rate difficulty: Whatever town or village you visit, find out who is worthy in that place, and remain there until you leave.

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simplify: And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

And any clothing or skin on which the seed comes is to be washed with water and be unclean till evening.


simplify: For the son dishonoreth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

For the son puts shame on his father, the daughter goes against her mother and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man's haters are those of his family.


simplify: `Known from the ages to God are all His works;

Says the Lord, as he does these things, foreknown from of old.’


rate difficulty: Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

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


simplify: And on the morrow we departed, and came unto Cæsarea: and entering into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, we abode with him.

And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.


rate difficulty: And Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

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


simplify: The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.

The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.


rate difficulty: And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:

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


simplify: Howbeit the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

But the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.


simplify: and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,

So, immediately after Paul had seen the vision, we looked for an opportunity to cross over to Macedonia, concluding that God had summoned us to tell the good news to the people there.


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath.

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


simplify: They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.


rate difficulty: They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner.

And the Lord said, How may Ahab, king of Israel, be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.


simplify: And for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

And for the second side of the House, on the north, they made twenty boards,


rate difficulty: “The Emperor’s,” they said; and Jesus replied: “Well then, pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”

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


simplify: Setting sail therefore from Troas, we made a straight course to Samothrace, and the day following to Neapolis;

So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;


simplify: and thence they sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

And from there they went by ship to Antioch, where they had been handed over to the grace of God for the work which they had not done.


simplify: And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.


simplify: And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.


rate difficulty: and they have taken for the unclean person of the ashes of the burning of the <FI>cleansing<Fi> , and he hath put upon it running water unto a vessel;

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


rate difficulty: and saith, `When ye cause the Hebrew women to bear, and have looked on the children; if it <FI>is<Fi> a son--then ye have put him to death; and if it <FI>is<Fi> a daughter--then she hath lived.'

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


rate difficulty: And there was a day when the sons ofGod came to present themselves before Jehovah, and Satan also came among them to present himself before Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.

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


rate difficulty: And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting. And he said, I have an errand to thee, captain. And Jehu said, To which of all of us? And he said, To thee, captain.


rate difficulty: He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

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


simplify: And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, will I require the life of man.

And for your blood, which is your life, will I take payment; from every beast I will take it, and from every man will I take payment for the blood of his brother-man.


rate difficulty: In the fifth year of Joram, the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Jehoram, the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became king.

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


rate difficulty: He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;


simplify: then Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the midst of the people.

Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.


rate difficulty: this, therefore, being done, the others also in the island having infirmities were coming and were healed;


simplify: And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow,

And, getting up from prayer, he came to the disciples, and saw that they were sleeping for sorrow.


simplify: And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his several ability; and he went on his journey.

And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey.


rate difficulty: from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.


rate difficulty: Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

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


simplify: But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.

But Peter said, I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up on your feet.


rate difficulty: so we, by our union in Christ, many though we are, form but one body, and individually we are related one to another as its parts.


simplify: But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir: come, let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

But, on seeing him, the tenants consulted with one another. ‘Here is the heir!’ they said. ‘Let us kill him, and then the inheritance will become ours.’


simplify: And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.


rate difficulty: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,


simplify: Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?


simplify: These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.

These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.


simplify: And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And there came a messenger, and told him, saying, They have brought the heads of the king’s sons. And he said, Lay ye them in two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning.

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


rate difficulty: (for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron) —

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


rate difficulty: And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all:

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


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came to me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething-pot, and its face is from the north.

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


rate difficulty: And Ehud had escaped while they lingered, and passed beyond the graven images, and escaped to Seirah.

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


simplify: For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they be yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, none shall return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:


simplify: So shall they fear the name of Jehovah from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Jehovah driveth.

So they will see the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the east: for he will come like a rushing stream, forced on by a wind of the Lord.


simplify: All the brethren salute you. Salute one another with a holy kiss.

All the brothers send their love to you. Give one another a holy kiss.


rate difficulty: But if he thrust him suddenly without enmity, or have cast upon him any thing without laying of wait,

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


rate difficulty: Another parable set he before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field:

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


rate difficulty: and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun; and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

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


rate difficulty: And the first went, and poured out his bowl into the earth; and it became a noisome and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and that worshipped his image.


simplify: The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah, their sister.


rate difficulty: And Jehoram son of Ahab hath reigned over Israel, in Samaria, in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigneth twelve years,

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


simplify: When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,


simplify: But if we shall say, Of men; they feared the people: for all men counted John, that he was a prophet indeed.

But if we say, From men--they were in fear of the people, because all took John to be truly a prophet.


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

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


rate difficulty: Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.

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


rate difficulty: and he sendeth messengers unto Balaam son of Beor, to Pethor, which <FI>is<Fi> by the River of the land of the sons of his people, to call for him, saying, `Lo, a people hath come out of Egypt; lo, it hath covered the eye of the land, and it is abiding over-against me;

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


rate difficulty: And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Enoch liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Methuselah.

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


simplify: because all flesh <FI>is<Fi> as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

For —  ‘All earthly life is but as grass, and all its splendor as the flower of grass. The grass fades, its flower falls,


rate difficulty: That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;

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


simplify: But the angel of Jehovah did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Jehovah.

But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord.


simplify: And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

Now there was a great herd of pigs in that place, getting food on the mountain: and the evil spirits made a request to him that he would let them go into the pigs, and he let them.


simplify: But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

But the man who was ill-treating his fellow workman pushed Moses aside saying — ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?


simplify: And Jonathan said unto David, Jehovah, the God of Israel, be witness: when I have sounded my father about this time to-morrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send unto thee, and disclose it unto thee?

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


rate difficulty: and in the fourth year all its fruit is holy--praises for Jehovah.


simplify: And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

And the Philistine came nearer to David; and the man who had his body-cover went before him.


simplify: Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?


rate difficulty: And they came and besieged him in Abel-Beth-Maacah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it was raised in the trench; and all the people that were with Joab sapped the wall, to throw it down.

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


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

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


simplify: My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.


simplify: which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body <FI>is<Fi> of the Christ;

These things are only the shadow of what is to come; the substance is in the Christ.


simplify: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.

Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you.


rate difficulty: in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, [the] word ofGod came upon John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;

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


simplify: And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come in hither. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.

And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.


simplify: Sing, O ye heavens, for Jehovah hath done it; shout, ye lower parts of the earth; break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for Jehovah hath redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.


simplify: Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.


rate difficulty: But Crispus the ruler of the synagogue believed in the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing, believed, and were baptised.

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


rate difficulty: and having discovered Cyprus, and having left it on the left, we were sailing to Syria, and did land at Tyre, for there was the ship discharging the lading.

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


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


simplify: And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

They were all utterly amazed and bewildered.   “What does it mean?” they asked one another.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah saith unto David my father, Because that it hath been with thy heart to build a house for My name, thou hast done well that it hath been with thy heart;

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


simplify: This is that Moses, who said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.

This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah against all mine evil neighbors, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: Behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.


simplify: And he spake this parable unto them, saying,


rate difficulty: And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabtah and Raamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?

And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?


rate difficulty: There was at that time in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, a righteous and devout man, who lived in constant expectation of the Consolation of Israel, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

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


simplify: For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,


simplify: Now it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the king, even ten men with him, came unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they did eat bread together in Mizpah.

Now it came about in the seventh month that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the king's seed, having with him ten men, came to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, in Mizpah; and they had a meal together in Mizpah.


simplify: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying, `I will open in similes my mouth, I will utter things having been hidden from the foundation of the world.'

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet — ‘I will speak to them in parables; I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world.’


simplify: And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

And when the child was old enough to be taken from the breast, Abraham made a great feast.


rate difficulty: But as touching Apollos the brother, I besought him much to come unto you with the brethren: and it was not at all his will to come now; but he will come when he shall have opportunity.

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


simplify: And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.


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

And they had no saviour, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with Aram; and it was in the valley which is the property of Beth-rehob. And building up the town again they took it for their living-place.


rate difficulty: Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

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


rate difficulty: But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

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


simplify: And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.

And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

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


simplify: And from thence they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.


simplify: for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

Do not be anxious about anything; but under all circumstances, by prayer and entreaty joined with thanksgiving, make your needs known to God.


rate difficulty: and having been freed from the sin, ye became servants to the righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?

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


rate difficulty: Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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


rate difficulty: And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;

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


simplify: She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

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


simplify: Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word:

Now you are letting your servant go in peace, O Lord, as you have said;


simplify: And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

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


simplify: And they remembered his words,

And his words came back into their minds,


simplify: He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.

He was the builder of Elath, which he got back for Judah after the death of the king.


simplify: And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

And if he gives a lamb as his sin-offering, let it be a female without any mark;


rate difficulty: And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.


rate difficulty: I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

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


rate difficulty: But the angel of the Lord said to him, Why are you questioning me about my name, seeing that it is a wonder?

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


simplify: Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Symeon has given an account of how God was first pleased to take from among the Gentiles a people for himself.


rate difficulty: and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,


simplify: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.


simplify: And it was so, that, when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

And it came about, that when he went away from Samuel, God gave him a changed heart: and all those signs took place that day.


rate difficulty: Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,

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


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 the Lord. 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.


simplify: And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it.

With many such parables Jesus used to speak to the people of his message, as far as they were able to receive it;


rate difficulty: The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’housesof Ladan.

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


simplify: Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind;


rate difficulty: And the priest shall offer the one as a sin-offering, and the other as a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the flux of her uncleanness.

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


simplify: Now the passage of the scripture which he was reading was this,  He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:

Now the place in the book where he was reading was this: He was taken, like a sheep, to be put to death; and as a lamb is quiet when its wool is being cut, so he made no sound:


simplify: and the demons having gone forth from the man, did enter into the swine, and the herd rushed down the steep to the lake, and were choked.

They came out from the man and took possession of the pigs; and the drove rushed down the steep slope into the lake and were drowned.


rate difficulty: Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one--the son of her womb? Yea, these forget--but I--I forget not thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: (that still my soul had sought, and I had not found), One man, a teacher, I have found, and a woman among all these I have not found.

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


simplify: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.


simplify: Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.

So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.


simplify: For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.

For be certain that on the day when you go out and go over the stream Kidron, death will overtake you: and your blood will be on your head.


simplify: And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.

for they did not venture to question him any further.


rate difficulty: And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave much money unto the soldiers,

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

For this reason the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Jonadab, the son of Rechab, will never be without a man to take his place before me.


simplify: And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there.


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

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


simplify: Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.


rate difficulty: For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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


simplify: But Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?


rate difficulty: And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?

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


simplify: And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

And he was very sad in spirit, and said, Why is this generation looking for a sign? truly, I say to you, No sign will be given to this generation.


simplify: For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, Bless ye Jehovah.

Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord.


simplify: And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah:

And the priest is to take one of the male lambs and give it as an offering for wrongdoing, and the log of oil, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord;


rate difficulty: Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.

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rate difficulty: if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, [to see] if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.

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


simplify: But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal.

But the people took some of their goods, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which were put to the curse, to make an offering of them to the Lord your God in Gilgal.


rate difficulty: And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.

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


rate difficulty: which some professing have erred concerning the faith.  Grace be with you.

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


simplify: With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.

With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.


simplify: For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

For the kingdom of heaven is like an employer who went out in the early morning to hire laborers for his vineyards.


simplify: Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.


simplify: Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants; for I swear by Jehovah, if thou go not forth, there will not tarry a man with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that hath befallen thee from thy youth until now.

So get up now, and go out and say some kind words to your servants; for, by the Lord, I give you my oath, that if you do not go out, not one of them will keep with you tonight; and that will be worse for you than all the evil which has overtaken you from your earliest years.


rate difficulty: 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;

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


simplify: But Jehovah sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

And the Lord sent out a great wind on to the sea and there was a violent storm in the sea, so that the ship seemed in danger of being broken.


simplify: And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled: for he shall consecrate you seven days.

And you are not to go out from the door of the Tent of meeting for seven days, till the days for making you priest are ended; for this will be the work of seven days.


simplify: And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

And he made him take his seat in the second of his carriages; and they went before him crying, Make way! So he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: For if I grieve you, who also [is] it that gladdens me, if not he that is grieved through me?


rate difficulty: How do I give thee up, O Ephraim? Do I deliver thee up, O Israel? How do I make thee as Admah? Do I set thee as Zeboim? Turned in Me is My heart, kindled together have been My repentings.

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


rate difficulty: But I say unto you of a truth, There are some of those standing here who shall not taste death until they shall have seen the kingdom ofGod.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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


rate difficulty: At that time brought is a present to Jehovah of Hosts, A nation drawn out and peeled. Even of a people fearful from the beginning hitherto, A nation meting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled, Unto the place of the name of Jehovah of Hosts--mount Zion!'

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


rate difficulty: look ye out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.

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


rate difficulty: thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and I place there the ark, where <FI>is<Fi> the covenant of Jehovah that He made with the sons of Israel.'

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


rate difficulty: and saith, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.

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


simplify: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.


rate difficulty: And Miriam is shut out at the outside of the camp seven days, and the people hath not journeyed till Miriam is gathered;

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


rate difficulty: So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.


rate difficulty: And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

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


simplify: And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.


simplify: And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father unclothed, and gave news of it to his two brothers outside.


rate difficulty: And I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights: and Jehovah hearkened unto me that time also; Jehovah would not destroy thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.

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


rate difficulty: And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, who is to come.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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


simplify: And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;


simplify: If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;


simplify: And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)


rate difficulty: And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

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


rate difficulty: Devoured have strangers his power, And he hath not known, Also old age hath sprinkled <FI>itself<Fi> on him, And he hath not known.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.


simplify: And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?


simplify: In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.


simplify: And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.

And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes.


simplify: When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up beside them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

When these went on, the others went; and when these came to rest, the others came to rest; and when these were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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


simplify: Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: be they better than these kingdoms? or their border greater than your border?

Go on to Calneh and see; and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are you better than these kingdoms? or is your land wider than theirs?


simplify: And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself; and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.


simplify: Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.

Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.


rate difficulty: for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

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


simplify: He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword; and Jehovah wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take spoil.

He was with David and went on fighting the Philistines till his hand became tired and stiff from gripping his sword: and that day the Lord gave a great salvation, and the people came back after him only to take the goods of the Philistines.


simplify: and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.

And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;


simplify: Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.


rate difficulty: for they did refresh my spirit and yours; acknowledge ye, therefore, those who <FI>are<Fi> such.

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


rate difficulty: Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of thy hand: in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these did they trade with thee.

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


simplify: and in Ziklag, and in Meconah and in the towns thereof,

And in Ziklag, and in Meconah and its daughter-towns,


simplify: And when Jesus heard it, he said unto him, One thing thou lackest yet: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.


simplify: So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

So that not only is this business of ours likely to fall into discredit, but there is the further danger that the Temple of the great Goddess Artemis will be thought nothing of, and that she herself will be deprived of her splendor — though all Roman Asia and the whole world worship her.”


simplify: and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars.

And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars.


rate difficulty: Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:

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


rate difficulty: Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering;

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


simplify: They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

For they have all come with offerings to a people of no use to them, in whom is no help or profit, but only shame and a bad name.


simplify: But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.


rate difficulty: Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

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


rate difficulty: Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

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


simplify: And thou shalt put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the twisted head-dress:


rate difficulty: in the law it hath been written, that, `With other tongues and with other lips I will speak to this people, and not even so will they hear Me, saith the Lord;'

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


rate difficulty: See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

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


simplify: Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in.


rate difficulty: And the king of Sodom saith unto Abram, `Give to me the persons, and the substance take to thyself,'

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Did not I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?

And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines


simplify: Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;


simplify: Nor for your sake do Ithis, saith the Lord Jehovah, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel.

Not because of you am I doing it, says the Lord; let it be clear to you, and be shamed and made low because of your ways, O children of Israel.


simplify: And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.


rate difficulty: Gilead abode beyond Jordan; And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat on the sea-shore, And abode in his creeks.

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


simplify: And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.


rate difficulty: As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: A king on the seat of judging puts to flight all evil with his eyes.


simplify: and many times he was charging them that they might not make him manifest.

But he repeatedly warned them not to make him known.


rate difficulty: And after these things he was seen in another form by two of them, while they were walking on their way into the country.

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,

And on the day after, the rulers and those in authority and the scribes came together in Jerusalem;


simplify: Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Cesarea to Jerusalem.

So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.


simplify: And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.

And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king.


simplify: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.


simplify: Devise not evil against thy neighbor, Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.


rate difficulty: Then Azariah, the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the men of pride, said to Jeremiah, You have said what is false: the Lord our God has not sent you to say, You are not to go into the land of Egypt and make your living-place there:


simplify: And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.


simplify: For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:

For while Moses said ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and ‘Let anyone who abuses their father or mother suffer death,’


simplify: Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in thy house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.

Truly, the days are coming when everything in your house, and whatever your fathers have put in store till this day, will be taken away to Babylon: all will be gone.


rate difficulty: All who are with me send you their love. Give our love to our friends in the faith. Grace be with you all.

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


rate difficulty: And the day following he appeared unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

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


rate difficulty: Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.

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


rate difficulty: And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.

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


simplify: Then sang Israel this song:  Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:


simplify: If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

Now after these things, word came to Joseph that his father was ill: and he took with him his sons Manasseh and Ephraim.


simplify: Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, a day great beyond measure.

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.


rate difficulty: But if a priest buy any one for money, he may eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they may eat of his food.


simplify: Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, are these.

Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.


simplify: He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;


rate difficulty: Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

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


simplify: And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

Now there were then staying in Jerusalem religious Jews from every country in the world;


rate difficulty: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:


rate difficulty: and they find pasture, fat and good, and the land broad of sides, and quiet, and safe, for of Ham are those dwelling there before.

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


simplify: For the saying which he cried by the word of Jehovah against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.


simplify: but thou shalt surely open thy hand unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth.

But let your hand be open to give him the use of whatever he is in need of.


rate difficulty: The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast embroidered the coat of linen, and hast made a mitre of linen, and a girdle thou dost make--work of an embroiderer.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that it may be done as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.


rate difficulty: And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner house; and the wings of the cherubim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched, wing to wing, in the midst of the house.


simplify: and Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him concerning Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, and concerning all the evils that Herod did,

But Prince Herod, being rebuked by John respecting Herodias, the wife of Herod’s brother, and for all the evil things that he had done,


simplify: With him is strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.

With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;


simplify: But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

To all others I say — I, not the Master — If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;


simplify: And the watchman said, I think the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.

And the watchman said, It seems to me that the running of the first is like the running of Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and his news will be good.


rate difficulty: And Samuel calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel;

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


rate difficulty: For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.

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


simplify: behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.

I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.


simplify: And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

And the grapes were crushed under foot outside the town, and blood came out from them, even to the head-bands of the horses, two hundred miles.


simplify: Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.

Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.


rate difficulty: And the prophet Jeremiah spoke all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: For this is what the Lord has said: When seventy years are ended for Babylon, I will have pity on you and give effect to my good purpose for you, causing you to come back to this place.

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


rate difficulty: Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:


simplify: If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

If a thief is taken in the act of forcing his way into a house, and his death is caused by a blow, the owner of the house is not responsible for his blood.


rate difficulty: The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

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


simplify: And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a troop, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.

He got some men together and made himself captain of a band of outlaws; and went to Damascus and became king there.


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

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


rate difficulty: Then Esther called for Hatach, [one] of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to wait upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

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


simplify: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

Do not put hands on any man without thought, and have no part in other men's sins: keep yourself clean.


simplify: And the four angels were loosed, that had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.

And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.


rate difficulty: And Athaliah <FI>is<Fi> mother of Ahaziah, and she hath seen that her son <FI>is<Fi> dead, and she riseth, and destroyeth all the seed of the kingdom;

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


simplify: For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.


rate difficulty: Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have seized thee as a woman in travail?

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


simplify: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.


rate difficulty: but he sought theGod of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.

And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.


rate difficulty: who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to [his] own purpose and grace, which [was] given to us in Christ Jesus before [the] ages of time,

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


simplify: For pass over the isles of Chittim, and see; and send unto Kedar, and consider diligently, and see if there be such a thing.

For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.


rate difficulty: Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him, for her people.

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


simplify: That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

That they might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any one of us;


simplify: For they durst not any more ask him any question.

And they had fear of putting any more questions to him.


simplify: And I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not hearken.

And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.


rate difficulty: Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!

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


simplify: Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.


simplify: They took therefore two chariot horses; and the king sent after the host of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.

So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.


rate difficulty: Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.


simplify: Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;


simplify: And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people.

And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.


simplify: Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:


simplify: But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.

But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these words, he said unto his disciples,

And when Jesus had come to the end of all these words, he said to his disciples,


rate difficulty: Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious adornment, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine.


simplify: And Jeroboam slept with his fathers, even with the kings of Israel; and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead.

And Jeroboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with the kings of Israel; and Zechariah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: After they had reached Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple-rate came up to Peter, and said: “Does not your Master pay the Temple-rate?”

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


simplify: And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.

And Solomon put twelve overseers over all Israel, to be responsible for the stores needed for the king and those of his house; every man was responsible for one month in the year.


simplify: Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.


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

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


simplify: It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.


rate difficulty: So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even unto the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

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


simplify: Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, And let not thy heart be glad when he is overthrown;

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:


simplify: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin;


rate difficulty: Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

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


simplify: If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?


simplify: Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

And as for you, son of man, your mouth will be shut in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that on which their hearts are fixed, and their sons and daughters.


rate difficulty: And having gone to the boat, he passed over, and came to his own city,

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


simplify: And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

He had James, the brother of John, beheaded;


rate difficulty: He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

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


rate difficulty: Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Jehovah theGod of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.


simplify: But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me; they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Cease to groan, <FI>for<Fi> the dead thou dost make no mourning, thy bonnet bind on thee, and thy shoes thou dost put on thy feet, and thou dost not cover over the upper lip, and bread of men thou dost not eat.'

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


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

And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;


rate difficulty: Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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


rate difficulty: And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and he put them to the sword, giving every person in it to the curse; all were put to death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king.


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

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,


rate difficulty: All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands.


simplify: calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yea, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.

Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.


simplify: But when the crowd was put forth, he entered in, and took her by the hand; and the damsel arose.

But when the people were sent out, he went in and took her by the hand; and the girl got up.


rate difficulty: With their forty silver bases, two under every board.

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


simplify: And at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.

And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing.


simplify: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.


simplify: Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.

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


simplify: Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?


rate difficulty: Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.


simplify: Also thou shalt take of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of consecration:

Then take the fat of the sheep, the fat tail, the fat covering the insides, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and the right leg; for by the offering of this sheep they are to be marked out as priests:


simplify: But if thou shalt indeed hearken unto his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.


rate difficulty: though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter; they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.

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


simplify: And as they went on their way through the cities, they delivered them the decrees to keep which had been ordained of the apostles and elders that were at Jerusalem.

And on their way through the towns, they gave them the rules which had been made by the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem, so that they might keep them.


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and with staves to take me?

And Jesus said to them, Have you come out as against a thief, with swords and sticks to take me?


rate difficulty: and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

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


rate difficulty: Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.

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


simplify: And out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs,

And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts,


simplify: But all things when they are reproved are made manifest by the light: for everything that is made manifest is light.

But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.


rate difficulty: And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question.

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


simplify: Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, those of all the army of the children of the east who were still living; for a hundred and twenty thousand of their swordsmen had been put to death.


rate difficulty: the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

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


simplify: And Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gath–rimmon with her suburbs:

And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts;


rate difficulty: Your sister church in ‘Babylon’ sends you greeting, and so does Mark, who is as a son to me.

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


rate difficulty: with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is [one] of you. They shall make known to you everything here.


simplify: And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The Lord will be magnified from the border of Israel.

And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar:

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


simplify: These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.


simplify: And the man, the lord of the land, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men: leave one of your brethren with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way;

And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;


simplify: and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you--an odour of a sweet smell--a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

My wants are fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts which you sent me — the sweet fragrance of a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.


simplify: And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.


simplify: And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, `Come and behold!' and I saw, and lo, a black horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a balance in his hand,

When the Lamb broke the third seal, I heard the third Creature crying — ‘Come.’ And in my vision I saw ‘a black horse.’ Its rider held scales in his hand.


simplify: And David went up from thence, and dwelt in strong holds at En–gedi.

And from there, David went up and took cover in the safe place of En-gedi.


simplify: that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.


simplify: Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

Beware, therefore, that what is said in the prophets does not come true of you —


simplify: While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

And, while Peter was turning the vision over in his mind, the Spirit said to him, See, three men are looking for you.


simplify: And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi.

Then Boaz said to the responsible men and to all the people, You are witnesses today that I have taken at a price from Naomi all the property which was Elimelech's, and everything which was Chilion's and Mahlon's.


simplify: So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

So the town was shut in by their forces till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.


simplify: confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.

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


simplify: So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

And so, friends, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free.


simplify: But if ye seek anything about other matters, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.

But if any other business is in question, let it be taken up in the regular meeting.


simplify: And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.


simplify: And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.

And when Saul saw the Philistine army he was troubled, and his heart was moved with fear.


rate difficulty: as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;

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


rate difficulty: Then take some of the blood on the altar, and the oil, and put it on Aaron and his robes and on his sons and on their robes, so that he and his robes and his sons and their robes may be made holy.

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


rate difficulty: In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together,

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


rate difficulty: `As to the Avim who are dwelling in Hazerim unto Azzah, the Caphtorim--who are coming out from Caphtor--have destroyed them, and dwell in their stead.

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


rate difficulty: How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?

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


simplify: Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.


simplify: And her brother and her mother said, Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.

But her brother and her mother said, Let the girl be with us a week or ten days, and then she may go.


rate difficulty: The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe comes quickly.

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


simplify: and if it may come to pass that he doth find it, verily I say to you, that he doth rejoice over it more than over the ninety-nine that have not gone astray;

And, if they succeed in finding it, I tell you that they rejoice more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray.


rate difficulty: Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

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


simplify: And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.


rate difficulty: She went and told the news to those who had been with him and who were now in sorrow and tears;

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