simplify: Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the peoples renew their strength: let them come near; then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment.

Come quietly before me, O sea-lands, and let the peoples get together their strength: let them come near; then let them say what they have to say: let us put forward our cause against one another.


rate difficulty: Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name ofGod and the teaching be not blasphemed.

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simplify: When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah: he was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

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


rate difficulty: And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.

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


rate difficulty: Turn ye unto him from whom ye have deeply revolted, O children of Israel.

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


simplify: And said unto him, Thus saith Jephthah, Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon:

And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;


simplify: and I said unto you, I am Jehovah your God; ye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice.

And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice.


rate difficulty: `And every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth is an abomination, it is not eaten;

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Now, O Jehovah God, is Thy word with David my father stedfast, for Thou hast caused me to reign over a people numerous as the dust of the earth;

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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt have a paddle among thy weapons; and it shall be, when thou sittest down abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld.


simplify: And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate,

Then they all rose in a body and led Jesus before Pilate.


rate difficulty: And Joab said, [As]God liveth, unless thou hadst spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone up every one from following his brother.

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


simplify: My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

My soul still keeps the memory of them; and is bent down in me.


rate difficulty: So I gave the word as I was ordered: and at my words there was a shaking of the earth, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

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


rate difficulty: With him will be Onesimus, our dear faithful friend, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you all that is going on here.


simplify: And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.

The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.


simplify: Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.


rate difficulty: And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Then Herod privily called the Wise-men, and learned of them exactly what time the star appeared.

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


rate difficulty: And John answering said, Master, we saw some one casting out demons in thy name, and we forbad him, because he follows not with us.

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


simplify: A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.


simplify: And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.


rate difficulty: The people were amazed at his teaching, for he taught them like one who had authority, and not like the teachers of the law.


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him that followeth her slay with the sword. For the priest said, Let her not be slain in the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out, and the vessels of the young men are holy, and the bread is in a manner common, yea, though it were sanctified this day in the vessel.

And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.


rate difficulty: Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

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


simplify: And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.

And she said, The glory is gone from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.


simplify: And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

And Shem and Japheth took a robe, and putting it on their backs went in with their faces turned away, and put it over their father so that they might not see him unclothed.


simplify: Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?


simplify: For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,

A good action has nothing to fear from Rulers; a bad action has. Do you want to have no reason to fear the Authorities? Then do what is good, and you will win their praise.


rate difficulty: For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as angels in heaven.


rate difficulty: And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to him, Go, descend, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee; but the priests and the people shall not break through to go up to Jehovah, lest he break forth on them.

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


simplify: And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.

And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.


simplify: Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief.


simplify: Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?


simplify: we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

We have done great wrong against you, and have not kept the orders, the rules, and the decisions, which you gave to your servant Moses.


simplify: The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you:


simplify: What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?


rate difficulty: Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh; and Moses made prayer to the Lord about the frogs which he had sent on Pharaoh.

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


simplify: And they went out, and preached that men should repent.

And they went out, preaching the need for a change of heart in men.


simplify: And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is a noise of war in the camp.

Now when the noise and the voices of the people came to the ears of Joshua, he said to Moses, There is a noise of war in the tents.


simplify: Hear, ye peoples, all of you; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Give ear, you peoples, all of you; give attention, O earth and everything in it: let the Lord God be witness against you, the Lord from his holy Temple.


rate difficulty: and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place;

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


simplify: The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.

And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)


rate difficulty: And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.

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


rate difficulty: For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

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


simplify: And lo, all the city came forth to meet Jesus, and having seen him, they called on <FI>him<Fi> that he might depart from their borders.

At the news the whole town went out to meet Jesus, and, when they saw him, they entreated him to go away from their neighborhood.


simplify: And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

She will give birth to a son; name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”


simplify: to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

Yet only to do what you, by your power and of your own will, did long ago destine to be done.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit ofGod came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest; and he stood up above the people and said unto them, Thus saithGod: Wherefore do ye transgress the commandments of Jehovah? And ye cannot prosper; for ye have forsaken Jehovah, and he hath forsaken you.

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


simplify: But if thou bearest the name of a Jew, and restest upon the law, and gloriest in God,

But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,


simplify: and he said to them, `Having gone, say to this fox, Lo, I cast forth demons, and perfect cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third <FI>day<Fi> I am being perfected;

But Jesus answered: “Go and say to that fox ‘Look you, I am driving out demons and will be completing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will have done.’


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


simplify: Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.

On coming there he saw to his great joy these tokens of the loving kindness of God, and encouraged them all to make up their minds to be faithful to the Lord —


simplify: Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Son of man, let your voice be loud in sorrow for the people of Egypt and send them down, even you and the daughters of the nations; I will send them down into the lowest parts of the earth, with those who go down into the underworld.


simplify: There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude; their graves are round about them; all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them without circumcision, put to death by the sword; for they were a cause of fear in the land of the living.


rate difficulty: and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah--only, not with a perfect heart.

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


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

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


simplify: What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

What I tell you in the dark, say again in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.


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

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


rate difficulty: Every unrighteousness is sin; and there is a sin not to death.

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


rate difficulty: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

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


rate difficulty: He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.

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


simplify: Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.


rate difficulty: Do we, then, use this faith to abolish law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish law.


simplify: comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.


simplify: Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Be our ruler, you and your son and your son's son after him; for you have been our saviour from the hands of Midian.


rate difficulty: For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, And warmeth them in the dust,

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


simplify: Also of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hashub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni,


simplify: And seven women shall take hold of one man in that day, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name; take thou away our reproach.

And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.


simplify: Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.

Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.


rate difficulty: Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.


rate difficulty: Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.


simplify: Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!


simplify: Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.


simplify: And thou hast said unto me, O Lord Jehovah, Buy thee the field for money, and call witnesses; whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

And you have said to me, Give the money to get yourself a property, and have the business witnessed; though the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.


simplify: So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.


simplify: And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

The apostles continued with great power to bear their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s blessing rested on them all abundantly.


simplify: And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.


rate difficulty: Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

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rate difficulty: And he begot of Hodesh his wife: Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcham,

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


rate difficulty: If I, friends, am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems that the cross has ceased to be an obstacle!


simplify: I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.


simplify: And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.


rate difficulty: And Solomon went to Hamath-zobah, and prevailed against it.

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


rate difficulty: having hope towardsGod, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.

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


rate difficulty: One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day [alike]. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

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


simplify: Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

I do not mean that we are fit to form any judgment by ourselves, as if on our own authority;


simplify: From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Every one from thirty to fifty years old who is able to do the work of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than <FI>for<Fi> a man to hear a song of fools,


simplify: And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and they came to Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh.

So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.


simplify: And he entered into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, reasoning and persuading as to the things concerning the kingdom of God.

And he went into the Synagogue, and for three months he was preaching there without fear, reasoning and teaching about the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.


simplify: And I sent them with commandment unto Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and I told them what they should say unto Iddo, and to his brethren the Nethinims, at the place Casiphia, that they should bring unto us ministers for the house of our God.

And I sent them to Iddo the chief at the place Casiphia, and gave them orders what to say to Iddo and his brothers the Nethinim at the place Casiphia, so that they might come back to us with men to do the work of the house of our God.


simplify: but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, so that I, who have called others to the contest, will not myself be rejected.


rate difficulty: You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!


simplify: Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer that was in the land.

Geber, the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan; and one overseer had authority over all the overseers who were in the land.


rate difficulty: After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.


simplify: Thou didst march through the land in indignation; Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.

You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.


simplify: And to this agree the words of the prophets; as it is written,

And this is in agreement with the words of the prophets, as it is said,


rate difficulty: according as the testimony of the Christ was confirmed in you,


rate difficulty: And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.


simplify: But Peter answered and said unto him, If all shall be offended in thee, I will never be offended.

But Peter made answer and said to him, Though all may be turned away from you, I will never be turned away.


simplify: His sons, and his sons’ sons with him, his daughters, and his sons’ daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.

His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.


simplify: And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;


simplify: Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.


simplify: And the Philistines followed hard after Saul and after his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great trumpet shall be blown; and they shall come that were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship Jehovah in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And thou, Capernaum, who hast been raised up to heaven, shalt be brought down even to hades.

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


simplify: Also he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;


simplify: Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?


simplify: And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.


simplify: And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

And he is to take from the meal offering a part, for a sign, burning it on the altar; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

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


simplify: And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.


simplify: Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

For this cause he will give them up till the time when she who is with child has given birth: then the rest of his brothers will come back to the children of Israel.


simplify: Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.


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

And the rock-badger, for the same reason, is unclean to you.


simplify: But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;

But his lord in answer said to him, You are a bad and unready servant; if you had knowledge that I get in grain where I did not put seed, and make profits for which I have done no work,


simplify: It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.


simplify: And he went up unto them into the ship; and the wind ceased: and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered.

And he went to them into the boat, and the wind went down, and they were full of wonder in themselves;


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.

For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:


rate difficulty: And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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simplify: And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;

Ram of Amminadab, Amminadab of Nashon, Nashon of Salmon,


rate difficulty: Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto me: Take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.

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


simplify: and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;

The island's people showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.


simplify: And Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as Jehovah had spoken.

But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

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


simplify: The sons of Eliphaz; Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Timna and Amalek.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.

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


simplify: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.


rate difficulty: To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.


simplify: Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

But still the children of Israel say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O children of Israel, are my ways not equal? are not your ways unequal?


rate difficulty: And if your hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off; it is better for you to go into life with one hand than to have two hands and go into hell, into the eternal fire.

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


rate difficulty: Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.


rate difficulty: And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families: Libni and Shimei.

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


rate difficulty: And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.

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


simplify: Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by Moses,

Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,


simplify: And Abner and his men walked all that night through the plain, and passed over Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and they came to Mahanaim.

And all that night Abner and his men went through the Arabah; they went over Jordan and through all Bithron and came to Mahanaim.


simplify: And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal; and he said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of Jehovah, but the worshippers of Baal only.

And Jehu, with Jehonadab, the son of Rechab, went into the house of Baal; and he said to the servants of Baal, Make a search with care, to see that no servant of the Lord is with you, but only servants of Baal.


simplify: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

But let them ask with confidence, never doubting; for the person who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven here and there at the mercy of the wind —


simplify: and first it behoveth him to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation.

But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.


simplify: I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.


rate difficulty: Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple <FI>is<Fi> their clothing, Work of the skilful--all of them.

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


rate difficulty: One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers, a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by.

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


rate difficulty: And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon;

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


rate difficulty: And the news of it went out into all that land.


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

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


rate difficulty: AndGod spoke to Noah, saying,


simplify: and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

And Saul, balancing the spear in his hand, said, I will give David a blow, pinning him to the wall. And David got away from him twice.


rate difficulty: and he hath slaughtered the lamb of the guilt-offering, and the priest hath taken of the blood of the guilt-offering, and hath put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot;

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


simplify: And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun, one portion.

And on the limit of Issachar, from the east side to the west side: Zebulun, one part.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Does the lamp come that it should be put under the bushel or under the couch? [Is it] not that it should be set upon the lamp-stand?

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


simplify: nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.


rate difficulty: And to Azel <FI>are<Fi> six sons, and these their names: Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these <FI>are<Fi> sons of Azel.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

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


simplify: Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching.


simplify: and he who is planting and he who is watering are one, and each his own reward shall receive, according to his own labour,

In this the person who plants and the person who waters are one; yet each will receive their own reward in proportion to their own labor.


rate difficulty: Moab's praise is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from [being] a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be cut down; the sword shall pursue thee.

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


rate difficulty: And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?


simplify: Thou which hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him; and spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.


simplify: The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.


simplify: The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood.


simplify: But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?

But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.


rate difficulty: and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages,

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


simplify: Now when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them, they gathered themselves together, all that were able to put on armor, and upward, and stood on the border.

Now all Moab, hearing that the kings had come to make war against them, got together all who were able to take up arms and went forward to the edge of the country.


rate difficulty: And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

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


simplify: and they said unto Jephthah, Come and be our chief, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.


rate difficulty: And she came to her mother-in-law; and she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

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


rate difficulty: It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.

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


rate difficulty: In all labour there is profit; but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to want.


simplify: And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her away,

And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,


rate difficulty: But they forgat Jehovah their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.

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


rate difficulty: He that refuseth correction despiseth his own soul; But he that hearkeneth to reproof getteth understanding.

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


rate difficulty: And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.


rate difficulty: And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end, he shall be saved.

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


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

But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.


simplify: because these are days of vengeance, to fulfil all things that have been written.

For these are to be the days of vengeance, when all that scripture says will be fulfilled.


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.

And when he had said this, he went on in front of them, going up to Jerusalem.


simplify: And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

About this time, when the number of the disciples was constantly increasing, complaints were made by the Greek speaking Jews against the Aramaic speaking Jews, that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.


rate difficulty: And he wrought evil in the sight of Jehovah, but not like his father, and like his mother; and he took away the column of Baal that his father had made.

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


simplify: As for the oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord: but they shall not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savour.

You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.


rate difficulty: Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and men with him, into Egypt;

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


simplify: And the other company of them that gave thanks went to meet them, and I after them, with the half of the people, upon the wall, above the tower of the furnaces, even unto the broad wall,

And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;


rate difficulty: For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.

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


simplify: and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.


simplify: It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;


simplify: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

And so may you, as soon as you see all these things, know that he is at your doors.


rate difficulty: As an oblation of first-fruits ye shall offer them unto Jehovah: but they shall not come up for a sweet savor on the altar.

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


simplify: And we, brethren, as Isaac, are children of promise,

As for ourselves, friends, we, like Isaac, are children born in fulfillment of a promise.


simplify: And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

And when the men who were sent by John had gone away, he said to the people, about John, What did you go out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?


rate difficulty: Now, at the feast, Pilate used to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might ask for.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Go away for three days and then come back to me again. So the people went away.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, that Abner made himself strong in the house of Saul.

Now while there was war between Saul's people and David's people, Abner was making himself strong among the supporters of Saul.


simplify: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)


simplify: And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.

And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads.


simplify: A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.

One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.


rate difficulty: And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,


simplify: And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

and the great city was torn in three, and the cities of the nation fell, and God remembered Babylon the Great, and gave her the maddening wine-cup of his wrath;


simplify: Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.


simplify: And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.

And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.


simplify: And they arrived at the country of the Gerasenes, which is over against Galilee.

And they came to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee.


rate difficulty: And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed [it] with the king's ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback riding on coursers, horses of blood reared in the breeding studs:

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Joseph speak with Joshua, saying, `Wherefore hast thou given to me an inheritance--one lot and one portion, and I a numerous people? hitherto hath Jehovah blessed me.'

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


rate difficulty: and said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for ye purpose that which will bring upon us a trespass against Jehovah, to add unto our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.


rate difficulty: Now after the death of Jehoiada, the chiefs of Judah came and went down on their faces before the king. Then the king gave ear to them.

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


rate difficulty: Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

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


simplify: And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth to the children of Israel.

And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.


rate difficulty: When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it;

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


simplify: And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.


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

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


rate difficulty: the son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,


simplify: Why, then, the law? on account of the transgressions it was added, till the seed might come to which the promise hath been made, having been set in order through messengers in the hand of a mediator--

What, then, you ask, was the use of the law? It was a later addition, to make people conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only until the coming of that ‘offspring’ to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.


rate difficulty: Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;


rate difficulty: Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This burden [concerneth] the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel that are among them.

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


simplify: But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.

For the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, See, before your eyes and in your days I will put an end in this place to the laughing voices and the voice of joy; to the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride.


simplify: These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.


simplify: And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

And he said to Gehazi, his servant, Send for this Shunammite. So in answer to his voice she came before him.


rate difficulty: And I saw the Lamb break the sixth seal, and then there was a great earthquake. The sun became black, like sackcloth, and the moon, which was at its full, like blood.


rate difficulty: I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the lock.


simplify: But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)


simplify: (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her--

For in order that the purpose of God, working through selection, might not fail — a selection depending, not on obedience, but on his call — Rebecca was told, before her children were born and before they had done anything either right or wrong,


rate difficulty: Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.


rate difficulty: And all Israel assembled themselves to David to Hebron, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

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


rate difficulty: the thresholds, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about them three, over-against the threshold, a ceiling of wood all round about, and the ground unto the windows and the covered windows,

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


rate difficulty: — For the breach of the daughter of my people am I crushed; I go mourning; astonishment hath taken hold of me.

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


simplify: And the vessels that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

And the vessels which have been given to you for the uses of the house of your God, you are to give to the God of Jerusalem.


simplify: But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.


simplify: So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.


simplify: And every day he was teaching in the temple; and every night he went out, and lodged in the mount that is called Olivet.

And every day he was teaching in the Temple and every night he went out to the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives to take his rest.


simplify: With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.


rate difficulty: Go and speak to David saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I offer thee three [things]; choose one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of the Bene-Ammon saith unto the messengers of Jephthah, `Because Israel took my land in his coming up out of Egypt, from Arnon, and unto the Jabbok, and unto the Jordan; and now, restore them in peace.'

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


simplify: And they sailed down to the region of the Gadarenes, that is over-against Galilee,

And they reached the country of the Gerasenes, which is on the opposite side to Galilee;


simplify: And great hail, every stone about the weight of a talent, cometh down out of heaven upon men: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof is exceeding great.

And great drops of ice, every one about the weight of a talent, came down out of heaven on men: and men said evil things against God because of the punishment of the ice-drops; for it is very great.


simplify: He made also posts, threescore cubits; and the court reached unto the posts, round about the gate.

And he took the measure of the covered way, twenty cubits; and opening from the covered way of the doorway was the open square round about.


simplify: And he sent another; and him they killed: and many others; beating some, and killing some.

And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.


rate difficulty: And he went on board ship and his disciples followed him;

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


simplify: And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,


simplify: And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me; but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.


simplify: And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, the appearance thereof be not deeper than the skin, and there be no black hair in it, then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:

And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days:


simplify: Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come.

Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.


simplify: And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much.

Then Jehu got all the people together and said to them, Ahab was Baal's servant in a small way, but Jehu will be his servant on a great scale.


simplify: And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;


simplify: Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the glory of the children of God.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Reuben heard [it], and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.

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


simplify: and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof.

And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place.


rate difficulty: And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and she saith, `He <FI>is<Fi> sick.'

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


simplify: And Onan knew that the seed would 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 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.


rate difficulty: and all were going to be enrolled, each to his proper city,


simplify: Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.


rate difficulty: We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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


rate difficulty: Of the Hebronite, Hashabiah and his brethren, sons of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, <FI>are<Fi> over the inspection of Israel, beyond the Jordan westward, for all the work of Jehovah, and for the service of the king.

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


simplify: And if any one hath caused sorrow, he hath not caused sorrow to me, but in part, that I may not burden you all;

Now whoever has caused the pain has not so much pained me, as he has, to some extent — not to be too severe — pained every one of you.


simplify: and the field is the world, and the good seed, these are the sons of the reign, and the darnel are the sons of the evil one,

The field is the world. By the good seed is meant the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the wicked,


rate difficulty: and the chapiters on the two pillars also above, over-against the protuberance that <FI>is<Fi> beside the net; and the pomegranates <FI>are<Fi> two hundred, in rows round about on the second chapiter.

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


simplify: And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.


rate difficulty: And now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, `In three years, as years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab, With all the great multitude, And the remnant <FI>is<Fi> little, small, not mighty!'

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


rate difficulty: Now lettest thou thy servant depart, Lord, According to thy word, in peace;

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


rate difficulty: Her mouth she hath opened in wisdom, And the law of kindness <FI>is<Fi> on her tongue.


simplify: And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.


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

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


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

Now about that time, Jesus went out, up the hill, to pray, and spent the whole night in prayer to God.


simplify: the oath of Jehovah shall be between them both, whether he hath not put his hand unto his neighbor’s goods; and the owner thereof shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

If he takes his oath before the Lord that he has not put his hand to his neighbour's goods, the owner is to take his word for it and he will not have to make payment for it.


rate difficulty: I have been put to death on the cross with Christ; still I am living; no longer I, but Christ is living in me; and that life which I now am living in the flesh I am living by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who in love for me, gave himself up for me.

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


simplify: and commanded Judah to seek Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment.

And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.


rate difficulty: That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

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


simplify: Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him.


rate difficulty: And I saw a grey horse, and the name of him who was seated on it was Death; and Hell came after him. And there was given to them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to put to destruction by the sword, and by taking away their food, and by death, and by the beasts of the earth.


rate difficulty: the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,

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


simplify: The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;


simplify: When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;


rate difficulty: And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation: and all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.

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


simplify: And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.

And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.


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

Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.


simplify: And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me at noon.

And when Joseph saw Benjamin, he said to his chief servant, Take these men into my house, and make ready a meal, for they will take food with me in the middle of the day.


rate difficulty: Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread?


simplify: And the sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.


simplify: For whom Jehovah loveth he reproveth, Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

For to those who are dear to him the Lord says sharp words, and makes the son in whom he has delight undergo pain.


simplify: not to many peoples of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, if I sent thee to them, they would hearken unto thee.

Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.


rate difficulty: As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,

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


simplify: flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Shun all immorality. Every other sin that people commit is something outside the body; but an immoral person sins against their own body.


simplify: and to God <FI>are<Fi> thanks, who at all times is leading us in triumph in the Christ, and the fragrance of His knowledge He is manifesting through us in every place,

All thanks to God, who, through our union with the Christ, leads us in one continual triumph, and uses us to spread the sweet perfume of the knowledge of him in every place.


simplify: Jehovah repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah.

The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.


rate difficulty: Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

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


simplify: On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with scoffers.

On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.


simplify: And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.


simplify: and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the Rephaim, who was living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,


rate difficulty: And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when the whole nation had finished being circumcised, that they abode in their place in the camp, till they were whole.

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


simplify: And he said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.


simplify: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

not, of course, meaning people of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.


simplify: And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

In the thirty-ninth year of his rule, Asa had a very bad disease of the feet; but he did not go to the Lord for help in his disease, but to medical men.


simplify: Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.

Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.


rate difficulty: Then asked we those elders: thus we said to them, Who gave you orders to build this house and to complete this wall?

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


simplify: As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

As the sparrow in her wandering and the swallow in her flight, so the curse does not come without a cause.


simplify: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you, and give you peace.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold: inside and outside shalt thou overlay it; and shalt make upon it a border of gold round about.

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


simplify: For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah.

There is to be one law for you and for the man of another country living with you, one law for ever from generation to generation; as you are, so is he to be before the Lord.


simplify: A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish man despiseth his mother.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.


simplify: Deacons in like manner must be grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;


rate difficulty: Know that thus saith the Lord of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, and of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;

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


rate difficulty: But we had hoped that he was [the one] who is about to redeem Israel. But then, besides all these things, it is now, to-day, the third day since these things took place.


simplify: Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.


simplify: And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.


rate difficulty: And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

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


rate difficulty: that all the people turn back to the camp, unto Joshua, <FI>at<Fi> Makkedah, in peace; none moved sharply his tongue against the sons of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Isaac speaketh unto Abraham his father, and saith, `My father,' and he saith, `Here <FI>am<Fi> I, my son.' And he saith, `Lo, the fire and the wood, and where the lamb for a burnt-offering?'

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


rate difficulty: Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.


simplify: So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And the liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. And he brake them off his arms like a thread.

So Delilah took new thick cords, knotting them tightly round him, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And men were waiting secretly in the inner room. And the cords were broken off his arms like threads.


rate difficulty: I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

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


simplify: And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

I beg you, friends, to be on your guard against people who, by disregarding the teaching which you received, cause divisions and create difficulties; dissociate yourselves from them.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben–oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

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


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

and if I send them away to their homes hungry, they will break down on the way; and some of them have come a long distance.”


rate difficulty: Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:

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


simplify: But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.


simplify: If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,


rate difficulty: Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

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


simplify: So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.

Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.


simplify: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Ephraim, were forty thousand and five hundred.

Forty thousand, five hundred of the tribe of Ephraim were numbered.


rate difficulty: Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,

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


rate difficulty: But when ye have gone over the Jordan, and dwell in the land which Jehovah yourGod causeth you to inherit, and when he hath given you rest from all your enemies round about, and ye dwell in safety,

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


simplify: Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:

Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:


rate difficulty: And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will be theirGod.


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

And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.


simplify: Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel;

Son of man, give out a dark saying, and make a comparison for the children of Israel,


rate difficulty: Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

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


rate difficulty: If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

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


simplify: Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the Lord; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.

About Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame. This is what the Lord has said: Up! go against Kedar, and make an attack on the children of the east.


rate difficulty: But, when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd.   “Friends, why are you doing this?” they shouted.


rate difficulty: The Twelve, therefore, called together the general body of the disciples and said to them: “It is not well for us to see to the distribution at the tables and neglect God’s message.

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


simplify: He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: they are the holy garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on.

Let him put on the holy linen coat, and the linen trousers on his body, and the linen band round him, and the linen head-dress on his head; for this is holy clothing, and before he puts them on his body is to be washed with water.


rate difficulty: Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

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


simplify: And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;

And there was a sharp argument between them, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and went by ship to Cyprus;


simplify: And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:

That it may be used by Aaron and his sons for washing their hands and feet;


simplify: The children also of Memphis and Tahpanhes have broken the crown of thy head.

Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

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


rate difficulty: Of Dan, Azarel, the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying, It is because of that which Jehovah did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.

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


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.


rate difficulty: And ye have [the] unction from the holy [one], and ye know all things.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house,

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


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.

And he said to me, Son of man, is it possible for these bones to come to life? And I made answer, and said, It is for you to say, O Lord.


simplify: Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the Lord your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.


simplify: And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.


rate difficulty: The range of mountains <FI>is<Fi> his pasture, And after every green thing he seeketh.

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


rate difficulty: Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the flux shall be unclean; and every object on which he sitteth shall be unclean.

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


simplify: And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.

They are also seven kings; of whom five have fallen and one remains, while one is not yet come. When he comes, he must stay for a little while.


simplify: And they journeyed from Rimmon-perez, and encamped in Libnah.

And they went on from Rimmon-perez, and put up their tents in Libnah.


simplify: and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

But, if anyone has worldly possessions, and yet looks on while one of our own is in need, and steels their heart against that person, how can it be said that the love of God is within them?


simplify: That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Training the younger women to have love for their husbands and children,


rate difficulty: And like Absalom there was no man <FI>so<Fi> fair in all Israel, to praise greatly; from the sole of his foot even unto his crown there was no blemish in him;

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


simplify: He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person.

He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.


rate difficulty: His fellow-bondman therefore, having fallen down [at his feet], besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee.

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


simplify: for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;

Surely the person who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that they have been purified from their sins of the past!


simplify: because, according to <FI>their<Fi> power, I testify, and above <FI>their<Fi> power, they were willing of themselves,

I can bear witness that to the full extent of their power, and even beyond their power, spontaneously,


simplify: Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.


rate difficulty: And on their way down to the end of the town, Samuel said to Saul, Give your servant orders to go on in front of us, (so he went on,) but you keep here, so that I may give you the word of God.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding the cities of the Levites, and the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

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


simplify: Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.


simplify: The sons of Benjamin after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites:

The sons of Benjamin by their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites: of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites: of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites: