rate difficulty: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: But Balaam in answer said to Balak, Did I not say to you, I may only do what the Lord says?

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


simplify: The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.


simplify: Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.


simplify: But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.


simplify: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith Jehovah.

Fear and death and the net have come on you, O people of Moab, says the Lord.


simplify: And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

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


rate difficulty: Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

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


rate difficulty: And it was so, that, when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto Jehovah, he arose from before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

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


simplify: And the little chambers of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.


rate difficulty: After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said:   “Get up, take the child and his mother, and seek refuge in Egypt; and stay there until I tell you to return, for Herod is about to search for the child, to put him to death.”


simplify: that thou mayest know the certainty of the things wherein thou wast instructed.

in order that you may be able to satisfy yourself of the accuracy of the story which you have heard from the lips of others.


simplify: I Jehovah am its keeper; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

I, the Lord, am watching it; I will give it water at all times: I will keep it night and day, for fear that any damage comes to it.


rate difficulty: And in the second month, in the seven and twentieth day of the month, the earth hath become dry.

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


simplify: To show mercy towards our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,


simplify: Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only shall be delivered themselves.

Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves.


rate difficulty: [for] David himself said [speaking] in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet.

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


rate difficulty: And while they were taking food, he took bread, and after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to them, and said, Take it: this is my body.


rate difficulty: The south side he hath measured, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed.

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


simplify: I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;


rate difficulty: I will fetch my knowledge from afar, and will ascribe righteousness to my Creator.

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


rate difficulty: Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

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


rate difficulty: So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth.


simplify: And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.

And he said to Moses, I, your father-in-law, have come to you, with your wife and your two sons.


simplify: Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.


simplify: Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.


simplify: and having come unto Salamis, they declared the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John <FI>as<Fi> a ministrant;

On reaching Salamis, they began to tell the message of God in the Jewish Synagogues; and they had John with them as an assistant.


simplify: And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.


simplify: For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

For the rendering of a public service such as this, not only relieves the needs of your fellow Christians, but also results in the offering to God of many a thanksgiving.


simplify: The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

The people who were living in darkness have seen a great light, and, for those who were living in the shadow-land of death, a light has dawned!’


simplify: And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, that they sent and called him to the assembly, and made him king over all Israel: none followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

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


rate difficulty: And the men go, and pass over through the land, and describe it by cities, in seven portions, on a book, and they come in unto Joshua, unto the camp, <FI>at<Fi> Shiloh.

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


simplify: And I bought the field of Hanameel my uncle’s son, that was in Anathoth, and weighed him the money, even seventeen shekels of silver.

So I got for a price the property in Anathoth from Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and gave him the money, seventeen shekels of silver;


rate difficulty: And I have sent a fire against Moab, And it hath consumed the palaces of Kerioth, And dying with noise is Moab, With shouting, with voice of a trumpet.

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


simplify: Now concerning his sons, and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him, and the rebuilding of the house of God, behold, they are written in the commentary of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

Now the story of his sons, and all the words said by the prophet against him, and the building up again of the Lord's house, are recorded in the account in the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,


simplify: And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth–el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.

Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.


simplify: Also in the third year of his reign he sent to his princes, even to Ben–hail, and to Obadiah, and to Zechariah, and to Nethaneel, and to Michaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah.

In the third year of his rule he sent Benhail and Obadiah and Zechariah and Nethanel and Micaiah, his captains, as teachers into the towns of Judah;


simplify: The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four.

The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.


rate difficulty: and to them he never used to speak except in parables; but in private to his own disciples he explained everything.

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


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

These rods he put in the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.


simplify: According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Acting in agreement with their teaching and the decision they give: not turning to one side or the other from the word they have given you.


rate difficulty: Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

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


rate difficulty: And these were they that went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, andImmer; but they could not show their fathers’ houses, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:


simplify: For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?

If you were cut off from your natural stock — a wild olive — and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they — the natural branches — be grafted back into their parent tree.


simplify: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;


simplify: And the appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof, and all the service thereof,

And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for,


simplify: Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;


simplify: And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.


rate difficulty: Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.

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


rate difficulty: And they seized him, and led himaway, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed afar off.


simplify: Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.


simplify: Then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land: but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.


simplify: Who shall tell thee words, whereby thou and all thy house shall be saved.

Who will say words to you through which you and all your family may get salvation.


rate difficulty: — And the soul that turneth unto necromancers and unto soothsayers, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

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


simplify: Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

Did you go through so much to no purpose? — if indeed it really was to no purpose!


simplify: On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,


simplify: Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

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


simplify: And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

And now, turning away from evil, you had done what is right in my eyes, giving a public undertaking for every man to make his neighbour free; and you had made an agreement before me in the house which is named by my name:


simplify: And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker.

And they gave the name of Jupiter to Barnabas, and to Paul that of Mercury, because he was the chief talker.


rate difficulty: Now there came a day when Elisha went to Shunem, and there was a woman of high position living there, who made him come in and have a meal with her. And after that, every time he went by, he went into her house for a meal.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be that all the men that have set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.

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


simplify: And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.


rate difficulty: standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

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


rate difficulty: Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

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


simplify: For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them that are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

Because it has come to my knowledge, through those of the house of Chloe, that there are divisions among you, my brothers.


rate difficulty: And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.


rate difficulty: And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.


rate difficulty: And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.

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


simplify: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

May the blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.


simplify: And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.


rate difficulty: and Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto them of their substance.

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


simplify: The seeds rot under their clods; the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.


rate difficulty: The king of Shimron–meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;


simplify: Then came down a remnant of the nobles and the people; Jehovah came down for me against the mighty.

Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.


simplify: And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,

I thank God for inspiring Titus with the same keen interest in your welfare that I have;


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: Take away the holy head-dress, take off the crown: this will not be again: let that which is low be lifted up, and that which is high be made low.

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


rate difficulty: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall lay the pieces, the head, and the fat, in order on the wood that is on the fire which is on the altar;

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


simplify: And the armies which are in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and pure.

And the armies which are in heaven went after him on white horses, clothed in delicate linen, white and clean.


rate difficulty: And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.

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


simplify: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.

So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.


rate difficulty: And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.


simplify: The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

The noise of great numbers in the mountains, like the noise of a strong people! The noise of the kingdoms of the nations meeting together! The Lord of armies is numbering his forces for war.


rate difficulty: And these things enjoin, that they may be irreproachable.

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


simplify: he who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me doth scatter.

Whoever who is not with me is against me, and the person who does not help me to gather is scattering.


simplify: And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.

And he said to the others who were near, Take the pound away from him, and give it to the man who has ten.


rate difficulty: And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Ruth the Moabitess saith unto Naomi, `Let me go, I pray thee, into the field, and I gather among the ears of corn after him in whose eyes I find grace;' and she saith to her, `Go, my daughter.'

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


rate difficulty: `And now that I have come to speak unto the king my lord this word, <FI>it is<Fi> because the people made me afraid, and thy maid-servant saith, Let me speak, I pray thee, unto the king; it may be the king doth do the word of his handmaid,

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


rate difficulty: And Herod having seen Jesus did rejoice exceedingly, for he was wishing for a long <FI>time<Fi> to see him, because of hearing many things about him, and he was hoping some sign to see done by him,

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


rate difficulty: Yes, of the Gentiles also, since there is only one God, and he will pronounce those who are circumcised righteous as the result of faith, and also those who are uncircumcised on their showing the same faith.

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


simplify: And every meal-offering of the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.


rate difficulty: And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

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


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

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


simplify: And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.


rate difficulty: Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain--Thou hast not pitied.

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


simplify: Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Why do you all hold it incredible that God should raise the dead?


simplify: And the angel of the Lord said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, Go with the men; but say only what I give you to say. Then Balaam went on with the chiefs of Balak.


simplify: And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the Lord, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of the Lord.

And Solomon gave to the Lord for peace-offerings, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel kept the feast of the opening of the Lord's house.


simplify: Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.


simplify: So all the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities: them shall ye give with their suburbs.

Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.


simplify: When the strong man fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace:

When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:


simplify: And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them.

And when they came to Jerusalem, they had a meeting with the church and the Apostles and the rulers, and they gave an account of all the things which God had done through them.


rate difficulty: Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.


rate difficulty: Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,


rate difficulty: For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.

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


rate difficulty: He that striketh a man, so that he die, shall certainly be put to death.

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


simplify: And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains they put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, in the forepart thereof.

And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the arm-holes.


rate difficulty: And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thyGod which he commanded thee; for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom over Israel for ever.


simplify: Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.

Then he took heart, building up the wall where it was broken down, and making its towers higher, and building another wall outside; and he made strong the Millo in the town of David, and got together a great store of all sorts of instruments of war.


simplify: And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

And Jonathan said to David, May the Lord, the God of Israel, be witness; when I have had a chance of talking to my father, about this time tomorrow, if his feelings to David are good, will I not send and give you the news?


rate difficulty: And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

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


rate difficulty: the Feast of Unleavened things thou dost keep; seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, as I have commanded thee, at the time appointed <FI>in<Fi> the month of Abib; for in it thou hast come forth out of Egypt, and ye do not appear <FI>in<Fi> My presence empty;

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


simplify: Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, the son of Tikvah, were against this, Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.


simplify: And he said to me, `These words <FI>are<Fi> stedfast and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets did send His messenger to shew to His servants the things that it behoveth to come quickly:

Then the angel said to me — ‘These words may be trusted and are true. The Lord, the God that inspires the prophets, sent his angel to show his servants what must quickly take place;


rate difficulty: So do all Thine enemies perish, O Jehovah, And those loving Him <FI>are<Fi> As the going out of the sun in its might!' and the land resteth forty years.

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


rate difficulty: for ye are not the speakers, but the Spirit of your Father that is speaking in you.


rate difficulty: And with him they crucified two robbers, one on the right, and the other on the left.

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


rate difficulty: And Menahem bringeth out the silver <FI>from<Fi> Israel, <FI>from<Fi> all the mighty men of wealth, to give to the king of Asshur, fifty shekels of silver for each one, and the king of Asshur turneth back and hath not stayed there in the land.

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


simplify: And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.


simplify: Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

The presiding officer should not be a recent convert, or they might become blinded by pride and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.


rate difficulty: Jehovah thou hast caused to promise to-day to become thy God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to hearken to His voice.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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


simplify: Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Do not, therefore, be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.


rate difficulty: `And now, let, I pray Thee, the power of my Lord be great, as Thou hast spoken, saying:

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


rate difficulty: Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.


simplify: And Jesus answering said to them, `The sons of this age do marry and are given in marriage,

“The men and women of this world,”said Jesus, “marry and are given in marriage;


rate difficulty: This was another parable which Jesus related — “The kingdom of heaven is like some yeast which a woman took and covered up in three pecks of flour, until the whole had risen.”

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


simplify: Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.


simplify: Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.


rate difficulty: And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

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


simplify: For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who has faith.


simplify: The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.


simplify: And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.


simplify: I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree; I will set in the desert the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together:

I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:


simplify: And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

And there was seen another sign in heaven; a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.


simplify: And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.

And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.


rate difficulty: See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

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


simplify: Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,


simplify: These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

These were the Horite chiefs: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,


simplify: And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.


simplify: And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:


rate difficulty: Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord God, and they shall bear their iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Depart yet for three days, then come again to me. And the people departed.


simplify: And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.

At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.


simplify: And an evil spirit from Jehovah was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand; and David was playing with his hand.

And an evil spirit from the Lord came on Saul, when he was seated in his house with his spear in his hand; and David made music for him.


simplify: And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out.

And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lights are going out.


simplify: And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

And they saw tongues, like flames of fire, coming to rest on every one of them.


rate difficulty: Then saith Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

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


rate difficulty: Which I have reserved for the time of distress, for the day of battle and war?

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


simplify: a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as the dawn spread upon the mountains; a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.


rate difficulty: — thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah yourGod proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah yourGod with all your heart and with all your soul.

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


simplify: So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

So they came together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the rule of Asa.


rate difficulty: For I will visit them with four kinds [of punishments], saith Jehovah: the sword to slay, and dogs to tear, and the fowl of the heavens, and the beasts of the earth, to devour and to destroy.

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


simplify: Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that despoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

For this cause, all those who take you for their food will themselves become your food; and all your attackers, every one of them, will be taken prisoners; and those who send destruction on you will come to destruction; and all those who take away your goods by force will undergo the same themselves.


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

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


simplify: And Joab said, As God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.


simplify: And Jehovah smote the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.


rate difficulty: But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

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


rate difficulty: Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall go into exile, into captivity.

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


rate difficulty: then the soldiers did cut off the ropes of the boat, and suffered it to fall off.

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


rate difficulty: And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever;

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


rate difficulty: but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

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


simplify: And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;

As they listened to this, the Council grew frantic with rage, and gnashed their teeth at Stephen.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto him--`To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

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


rate difficulty: So that day he took all the he-goats which were banded or coloured, and all the she-goats which were marked or coloured or had white marks, and all the black sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons;

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


simplify: and make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.


simplify: and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.

And Zorah and Aijalon and Hebron, walled towns in Judah and Benjamin.


rate difficulty: And the ark of Jehovah doth compass the city, going round once, and they come into the camp, and lodge in the camp.

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


simplify: Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

You have knowledge that it was said, Have love for your neighbour, and hate for him who is against you:


simplify: And Jesus having heard, said to them, `They who are whole have no need of a physician, but they who are ill;

On hearing this, Jesus said: “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill.


rate difficulty: So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,

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


simplify: Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

So they went. Going out again about midday and about three o’clock, he did as before.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.


simplify: When they casttheedown, thou shalt say, There is lifting up; And the humble person he will save.

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiffnecked people; if I go up into the midst of thee for one moment, I shall consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.

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


simplify: And the Levites took down the ark of Jehovah, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto Jehovah.

Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.


rate difficulty: Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.

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


rate difficulty: [Thy] refuge is theGod of old, And underneath are the eternal arms; And he shall drive out the enemy from before thee, And shall say, Destroy [them]!

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


rate difficulty: Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

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


simplify: When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went.

The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.


simplify: Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.


simplify: Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:


rate difficulty: Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.


simplify: And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

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


simplify: It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

It is not fit either for the land or for the manure heap. People throw it away. Let those who have ears to hear with hear!”


simplify: And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.

He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds of silver each, and told them to trade with them during his absence.


rate difficulty: For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

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


rate difficulty: and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them:


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> against thee, even I, And I have done in thy midst judgments, Before the eyes of the nations.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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


rate difficulty: In all this Job sinned not, nor ascribed anything unseemly toGod.

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


simplify: And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.


simplify: The faith which thou hast, have thou to thyself before God. Happy is he that judgeth not himself in that which he approveth.

The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.


rate difficulty: And Israel journeyeth, and all that he hath, and cometh in to Beer-Sheba, and sacrificeth sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

And when, on the cross, he had destroyed their mutual enmity, he sought by means of his cross to reconcile them both to God, united in one body.


rate difficulty: His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

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


rate difficulty: Palal son of Uzai, from over-against the angle, and the tower that is going out from the upper house of the king that <FI>is<Fi> at the court of the prison; after him Pedaiah son of Parosh.

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


simplify: And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the Lord.

And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.


simplify: Give to every one that asketh thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.


rate difficulty: and lo, Moses and Elias appeared to them talking with him.

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


simplify: And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.

And a great voice out of the house of God came to my ears, saying to the seven angels, Go, and let that which is in the seven vessels of the wrath of God come down on the earth.


simplify: By number and by weight of every one: and all the weight was written at that time.

All was handed over by number and by weight: and the weight was put on record at that time.


rate difficulty: And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,


rate difficulty: and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

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


simplify: That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.


simplify: And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.

And Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.


simplify: Simon the Cananæan, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.


rate difficulty: And Reuben returned to the pit, and behold, Joseph [was] not in the pit; and he rent his garments,

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


simplify: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, For he has consecrated me to bring good news to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty,


rate difficulty: Let thistles grow instead of wheat, And cockle instead of barley.   The words of Job are ended.

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


rate difficulty: for I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, unto this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tabernacle to another.

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


simplify: His offering was 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:

His offering was 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: A man also or woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones: their blood shall be upon them.

Any man or woman who makes use of spirits, or who is a wonder-worker, is to be put to death: they are to be stoned with stones: their blood will be on them.


rate difficulty: Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that doeth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the ordinance of theirGod; they ask of me the ordinances of righteousness, they take delight in approaching toGod:

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


rate difficulty: seven days doth the priest in his stead (of his sons) put them on, when he goeth in unto the tent of meeting, to minister in the sanctuary.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my ensign to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in their bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

This is the word of the Lord God: See, I will make a sign with my hand to the nations, and put up my flag for the peoples; and they will take up your sons on their beasts, and your daughters on their backs.


simplify: And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the revenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to the city of his refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall abide in it unto the death of the high priest, which was anointed with the holy oil.

And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.


simplify: Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;


rate difficulty: have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

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


simplify: Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:

Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:


simplify: And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place; and Balak also went his way.

Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.


simplify: So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.


rate difficulty: And all that are born in the land shall do these things thus, in presenting an offering by fire of a sweet odour to Jehovah.

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


simplify: And this is the thing that ye shall do: ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

And this is what you are to do: every male, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man, you are to put to the curse, but you are to keep safe the virgins. And they did so.


simplify: who did testify of thy love before an assembly, whom thou wilt do well, having sent forward worthily of God,

They themselves have testified before the church to your love; and you will do well to help them on their way in a manner worthy of the service of God.


rate difficulty: `Seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, and in the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a feast to Jehovah;

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


simplify: For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

For it is my desire to give you news of the great fight I am making for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not seen my face in the flesh;


simplify: Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.


simplify: Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.


rate difficulty: with a price ye were bought, become not servants of men;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoram established himself over the kingdom of his father, and strengthened himself; and he slew all his brethren with the sword, and [certain] also of the princes of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; he spreadeth out the nations, and bringeth them in;

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


simplify: But they held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.


simplify: and again, `The Lord doth know the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.'

And it says again —  ‘The Lord sees how fruitless are the deliberations of the wise.’


simplify: Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Your death will be the death of those who are without circumcision, by the hands of men from strange lands: for I have said it, says the Lord.


simplify: Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

neither do human hands minister to his wants, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives, to all, life, and breath, and all things.


rate difficulty: The second, which is like it, is this — ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

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


simplify: And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;


simplify: Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;


simplify: Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;


rate difficulty: After beating them severely, the Magistrates put them in prison, with orders to the jailer to keep them in safe custody.

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


simplify: And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.


rate difficulty: Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!

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


rate difficulty: He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, but he layeth up deceit within him:

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


simplify: But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man who shall do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

But Jesus said, Say not so: for there is no man who will do a great work in my name, and be able at the same time to say evil of me.


simplify: Wail, O fir-tree, for the cedar is fallen, because the goodly ones are destroyed: wail, O ye oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest is come down.

Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.


simplify: The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

The prophets, who were before me and before you, from early times gave word to a number of countries and great kingdoms about war and destruction and disease.


simplify: And on the eighth day they held a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days.

And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.


simplify: And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

And he took bread and, having given praise, he gave it to them when it had been broken, saying, This is my body, which is given for you: do this in memory of me.


simplify: And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied in Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

And I have seen ways without sense in the prophets of Samaria; they became prophets of the Baal, causing my people Israel to go wrong.


simplify: Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.

So now they will go away prisoners with the first of those who are made prisoners, and the loud cry of those who were stretched out will come to an end.


simplify: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.


rate difficulty: On the same day it shall be eaten; ye shall leave none of it until the morning: I am Jehovah.

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


simplify: And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.


rate difficulty: Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

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


rate difficulty: Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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


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

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


simplify: and Ahithophel was the king’s counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend:

And Ahithophel was the king's expert in discussion and Hushai the Archite was the king's friend.


rate difficulty: And Joab saith, `God liveth! for unless thou hadst spoken, surely then from the morning had the people gone up each from after his brother.'

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


simplify: And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

And every Sabbath he had discussions in the Synagogue, turning Jews and Greeks to the faith.


simplify: And they entered into the covenant to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

And they made an agreement to be true to the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and all their soul;


simplify: I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.


rate difficulty: `And Jehovah doth establish His word that He spake, and I rise up in the stead of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah spake, and I build the house for the name of Jehovah, God of Israel,

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thy hands; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for I have given them into your hands; they will all give way before you.


simplify: Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.

My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.


simplify: I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.


simplify: And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.


rate difficulty: Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

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


simplify: And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred.

And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.


simplify: and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for Jehovah had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

And kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them full of joy, by turning the heart of the king of Assyria to them to give them help in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.


simplify: Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.


simplify: And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.


simplify: Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;


rate difficulty: ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

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


simplify: And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.


simplify: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.


simplify: and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia;

Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of Chisloth-tabor, it goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia;


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

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


simplify: they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.


simplify: How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says ‘I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I will never know misery.’


rate difficulty: And Abishai son of Zeruiah saith unto the king, `Why doth this dead dog revile my lord the king? let me pass over, I pray thee, and I turn aside his head.'

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


simplify: Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;

Not that I have already laid hold of it, or that I am already made perfect. But I press on, in the hope of actually laying hold of that for which indeed I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass through the lightness of her fornication that she polluted the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

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


simplify: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.


simplify: Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.


simplify: Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God.

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.


simplify: I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

I was with you every day in the Temple teaching, and you did not take me; but this is done so that the Writings may come true.


simplify: If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, Thou artmy confidence;

If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;


rate difficulty: for many are called, and few chosen.'

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


simplify: and Jesus rebuked him, and the demon went out of him, and the lad was healed from that hour.

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


simplify: Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.


simplify: And he entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes out of the boat.

And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.


rate difficulty: And he appointed certain of the Levites to do the service before the ark of Jehovah, and to celebrate, and to thank and praise Jehovah theGod of Israel:

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


simplify: All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.


simplify: I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob;

You have been loved by me, says the Lord. But you say, Where was your love for us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? says the Lord: but Jacob was loved by me,


simplify: And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

And getting together the priests and Levites, he said to them, Go out into the towns of Judah year by year, and get from all Israel money to keep the house of your God in good condition; and see that this is done without loss of time. The Levites, however, were slow in doing so.


simplify: And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.

And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.


simplify: And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.

Many of the people spread their cloaks on the road, while some strewed boughs which they had cut from the fields;


rate difficulty: And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

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


simplify: Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?


rate difficulty: At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

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


simplify: Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!


simplify: Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

But Pilate, turning to the chief priests and the people, said: “I do not see anything to find fault with in this man.”


rate difficulty: And they said to him, Inquire, we pray thee, ofGod, that we may know whether our way on which we go shall be prosperous.

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


rate difficulty: Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.

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


simplify: When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.


rate difficulty: And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

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


simplify: Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the speck from your friend’s.


rate difficulty: And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence are ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

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


simplify: and having brought them, they set <FI>them<Fi> in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,

And then brought them before the Council. The high priest demanded an explanation from them.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.


rate difficulty: The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

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


simplify: Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;


rate difficulty: For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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


simplify: But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.

for they said: “Not during the Festival, or the people may riot.”


simplify: To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

and to be discreet, pure-minded, domesticated, good women, respecting the authority of their husbands, in order that God’s message may not be maligned.


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

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


rate difficulty: For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, Long live king Adonijah.

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


rate difficulty: And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith,  By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

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


simplify: and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was attacked with worms, and died.


simplify: And when he learned it of the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph.

And when he had news of it from the captain, he let Joseph have the body.


rate difficulty: But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

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


rate difficulty: Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.


simplify: Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.


simplify: and I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


simplify: Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints;

because I hear of the love and the faith which you show, not only to the Lord Jesus, but also to all his people;


simplify: And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

As soon as he said this, a dispute arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees; and there was a sharp division of opinion among those present.


simplify: And there came one and told them, Behold, the men whom ye put in the prison are in the temple standing and teaching the people.

And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.


simplify: And John having heard in the prison the works of the Christ, having sent two of his disciples,

Now John had heard in prison what the Christ was doing, and he sent a message by his disciples,


simplify: Behold, unto Jehovah thy God belongeth heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth, with all that is therein.

The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.


rate difficulty: And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?'

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


simplify: When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Jehovah, and that soul shall be guilty;

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;


rate difficulty: and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;

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


rate difficulty: Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

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


rate difficulty: Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

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


rate difficulty: And the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, and David smote of the Syrians twenty-two thousand men.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

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


rate difficulty: Only, fools <FI>are<Fi> the princes of Zoan, The counsel of the wise ones of the counsellors of Pharaoh hath become brutish. How say ye unto Pharaoh, `A son of the wise am I, a son of kings of antiquity?'

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


simplify: Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.


simplify: The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.

And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.


simplify: And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

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


simplify: And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.


simplify: Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.

My friends, unite in following my example, and fix your eyes on those who are living by the pattern which we have set you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And again, Esaias says, There shall be the root of Jesse, and one that arises, to rule over [the] nations: in him shall [the] nations hope.

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


simplify: Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.


simplify: And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

and the transcendent greatness of the power which he is able to exercise in dealing with us who believe in him.


rate difficulty: Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

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


rate difficulty: on the next <FI>day<Fi> also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit <FI>him<Fi> , having gone on unto friends, to receive <FI>their<Fi> care.

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


simplify: Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?


simplify: and I gave thee thy master’s house, and thy master’s wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that had been too little, I would have added unto thee such and such things.

I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.


rate difficulty: Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.


rate difficulty: For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?

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


rate difficulty: And if a man gives to the Lord a field which he has got for money from another, which is not part of his heritage;

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


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


rate difficulty: And it came about that when I had come back to Jerusalem, while I was at prayer in the Temple, my senses became more than naturally clear,

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


simplify: I have said before, and I say <FI>it<Fi> before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others — that if I come again, I will spare no one.


simplify: And as Paul was about to be brought into the castle, he saith unto the chief captain, May I say something unto thee? And he said, Dost thou know Greek?

And when Paul was about to be taken into the building, he said to the chief captain, May I say something to you? And he said, Have you a knowledge of Greek?


rate difficulty: and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway they stumble.

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


rate difficulty: Why hast thou hidden thyself to flee, and deceivest me, and hast not declared to me, and I send thee away with joy and with songs, with tabret and with harp,

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


rate difficulty: Eliahba the Shaalbonite, of the sons of Jashen, Jonathan,

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


simplify: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

(As yet the Spirit had not descended on any of them; they had only been baptized into the faith of the Lord Jesus).


rate difficulty: Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord Jehovah; for the day of Jehovah is at hand: for Jehovah hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath consecrated his guests.

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


rate difficulty: How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken!

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


rate difficulty: And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

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


rate difficulty: And he left them again, and went away, and prayed a third time, saying again the same words.

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


rate difficulty: The wicked findeth favour, He hath not learned righteousness, In a land of straightforwardness he dealeth perversely, And seeth not the excellency of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and did send Timotheus--our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ--to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

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


rate difficulty: And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in his father’s stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments: