rate difficulty: and they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.

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


rate difficulty: But I say unto you, not to resist evil; but whoever shall strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other;

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


rate difficulty: For they had before seen with him in the city Trophimus the Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.

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


simplify: And the city was filled with the confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.

And the town was full of noise and trouble, and they all came running into the theatre, having taken by force Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia who were journeying in company with Paul.


rate difficulty: In that day shall they come unto thee from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, and from Egypt even to the River, and from sea to sea, and from mountain to mountain.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let all the first male children be numbered, and take the number of their names.


simplify: And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him with all diligence, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

And if anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him, by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.


rate difficulty: inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clefts of the rocks?

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


simplify: When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.


rate difficulty: And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.

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


rate difficulty: and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

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


simplify: And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.


simplify: Others said--`It is Elijah,' and others said--`It is a prophet, or as one of the prophets.'

Others again said — “He is Elijah,” and others — “He is a prophet, like one of the great prophets.”


rate difficulty: These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:

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


simplify: But the multitude of the city was divided; and part held with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

But there was a division among the people of the town; some were on the side of the Jews and some on the side of the Apostles.


simplify: And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

And God, the searcher of hearts, was a witness to them, giving them the Holy Spirit even as he did to us;


simplify: For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

For truly, by the living Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept me from doing you evil, if you had not been so quick in coming to me and meeting me, by dawn there would not have been in Nabal's house so much as one male living.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth,

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


rate difficulty: Then Achish gave him Ziklag that day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.

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


simplify: yea they did not reform from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their whoredoms, nor from their thefts.

and they did not repent of their murders, or their sorceries, or their licentiousness, or their thefts.


rate difficulty: `Of their flesh ye do not eat, and against their carcase ye do not come--unclean they <FI>are<Fi> to you.

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


rate difficulty: The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.

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


simplify: Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

And Job again took up the word and said,


simplify: Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.


rate difficulty: Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.

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


rate difficulty: Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

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


simplify: And when they were departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.


simplify: and now it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me,

This being so, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.


rate difficulty: Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.

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


simplify: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.


rate difficulty: These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not be the bearer of tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day; but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.

And Joab said, You will take no news today; another day you may give him the news, but you will take no news today, because the king's son is dead.


simplify: Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve Jehovah; for that is what ye desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.


rate difficulty: And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followeth not with us.

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


simplify: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.


rate difficulty: And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah <FI>is<Fi> four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.

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


simplify: And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, if one rise from the dead.

And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.


simplify: Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.


rate difficulty: Lo, days are coming, an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sown the house of Israel, And the house of Judah, With seed of man, and seed of beast.

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


simplify: And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.


simplify: The sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.


rate difficulty: Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

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


simplify: But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:

But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant:


simplify: if his sin, which he hath sinned, be made known to him, then he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, then he is to give for his offering a goat, a female without any mark, for the sin which he has done.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.


simplify: And of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bow and shield;

And the captains of Benjamin: Eliada, a great man of war, and with him two hundred thousand armed with bows and body-covers;


rate difficulty: No one is to come up with you, and let no man be seen anywhere on the mountain; let no flocks or herds come near to get their food at its foot.

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


simplify: so shall it be in the full end of the age, the messengers shall come forth and separate the evil out of the midst of the righteous,

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


simplify: And he answering said to them, `Give ye them to eat,' and they say to him, `Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries' worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?'

But Jesus answered: “It is for you to give them something to eat.”“Are we to go and spend almost a year's wages on bread,” they asked, “to give them to eat?”


rate difficulty: And I said to him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they who come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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


simplify: After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches thereof according to these measures.

And he took me to the south, and I saw a doorway looking to the south: and he took the measure of its rooms and its uprights and its covered ways by these measures.


rate difficulty: `Because the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab have performed the command of their father, that he commanded them, and this people have not hearkened unto Me,

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


rate difficulty: Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.

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


simplify: And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.


simplify: And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.


simplify: He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

The person who loves others is always in the light, and there is nothing within them to cause them to stumble;


rate difficulty: Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.


rate difficulty: It is you who are the light of the world. A town that stands on a hill cannot be hidden.

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


simplify: and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,

Forty years had passed when there appeared to him, in the desert of Mount Sinai, an angel in a flame of fire in a bush.


rate difficulty: And he himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion: and they awake him, and say unto him, Teacher, carest thou not that we perish?

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


simplify: The children of Benjamin also dwelt from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and the towns thereof,

And the children of Benjamin were living from Geba, at Michmash and Aija, and at Beth-el and its daughter-towns,


rate difficulty: And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will prolong thy days.

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


simplify: Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.


rate difficulty: David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

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


rate difficulty: Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.


rate difficulty: And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.


simplify: And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.


simplify: For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

For, when sorrow is in accordance with God’s will, it results in a repentance leading to salvation, and which will never be regretted. The sure result of the sorrow that the world knows is death.


simplify: And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.

And we said to my lord, His father will not let him go; for if he went away his father would come to his death.


simplify: A false witness shall perish; But the man that heareth shall speak so as to endure.


simplify: the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;


rate difficulty: Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.

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


simplify: Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward.

Keep watch over yourselves, so that you do not make our work of no effect, but may get your full reward.


rate difficulty: Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,


simplify: I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

I know what I will do, so that, as soon as I am turned out of my stewardship, people may welcome me into their homes.’


rate difficulty: And the tent of meeting--the camp of the Levites--hath journeyed in the midst of the camps; as they encamp so they journey, each at his station by their standards.

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


rate difficulty: and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.

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


rate difficulty: And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

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


rate difficulty: But if the sacrifice of his oblation be a vow, or a freewill-offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow that which remaineth of it shall be eaten:

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


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


rate difficulty: and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offerings thereof.

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


simplify: And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud.


simplify: Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib?

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?


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

And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.


rate difficulty: and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

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


simplify: But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

But it is important for you to keep this fact in mind, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is God.


simplify: He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings--

He made all races of the earth’s surface — fixing a time for their rise and fall, and the limits of their settlements —


rate difficulty: For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.

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


simplify: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

“Can anyone refuse the water for the baptism of these people, now that they have received the Holy Spirit as we did ourselves?”


rate difficulty: bless those cursing you, and pray for those accusing you falsely;

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


rate difficulty: and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, that <FI>are<Fi> in Judah and in Benjamin, cities of bulwarks.

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


simplify: To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.


simplify: And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.

And again she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Onan.


simplify: And thou shalt lay them up in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.


simplify: Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.


simplify: And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.

And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.


rate difficulty: and David sendeth the third of the people by the hand of Joab, and the third by the hand of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, and the third by the hand of Ittai the Gittite, and the king saith unto the people, `I certainly go out--I also--with you.'

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


rate difficulty: And Joab sent messengers to David, and said, I have fought against Rabbah, and have taken the city of waters.

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


simplify: But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.


To Simon he gave the second name of Peter;


simplify: The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.


simplify: It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

It was supported on twelve oxen, three facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east, the water-vessel resting on top of them; their back parts were all turned to the middle of it.


rate difficulty: The sons of Asher after their families: of Imnah, the family of the Imnites; of Ishvi, the family of the Ishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Berites.

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


simplify: Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Taking care to keep the harmony of the Spirit in the yoke of peace.


simplify: And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people, even of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.

And the men of the town went out and had a fight with Joab: and a number of David's men came to their death in the fight, and with them Uriah the Hittite.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

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


simplify: `But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins--(then saith he to the paralytic) --having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.'

But to show you that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” — then he said to the paralyzed man — “Get up, take up your bed, and return to your home.”


rate difficulty: Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints that are in the whole of Achaia:

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


simplify: how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the showbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat save for the priests alone?

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?


simplify: So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.


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

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


simplify: If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

If we say that we have communion with him, and yet continue to live in the darkness, we lie, and are not living the truth.


simplify: The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.


simplify: This is the law of the house: upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

This is the law of the house: On the top of the mountain all the space round it on every side will be most holy. See, this is the law of the house.


simplify: Of the children of Issachar, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


simplify: And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.

And if this comes to the ruler's ears, we will see that he does not make you responsible.


rate difficulty: and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

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rate difficulty: [For] we do not again commend ourselves to you, but [we are] giving to you occasion of boast in our behalf, that ye may have [such] with those boasting in countenance, and not in heart.


simplify: I know his wrath, saith the Lord; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

I have knowledge of his wrath, says the Lord, that it is nothing; his high-sounding words have done nothing.


simplify: And Jesus said to him, `If thou art able to believe! all things are possible to the one that is believing;'

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


rate difficulty: But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed Jehovah’s anointed?

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simplify: These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

These are the beasts which you may have for food: the ox, the sheep, and the goat;


rate difficulty: Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.

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


simplify: And thence, having set sail, we sailed under Cyprus, because of the winds being contrary,

Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us;


rate difficulty: And this whole land shall become a waste, an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.


simplify: And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

He made sayings about all plants, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop hanging on the wall; and about all beasts and birds and fishes and the small things of the earth.


rate difficulty: Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah, and said to him, What did these men say, and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: AndGod has set certain in the assembly: first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then miraculous powers; then gifts of healings; helps; governments; kinds of tongues.

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


simplify: And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.


rate difficulty: And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit unto the measure of his life?

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


simplify: even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, wherewith to overlay the walls of the houses;

Even three thousand talents of gold of Ophir and seven thousand talents of the best silver, for plating the walls of the house:


rate difficulty: Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

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rate difficulty: And thou, O spoiled one, what dost thou? For thou puttest on scarlet, For thou adornest thyself <FI>with<Fi> ornaments of gold. For thou rendest with pain thine eyes, In vain thou dost make thyself fair, Kicked against thee have doting ones, Thy life they do seek.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 14 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

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rate difficulty: And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: and by me a decree hath been made, and they sought, and have found that this city from the days of old against kings is lifting up itself, and rebellion and sedition is made in it,


rate difficulty: Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

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


simplify: And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed: “Happy will be the person who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”


simplify: Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

See, you are basing your hope on that broken rod of Egypt, which will go into a man's hand if he makes use of it for a support; for so is Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all who put their faith in him.


rate difficulty: and thou hast eaten before Jehovah thy God, in the place where He doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle, the tithe of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herd, and of thy flock, so that thou dost learn to fear Jehovah thy God all the days.

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


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


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

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simplify: whom I have sent unto you for this very purpose, that ye may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts;

And I have sent him to you for this very purpose, so that you may have news of how we are, and so that he may give your hearts comfort;


rate difficulty: Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

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simplify: Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that first resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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rate difficulty: God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.


rate difficulty: And I will set my glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see my judgment which I have executed, and my hand which I have laid upon them.

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rate difficulty: and to offer all burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, on the sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Jehovah;

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simplify: For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

For Herod himself had sent and arrested John, and put him in prison, in chains, to please Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because Herod had married her.


rate difficulty: And Job answered and said,

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


simplify: Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

So, then, we are ever without fear, and though conscious that while we are in the body we are away from the Lord,


simplify: She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.

She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.


simplify: Let us go, we pray thee, unto Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.


rate difficulty: He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.

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


rate difficulty: For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

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simplify: Now there was a man of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bechorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a mighty man of power.

Now there was a man of Benjamin named Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, a Benjamite, a man of wealth.


simplify: Then the tent of meeting shall set forward, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place, by their standards.

Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.


simplify: And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers’ houses of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath:

And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of those living in Geba: Iglaam and Alemeth


simplify: and Eliud begat Eleazar, and Eleazar begat Matthan, and Matthan begat Jacob,

Eliud of Eleazar, Eleazar of Matthan, Matthan of Jacob,


rate difficulty: and bringeth out thence all the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the house of the king, and cutteth in pieces all the vessels of gold that Solomon king of Israel made in the temple of Jehovah, as Jehovah had spoken.

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


rate difficulty: and not according as Moses put a veil on his own face, so that the children of Israel should not fix their eyes on the end of that annulled.

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rate difficulty: but the Pharisees and the lawyers rendered null as to themselves the counsel ofGod, not having been baptised by him.)

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rate difficulty: And they made on the breastplate chains of laced work of wreathen work, of pure gold.

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


rate difficulty: Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. “The man whom I kiss,” he had said, “will be the one; arrest him.”

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


simplify: But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.


simplify: But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith,  I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.


rate difficulty: And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

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


simplify: But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.


simplify: for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;

for human anger does not forward the righteous purpose of God.


simplify: And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

God’s words were these — ‘Abraham’s descendants will live in a foreign country, where they will be enslaved and ill-treated for four hundred years.


simplify: and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

There will be great earth-shocks and outbursts of disease in a number of places, and men will be without food; and there will be wonders and great signs from heaven.


simplify: And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had said to Moses.


rate difficulty: No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made by fire.

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


rate difficulty: The hater of authority has no love for teaching: he will not go to the wise.

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


rate difficulty: He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

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


rate difficulty: A man's heart may be full of designs, but the purpose of the Lord is unchanging.


simplify: I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.


rate difficulty: And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people:


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying,

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rate difficulty: In the firstmonth, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.


rate difficulty: — And he made bars of acacia-wood: five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,


rate difficulty: How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:


rate difficulty: And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his teaching,

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master’s brethren.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

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


rate difficulty: for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

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rate difficulty: And if any of the flesh of the offering or of the bread is over till the morning, let it be burned with fire; it is not to be used for food, for it is holy.

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


simplify: A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.


simplify: He scorneth the tumult of the city, Neither heareth he the shoutings of the driver.

He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;


simplify: For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?


rate difficulty: And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

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


rate difficulty: And when you have news of wars and talk of wars, do not be troubled; these things have to be, but it is still not the end.


simplify: Which was the son of Jesse, which was the son of Obed, which was the son of Booz, which was the son of Salmon, which was the son of Naasson,

The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,


simplify: And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

And Absalom, whom we made a ruler over us, is dead in the fight. So now why do you say nothing about getting the king back? And word of what all Israel was saying came to the king.


simplify: And he said unto them, Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. And they could not in three days expound the riddle.

And he said, Out of the taker of food came food, and out of the strong came the sweet. And at the end of three days they were still not able to give the answer.


rate difficulty: Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.


rate difficulty: And six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness to the cliff of Rimmon, and abode at the cliff of Rimmon four months.

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simplify: For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.

For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.


simplify: Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plowtherewith oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

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


simplify: for there was not any one among them who did lack, for as many as were possessors of fields, or houses, selling <FI>them<Fi> , were bringing the prices of the thing sold,

Nor was there anyone in need among them, for all who were owners of land or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the sales


simplify: I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

I could get no peace of mind because I failed to find Titus, my friend; so I took leave of the people there, and went on to Macedonia.


rate difficulty: And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you:

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


rate difficulty: And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out.


rate difficulty: This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him: To Artaxerxes the king: Thy servants the men on this side the river, and so forth.


simplify: And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;


rate difficulty: And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.


rate difficulty: And now, says the Lord, who made me his servant when I was still in my mother's body, so that I might make Jacob come back to him, and so that Israel might come together to him: and I was honoured in the eyes of the Lord, and my God became my strength.

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


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


simplify: Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die, because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the Asherah that was by it.

Then the men of the town said to Joash, Make your son come out to be put to death, for pulling down the altar of Baal and cutting down the holy tree which was by it.


simplify: What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.


rate difficulty: And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight against my land?

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simplify: And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, strong men, eighteen.

Meshelemiah had sons and brothers, eighteen able men.


rate difficulty: Therefore is the anger of Jehovah kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the mountains tremble, and their dead bodies are as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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simplify: And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?


rate difficulty: The king will give himself up to sorrow, and the ruler will be clothed with wonder, and the hands of the people of the land will be troubled: I will give them punishment for their ways, judging them as it is right for them to be judged; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

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


simplify: And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.

And I took your sin, the image which you had made, and put it in the fire and had it hammered and crushed very small till it was only dust: and the dust I put in the stream flowing down from the mountain.


simplify: For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

For in every town, for generations past, there have been those who preach Moses, read as he is in the Synagogues every Sabbath.”


rate difficulty: For Israel has not been given up, or Judah, by his God, by the Lord of armies; for their land is full of sin against the Holy One of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob called the name of the place whereGod had talked with him, Beth-el.


simplify: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to withstand or to gainsay.

For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.


simplify: But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

and yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.


simplify: Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.

Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.


rate difficulty: and goeth in after the man of Israel unto the hollow place, and pierceth them both, the man of Israel and the woman--unto her belly, and the plague is restrained from the sons of Israel;

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simplify: Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.


rate difficulty: and David pursueth, he and four hundred men, (and two hundred men stand still who have been too faint to pass over the brook of Besor),

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


rate difficulty: Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, that stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

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


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


simplify: Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.

So that day he gave him the name of Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal take up his cause against him because his altar has been broken down.


rate difficulty: Meanwhile Peter went on knocking, and, when they opened the gate and saw him, they were amazed.


rate difficulty: For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

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


rate difficulty: And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

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


simplify: Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;


simplify: And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.

And he said to me, Who are you? And I said, I am an Amalekite.


rate difficulty: For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

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simplify: and when the herb sprang up, and yielded fruit, then appeared also the darnel.

So, when the blades of corn shot up, and came into ear, the weeds made their appearance also.


rate difficulty: for the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

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


rate difficulty: And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them and kill them, and put an end to the work.

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


rate difficulty: Then Joram said, Make ready! And they made ready his chariot. And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot; and they went out to meet Jehu, and met him in the plot of Naboth the Jizreelite.


rate difficulty: for he was instructing his disciples, and telling them — “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of his fellow men, and they will put him to death, but, when he has been put to death, he will rise again after three days.”

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


simplify: `Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

Do not think that I have come to do away with the law or the prophets; I have not come to do away with them, but to complete them.


simplify: And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.


rate difficulty: And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.


rate difficulty: They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

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


simplify: And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them.

His parents did not understand what he meant.


simplify: And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.


simplify: And now, because ye have done all these works, saith Jehovah, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not:

And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:


rate difficulty: For who hath pity on thee, O Jerusalem? And who doth bemoan for thee? And who turneth aside to ask of thy welfare?

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


rate difficulty: He who gets mixed up in a fight which is not his business, is like one who takes a dog by the ears while it is going by.

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


simplify: and as they are reclining, and eating, Jesus said, `Verily I say to you--one of you, who is eating with me--shall deliver me up.'

and when they had taken their places and were eating, Jesus said: “I tell you that one of you is going to betray me — one who is eating with me.”


simplify: Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.

Still, so we don't offend them, go and throw a line into the Sea; take the first fish that rises, open its mouth, and you will find in it a piece of money. Take that, and give it to the collectors for both of us.”


simplify: And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.


simplify: Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

after his rising again, early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first of all to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven demons.


rate difficulty: From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in him; wounds, and weals, and open sores: they have not been dressed, nor bound up, nor mollified with oil.

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


simplify: Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy.

And this is the law of the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.


simplify: So shall ye divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

You will make a division of the land among you, tribe by tribe.


simplify: For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place.


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.


simplify: And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

They began arguing together; “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say ‘Why then did not you believe him?’


rate difficulty: These twenty years have I been with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock I have not eaten.

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


simplify: That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.


rate difficulty: And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.

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


rate difficulty: and John, having called two of his disciples, sent to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?

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


rate difficulty: Is not God high <FI>in<Fi> heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.

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


rate difficulty: Have no fear of them, for the Lord your God will be fighting for you.

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


rate difficulty: O our God, will you not be their judge? for our strength is not equal to this great army which is coming against us; and we are at a loss what to do: but our eyes are on you.


simplify: But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear;


rate difficulty: So they shall bring out all thy wives and thy children to the Chaldeans: and thou shalt not escape out of their hand, but shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and thou shalt cause this city to be burned with fire.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)


rate difficulty: and if I shall let them away fasting to their home, they will faint in the way, for certain of them are come from far.'

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


simplify: Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

Anyone causing the death of another is himself to be put to death on the word of witnesses: but the word of one witness is not enough.


simplify: So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

So the Philistines were overcome, and did not come into the country of Israel again: and all the days of Samuel the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines.


rate difficulty: But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

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


rate difficulty: I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

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


simplify: Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria.

You will be broken and full of sorrow, with the cup of wonder and destruction, with the cup of your sister Samaria.


simplify: The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts.

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.


rate difficulty: For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith Jehovah; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people.

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


simplify: Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.


simplify: Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

So Zimri put to death all the family of Baasha, so that the word which the Lord said against him by the mouth of Jehu the prophet came about;


rate difficulty: The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundredandeighteen.

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


rate difficulty: And Husham dieth, and reign in his stead doth Hadad son of Bedad (who smiteth Midian in the field of Moab), and the name of his city <FI>is<Fi> Avith;

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword;


rate difficulty: And now, O Job, give ear to my words, and take note of all I say.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

And it will come about that every living and moving thing, wherever their streams come, will have life; and there will be very much fish because these waters have come there and have been made sweet: and everything wherever the river comes will have life.


simplify: And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

And David went out to them, and said to them, If you have come in peace to give me help, my heart will be united with yours; but if you have come to give me up to those who would take my life, though my hands are clean from wrongdoing, then may the God of our fathers see it and give you punishment.


simplify: The burden of the word of Jehovah to Israel by Malachi.

The word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi.


rate difficulty: And the number of the burnt-offerings that the assembly have brought in, is seventy oxen, a hundred rams, lambs two hundred; for a burnt-offering to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> all these.

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


simplify: And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

And they were placed in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.


rate difficulty: As I live, saith the Lord God, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: `And if the bright spot is white in the skin of his flesh, and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair hath not turned white, then hath the priest shut up <FI>him who hath<Fi> the plague seven days.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah: I saw Jehovah sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left;

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


simplify: For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Jehovah: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.


simplify: And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

And Jesus, answering him, said, A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he got into the hands of thieves, who took his clothing and gave him cruel blows, and when they went away, he was half dead.


rate difficulty: The children of Kirjath–arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Teacher, say on.

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


simplify: When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

When she had news of the things which Jesus did, went among the people coming after him, and put her hand on his robe.


simplify: The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.


rate difficulty: The lion is tearing parts <FI>for<Fi> his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill <FI>with<Fi> prey his holes, And his habitations <FI>with<Fi> rapine.

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


simplify: And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.


simplify: And if what I do not will, this I do, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin that is dwelling in me.

But, when I do the thing that I want not to do, the action is no longer my own, but is done by the sin which is within me.


simplify: And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

And Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, took an oath to them and their men, saying, Have no fear of the servants of the Chaldaeans: go on living in the land, and become the servants of the king of Babylon, and all will be well.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

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


simplify: But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

But Jesus said, Let the little ones come to me, and do not keep them away: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.


simplify: And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

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


rate difficulty: two women shall be grinding at the mill; one is taken, and one is left.

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


simplify: And he sent away the multitudes, and entered into the boat, and came into the borders of Magadan.

And when he had sent the people away, he got into the boat, and came into the country of Magadan.


simplify: I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

In order that hearts may become soft, and the number of those who are falling may be increased, I have sent death by the sword against all their doors: you are made like a flame, you are polished for death.


simplify: And the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods, they took for a prey.

The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.


simplify: That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.

Some people came from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men, with the hair of their faces cut off and their clothing out of order, and with cuts on their bodies, and in their hands meal offerings and perfumes which they were taking to the house of the Lord.


simplify: A righteous man that walketh in his integrity, Blessed are his children after him.

An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!


simplify: And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with grain and new wine have I sustained him: and what then shall I do for thee, my son?

And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?


simplify: And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

But twenty-four thousand of them had come to their death by the disease.


rate difficulty: And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And come unto him do all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.

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


simplify: And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.

And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said.


rate difficulty: and, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the purple robe, and put his own clothes on him.

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


simplify: I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

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.


simplify: But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:


simplify: And every created thing which is in the heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all things that are in them, heard I saying,  Unto him that sitteth on the throne, and unto the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the dominion, for ever and ever.

And to my ears came the voice of everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and of all things which are in them, saying, To him who is seated on the high seat, and to the Lamb, may blessing and honour and glory and power be given for ever and ever.


simplify: And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.

And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.


rate difficulty: And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.


rate difficulty: Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

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


simplify: They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

They put him on their backs, and take him up, and put him in his fixed place, from which he may not be moved; if a man gives a cry for help to him, he is unable to give an answer, or get him out of his trouble.


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

However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what had occurred;


simplify: For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.


rate difficulty: so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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


simplify: They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.

They are like children who are seated in the market-place, crying out to one another, and saying, We made music for you, but you did not take part in the dance; we gave cries of sorrow, but you were not sad.


rate difficulty: But his wife said to him, If the Lord was purposing our death, he would not have taken our burned offering and our meal offering, or have given us such orders about the child.

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


simplify: Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.

You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.


rate difficulty: And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.

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


simplify: For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.


rate difficulty: And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,


simplify: That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.

So that they may make offerings of a sweet smell to the God of heaven, with prayers for the life of the king and of his sons.


rate difficulty: And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.

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


simplify: It is a continual burnt-offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

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


simplify: And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?


simplify: He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.


simplify: He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.


simplify: I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?

I came to send a fire on the earth, and it may even now have been lighted.


simplify: And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.


rate difficulty: Let your change of heart be seen in your works:


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the going out of the priests from the sanctuary--for all the priests who are present have sanctified themselves, there is none to watch by courses,

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


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

And this is the hope which he gave you, even eternal life.


simplify: And the king said unto Barzillai, Come thou over with me, and I will sustain thee with me in Jerusalem.

And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will take care of you in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And he answering said to them, I also will ask you [one] thing, and tell me:


rate difficulty: What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the Lord?

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


rate difficulty: and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

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


simplify: Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.


rate difficulty: Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

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


rate difficulty: But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

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


simplify: The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written uprightly, even words of truth.

The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.


simplify: But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.

But he who was given the one went away and put it in a hole in the earth, and kept his lord's money in a secret place.


rate difficulty: But he also is wise, and he bringeth evil, and recalleth not his words; and he will arise against the house of evildoers, and against the help of workers of iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: [The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered,

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


rate difficulty: Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.

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


rate difficulty: He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants <FI>are<Fi> as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.

And the four Creatures said ‘Amen,’ and the councillors prostrated themselves and worshiped.


simplify: The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:


simplify: Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,


simplify: And it came to pass, as he drew nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:

And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by.


simplify: Because the spoiler is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, every one of their bows is broken: for the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite.

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


rate difficulty: And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

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


simplify: and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,

And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;


rate difficulty: And he cried [as] a lion, Lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights.

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


rate difficulty: And I am persuaded, my brethren--I myself also--concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;


simplify: For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.


rate difficulty: But when Herod's birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod;

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


simplify: Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.


simplify: Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.

So be guided by your wisdom, and let not his white head go down to the underworld in peace.


simplify: Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee? And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country, even from Babylon.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, What did these men say and where did they come from? And Hezekiah said, They came from a far country, even from Babylon.


simplify: in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:

In whom we have our salvation, the forgiveness of sins:


rate difficulty: For their Redeemer <FI>is<Fi> strong, He doth plead their cause with thee.

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


simplify: And again he denied with an oath, I know not the man.

And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man.


rate difficulty: And after this he hath built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entering in at the fish-gate, and it hath gone round to the tower, and he maketh it exceeding high, and he putteth heads of the force in all the cities of the bulwarks in Judah.

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


simplify: In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

The king made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, in the soft earth between Succoth and Zeredah.


simplify: How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!

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


rate difficulty: But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land: for the Lord refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

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