simplify: Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.


simplify: And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

And he sent them out to be preachers of the kingdom of God, and to make well those who were ill.


rate difficulty: And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh spoke Joshua, saying,

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simplify: And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take an horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

And the watchman on the tower in Jezreel saw Jehu and his band coming, and said, I see a band of people. And Joram said, Send out a horseman to them, and let him say, Is it peace?


simplify: And they brought the tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches, his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets,

Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases;


rate difficulty: And they brought the lad alive, and were not a little comforted.

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


simplify: So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of Jehovah, to dwell in the land of Judah.

So Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, did not give ear to the order of the Lord that they were to go on living in the land of Judah.


rate difficulty: thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.

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


simplify: And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.

Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.


simplify: So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Jehovah with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

So David and all the men of Israel took up the ark of the Lord with cries of joy and sounding of horns.


simplify: And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,


simplify: Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

Yes, to me, who am less than the least of all Christ’s people, was this charge entrusted! — to tell the Gentiles the good news of the boundless wealth to be found in the Christ,


simplify: Put ye in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe: come, tread ye; for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is great.

Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.


rate difficulty: Your fathers--where <FI>are<Fi> they? And the prophets--to the age do they live?


rate difficulty: and at once began in the Synagogues to proclaim Jesus as the Son of God.


simplify: Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,

The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,


rate difficulty: Their tents and their flocks shall they take; they shall carry away for themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Terror on every side!

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


simplify: then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation unto the year of jubilee: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto Jehovah.

Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.


rate difficulty: When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

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


simplify: And the sixth hour having come, darkness came over the whole land till the ninth hour,

At midday, a darkness came over the whole country, lasting until three in the afternoon.


rate difficulty: And they smote all the cities round about Gerar, for the terror of Jehovah came upon them; and they spoiled all the cities, for there was very much spoil in them.


rate difficulty: For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.


simplify: And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.

After some stay, they were dismissed with kind farewells from the followers, and returned to those who had sent them.


rate difficulty: And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders;


rate difficulty: And also Judah is fought with in Jerusalem, And gathered hath been the force of all the nations round about, Gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

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


simplify: And the Lord shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:

And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.


rate difficulty: and he was calling upon him much, saying--`My little daughter is at the last extremity--that having come, thou mayest lay on her <FI>thy<Fi> hands, so that she may be saved, and she shall live;'

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the account that David his father had taken of them, and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

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


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

For where two or three have come together in my name, I am present with them.”


rate difficulty: And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

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


simplify: Kindness and truth preserve the king; And his throne is upholden by kindness.

Mercy and good faith keep the king safe, and the seat of his power is based on upright acts.


rate difficulty: Of sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren, two hundred.

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


rate difficulty: For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.


rate difficulty: And the land that was desolate shall be tilled, whereas it was a desolation in the sight of all that passed by.

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


rate difficulty: And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

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


rate difficulty: but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

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


simplify: Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?

And Peter went down to the men, and said, I am the man you are looking for: why have you come?


rate difficulty: in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,


rate difficulty: for the Levites left their suburbs and their possessions, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from exercising the priesthood to Jehovah;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight;

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


simplify: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design.


simplify: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

With his bow bent, he has made me the mark for his arrows.


rate difficulty: And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.

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


simplify: And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.


simplify: And the apostles said to the Lord, `Add to us faith;'

“Give us more faith,” said the apostles to the Master;


simplify: He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?

‘An enemy has done this,’ was the owner’s answer. ‘Do you wish us, then,’ they asked,’ to go and gather them together?’


simplify: Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a dresser of sycomore-trees:

Then Amos in answer said to Amaziah, I am no prophet, or one of the sons of the prophets; I am a herdman and one who takes care of sycamore-trees:


simplify: And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

Then the Lord came and said as before, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel made answer, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open.


rate difficulty: for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;


rate difficulty: and his allowance--a continual allowance--hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.

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


simplify: In Damascus the ethnarch of Aretas the king was watching the city of the Damascenes, wishing to seize me,

When I was in Damascus, the Governor under King Aretas had the gates of that city guarded, so as to arrest me,


simplify: And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me.


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


rate difficulty: And she came to the man ofGod to the mountain, and caught him by the feet; and Gehazi drew near to thrust her away; but the man ofGod said, Let her alone, for her soul is troubled within her, and Jehovah has hidden it from me, and has not told me.


rate difficulty: And they went out to see what had taken place, and they came to Jesus and saw the man out of whom the evil spirits had gone, seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, at the feet of Jesus; and fear came on them.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

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


simplify: And there were also women beholding from afar: among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;

And there were women watching from a distance: among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,


simplify: And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

yes, and I ask you, my true comrade, to help them, remembering that they toiled by my side in spreading the good news; and so, too, did Clement and my other fellow workers, whose names are ‘in the book of life.’


simplify: And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.

And they were overcome, and there was no more place for them in heaven.


rate difficulty: Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be their arm every morning, yea, our salvation in the time of trouble.

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


rate difficulty: At that time Berodach–baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Ye shall not steal, and ye shall not deal falsely, and ye shall not lie one to another.

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


rate difficulty: And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters,   saith the Lord Almighty.

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


simplify: And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.


simplify: How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?


simplify: For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah brought back the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea.

For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.


rate difficulty: Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;

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


rate difficulty: and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch who is appointed over the men of war, and five men of those seeing the king's face who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who are found in the city,

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


rate difficulty: And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

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


simplify: And her husband heard it, and held his peace at her, and disallowed her not: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.

And her husband, hearing of it, said nothing to her and did not put a stop to it, then all her oaths and every undertaking she gave will have force.


simplify: And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

And before the men went to rest, she came up to them on the roof,


simplify: But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

But Samuel did the work of the Lord's house, while he was a child, dressed in a linen ephod.


rate difficulty: And Amasa had taken no notice of the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him with it in the belly and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. And Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.

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


simplify: And the upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns.

And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high.


rate difficulty: And he that presented his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: for I wish all men to be even as I myself <FI>am<Fi> ; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.


rate difficulty: And after looking at it, if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is turned white, then the priest will say that the man is unclean: it is the leper's disease, it has come out in the bad place.


rate difficulty: They are joined each to its fellow; they stick together, and cannot be sundered.


simplify: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered.


rate difficulty: But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

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


simplify: and if any one is hungry, at home let him eat, that to judgment ye may not come together; and the rest, whenever I may come, I shall arrange.

If anyone is hungry, let them eat at home, so that your meetings may not bring a judgment on you. The other details I will settle when I come.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.

And when he gave orders to the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the winged ones, then he went in and took his place at the side of a wheel.


simplify: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field, which a person found and hid again, and then, in their delight, went and sold everything that they had, and bought that field.


simplify: and bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.


rate difficulty: so that, the death indeed in us doth work, and the life in you.

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


rate difficulty: And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel <FI>are<Fi> on thee, to declare to them who doth sit on the throne of my lord the king after him;

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


simplify: And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:


simplify: beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us of his resurrection.

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.


simplify: Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armorbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

Zelek the Ammonite, and Naharai the Berothite, the servant who had the care of the arms of Joab, the son of Zeruiah;


rate difficulty: And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;

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


simplify: And it came to pass after many days, when Jehovah had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;

Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,


rate difficulty: And if the daughter of a priest makes herself common and by her loose behaviour puts shame on her father, let her be burned with fire.

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


simplify: Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.


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

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


rate difficulty: When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Show a wonder for you; then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.

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


rate difficulty: So all that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear, within closed doors, will be proclaimed on the housetops.

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


simplify: The burden of the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the South sweep through, it cometh from the wilderness, from a terrible land.

The word about the waste land. As storm-winds in the South go rushing through, it comes from the waste land, from the land greatly to be feared.


simplify: Knowest thou the ordinances of the heavens? Canst thou establish the dominion thereof in the earth?

Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?


simplify: and I went away unto the messenger, saying to him, `Give me the little scroll;' and he saith to me, `Take, and eat it up, and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet--as honey.'

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little book. And he said ‘Take it, and eat it. It will be bitter to your stomach, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’


simplify: But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: “Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!”


rate difficulty: Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.

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


rate difficulty: Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel.

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


simplify: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s first-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun;

Now Jacob had twelve sons: the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob's first son, and Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;


rate difficulty: who against hope believed in hope to his becoming father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be:

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


rate difficulty: He that overcomes, to him will I give to sit with me in my throne; as I also have overcome, and have sat down with my Father in his throne.


simplify: Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:


simplify: Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?

Is not this among my secrets, kept safe in my store-house?


simplify: and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

And they all had baptism from Moses in the cloud and in the sea;


simplify: and the centurion having heard, having gone near to the chief captain, told, saying, `Take heed what thou art about to do, for this man is a Roman;'

On hearing this, the captain went and reported it to the commanding officer. “Do you know what you are doing?” he said. “This man is a Roman citizen.”


simplify: Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.

Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have made all the house of the Lord clean, as well as the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the table for the holy bread, with all its vessels.


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.


simplify: And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord.

Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.


rate difficulty: And the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

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


rate difficulty: And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.


rate difficulty: and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that after three days he called together those that were the chief of the Jews: and when they were come together, he said unto them, I, brethren, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans:

Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.


simplify: And, having called them near, in similes he said to them, `How is the Adversary able to cast out the Adversary?

So Jesus called them to him, and answered them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan?


rate difficulty: Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

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


rate difficulty: And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.


simplify: But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.

But if you are not able to give me the answer, then you will have to give me thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing. And they said to him, Put your hard question and let us see what it is.


rate difficulty: Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it.

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


rate difficulty: O seed of Israel, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

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


simplify: And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.

And he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to him: and Israel gave worship on the bed's head.


simplify: And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served not him.

And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the Lord and were servants to him no longer.


simplify: And at meal-time Boaz said unto her, Come hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left thereof.

And at meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and take some of the bread, and put your bit into the wine. And she took her seat among the grain-cutters: and he gave her dry grain, and she took it, and there was more than enough for her meal.


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

And the angel in answer said to her, The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will come to rest on you, and so that which will come to birth will be named holy, Son of God.


rate difficulty: This, then, is my reason for urging you to come to see me and talk with me; because it is for the sake of the hope of Israel that I am here in chains.”

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


rate difficulty: But to the rest say I, not the Lord: If any brother hath an unbelieving wife, and she is content to dwell with him, let him not leave her.

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


rate difficulty: And journeying by ship from Tyre we came to Ptolemais; and there we had talk with the brothers and were with them for one day.


simplify: She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.

I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty years, that Absalom saith unto the king, `Let me go, I pray thee, and I complete my vow, that I vowed to Jehovah in Hebron,

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


rate difficulty: But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.


simplify: And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

And the Lord came down in a pillar of cloud, taking his place at the door of the Tent, and made Aaron and Miriam come before him.


rate difficulty: And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, dieth, and she is buried at the lower part of Bethel, under the oak, and he calleth its name `Oak of weeping.'

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


simplify: Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:


rate difficulty: I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

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


simplify: Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.


simplify: And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

I will let the limits of your land be from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the waste land to the river Euphrates: for I will give the people of those lands into your power; and you will send them out before you.


simplify: And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, then they forsook their cities, and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.


rate difficulty: SoGod subdued on that day Jabin king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

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


simplify: And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa.

And fear came on all those who were living round about them: and there was much talk about all these things in all the hill-country of Judaea.


rate difficulty: And I have cast you from before My face, As I have cast out all your brethren, The whole seed of Ephraim.


simplify: And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

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


simplify: And Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

Then Saul said to his servants who were there about him, Give ear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give to every one of you fields and vine-gardens, will he make you all captains of hundreds and captains of thousands;


simplify: Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Jehovah cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

Let the horn be sounded in Zion, and a war-cry in my holy mountain; let all the people of the land be troubled: for the day of the Lord is coming;


simplify: Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith?

Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick. And the Lord said to him, How?


simplify: but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin:

But whoever says evil things against the Holy Spirit will never have forgiveness, but the evil he has done will be with him for ever:


simplify: The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers: thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships;


rate difficulty: This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.


rate difficulty: He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Jehovah, the God of Israel, which he spake by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.

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


simplify: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

but, if they are of divine origin, you will be powerless to put an end to them — or else you may find yourselves fighting against God!”


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law — justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first.


simplify: And he strictly charged them that they may tell no one about it,

On which Jesus charged them not to say this about him to anyone.


simplify: Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.


simplify: Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; they shall stumble, and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

Let not the quick-footed go in flight, or the man of war get away; on the north, by the river Euphrates, they are slipping and falling.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for a wave-offering unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.


simplify: In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;


rate difficulty: The best of them is as a briar; the most upright, [worse] than a thorn-fence. The day of thy watchmen, thy visitation is come; now shall be their perplexity.

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


simplify: And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away.


rate difficulty: I am writing to you, fathers, because you have knowledge of him who was from the first. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the Evil One. I have sent a letter to you, children, because you have knowledge of the Father.

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


rate difficulty: An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way <FI>are<Fi> His delight.

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


rate difficulty: And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth–hattaavah, ye provoked the Lord to wrath.

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


rate difficulty: And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

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


rate difficulty: And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

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


simplify: And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.


rate difficulty: And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had charged him.

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


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

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,


rate difficulty: When they heard this, they went at daybreak into the Temple Courts, and began to teach. The high priest and his party, on their arrival, summoned the High Council, including all the leaders of the people among the Israelites, and sent to the jail to fetch the apostles.

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


simplify: Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.


simplify: For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

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


rate difficulty: He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

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


simplify: But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.


rate difficulty: The anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.


simplify: Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast put away the Asheroth out of the land, and hast set thy heart to seek God.

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.


rate difficulty: Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?


rate difficulty: But some of the Pharisees said to them, Why do ye what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

And it will be, that when you say all these words to the people, then they will say to you, Why has the Lord done all this evil against us? what is our wrongdoing and what is our sin which we have done against the Lord our God?


simplify: Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it: and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.

Then Hazael, king of Aram, went up against Gath and took it; and his purpose was to go up to Jerusalem.


simplify: And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.


simplify: And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.


simplify: He measured also the porch of the gate within, one reed.

And he took the measure of the covered way of the doorway inside,


rate difficulty: Blessed are you when people insult you, and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil lies about you because of me.


simplify: And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.

And they sent out a number of evil spirits, and put oil on a great number who were ill, and made them well.


rate difficulty: Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord’s will is.

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


simplify: Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?


rate difficulty: And we took all his cities at that time: there was not a town which we took not from them, sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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


rate difficulty: which Jehovah commanded to be given them by the children of Israel in the day that he anointed them: [it is] an everlasting statute, throughout their generations.


rate difficulty: And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind.

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


rate difficulty: When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,


simplify: I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

It was a great joy to me to find the lives of some of your children guided by the truth, in obedience to the command that we received from the Father.


simplify: But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

But some Jews came to that place from Antioch and Iconium, and got control over the people; and after stoning Paul, they had him pulled out of the town, taking him for dead.


simplify: But no one can enter into the house of the strong man, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

But no one is able to go into the house of the strong man and take his goods, without first putting cords round the strong man, and then he will take his goods.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and that Jehovah thyGod redeemed thee from thence; therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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


simplify: And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was master of the music: he gave directions about the song, because he was expert.


rate difficulty: Therefore let us not sleep as others do. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled.


simplify: And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb--the wife,'

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, and were laden with the seven last curses, came and spoke to me. ‘Come here,’ he said, ‘and I will show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb.’


simplify: and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow before God,

At this the twenty-four councillors, who were seated on their thrones before God, prostrated themselves on their faces and worshiped Him,


simplify: And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph’s son?

All who were present spoke well of him, and were astonished at the beautiful words that fell from his lips. “Is not he Joseph’s son?” they asked.


rate difficulty: In those days and in that time, says the Lord, when the evil-doing of Israel is looked for, there will be nothing; and in Judah no sins will be seen: for I will have forgiveness for those whom I will keep safe.


rate difficulty: But seeing Jesus from afar off, he ran and did him homage,


rate difficulty: And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a common [place] for the city, for dwellings and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst of it.

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


simplify: For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Unto me they listened, and waited, and kept silence for my counsel:

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


rate difficulty: And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles.


simplify: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?


simplify: Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.

Put up a pillar for Moab, for she will come to a complete end: and her towns will become a waste, without anyone living in them.


simplify: for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in;

For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;


rate difficulty: And the staves thereof shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, in bearing it.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come unto this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

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


simplify: And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves into Harmon, saith Jehovah.

And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.


simplify: Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake.

Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;


simplify: Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.


rate difficulty: and having taken it down, he wrapped it in fine linen, and placed it in a tomb hewn out, where no one was yet laid.

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


rate difficulty: For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.

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


rate difficulty: From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.


simplify: As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.


rate difficulty: Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.


rate difficulty: and lo, Elisabeth, thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month to her who was called barren;

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


simplify: And her prophets have daubed for them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, when Jehovah hath not spoken.

And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.


simplify: Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;


simplify: And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of exhortation), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas (the sense of which is, Son of comfort), a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,


rate difficulty: for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

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


simplify: Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.

And getting the twelve together, he gave them power and authority over all evil spirits and over diseases, to make them well.


simplify: They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, dost thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?

So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?


rate difficulty: He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

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


simplify: But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.


simplify: Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

Against him came up Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant and sent him offerings.


rate difficulty: And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.

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


rate difficulty: All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!

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


simplify: And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes,

They came to the other side of the Sea — the country of the Gerasenes;


rate difficulty: So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.

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


rate difficulty: And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: and their present, flour mixed with oil, three-tenth deals to the one bullock, two-tenth deals to the one ram,

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.


simplify: Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.


simplify: And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)


rate difficulty: her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before Jehovah: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

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


simplify: Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.

Is it not clear to you that Abner, the son of Ner, came with deceit to get knowledge of your going out and your coming in and of all you are doing?


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take fine wheaten flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof; each cake shall be of two tenths.

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


simplify: Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?

See Israel after the flesh: do not those who take as food the offerings of the altar take a part in the altar?


simplify: And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me,

And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Say to the man who sent you to me,


simplify: He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.


simplify: And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.


rate difficulty: And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens.

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


rate difficulty: the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law.

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


rate difficulty: twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they rebelled.

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


simplify: For the Lord of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.

For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.


simplify: These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast.

These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.


rate difficulty: With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame--reproach.

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


rate difficulty: And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.


simplify: And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

Indeed, the person who, owing to his birth, remains uncircumcised, and yet scrupulously obeys the law, will condemn you, who, for all your written law and your circumcision, are yet a breaker of the law.


rate difficulty: Eliel, and Obed, and Jaasiel the Mesobaite.

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


simplify: Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.


simplify: And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord? but it shall not prosper.

And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?


simplify: And they went to another village.


simplify: And the sons of Meshelemiah were, Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the oldest, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,


rate difficulty: And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

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


rate difficulty: And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.

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


simplify: And he measured the length of the building over against the separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

And he took the measure of the building in front of the separate place which was at the back of it, and the pillared walks on one side and on the other side; they were a hundred cubits long; and the Temple and the inner part and its outer covered way were covered in;


rate difficulty: A man taking a portion above his neighbour, Spreadeth a net for his own steps.

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


rate difficulty: But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.


rate difficulty: So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

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


rate difficulty: Also Judah took Gaza with the border thereof, and Ashkelon with the border thereof, and Ekron with the border thereof.

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


simplify: There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;


rate difficulty: And I establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood, and henceforth there shall be no flood to destroy the earth.

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


simplify: He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

He is your God, the God of your praise, your God who has done for you all these works of power which your eyes have seen.


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

It is through him that, by reason of our faith, we have obtained admission to that place in God’s favor in which we not stand. So let us exult in our hope of attaining God’s glorious ideal.


simplify: And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:

And he will put to death the lamb of the offering for wrongdoing and the priest will take some of the blood of the offering for wrongdoing and put it on the point of the right ear of him who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot;


simplify: And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.

And they took him to him: and when he saw him, the spirit in him straight away became violent; and he went down on the earth, rolling about and streaming at the lips.


rate difficulty: The overseer then must be irreproachable, husband of one wife, sober, discreet, decorous, hospitable, apt to teach;

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


simplify: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.

Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.


simplify: While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?

While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?


simplify: And Ishbi–benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.


simplify: And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they made;

Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;


rate difficulty: God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place:

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


simplify: Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

And he said to me, These are the boiling-rooms, where the offering of the people is cooked by the servants of the house.


rate difficulty: and he sendeth unto him messengers, saying, `What--to me and to thee, O king of Judah? not against thee do I come to-day, but unto the house with which I have war, and God said to haste me; cease for thee from God who <FI>is<Fi> with me, and He doth not destroy thee.'

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then the tribe of Naphtali: and the captain of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief.


rate difficulty: Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;

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


simplify: And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.

And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.


simplify: And Jesus immediately, having heard the word that is spoken, saith to the chief of the synagogue, `Be not afraid, only believe.'

But Jesus, overhearing what they were saying, said to the synagogue leader: “Do not be afraid; only have faith.”


simplify: He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;


simplify: And it came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the breasts which thou didst suck.

And it came about that when he said these things, a certain woman among the people said in a loud voice, Happy is the body which gave you birth, and the breasts from which you took milk.


simplify: Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.


simplify: And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.


rate difficulty: For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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


simplify: And they helped David against the band of rovers: for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the host.

And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army.


simplify: I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

I give praise to God that I am able to make use of tongues more than you all:


rate difficulty: For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

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


rate difficulty: They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.

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


simplify: The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,

And the brass altar, with its network of brass, and its rods and all its vessels, and the washing-vessel and its base;


simplify: And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,

And the disciples went and did as Jesus had given them orders,


rate difficulty: For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

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


simplify: He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.


simplify: Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.


rate difficulty: And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

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


simplify: And he saith unto them, Be not amazed: ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who hath been crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold, the place where they laid him!

And he said to them, Do not be troubled: you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been put to death on the cross; he has come back from the dead; he is not here: see, the place where they put him!


simplify: Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.


simplify: For I say unto you, that this which is written must be fulfilled in me, And he was reckoned with transgressors: for that which concerneth me hath fulfilment.

For I say to you that these words will be put into effect in me, And he was numbered among the evil-doers: for what has been said in the Writings about me has an end.


rate difficulty: Let him who has ears hear.

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


rate difficulty: Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols.

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


simplify: In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

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


simplify: But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.


simplify: These, indeed, then, having been sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, thence also they sailed to Cyprus,

Barnabas and Saul, sent on this mission, as they were, by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there sailed to Cyprus.


rate difficulty: for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

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


rate difficulty: Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:

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


rate difficulty: and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make atonement for him before Jehovah.

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


simplify: but if by the finger of God I cast forth the demons, then come unawares upon you did the reign of God.

But, if it is by the hand of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God must already be upon you.


simplify: And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little book. And he said ‘Take it, and eat it. It will be bitter to your stomach, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’


rate difficulty: For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;


simplify: And when they saw him, they were astonished; and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I sought thee sorrowing.

And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow.


simplify: But the multitudes perceiving it followed him: and he welcomed them, and spake to them of the kingdom of God, and them that had need of healing he cured.

But the people, getting news of it, went after him: and he was pleased to see them, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God, and made those well who were in need of it.


simplify: And Azariah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;

And Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God;


rate difficulty: The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.


rate difficulty: how he met thee on the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all the feeble that lagged behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary, and he feared notGod.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.

But I will keep safe seven thousand in Israel, all those whose knees have not been bent to Baal, and whose mouths have given him no kisses.


simplify: One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


rate difficulty: And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the Most HighGod, possessor of heavens and earth.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Jehovah.


simplify: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.


rate difficulty: and causeth the lamps to go up before Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

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


simplify: he who is having ears to hear--let him hear.


simplify: And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he brake down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.


rate difficulty: Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

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


simplify: Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.

Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.


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

And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,


simplify: Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?


simplify: And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not labored, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.


rate difficulty: Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that neither thou nor thy fathers have known, and there shalt thou serve othergods, wood and stone.

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


rate difficulty: and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him.

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


rate difficulty: A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise.

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


simplify: Be of good courage, and let us play the man for our people, and for the cities of our God: and Jehovah do that which seemeth him good.

Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God, and may the Lord do what seems good to him.


rate difficulty: Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother’s way, or an occasion of falling.

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


simplify: Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

But branches, you will say, were broken off, so that I might be grafted in.


simplify: And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


simplify: And this she did for many days. But Paul, being sore troubled, turned and said to the spirit, I charge thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.

And this she did on a number of days. But Paul was greatly troubled and, turning, said to the spirit, I give you orders in the name of Jesus Christ, to come out of her. And it came out that very hour.


simplify: But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.


simplify: And Jehovah said furthermore unto him, Put now thy hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, as white as snow.

Then the Lord said to him again, Put your hand inside your clothing. And he put his hand inside his robe: and when he took it out it was like the hand of a leper, as white as snow.


rate difficulty: That, I say, is why God abandoned them to degrading passions. Even the women among them perverted the natural use of their bodies to the unnatural;

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


rate difficulty: And if I, by Beelzebul, send out evil spirits, by whose help do your sons send them out? so let them be your judges.

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


simplify: and they were astonished at his teaching; for his word was with authority.

And they were surprised at his teaching, for his word was with authority.


rate difficulty: And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok and unto the Jordan; and now restore it peaceably.

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


rate difficulty: Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes,

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


simplify: Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Every man of the house of Israel that taketh his idols into his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I Jehovah will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;


rate difficulty: And while we were waiting there for some days, a certain prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judaea.


simplify: And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.


simplify: For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.


simplify: The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.

The living, the living man, he will give you praise, as I do this day: the father will give the story of your mercy to his children.


rate difficulty: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

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


rate difficulty: And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, in that ye make me odious among the inhabitants of the land — among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and I am few men in number, and they will gather themselves against me and smite me, and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

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


simplify: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,


rate difficulty: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

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


rate difficulty: One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


simplify: And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was on Jesus, so that he could work cures.)


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

and every island vanished, and the mountains disappeared.


simplify: But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

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


rate difficulty: And going away, he prayed again, saying the same thing.

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


simplify: Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Let your forbearing spirit be plain to everyone. The Lord is near.


rate difficulty: And it is declared to Tamar, saying, `Lo, thy husband's father is going up to Timnath to shear his flock;'

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord, Thy bruise is incurable, and thy wound is grievous.

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


simplify: And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.


simplify: but he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.


simplify: King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.


simplify: Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.

Who gave himself as an offering for all; witness of which was to be given at the right time;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.


rate difficulty: And after the voice was gone they saw that Jesus was by himself. And they kept quiet, and said nothing at that time to anyone of the things which they had seen.

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


rate difficulty: and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

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


simplify: He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.


simplify: And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?

And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.


simplify: And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;


rate difficulty: and now, sons of Judah and Jerusalem ye are saying to subdue for men-servants and for maid-servants to you; but are there not with you causes of guilt before Jehovah your God?

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


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


rate difficulty: And when he opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, `Come and behold!'

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


rate difficulty: The prophet that prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that Jehovah hath truly sent him.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahishar <FI>is<Fi> over the household, and Adoniram son of Abda <FI>is<Fi> over the tribute.

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