, who was standing facing Jesus, on seeing the way in which he expired, exclaimed: “This man must indeed have been ‘God’s Son’!”


simplify: And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raama, and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.

And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.


simplify: Then Peter said, Lo, we have left all, and followed thee.

And Peter said, See, we have given up what is ours to come after you.


rate difficulty: And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba even to Beer-sheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates, those at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, [and] those on the left hand of any [going in] at the gate of the city.

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


rate difficulty: And David heareth, and sendeth Joab, and all the host of the mighty men,

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


rate difficulty: Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;

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


simplify: And this woman’s child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.


rate difficulty: a carcase or torn thing he doth not eat, for uncleanness thereby; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.

Now, when the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another: “Let us go at once to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, of which the Lord has told us.”


simplify: And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why are your hearts full of doubt?


rate difficulty: Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

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


rate difficulty: So the king returned, and came to the Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water; and afterwards he may come into the camp.

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


rate difficulty: If thou shouldest say in thy heart, These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?

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


rate difficulty: for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.

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


rate difficulty: And He bringeth me in thither, and lo, a man, his appearance as the appearance of brass, and a thread of flax in his hand, and a measuring-reed, and he is standing at the gate,

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


simplify: Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.


simplify: The wicked are overthrown, and are not; But the house of the righteous shall stand.

Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.


simplify: It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

This holy part of the land is to be for the priests, the servants of the holy place, who come near to the Lord to do his work; it is to be a place for their houses and for grass-land and for cattle.


rate difficulty: `And it cometh to pass at the time of the flock conceiving, that I lift up mine eyes and see in a dream, and lo, the he-goats, which are going up on the flock, <FI>are<Fi> ring-streaked, speckled, and grisled;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and the disciples having taken him, by night did let him down by the wall, letting down in a basket.

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


rate difficulty: Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.

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


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

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


simplify: and having cried, he said, Father Abraham, deal kindly with me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and may cool my tongue, because I am distressed in this flame.

So he called out ‘Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering agony in this flame.’


simplify: And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.

So he ran on ahead and climbed into a mulberry tree, to see Jesus, for he knew that he must pass that way.


simplify: Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.

And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.


simplify: How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.


simplify: My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En–gedi.

My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.


rate difficulty: And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.

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


simplify: And if any one of the common people sin unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and be guilty;

And if any one of the common people does wrong in error, doing any of the things which the Lord has given orders are not to be done, causing sin to come on him;


simplify: And the hare, because she cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, she is unclean unto you.

And the hare, because the horn of its foot is not parted in two, is unclean to you.


rate difficulty: Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.


simplify: And Eshton begat Beth-rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.


simplify: Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; forasmuch as Jehovah hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

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


rate difficulty: Mourned, languished hath the land, Confounded hath been Lebanon, Withered hath been Sharon as a wilderness, And shaking are Bashan and Carmel.

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


rate difficulty: Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to the vinedresser, Behold, [these] three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree and find none: cut it down; why does it also render the ground useless?

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


rate difficulty: And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death--because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?'

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

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


simplify: So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.


simplify: Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

And going by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, the brother of Simon, putting a net into the sea: for they were fishermen.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their selling for silver the righteous, And the needy for a pair of sandals.


simplify: And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,


simplify: And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.

Peter, while traveling from place to place throughout the country, went down to visit the people of Christ living at Lydda.


simplify: And when he is come, he findeth it swept and garnished.

And when he comes, he sees that it has been made fair and clean.


simplify: And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:

And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;


simplify: And Jesus having come into the house of Peter, saw his mother-in-law laid, and fevered,

When Jesus went into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law prostrated with fever.


simplify: and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar.

And the South, and the circle of the valley of Jericho, the town of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.


simplify: And David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to abide at the brook Besor; and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

And David came to the two hundred men, who because of weariness had not gone with him, but were waiting at the stream Besor: and they went out, meeting David and the people who were with him; and when they came near them, they said, How are you?


simplify: And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can forgive sins, but God alone?

The teachers of the law and the Pharisees began debating about this. “Who is this man who speaks so blasphemously?” they asked. “Who can forgive sins except God?”


simplify: If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,


simplify: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.


simplify: And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.

So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up.


rate difficulty: And Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying unto him, Lord, trouble not thyself; for I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof:

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


simplify: And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken.


rate difficulty: A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.

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


rate difficulty: Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.

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


simplify: And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.

And on the limit of Gad, on the south side and to the south of it, the limit will be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream, to the Great Sea.


rate difficulty: And Tamar his daughter-in-law bore him Pherez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.

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


rate difficulty: They are of the world; for this reason they speak [as] of the world, and the world hears them.

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


simplify: and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Serug, Reu went on living for two hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.


rate difficulty: and having embraced one another, we embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own friends.

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


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

Why say ‘possibly’?”Jesus replied. “Everything is possible for one who has faith.”


simplify: For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

Was not your sister Sodom an oath in your mouth in the day of your pride,


rate difficulty: I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...


simplify: Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith Jehovah: Say, A sword, a sword, it is sharpened, and also furbished;

Son of man, say as a prophet, These are the words of the Lord: Say, A sword, a sword which has been made sharp and polished:


simplify: Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

And you and your sons with you are to be responsible as priests for the altar and everything on it, and everything inside the veil; you are to do the work of priests; I have given you your position as priests; and any other man who comes near will be put to death.


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.


simplify: And he was three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink.

and for three days he was unable to see, and took nothing either to eat or to drink.


simplify: For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

For, where there is willingness, a person’s gift is valued by its comparison with what they have, and not with what they do not have.


rate difficulty: lo, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to sanctify <FI>it<Fi> to Him, to make perfume before Him, perfume of spices, and a continual arrangement, and burnt-offerings at morning and at evening, at sabbaths, and at new moons, and at appointed seasons of Jehovah our God; to the age this <FI>is<Fi> on Israel.


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I thought to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I repented not;

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:


simplify: For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God.

For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.


simplify: Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

Now when all the people who were with Ishmael saw Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces with him, then they were glad.


simplify: Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts:

Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:


simplify: And as he talked with him, he went in, and findeth many come together:

And saying these words, he went in, and saw that a great number of people had come together;


simplify: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.


rate difficulty: And when they saw the star they were full of joy.

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


simplify: So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,


rate difficulty: And at that time Solomon held the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entrance of Hamath unto the torrent of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.

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


simplify: They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.

They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.


simplify: Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;

On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,


simplify: My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

My friends make sport of me; to God my eyes are weeping,


rate difficulty: And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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


simplify: And Herod was highly displeased with the Tyrians and Sidonians, and with one accord they came unto him, and having made a friend of Blastus, who <FI>is<Fi> over the bed-chambers of the king, they were asking peace, because of their country being nourished from the king's;

It happened that Herod was deeply offended with the people of Tyre and Sidon, but they went in a body to him, and, having succeeded in winning over Blastus, the Chamberlain, they begged Herod for a reconciliation, because their country was dependent on the king’s for its food supply.


rate difficulty: And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,

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


rate difficulty: (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.)

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


simplify: and when they had mocked him, they took off from him the cloak, and put on him his own garments, and led him away to crucify <FI>him<Fi> .

and, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the military cloak, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to be crucified.


rate difficulty: Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,


simplify: There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!


simplify: And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

And the man who was between the mountains, answering, said to the angel of the Lord, We have gone up and down through the earth, and all the earth is quiet and at rest.


rate difficulty: And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to where Moses had put up his tent in the waste land, by the mountain of God.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.


rate difficulty: and it was covered with cedar above upon the side-chambers, which were on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.

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


rate difficulty: And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth–rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

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


simplify: The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-four.


simplify: Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.

It is not our feelings to you which are narrow, but yours to us.


simplify: For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:

For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:


rate difficulty: For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

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


rate difficulty: And all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of Jehovah upon the house, and bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshipped and thanked Jehovah: For he is good, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.


simplify: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;


simplify: Nevertheless the men rowed hard to bring it to the land; but they could not: for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous against them.

And the men were working hard to get back to the land, but they were not able to do so: for the sea got rougher and rougher against them.


simplify: And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the Lord, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.


rate difficulty: and having sailed slowly many days, and with difficulty coming over-against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over-against Salmone,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the Lord commanded Moses.

And let this be an order for ever for you, so that the sin of the children of Israel may be taken away once every year. And he did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.


rate difficulty: and also [on] Hamath [which] bordereth thereon; on Tyre and Zidon, though she be very wise.

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


simplify: And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.

But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king of Israel was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans till the evening; and by sundown he was dead.


simplify: These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.


simplify: `The lamp of the body is the eye, if, therefore, thine eye may be perfect, all thy body shall be enlightened,

The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up;


rate difficulty: Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,

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


rate difficulty: and two leaves <FI>are<Fi> to the doors, two turning leaves <FI>are<Fi> to the doors, two to the one door, and two leaves to the other.

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


rate difficulty: And not only that, but they learn to be idle as they go about from house to house. Nor are they merely idle, but they also become gossips and busybodies, and talk of what they ought not.

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


rate difficulty: and Abihud, and Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

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


rate difficulty: The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.

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


simplify: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

If you, then, wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him!


simplify: For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?


rate difficulty: Let your voice be sounded in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their removing a complete captivity, To deliver up to Edom,

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


rate difficulty: There came Joseph of Arimathaea, a responsible man in high honour, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God; and he went in to Pilate without fear, and made a request for the body of Jesus.

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


simplify: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.


simplify: And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for Jehovah hath given you the city.

And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.


simplify: Then the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

Then after the book, in which Baruch had put down the words of Jeremiah, had been burned by the king, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,


rate difficulty: And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam lifted up his eyes, and he saw Israel abiding in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon him.


simplify: Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet them on your way to the court; otherwise they might hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the judicial officer, and you will be thrown into prison.


rate difficulty: And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.


simplify: He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others. And when they heard it, they said, God forbid.

He will come and put those tenants to death, and will let the vineyard to others.”   “heaven forbid!” they exclaimed when they heard it.


simplify: I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.


rate difficulty: and Azariah begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub,

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


simplify: Can a man be profitable unto God? Surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

Is it possible for a man to be of profit to God? No, for a man's wisdom is only of profit to himself.


simplify: That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

To be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, doing the work of a priest in the good news of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles might be pleasing to God, being made holy by the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

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


simplify: What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

What follows, then? Are we Jews in any way superior to others? Not at all. Our indictment against both Jews and Greeks was that all alike were in subjection to sin.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, with the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker;

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


simplify: Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?


rate difficulty: even to devise devices to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

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


rate difficulty: And they hired thirty-two thousand chariots, and the king of Maacah and his people; and they came and encamped before Medeba. And the children of Ammon gathered together from their cities, and came to battle.


simplify: and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:


rate difficulty: Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And--My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Here I am, Lord.


rate difficulty: And Asa is angry at the seer, and giveth him to the house of torture, for <FI>he is<Fi> in a rage with him for this; and Asa oppresseth <FI>some<Fi> of the people at that time.

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


rate difficulty: and these three men have been in its midst, Noah, Daniel, and Job--they by their righteousness deliver their own soul--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And thy family which thou hast begotten after them shall be thine: they shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.

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


simplify: So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day.

So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.


rate difficulty: lest Hezekiah doth persuade you, saying, Jehovah doth deliver us. `Have the gods of the nations delivered each his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

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


simplify: And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.

And every island went in flight, and the mountains were seen no longer.


rate difficulty: and ye have rejoiced before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your handmaids, and the Levite who <FI>is<Fi> within your gates, for he hath no part and inheritance with you.

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


simplify: And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.


rate difficulty: So now go back, and go in peace, so that you do not make the lords of the Philistines angry.


simplify: From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.

From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.


rate difficulty: And the chiefs gave an offering for the altar on the day when the holy oil was put on it; they made their offering before the altar.

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


simplify: From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.

The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.


simplify: That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

So that I may make it clear, as it is right for me to do.


rate difficulty: In those days hath Jehovah begun to cut off <FI>some<Fi> in Israel, and Hazael smiteth them in all the border of Israel,

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


simplify: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,

See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given into the hands of the chief priests and scribes; and they will give orders for him to be put to death,


simplify: Let mine enemy be as the wicked, And let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.

Let my hater be like the evil man, and let him who comes against me be as the sinner.


rate difficulty: But a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having had news of him, came straight away and went down at his feet.

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


simplify: But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.


rate difficulty: And the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, [and] the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and they encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

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


simplify: And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.


simplify: The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

The book of the generations of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.


rate difficulty: for he powerfully confuted the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord.

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


simplify: And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.

Then they took Jesus to the high priest; and all the chief priests, the councillors, and the teachers of the law assembled.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of bewilderment unto all the peoples round about, and also against Judah shall it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: she shall not eat of anything that cometh of the vine, neither shall she drink wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean: all that I commanded her shall she observe.

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


simplify: And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

And you know that Christ appeared to take away our sins; and in him sin has no place.


simplify: And he went up from thence to Beer–sheba.

And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.


rate difficulty: Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof),

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he also was a very goodly man; and his mother bare him after Absalom.

Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.


rate difficulty: And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.

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


rate difficulty: Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.


simplify: Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying,

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


simplify: `Men, brethren, it behoved this Writing that it be fulfilled that beforehand the Holy Spirit spake through the mouth of David, concerning Judas, who became guide to those who took Jesus,

“Friends,” he said, “it was necessary who the prediction of scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit made by the lips of David about Judas, who acted as guide to the men that arrested Jesus,


rate difficulty: The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.


simplify: And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the tax of Moses the servant of Jehovah, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?

Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?


simplify: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;


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 man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.


simplify: And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing.


rate difficulty: Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shalt thou make them.

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


rate difficulty: And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful head-dresses of linen, and linen trousers,

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


simplify: and said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, by reason of the multitude of men and cattle therein.

Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.


simplify: Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?


rate difficulty: You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.

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


simplify: Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel unto this day.

However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day.


rate difficulty: Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to their fathers' houses, all that go forth to military service in Israel.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin.

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


simplify: Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

For this cause I will make her come into the waste land and will say words of comfort to her.


simplify: Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.


rate difficulty: Ye cannot drink [the] Lord's cup, and [the] cup of demons: ye cannot partake of [the] Lord's table, and of [the] table of demons.

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


simplify: And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons;


simplify: And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that thy soul may bless me.

And he made ready a meal, good to the taste, and took it to his father, and said to him, Let my father get up and take of his son's meat, so that you may give me a blessing.


rate difficulty: And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? say, The Lord has need of him and will send him back straight away.

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


simplify: Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:


rate difficulty: Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.

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


rate difficulty: And returning, he found them again sleeping, for their eyes were heavy; and they knew not what they should answer him.

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


simplify: Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?


simplify: But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.


rate difficulty: And if among the unclean beasts, then he hath ransomed <FI>it<Fi> at thy valuation, and he hath added its fifth to it; and if it is not redeemed, then it hath been sold at thy valuation.

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


rate difficulty: And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.

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


simplify: And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

And when he saw that this was pleasing to the Jews he went on to take Peter in addition. This was at the time of the feast of unleavened bread.


simplify: When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.


rate difficulty: From every tribe of Israel send a thousand to the war.


rate difficulty: `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken <FI>it<Fi> to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it <FI>is<Fi> ;

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


simplify: Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.


rate difficulty: If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

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


simplify: The law and the prophets were until John: from that time the gospel of the kingdom of God is preached, and every man entereth violently into it.

The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.


simplify: and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?


rate difficulty: that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

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


simplify: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

(Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),


simplify: and Jesus said to him, `Comrade, for what art thou present?' Then having come near, they laid hands on Jesus, and took hold on him.

on which Jesus said to him: “Friend, do what you have come for.” The men went up, seized Jesus, and arrested him.


rate difficulty: Unto him that was thirsty they brought water; the inhabitants of the land of Tema did meet the fugitives with their bread.

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


simplify: And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.


simplify: For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.


rate difficulty: even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

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


simplify: then the magistrate having gone away with officers, brought them without violence, for they were fearing the people, lest they should be stoned;

Then, the officer went with his men and fetched the apostles — without using violence, for they were afraid of being stoned by the people —


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath said concerning you, the remnant of Judah, Go ye not into Egypt. Know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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


rate difficulty: Her wise ladies answered her, Yea, she returned answer to herself,

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


simplify: And if one man’s ox hurt another’s, so that it dieth, then they shall sell the live ox, and divide the price of it; and the dead also they shall divide.

And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.


simplify: turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.