simplify: Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth–hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,

And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz


simplify: And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.


rate difficulty: But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

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


simplify: And these are they which are unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth: the weasel, and the mouse, and the great lizard after its kind,

And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;


simplify: And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

On their way, they went into a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,


simplify: Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the king said to the attendants ‘Tie him hand and foot, and ‘put him out into the darkness’ outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’


simplify: And the trees said to the fig-tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.


rate difficulty: And Enoch walked withGod after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

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


rate difficulty: By the breath ofGod ice is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened.

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.

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


simplify: And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.


simplify: because that he many times with fetters and chains had been bound, and pulled in pieces by him had been the chains, and the fetters broken in pieces, and none was able to tame him,

for, though he had many times been left secured with fetters and chains, he had snapped the chains and broken the fetters to pieces, and no one could master him.


rate difficulty: And as he talked with them, behold there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words; and David heard [them].

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


simplify: That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

That the Christ would go through pain, and being the first to come back from the dead, would give light to the people and to the Gentiles.


simplify: And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put the parts, the head and the fat, in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar:


simplify: And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

And there was great weeping in all the country when all the people went through; and the king himself was waiting in the Kidron valley and all the people went by him in the direction of the olive-tree on the edge of the waste land.


simplify: By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.


rate difficulty: and lo, Saul hath come after the herd out of the field, and Saul saith, `What--to the people, that they weep?' and they recount to him the words of the men of Jabesh.

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


simplify: And for the other side of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.


rate difficulty: And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

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


rate difficulty: and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,


rate difficulty: And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, `My people <FI>art<Fi> thou.'

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


simplify: For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

For death has come up into our windows, forcing its way into our great houses; cutting off the children in the streets and the young men in the wide places.


rate difficulty: And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: And the prince, when they go in, shall go in in the midst of them; and when they go forth, they shall go forth together.


rate difficulty: The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, so that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be according to the homer.

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


simplify: Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:

Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:


simplify: because <FI>it is<Fi> God who said, Out of darkness light <FI>is<Fi> to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Indeed, the same God who said ‘Out of darkness light will shine,’ has shone in on our hearts, so that we should bring out into the light the knowledge of the glory of God, seen in the face of Christ.


rate difficulty: But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

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


simplify: And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying,


simplify: So Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh before the Syrians unto the battle; and they fled before him.

So Joab and the people who were with him went forward into the fight against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him.


rate difficulty: And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties.


rate difficulty: And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs; four cities.

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


simplify: And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth–lehemite.

And Saul said to him, Young man, whose son are you? And David in answer said, I am the son of your servant Jesse of Beth-lehem.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

And then the Lord said to me, I have seen that this people is stiff-necked:


simplify: And they were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

And they were overcome with wonder, saying, He has done all things well: he even gives back the power of hearing and the power of talking to those who have been without them.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As the vine-tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

For this cause the Lord has said: Like the vine-tree among the trees of the woods which I have given to the fire for burning, so will I give the people of Jerusalem.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

This is what the Lord has said: Cursed is the man who puts his faith in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart is turned away from the Lord.


simplify: And he said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed.

And he said to them, Come to me again after three days. So the people went away.


rate difficulty: And Delilah seeth that he hath declared to her all his heart, and she sendeth and calleth for the princes of the Philistines, saying, `Come up this time, for he hath declared to me all his heart;' and the princes of the Philistines have come up unto her, and bring up the money in their hand.

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


simplify: The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.


rate difficulty: Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.


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

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


rate difficulty: But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

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


rate difficulty: And he caused the families of Judah to come forward, and he took the family of the Zarhites. And he caused the family of the Zarhites to come forward man by man, and Zabdi was taken.

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


simplify: Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.

For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.


simplify: But when her masters saw that the hope of their gain was gone, they laid hold on Paul and Silas, and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers,

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;


rate difficulty: Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.


simplify: And the priest shall bring them before the Lord, and shall offer his sin offering, and his burnt offering:

And the priest will take them before the Lord, and make his sin-offering and his burned offering;


rate difficulty: and have given the weighed money into the hands of those doing the work, those inspecting the house of Jehovah, and they bring it out to those working in the wood, and to builders who are working in the house of Jehovah,

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


rate difficulty: and crieth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Jehovah my God, also on the widow with whom I am sojourning hast Thou done evil--to put her son to death?'

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


simplify: And the sons of Bela: Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of fathers’ houses, mighty men of valor; and they were reckoned by genealogy twenty and two thousand and thirty and four.

And the sons of Bela: Ezbon and Uzzi and Uzziel and Jerimoth and Iri, five; heads of their families, great men of war; there were twenty-two thousand and thirty-four of them recorded by their families.


simplify: And he said, A certain man had two sons:

Then Jesus continued: “A man had two sons;


simplify: And out of the tribe of Gad; Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts,


rate difficulty: And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.

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


simplify: And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.

The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus restored him to his mother.


simplify: And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

And Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;


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

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


rate difficulty: He saveth not the wicked alive; but he doeth justice to the afflicted.


simplify: and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

While, if all those present use the gift of preaching, and an unbeliever, or someone without the gift, comes in, they are convinced of their sinfulness by them all, they are called to account by them all;


simplify: And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering:

And of the rest of the oil which is in his hand, the priest will put some on the point of the right ear of the man who is to be made clean, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, over the blood of the offering for wrongdoing;


rate difficulty: And the Levites shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Take no more [money] than what is appointed to you.

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


rate difficulty: If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!

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


simplify: and the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and have testified falsely against his brother;

And the judges will have the question looked into with care: and if the witness is seen to be false and to have made a false statement against his brother,


rate difficulty: Howbeit, Job, I pray thee, hear my speech, And hearken to all my words.

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


rate difficulty: and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Reuben, come in and speak unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the company, saying:

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


rate difficulty: And he returned to Judah, and said, I have not found her; and also the men of the place said, There hath been no prostitute here.

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


simplify: And as ye enter into the house, salute it.

And when you go in, say, May peace be on this house.


rate difficulty: And Israel said to Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed [the flock] at Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them. And he said to him, Here am I.

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


rate difficulty: Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

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


simplify: and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and hast made Israel to sin.

And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.


rate difficulty: And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

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


simplify: When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.


simplify: For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Nothing is hidden which will not be brought into the light of day, not ever kept hidden which will not some day become known and come into the light of day.


simplify: The poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst; I, Jehovah, will answer them, I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.


rate difficulty: And I say, `Not good <FI>is<Fi> the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

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


rate difficulty: The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

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


simplify: For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.


simplify: and the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from thence to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrising.

And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out from there to Hukkok, stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah at Jordan on the east.


rate difficulty: And he said, Call her; and he called her; and she stood in the doorway.

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


rate difficulty: And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

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


simplify: nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

Nothing should be done in a factious spirit or from vanity, but each of you should with all humility regard others as better than himself,


rate difficulty: `And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When a man dieth, and hath no son, then ye have caused his inheritance to pass over to his daughter;

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


simplify: For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.


simplify: But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And, if you have proved untrustworthy with what does not belong to us, who will give you what is really our own?

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


simplify: And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;


simplify: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

And the Egyptians were cruel to us, crushing us under a hard yoke:


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He giveth to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses;

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


rate difficulty: And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.

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


simplify: Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground; and she took up her son, and went out.

And she came in, and went down on her face to the earth at his feet; then she took her son in her arms and went out.


rate difficulty: Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

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


simplify: --`Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations,

“Listen!”he said. “We are going up to Jerusalem; and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and they will condemn him to death, and they will give him up to the Gentiles,


rate difficulty: And God said to him, I AM WHAT I AM: and he said, Say to the children of Israel, I AM has sent me to you.


simplify: But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.

But he will do right in the cause of the poor, and give wise decisions for those in the land who are in need; and the rod of his mouth will come down on the cruel, and with the breath of his lips he will put an end to the evil-doer.


simplify: So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.


rate difficulty: And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,


rate difficulty: And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

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


rate difficulty: The king of Hormah, one; The king of Arad, one;

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


rate difficulty: and many strewed their clothes on the way, and others cut down branches from the trees [and went on strewing them on the way].

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


simplify: `But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

But alas for you Pharisees! You pay tithes on mint, rue, and herbs of all kinds, and pass over justice and love to God. These last you ought to have put into practice without neglecting the first.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Ye are they who justify themselves before men, butGod knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination beforeGod.

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


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

He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest [and] certain of the chief fathers were separated according to their fathers' houses, and all of them [expressed] by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

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


rate difficulty: Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.

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


rate difficulty: These were thy merchants in all sorts of things, in blue clothes, and broidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise.

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


rate difficulty: `And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:

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


rate difficulty: Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years:

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


simplify: And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and proved his ability both by his words and actions.


simplify: And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.

but they seized him, and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed.


rate difficulty: their inheritance was by lot, as Jehovah had commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and the half tribe.


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

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


simplify: Thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, thou art gone backward: therefore will I stretch out my hand against thee, and destroy thee; I am weary with repenting.

You have given me up, says the Lord, you have gone back: so my hand is stretched out against you for your destruction; I am tired of changing my purpose.


simplify: Which when the brethren knew, they brought him down to Cesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

And when the brothers had knowledge of it, they took him to Caesarea and sent him to Tarsus.


simplify: In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: Blind, or broken, or maimed, or ulcerous, or with itch, or scabbed — ye shall not present these to Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.


rate difficulty: And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men’s words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?

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


rate difficulty: for thus said Amos: By sword die doth Jeroboam, And Israel certainly removeth from off its land.'

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


simplify: Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.


rate difficulty: how then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it behoveth to happen?'

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


simplify: Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.


simplify: Issachar is a strong ass, Couching down between the sheepfolds:

Issachar is a strong ass stretched out among the flocks:


rate difficulty: and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan: these are the chiefs that came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

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


simplify: And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

And Jesus, having knowledge of what was in their minds, said, Why are your thoughts evil?


rate difficulty: Nevertheless a fountain or a pit wherein is a gathering of water shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean.

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


rate difficulty: Curse Meroz--said a messenger of Jehovah, Cursing, curse ye its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty!


rate difficulty: So they got up and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth and twelve of the servants of David.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Jehovah thyGod, and go after othergods, and serve them, and bow down to them, I testify against you this day that ye shall utterly perish.

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


simplify: And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more:

But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.


simplify: There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.


rate difficulty: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

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


simplify: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.


rate difficulty: For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.

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


rate difficulty: And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.


simplify: whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.


simplify: And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.


simplify: The man, who is the lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.


rate difficulty: And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

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


simplify: O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.


simplify: And I will strengthen them in Jehovah; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith Jehovah.

And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.


simplify: and as they are speaking these things, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith to them, `Peace--to you;'

While they were still talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith to the messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.

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


simplify: And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the Lord.

And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: They may not be used for food, and their dead bodies are disgusting to you.


rate difficulty: I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assembly, who were of thee; to whom the burden upon her was a reproach.

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


rate difficulty: In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother’s, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


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

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


simplify: who, being in the form of God, thought <FI>it<Fi> not robbery to be equal to God,

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look on equality with God as above all things to be clung to,


simplify: Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.


rate difficulty: Salute Maria, who laboured much for you.

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


rate difficulty: The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

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


simplify: So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and went to war with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.


simplify: And Jacob offered a sacrifice in the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mountain.

And Jacob made an offering on the mountain, and gave orders to his people to take food: so they had a meal and took their rest that night on the mountain.


rate difficulty: And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.

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


simplify: For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

These are the things for which all the nations of the world are seeking, and your Father knows that you need them.


simplify: This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

The man whom I send with this had been seized by some Jews, and was on the point of being killed by them, when I came upon them with the force under my command, and rescued him, as I learned that he was a Roman citizen.


simplify: And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

It was the Preparation day, and just before the Sabbath began.


rate difficulty: Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.


simplify: So Jehovah scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off building the city.

So the Lord God sent them away into every part of the earth: and they gave up building their town.


simplify: And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.


simplify: And Judah sent the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the woman’s hand: but he found her not.

Then Judah sent his friend Hirah with the young goat, to get back the things which he had given as a sign to the woman: but she was not there.


simplify: And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.


rate difficulty: And he came forth, and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

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


rate difficulty: For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.

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


simplify: And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.

And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: `Then thou hast brought out that man, or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates--the man or the woman--and thou hast stoned them with stones, and they have died.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Peter went down to the men and said: “I am the person you are looking for. What is your reason for coming?”

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


rate difficulty: And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

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


simplify: Hereby shall we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our heart before him:

In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,


simplify: for if ye live after the flesh, ye must die; but if by the Spirit ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.


simplify: And when Paul would have entered in unto the people, the disciples suffered him not.

Paul wished to go into the amphitheater and face the people, but the disciples would not let him,


rate difficulty: And Joshua rose early in the morning, and inspected the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


rate difficulty: Then she said to him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? these three times hast thou mocked me, and hast not told me in what is thy great strength.

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


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

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


simplify: And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.

But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.


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

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


rate difficulty: And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.


simplify: And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.


simplify: And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

Now the sons of Jacob came in from the fields when they had news of it, and they were wounded and very angry because of the shame he had done in Israel by having connection with Jacob's daughter; and they said, Such a thing is not to be done.


rate difficulty: To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.


simplify: And ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord your God is he that hath fought for you.

You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.


simplify: Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

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


simplify: Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.


simplify: Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

If their tent-cord is pulled up, do they not come to an end, and without wisdom?


rate difficulty: He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

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


simplify: For all the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine.


simplify: And going on a little further, he saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending the nets.

And going on a little farther, he saw James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who were in their boat stitching up their nets.


simplify: wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that <FI>is<Fi> above every name,

And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the name which stands above all other names,


simplify: Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.

Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.


simplify: Dominion and fear are with him; He maketh peace in his high places.

Rule and power are his; he makes peace in his high places.


simplify: Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.


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

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


simplify: And he said unto them, `How do they say the Christ to be son of David,

But Jesus said to them: “How is it that people say that the Christ is to be David’s son?


simplify: And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people to Ai.


simplify: And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.


simplify: And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

It was permitted to breathe life into the image of the Beast, so that the image of the Beast might speak; and it was also permitted to cause all who refused to worship the image of the Beast to be put to death.


simplify: this enrolment first came to pass when Cyrenius was governor of Syria--

(This was the first census taken while Quirinius was Governor of Syria).


simplify: And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.


rate difficulty: Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

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


simplify: My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.


simplify: to proclaim the year of Jehovah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure has come, and the day of punishment from our God; to give comfort to all who are sad;


rate difficulty: it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean.

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


rate difficulty: In their care are the ark, and the table, and the lights, and the altars, and all the vessels used in the holy place, and the veil, and all they are used for.

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


rate difficulty: And they went up into the city. As they were coming into the midst of the city, behold, Samuel was coming out towards them, to go up to the high place.

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


simplify: And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

And by the edge of the river, on this side and on that, will come up every tree used for food, whose leaves will ever be green and its fruit will not come to an end: it will have new fruit every month, because its waters come out from the holy place: the fruit will be for food and the leaf will make well those who are ill.


simplify: For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For him who is joined to all the living there is hope; a living dog is better than a dead lion.


rate difficulty: Exult, thou barren, that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and shout for joy, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.

And twelve lions were placed on one side and on the other side on the six steps: there was nothing like it in any kingdom.


rate difficulty: Even from antiquity <FI>men<Fi> have not heard, They have not given ear, Eye hath not seen a God save Thee, He doth work for those waiting for Him.

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


simplify: Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.


simplify: They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.


simplify: Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

Therefore watch, for you cannot be sure when the Master of the house is coming — whether in the evening, at midnight, at daybreak, or in the morning —


rate difficulty: As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

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


rate difficulty: `But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

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


simplify: Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

By all your sin, even by your evil trading, you have made your holy places unclean; so I will make a fire come out from you, it will make a meal of you, and I will make you as dust on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.


rate difficulty: Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.


rate difficulty: A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

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


simplify: And sometimes the cloud was from evening until morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning, they journeyed: or if it continued by day and by night, when the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward.


simplify: And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make ready his way,


rate difficulty: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

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


rate difficulty: And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her with fire;

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Take your rest here tonight, and I will give you an answer after hearing what the Lord says; so the chiefs of Moab kept there with Balaam that night.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

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


rate difficulty: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the going up of the <FI>evening-<Fi> present, that Elijah the prophet cometh nigh and saith, `Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to-day let it be known that Thou <FI>art<Fi> God in Israel, and I Thy servant, that by Thy word I have done the whole of these things;

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


rate difficulty: speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that <FI>is<Fi> on the edge of the sea;

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


rate difficulty: The city has no need of ‘the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God illuminated it,’ and its Lamp was the Lamb.


simplify: the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;

Guard by the help of the Holy Spirit, who is within us, the glorious trust that has been committed to you.


simplify: This is the law of the burnt-offering, of the meal-offering, and of the sin-offering, and of the trespass-offering, and of the consecration, and of the sacrifice of peace-offerings;

These are the laws for the burned offering, the meal offering, and the offering for wrongdoing; and for the making of priests, and for the giving of peace-offerings;


rate difficulty: How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

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


simplify: Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, Give worship before one altar only, burning offerings on it?


rate difficulty: Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal contend against him, because he hath broken down his altar.

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


rate difficulty: Neither hath she left her whoredoms since the days of Egypt; for in her youth they lay with her, and they handled the bosom of her virginity; and they poured out their whoredom upon her.

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


simplify: but, when the multitude was put forth, having gone in, he took hold of her hand, and the damsel arose,

but, when the people had been sent out, Jesus went in, and took the little girl’s hand, and she rose.


simplify: Therefore am I terrified at his presence; When I consider, I am afraid of him.

For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.


rate difficulty: And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,


rate difficulty: As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.


rate difficulty: having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

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


rate difficulty: And behold, [there was] a man by name called Zacchaeus, and he was chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel shall encamp every man in his camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts;


rate difficulty: But myGod shall abundantly supply all your need according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

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


rate difficulty: Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered morter, and will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it;

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


simplify: who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,

Once he was of little service to you, but now he has become of great service, not only to you, but to me as well;


simplify: And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.


simplify: And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,

And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,


simplify: and saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was arrayed with fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and gilded in gold, and precious stone, and pearls--because in one hour so much riches were made waste!

‘Alas! Alas! Great city! City clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet cloth! City adorned with gold ornaments, and precious stones, and pearls!


rate difficulty: and they shall cover the face of the land, so that ye will not be able to see the land; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which ye have remaining from the hail, and shall eat every tree which ye have growing in the field;

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


simplify: And the man of God said unto the king, If thou wilt give me half thy house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place;

But the man of God said to the king, Even if you gave me half of all you have, I would not go in with you, and I would not take food or a drink of water in this place;


simplify: They shall come trembling as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria; and I will make them to dwell in their houses, saith Jehovah.

Shaking with fear like a bird, they will come out of Egypt, like a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will give them rest in their houses, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.


simplify: They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,


rate difficulty: Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, [Thy] sins are forgiven [thee]; or to say, Arise, and take up thy couch and walk?

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


rate difficulty: And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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


simplify: And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;


rate difficulty: So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.

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


simplify: And the jailor, being roused out of sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

And the keeper, coming out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, took his sword and was about to put himself to death, fearing that the prisoners had got away.


rate difficulty: And when they had got into the boat, the wind went down.

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


rate difficulty: For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.

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


rate difficulty: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

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


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

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


simplify: Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.

Every voice in the assembly was hushed, as they listened to Barnabas and Paul, while they gave an account of all the signs and wonders which God had shown among the Gentiles through them.


simplify: and <FI>that<Fi> because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

But, because of those who pretended to be followers who had stolen in, the intruders who had crept in to spy on the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery —


simplify: Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

Come and take your seat in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; come down from your seat of power, and take your place on the earth, O daughter of the Chaldaeans: for you will never again seem soft and delicate.


rate difficulty: For in their trust these four were the chief doorkeepers: they were Levites; and they were over the chambers and over the treasuries of the house ofGod;


simplify: Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any branching tree which is among the trees of the woods?


simplify: Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.

Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.


rate difficulty: Take heed, regard not iniquity: For this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

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


rate difficulty: But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

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


simplify: And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.


simplify: Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is my grief, and I must bear it.

Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.


simplify: Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

You sent your wind and the sea came over them: they went down like lead into the great waters.


rate difficulty: And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

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


simplify: And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.


simplify: And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come for the purpose of fighting against Jerusalem,


simplify: And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle.

And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.


rate difficulty: and He causeth me to pass over by them, all round about, and lo, very many <FI>are<Fi> on the face of the valley, and lo, very dry.

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


simplify: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith, and have been pierced to the heart by many a regret.


rate difficulty: because we are members of his body.

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


simplify: My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.

Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.


simplify: Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

And as the church is under Christ's authority, so let wives be under the rule of their husbands in all things.


simplify: They say to him, `Evil men--he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

“Miserable wretches!” they exclaimed, “he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times.”


rate difficulty: So they took the money, and did as they had been ordered: and this account has been current among the Jews till the present time.

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


simplify: and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience--in regard to Christ ye sin;

In this way, by sinning against your fellow followers of the Lord and injuring their consciences, while still weak, you sin against Christ.


rate difficulty: As Jesus was going along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the Sea, for they were fishermen.

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


simplify: For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.


rate difficulty: And Jacob cometh nigh unto Isaac his father, and he feeleth him, and saith, `The voice <FI>is<Fi> the voice of Jacob, and the hands hands of Esau.'

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


simplify: The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,

The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights;


simplify: For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.


rate difficulty: And Achan answereth Joshua, and saith, `Truly I have sinned against Jehovah, God of Israel, and thus and thus I have done;

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


simplify: And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah unto its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

And the priests took the ark of the agreement of the Lord and put it in its place in the inner room of the house, in the most holy place, under the wings of the winged ones.


simplify: From you did the word of God come forth? or to you alone did it come?

What! Did God’s message to the world originate with you? Or did it find its way to none but you?


simplify: The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer.


simplify: `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

And he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was deeply moved; he ran and threw his arms around his neck and kissed him.


simplify: And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?

And Samuel said, What then is this sound of the crying of sheep and the noise of oxen which comes to my ears?


simplify: And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee--may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money;

“A curse on you and on your money,” Peter exclaimed, “for thinking that God’s free gift can be bought with gold!


simplify: for also in this we groan, with our dwelling that is from heaven earnestly desiring to clothe ourselves,

Even while in our present body we sigh, longing to put over it our heavenly house,


simplify: And he made for it two golden rings under the crown thereof, upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it, for places for staves wherewith to bear it.

And he made two gold rings, placing them on the two opposite sides under the edge, to take the rods for lifting it.


simplify: and their dead bodies <FI>are<Fi> upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)

Their dead bodies will lie in the streets of the great city, which is mystically spoken of as ‘Sodom’ and ‘Egypt,’ where their Master was crucified.


rate difficulty: Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

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


simplify: And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And he said, Who gave you the knowledge that you were without clothing? Have you taken of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take?


rate difficulty: The first ripe of everything that is in their land, which they shall bring to Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat of it.

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


simplify: Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,


simplify: As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

As scripture says —  ‘Those who had much had nothing over, and those who had little did not lack!’


simplify: He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.


simplify: Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

Some one, indeed, may say — “You are a man of faith, and I am a man of action.”   “Then show me your faith,” I reply, “apart from any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.”


simplify: And after these things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

And after these things I saw, and the house of the Tent of witness in heaven was open:


simplify: So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

So that same day Moses made this song, teaching it to the children of Israel.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.


rate difficulty: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

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


simplify: And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be shamed: behold, I sent this kid, and thou hast not found her.

And Judah said, Let her keep the things, so that we may not be shamed; I sent the young goat, but you did not see the woman.


simplify: And the mean man is bowed down, and the great man is brought low: therefore forgive them not.

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.


rate difficulty: And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

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


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

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


simplify: Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in number.


simplify: Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the vale of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.

Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.


rate difficulty: and they have always known — if they choose to give evidence — that, in accordance with the very strictest form of our religion, I lived a true Pharisee.

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


simplify: Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

Let a flag be lifted up in the land, let the horn be sounded among the nations, make the nations ready against her; get the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz together against her, make ready a scribe against her; let the horses come up against her like massed locusts.


simplify: for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted.

‘For it is by fire that everyone will be salted.


simplify: for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

It is degrading even to speak of the things continually done by them in secret.


rate difficulty: Afterwards again he put <FI>his<Fi> hands on his eyes, and made him look up, and he was restored, and discerned all things clearly,

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


rate difficulty: `And when a sojourner sojourneth with you, then he hath prepared a passover to Jehovah, according to the statute of the passover, and according to its ordinance, so he doth; one statute is to you, even to a sojourner, and to a native of the land.'

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


simplify: And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

And he said to me, It is done. I am the First and the Last, the start and the end. I will freely give of the fountain of the water of life to him who is in need.


rate difficulty: And he maketh in the most holy house two cherubs, image work, and he overlayeth them with gold;

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


rate difficulty: And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

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


rate difficulty: Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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


simplify: Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God which hath been given in the churches of Macedonia;

And now we give you news, brothers, about the grace of God which has been given to the churches of Macedonia;


rate difficulty: Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.


simplify: Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

And Ibhar and Elishua and Nepheg and Japhia


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

All that time he ate nothing; and, when it was over, he became hungry.


simplify: Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth–baal, and Beth–baal–meon,

Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon;


simplify: And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.


rate difficulty: Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?

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


rate difficulty: And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the seven bowls of the fury ofGod upon the earth.


simplify: `Therefore, watch, remembering that three years, night and day, I did not cease with tears warning each one;

Therefore, be on your guard, remembering how for three years, night and day, I never ceased, even with tears, to warn each one of you.


simplify: Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.


rate difficulty: For you have heard, I suppose, of the responsible charge with which God entrusted me for your benefit,

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


simplify: and his sisters--are they not all with us? whence, then, to this one all these?'

And his sisters, too — are not they all living among us? Where, then did he get all this?”


simplify: Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Shallum, and his conspiracy that he made, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

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


simplify: And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

And he saw an angel of the Lord in his place on the right side of the altar.


rate difficulty: but I hope soon to see thee, and we will speak mouth to mouth. Peace [be] to thee. The friends greet thee. Greet the friends by name.

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


simplify: Have ye not cast out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.


simplify: but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ.

But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.


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

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


simplify: Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.


simplify: The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel, the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.

And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their tents in Zalmonah.


rate difficulty: And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain at the edge of the coupling; he did likewise in the edge of the outermost curtain in the other coupling.

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


simplify: And a third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

And a third are to be stationed at the king's house; and a third at the doorway of the horses: while all the people are waiting in the open spaces round the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: But he kept quiet and said nothing. Again the high priest questioning him said, Are you the Christ, the son of the Holy One?


simplify: And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.


simplify: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be on their foreheads.

And they will see his face; and his name will be on their brows.


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

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


simplify: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.

And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.


simplify: And they drove not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim unto this day, and are become servants to do taskwork.

And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.


simplify: Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thou away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:

And Amaziah said to Amos, O seer, go in flight into the land of Judah, and there get your living by working as a prophet:


simplify: and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

And all his acts, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


simplify: After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him.

After all this, and after Josiah had put the house in order, Neco, king of Egypt, went up to make war at Carchemish by the river Euphrates; and Josiah went out against him.


simplify: But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;


simplify: Enquire, I pray thee, of the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the Lord will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.


rate difficulty: And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


rate difficulty: In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see.

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


rate difficulty: Sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Jehovah,

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


simplify: Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

Do you think that I am here to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but to cause division.


rate difficulty: Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

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


rate difficulty: He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

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


simplify: And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.

And they went on from Hashmonah, and put up their tents in Moseroth.


simplify: and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,

They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the law of Moses and from the prophets — speaking from morning until evening.


rate difficulty: And he brought him down, and behold, they were spread over the whole land, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Taking her hand, Jesus said to her: “Taleitha, koum!”— which means ‘little girl, I am speaking to you — Rise!’

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


simplify: To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.


rate difficulty: and upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,


rate difficulty: We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

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


simplify: All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

All these towns had high walls round them with doors and locks; and in addition we took a great number of unwalled towns.