simplify: Then come with them doth Jesus to a place called Gethsemane, and he saith to the disciples, `Sit ye here, till having gone away, I shall pray yonder.'

Then Jesus came with them to a garden called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples: “Sit down here while I go and pray over there.”


simplify: Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:

For if you will not let my people go, tomorrow I will send locusts into your land:


simplify: Now they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James: and the other women with them told these things unto the apostles.

Now they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James: and the other women with them said these things to the Apostles.


simplify: And he sent again a captain of the third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

Then he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men; and the third captain of fifty went up, and falling on his knees before Elijah, requesting mercy of him, said, O man of God, let my life and the life of these your fifty servants be of value to you.


rate difficulty: For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

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


simplify: thanks also to God for His unspeakable gift!

All thanks to God for his inestimable gift!


rate difficulty: Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: So they and their sons had the care of the doors of the house of the Lord, the house of the Tent, as watchers.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

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


simplify: Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.


simplify: And his sister Hammolecheth bare Ishhod, and Abiezer, and Mahlah.

And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.


simplify: Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Therefore, having been pronounced righteous as the result of faith, let us enjoy peace with God through Jesus Christ, our Lord.


simplify: The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.

The hope of the upright man will give joy, but the waiting of the evil-doer will have its end in sorrow.


rate difficulty: And after reading it, they were glad of its comfort.


rate difficulty: `Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the first <FI>month<Fi> , in the first of the month, thou dost take a bullock, a son of the herd, a perfect one, and hast cleansed the sanctuary:

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


rate difficulty: A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.


rate difficulty: Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.

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


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

but Jesus said to them: “Why are you so startled? And why do doubts arise in your minds?


rate difficulty: The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.

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


rate difficulty: Woe to them, for they wandered from Me, Destruction to them, for they transgressed against Me, And I--I ransom them, and they have spoken lies against Me,

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


rate difficulty: At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind [cometh] from the heights in the wilderness, on the way of the daughter of my people, not for fanning, nor for cleansing.

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


simplify: A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.

A sound tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a worthless tree bear good fruit.


rate difficulty: So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.


rate difficulty: And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against Jehovah's anointed, and be guiltless?


rate difficulty: Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the heart of the seas.

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


rate difficulty: Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

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


simplify: And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

He seized the Dragon, the primeval snake (who is the ‘devil’ or ‘Satan’), and bound him in chains for a thousand years.


simplify: And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.


rate difficulty: Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord also hath scabbed The crown of the head of daughters of Zion, And Jehovah their simplicity exposeth.

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


simplify: But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.


rate difficulty: Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

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


simplify: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.


rate difficulty: For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.


rate difficulty: And Ibzan dieth, and is buried in Beth-Lehem.

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


simplify: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

Great crowds followed him, and he cured them there.


rate difficulty: and three hundred shields of beaten gold, — he applied three hundred [shekels] of gold to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


rate difficulty: and they have been beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for God hath troubled them with every adversity;

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


rate difficulty: and the priest hath seen him, and lo, the rising of the very red white plague in the bald back of the head, or in the bald forehead, <FI>is<Fi> as the appearance of leprosy, in the skin of the flesh,

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


simplify: The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

The churches in Roman Asia send you their greetings. Aquila and Prisca and the church that meets at their house send you many Christian greetings.


simplify: And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;

And Azor had Zadok; and Zadok had Achim; and Achim had Eliud;


simplify: For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

For there are sinners among my people: they keep watch, like men watching for birds; they put a net and take men in it.


simplify: And it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel asked of Jehovah, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?


simplify: And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.


simplify: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.


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

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel;

And on the eighth day Moses sent for Aaron and his sons and the responsible men of Israel;


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

“But we,” said Peter, “we left what belonged to us and followed you.”


rate difficulty: And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

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


rate difficulty: Naphtali is a roe let loose, giving fair young ones.

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


rate difficulty: And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.

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


rate difficulty: So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me?

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


simplify: When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.


rate difficulty: And all who inhabited Lydda and the Saron saw him, who turned to the Lord.


simplify: to Him <FI>is<Fi> the glory, and the power--to the ages and the ages! Amen.

To him be ascribed dominion for ever. Amen.


rate difficulty: So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.


simplify: The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.

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


simplify: And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

And the land is shaking and in pain: for the purposes of the Lord are fixed, to make the land of Babylon an unpeopled waste.


simplify: In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.


rate difficulty: And immediately all the crowd seeing him were amazed, and running to [him], saluted him.

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


simplify: (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)

For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple.


simplify: For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

We are not “commending ourselves” again to you, but rather are giving you cause for pride in us, so that you may have an answer ready for those who pride themselves on appearances and not on character.


simplify: And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts?

Jesus, at once intuitively aware that they were debating with themselves in this way, said to them: “Why are you debating in your minds about this?


rate difficulty: Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

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


simplify: And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him.

Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.


rate difficulty: And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.


simplify: The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer.


simplify: And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Eber, Shelah went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

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


simplify: Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

So Solomon went back from the high place at Gibeon, from before the Tent of meeting, to Jerusalem; and he was king over Israel.


rate difficulty: And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

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


simplify: The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.


rate difficulty: And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:

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


simplify: And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God,

For my own part, friends, when I came to you, it was with no display of eloquence or philosophy that I came to tell the hidden purpose of God;


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

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


simplify: For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.

For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.


simplify: If then God gave unto them the like gift as he did also unto us, when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?


simplify: Him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.


simplify: Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

Do not let anyone deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the wrath of God on the disobedient.


simplify: And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?

And the king of Egypt sent for the women, and said to them, Why have you done this, and let the male children go on living?


rate difficulty: And Isaac said to Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be really my son Esau or not.

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


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

Who will bring a charge against any of God’s people? He who pronounces them righteous is God!


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

And when the time comes for you to go to your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, one of your sons, and I will make his kingdom strong.


rate difficulty: And Rebekah saith unto Isaac, `I have been disgusted with my life because of the presence of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, like these--from the daughters of the land--why do I live?'

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


simplify: And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

And he said to the boy, Go and get the arrow I let loose from my bow. And while the boy was running, he sent an arrow past him.


rate difficulty: and Isaiah saith to them, `Thus do ye say unto your lord: Thus said Jehovah, Be not afraid because of the words that thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me.

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


simplify: And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.


rate difficulty: And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?


simplify: My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;


simplify: And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, having put on their robes, in a void place in the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.

Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.


rate difficulty: And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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


simplify: Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Jehovah smote him, and he died.

And Jeroboam did not get back his power again in the life-time of Abijah; and the Lord sent death on him.


rate difficulty: And thus shalt thou make it: let the length of the ark be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

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


simplify: Moreover the Lord shall raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day;


rate difficulty: His appearance was as lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

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


rate difficulty: and hath not oppressed any; he hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath not exercised robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and covered the naked with a garment;

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


simplify: And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

So he left, and went to the house of a certain Titius Justus, who had been accustomed to join in the worship of God, and whose house was next door to the synagogue.


rate difficulty: At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

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


rate difficulty: from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth upon the service, to do the work of the tent of meeting.

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


simplify: And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.

They were not conscious that the sense of their words was clear to Joseph, for he had been talking to them through one who had knowledge of their language.


rate difficulty: And if any man's seed of copulation pass from him, then he shall bathe his whole flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to the Lord, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?

Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?


rate difficulty: and I, in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, was with you;

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


simplify: For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how shall ye know all the parables?

And he said to them, If you are not clear about this story, how will you be clear about the others?


rate difficulty: And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

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


simplify: Yet there shall be left therein gleanings, as the shaking of an olive-tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost branches of a fruitful tree, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.

But it will be like a man shaking an olive-tree, something will still be there, two or three berries on the top of the highest branch, four or five on the outside branches of a fertile tree, says the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: The way of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.


rate difficulty: He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

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


simplify: And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.


simplify: What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?


simplify: What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.

What are we to say, then? Why, that Gentiles, who were not in search of righteousness, secured it — a righteousness which was the result of faith;


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

And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag;


rate difficulty: These you are to put on Aaron, your brother, and on his sons, putting oil on them, separating them and making them holy, to do the work of priests to me.

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


rate difficulty: On returning from the Jordan, full of the Holy Spirit, Jesus was led by the power of the Spirit through the wilderness for forty days, tempted by the devil.

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


simplify: Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?


simplify: And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And the wall of the town had twelve bases, and on them the twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.


rate difficulty: `They smote me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake--I seek it yet again!'

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


simplify: And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; between the king also and the people.

And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people.


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: The people of the land use oppression and practise robbery; and they vex the poor and needy, and oppress the stranger wrongfully.

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


simplify: in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

And in union with him, and through our trust in him, we find courage to approach God with confidence.


simplify: and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.


simplify: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.


simplify: And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.

When they raised their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus himself alone.


rate difficulty: Then let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy before the Lord, for he is come to be the judge of the earth.

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


simplify: And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:


simplify: All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.


rate difficulty: And news of this came to Joab; for Joab had been one of Adonijah's supporters, though he had not been on Absalom's side. Then Joab went in flight to the Tent of the Lord, and put his hands on the horns of the altar.

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


simplify: Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;


rate difficulty: And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

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rate difficulty: And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

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


simplify: Now these are the priests and the Levites that went up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

Now these are the priests and the Levites who went up with Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,


simplify: How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?


rate difficulty: That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

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


simplify: And Bela had sons: Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,

And Bela had sons, Addar and Gera, the father of Ehud,


simplify: and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

Overturning the power of kingdoms; and I will send destruction on the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; by me war-carriages will be overturned with those who are in them; and the horses and the horsemen will come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.


simplify: But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by Jehovah their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.


simplify: In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

In his time, Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.


simplify: Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?


rate difficulty: Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

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


simplify: And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.

And my face will be turned against that man, and he will be cut off from his people; because he has given his offspring to Molech, making my holy place unclean, and making my holy name common.


simplify: And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.

And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.


simplify: Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.


simplify: Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

Do not give ear to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me; and everyone will be free to take the fruit of his vine and of his fig-tree, and the water of his spring;


simplify: But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.


rate difficulty: Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;

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


simplify: (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

(In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.)


rate difficulty: But the houses in the towns of the Levites may be got back by the Levites at any time.

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


simplify: in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Moving me to wrath with the work of your hands, burning perfumes to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to make a place for yourselves, so that you may become a curse and a name of shame among all the nations of the earth?


rate difficulty: and Hezron begot Ram, and Ram begot Amminadab,

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


rate difficulty: For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born unto them,

And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,


rate difficulty: Because Ephraim did multiply altars to sin, They have been to him altars to sin.


simplify: Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.


simplify: And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

And a voice from heaven came to my ears, like the sound of great waters, and the sound of loud thunder: and the voice which came to me was like the sound of players, playing on instruments of music.


simplify: And they journeyed from Iyim, and encamped in Dibon-gad.

And they went on from Iyim, and put up their tents in Dibon-gad.


simplify: For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.

For the children of Israel and the children of Levi are to take the lifted offering of the grain and wine and oil into the rooms where the vessels of the holy place are, together with the priests and the door-keepers and the makers of music: and we will not give up caring for the house of our God.


simplify: Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

For this reason my decision is, that we do not put trouble in the way of those who from among the Gentiles are turned to God;


simplify: Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.


rate difficulty: And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive.

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


rate difficulty: And she yet again bare a son, and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.


simplify: That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked; that be far from thee: shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?


simplify: And Moses said unto Jehovah, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou didst charge us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.


rate difficulty: O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

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


simplify: And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.

And the Gibeonites said to him, It is not a question of silver and gold between us and Saul or his family; and it is not in our power to put to death any man in Israel. And he said, Say, then, what am I to do for you?


rate difficulty: And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

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


simplify: And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God.

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.


rate difficulty: I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,  This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

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


simplify: The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

The resting-place of the sinner will come to destruction, but the root of upright men is for ever.


rate difficulty: and the priest shall dip his right finger in the oil that is in his left hand, and shall sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before Jehovah.


rate difficulty: be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time,

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


simplify: And they come to Jerusalem: and he entered into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and them that bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves;

And they came to Jerusalem; and he went into the Temple, and sent out those who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who were offering doves for money;


simplify: Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.


rate difficulty: And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman saith, `Whom do I bring up to thee?' and he saith, `Samuel--bring up to me.'

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


simplify: And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

And Jeroboam was king for twenty-two years, and was put to rest with his fathers, and Nadab his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And he put it to death; and Moses took some of the blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot.


rate difficulty: Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.

But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.


simplify: And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.

And he went again into the Synagogue; and there was a man there whose hand was dead.


rate difficulty: Take thou no interest of him or increase, but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.

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


rate difficulty: Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

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


rate difficulty: Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee.


rate difficulty: In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi began to reign over Israel, for ten years, in Samaria.

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


simplify: And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near unto him.

Then taking Ephraim with his right hand, Joseph put him at Israel's left side, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Israel's right side, placing them near him.


simplify: Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!


rate difficulty: And Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Lachish to Eglon: and they took up their position against it and made an attack on it;


rate difficulty: ‘Look, you despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I am doing a deed in your days — A deed which, though told you in full, you will never believe’.”


rate difficulty: And the double hooks of a hand breadth were fastened round about within; and upon the tables [they put] the flesh of the offering.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh heareth of this thing, and seeketh to slay Moses, and Moses fleeth from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelleth in the land of Midian, and dwelleth by the well.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp; as Jehovah spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had said to Moses, and put them outside the tent-circle.


rate difficulty: And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

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


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

So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,


simplify: And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

And when the sweet smell came up to the Lord, he said in his heart, I will not again put a curse on the earth because of man, for the thoughts of man's heart are evil from his earliest days; never again will I send destruction on all living things as I have done.


simplify: And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.

And the poorest of the land will have food, and those in need will be given a safe resting-place: but your seed will come to an end for need of food, and the rest of you will be put to the sword.


rate difficulty: Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.

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


simplify: And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.

And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.


simplify: Woe unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for thy sons are taken away captive, and thy daughters into captivity.

Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.


rate difficulty: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

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


simplify: And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

And they said, We came to the land where you sent us, and truly it is flowing with milk and honey: and here is some of the produce of it.


simplify: and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship.

And on the third day, they let all the sailing apparatus go over the side.


rate difficulty: But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept on his neck.

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


rate difficulty: forty days being tempted by the Devil, and he did not eat anything in those days, and they having been ended, he afterward hungered,

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


rate difficulty: And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

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


simplify: and all the men were, as it were, twelve.


rate difficulty: The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.

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


simplify: And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

And I saw the glory of the Lord there, as in the vision which I saw in the valley.


rate difficulty: They began to laugh at him, for they knew that she was dead.

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


simplify: So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.


simplify: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.


simplify: for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

for through your union with Christ Jesus, the law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the law of sin and death.


simplify: who having appeared in glory, spake of his outgoing that he was about to fulfil in Jerusalem,

who appeared in a glorified state, and spoke of his departure, which was destined to take place at Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.

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


simplify: So the angel that talked with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.


simplify: And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.


rate difficulty: The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.


simplify: And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly: “Why has the perfume been wasted like this?


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest:

Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest;


simplify: I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.


rate difficulty: Then Judas--he who delivered him up--having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and come in hath the Levite (for he hath no part and inheritance with thee), and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI>are<Fi> within thy gates, and they have eaten, and been satisfied, so that Jehovah thy God doth bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou dost.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to the Rab-shakeh, Please make use of the Aramaean language in talking to your servants, for we are used to it, and do not make use of the Jews' language in the hearing of the people on the wall.


simplify: And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.


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

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


rate difficulty: Once you were straying like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.


simplify: And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;


simplify: but even as we have been approved of God to be intrusted with the gospel, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God who proveth our hearts.

But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.


simplify: in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

We have learned to know what love is from this — that Christ laid down his life on our behalf. Therefore we also ought to lay down our lives for each other.


simplify: And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in ward in his master’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sad to-day?

And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad?


rate difficulty: The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.

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


simplify: and he shall kill the he-lamb in the place where they kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering, in the place of the sanctuary: for as the sin-offering is the priest’s, so is the trespass-offering: it is most holy.

And he is to put the male lamb to death in the place where they put to death the sin-offering and the burned offering, in the holy place; for as the sin-offering is the property of the priest, so is the offering for wrongdoing: it is most holy.


simplify: But it was so, that in the three and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

But in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash, the priests had not made good the damaged parts of the house.


rate difficulty: Calling the people and his disciples to him, Jesus said: “If anyone wishes to walk in my steps, let them renounce self, take up their cross, and follow me.


rate difficulty: And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

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


simplify: Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;


simplify: And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.

And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.


rate difficulty: Having many things to write to you, I would not with paper and ink; but hope to come to you, and to speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full.


rate difficulty: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

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


simplify: All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.

Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;


simplify: And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.


rate difficulty: and the disciples came and roused him. “Master,” they cried, “save us; we are lost!”

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


simplify: Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Unhappy is the sinner! for the reward of his evil doings will come on him.


simplify: And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a discreet counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him.


simplify: These are the statutes and ordinances and laws, which Jehovah made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by Moses.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass, to wit, for the prophet whom he had brought back.

Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.


rate difficulty: which, when it was filled, having drawn up again upon the beach, and having sat down, they gathered the good into vessels, and the bad they did cast out,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.


simplify: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will send unto him wanderers, that shall cause him to wander, and shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles.

So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken.


rate difficulty: And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.

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


rate difficulty: and say to the king, `If to the king <FI>it be<Fi> good, and if thy servant be pleasing before thee, that thou send me unto Judah, unto the city of the graves of my fathers, and I built it.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Thou--thou hast left Me--an affirmation of Jehovah, Backward thou goest, And I stretch out My hand against thee, And I destroy thee, I have been weary of repenting,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.

And after turning it over in my mind, I made a protest to the chiefs and the rulers, and said to them, Every one of you is taking interest from his countryman. And I got together a great meeting of protest.


simplify: For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.


simplify: and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them.

And his brothers, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel and Judah, Hanani, with the music-instruments of David, the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was at their head;


rate difficulty: besides those from three years old and upward who as males were entered in the genealogical register, — all that came into the house of Jehovah, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their charges, according to their divisions,

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.

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


simplify: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

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


rate difficulty: For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And thus did Hezekiah throughout all Judah, and wrought that which was good and right and truth before the Lord his God.

This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God.


rate difficulty: And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.


simplify: The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

The passage of scripture which he was reading was this —  ‘Like a sheep, he was led away to slaughter, And as a lamb is dumb in the hands of its shearer, So he refrains from opening his lips.


simplify: but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted--Christ's--

but by precious blood, as it were of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.


simplify: And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad.

And I will have a fire lighted on the wall of Damascus, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.


rate difficulty: But the Jews, working up the feelings of the God-fearing women of high position and of the chief men of the town, got an attack started against Paul and Barnabas, driving them out of those parts.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

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


rate difficulty: for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

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


simplify: and the anchors having taken up, they were committing <FI>it<Fi> to the sea, at the same time--having loosed the bands of the rudders, and having hoisted up the mainsail to the wind--they were making for the shore,

Then they cast off, and abandoned the anchors, and at the same time unlashed the gear of the steering oars, hoisted the foresail to the wind, and made for the beach.


rate difficulty: Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam, the Korahites;

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


rate difficulty: but that which ye have--hold ye, till I may come;

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


rate difficulty: David therefore calls him Lord, and how is he his son?

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


rate difficulty: This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,


rate difficulty: They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by water-brooks, in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble; for I will be a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

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


rate difficulty: and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and offereth burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calleth unto Jehovah, and He answereth him with fire from the heavens on the altar of the burnt-offering.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!


rate difficulty: But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

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


simplify: This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

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


rate difficulty: These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

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


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

Then Jephthah sent men to the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What have you against me that you have come to make war against my land?


rate difficulty: But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

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


simplify: Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.

Send out a cry of grief; for the day of the Lord is near; it comes as destruction from the Most High.


rate difficulty: So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.


simplify: Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it.


simplify: And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord.

And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

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


rate difficulty: Through Silvanus, to you the faithful brother, as I reckon, through few <FI>words<Fi> I did write, exhorting and testifying this to be the true grace of God in which ye have stood.

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


rate difficulty: From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?

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


simplify: and rams’ skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;


rate difficulty: Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.


simplify: And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

“Master,” said another, who was a disciple, “let me first go and bury my father.”


simplify: A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

A sound of fear is in his ears; in time of peace destruction will come on him:


simplify: Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

And you will be a fair crown in the hand of the Lord, and a king's head-dress in the hand of your God.


simplify: with twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen. And the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubim, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.


rate difficulty: And the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)

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


simplify: and they are instructed concerning thee, that apostasy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying--Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;

Now they have heard it said about you, that you teach all of our people in foreign countries to forsake Moses, for you tell them not to circumcise their children or even to observe Jewish customs.


simplify: And Rebekah took the goodly garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son;

And Rebekah took the fair robes of her oldest son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob, her younger son:


rate difficulty: And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish-bosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

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


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

I give praise to God at all times and make prayer for you,


simplify: Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

And let not the man from a strange country, who has been joined to the Lord, say, The Lord will certainly put a division between me and his people: and let not the unsexed man say, See, I am a dry tree.


simplify: and the shepherds turned back, glorifying and praising God, for all those things they heard and saw, as it was spoken unto them.

And the shepherds went back, giving glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.


simplify: Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Who is the person that conquers the world but the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?


simplify: And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

And Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in offerings and burned offerings as in the doing of his orders? Truly, to do his pleasure is better than to make offerings, and to give ear to him than the fat of sheep.


rate difficulty: Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

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


simplify: And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, even a ram for a trespass offering.

Let him take his offering for wrongdoing to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting; let him give a male sheep as an offering for wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.

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


simplify: And he denied it again. And a little after, they that stood by said again to Peter, Surely thou art one of them: for thou art a Galilean, and thy speech agreeth thereto.

But Peter again denied it.   Soon afterwards the bystanders again said to him: “You certainly are one of them; why you are a Galilean!”


simplify: He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.


rate difficulty: And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.

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


simplify: And the Levites: namely, Jeshua the son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel;

And the Levites: by name, Jeshua, the son of Azaniah, Binnui, of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,


rate difficulty: Would that ye would bear with me [in] a little folly; but indeed bear with me.

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


rate difficulty: Curse Meroz, saith the Angel of Jehovah; Curse, curse the inhabitants thereof; For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty.

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


rate difficulty: He that hath no rule over his own spirit is [as] a city broken down, without walls.


simplify: Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;


simplify: Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;

Now these words — ‘it was regarded as righteousness’ — were not written with reference to Abraham only;


rate difficulty: Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her.


rate difficulty: And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past ye sought for David to be king over you:

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


rate difficulty: If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

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


rate difficulty: The sword of the Lord is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

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


simplify: So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him, Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me.

So the chief captain let the young man go, saying to him, Do not say to anyone that you have given me word of these things.


rate difficulty: He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

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


simplify: And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

And when the time comes for you to go to rest with your fathers, I will put in your place your seed after you, the offspring of your body, and I will make his kingdom strong.


simplify: Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

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


simplify: The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth which were under his rule, and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and all its towns, saying,


simplify: And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

And Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God is troubling you.


simplify: These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.

It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.


simplify: And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.


simplify: and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.

And put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of the blood seven times before the Lord in front of the veil.


rate difficulty: We give thanks toGod always for you all, making mention of you at our prayers,

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


simplify: And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.

And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.


simplify: Each in the calling in which he was called--in this let him remain;

Let everyone remain in that condition of life in which they were when the call came to them.


rate difficulty: and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

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


simplify: And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.


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


simplify: That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.


simplify: If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.

But, if some revelation is made to another person as he sits there, the first speaker should stop.


simplify: Hushai said moreover, Thou knowest thy father and his men, that they are mighty men, and they are chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field; and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.

Hushai said further, You have knowledge of your father and his men, that they are men of war, and that their feelings are bitter, like those of a bear in the field whose young ones have been taken from her: and your father is a man of war, and will not take his night's rest with the people;


rate difficulty: Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.

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


simplify: But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

But the father said to his servants, Get out the first robe quickly, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet:


rate difficulty: And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.

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


simplify: Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.


simplify: But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you have grace in my eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your name.


rate difficulty: Pilate says to them, What then shall I do with Jesus, who is called Christ? They all say, Let him be crucified.


simplify: Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.


rate difficulty: I said, In the meridian of my days I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.


simplify: and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

By that we will know that we are on the side of the truth; and we will satisfy ourselves in God’s sight,


rate difficulty: so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

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


simplify: And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water.

Then Moses took Aaron and his sons; and after washing them with water,


simplify: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who comes with good news, who gives word of peace, saying that salvation is near; who says to Zion, Your God is ruling!


rate difficulty: And I will give you a kingdom as my Father has given one to me,


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take this staff in thy hand, with which thou shalt do the signs.

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


simplify: Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;


simplify: All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thee and to thy seed with thee.

All the lifted offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord, I have given to you and to your sons and to your daughters as a right for ever. This is an agreement made with salt before the Lord, to you and to your seed for ever.


simplify: And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy: and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.


simplify: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.


simplify: And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

And he had the house of the Lord and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned with fire;


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, concerning the prophets: Lo, I am causing them to eat wormwood, And have caused them to drink water of gall, For, from prophets of Jerusalem Hath profanity gone forth to all the land.

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


rate difficulty: And going away from Nazareth, he came and made his living-place in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the country of Zebulun and Naphtali:

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


rate difficulty: But Jonathan had not heard when his father adjured the people; and he put forth the end of his staff which was in his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.

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


rate difficulty: Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

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


simplify: Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;

Who is a liar, if not the person who rejects the truth that Jesus is the Christ? That person is the antichrist — the person who rejects the Father and the Son.


simplify: Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Therefore, you must also prepare, since it is just when you are least expecting him that the Son of Man will come.


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.


simplify: Wherefore now return, and go in peace, that thou displease not the lords of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

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


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

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Samuel did as the Lord said and came to Beth-lehem. And the responsible men of the town came out to him in fear and said, Do you come in peace?

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


simplify: I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.


rate difficulty: Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.

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


simplify: Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the Lord, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

And Cyrus the king got out the vessels of the house of the Lord which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from Jerusalem and put in the house of his gods;


simplify: Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.


simplify: Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

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


simplify: And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; that the third part of them should be darkened, and the day should not shine for the third part of it, and the night in like manner.

And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.


rate difficulty: if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, doing nothing that is wrong; he shall certainly live, he shall not die.

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


rate difficulty: And David overcame Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, when he went to make his power seen by the River.