simplify: Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,


simplify: and they said, `What need yet have we of testimony? for we ourselves did hear <FI>it<Fi> from his mouth.'

At this they exclaimed: “Why do we want any more evidence? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”


rate difficulty: And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.

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


simplify: And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.


simplify: And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?


simplify: But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.


simplify: The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

love is long-suffering, and kind; love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;


simplify: So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.


simplify: In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s passover.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;


simplify: And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he hath told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their hand.

And when Delilah saw that he had let her see into his heart, she sent word to the chiefs of the Philistines saying, Come up this time, for he has let out all his heart to me. Then the chiefs of the Philistines came to her, with the money in their hands.


rate difficulty: I became to the weak, [as] weak, in order that I might gain the weak. To all I have become all things, in order that at all events I might save some.


rate difficulty: And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

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


simplify: And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.


simplify: And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

Now when Hadad had news in Egypt that David had been put to rest with his fathers, and that Joab, the captain of the army, was dead, he said to Pharaoh, Send me back to my country.


simplify: And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Then the man, in whom this wicked spirit was, sprang on them, mastered both of them, and so completely overpowered them, that they fled out of the house, stripped of their clothes, and wounded.


simplify: If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the trial of the innocent.

If death comes suddenly through disease, he makes sport of the fate of those who have done no wrong.


rate difficulty: And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

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


simplify: who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?

And who, by the lips of our ancestor, your servant David, who spoke under the influence of the Holy Spirit, have said —  ‘Why did the nations rage, And the peoples form vain designs?


rate difficulty: The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.


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

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


rate difficulty: The purchase of the field, and of the cave that is in it, was from the children of Heth.


simplify: And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about; and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.


rate difficulty: Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

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


simplify: Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.


rate difficulty: And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released:

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


simplify: `And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,

As soon as they have completed their testimony, ‘the wild Beast that ascends from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer’ and kill them.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> journeyings of the sons of Israel by their hosts--and they journey.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him saying, Thus saith Jehovah: In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.

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


simplify: And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with John, said, Look on us.

And Peter, looking at him, with John, said, Keep your eyes on us.


simplify: And when he entered into the boat his disciples did follow him,

Then he got into the boat, followed by his disciples.


simplify: Then touched he their eyes, saying, `According to your faith let it be to you,'

Then he touched their eyes, and said: “It will be according to your faith.”


simplify: For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.


simplify: And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.

And he said to him, I am the Lord, who took you from Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land for your heritage.


simplify: And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

I will send you out, and your mother who gave you birth, into another country not the land of your birth; and there death will come to you.


simplify: As regards, indeed, the good tidings, <FI>they are<Fi> enemies on your account; and as regards the choice--beloved on account of the fathers;

From the standpoint of the good news, the Jews are God’s enemies for your sake; but from the standpoint of God’s selection, they are dear to him for the sake of the Patriarchs.


simplify: And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb a year old for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtle-dove, for a sin-offering, unto the door of the tent of meeting, unto the priest:

And when the days are ended for making her clean for a son or a daughter, let her take to the priest at the door of the Tent of meeting, a lamb of the first year for a burned offering and a young pigeon or a dove for a sin-offering:


simplify: They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they have borne strange children: now shall the new moon devour them with their fields.

They have been false to the Lord; they have given birth to strange children; now the new moon will make them waste with their fields.


simplify: It shall turn out unto you for a testimony.

And it will be turned to a witness for you.


simplify: And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the princes of Balak, Get you into your land; for Jehovah refuseth to give me leave to go with you.

In the morning Balaam got up and said to the chiefs of Balak, Go back to your land, for the Lord will not let me go with you.


simplify: Which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.

Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt couple five of the curtains by themselves, and six of the curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the front of the tent.

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


simplify: And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

And be like men who are looking for their lord, when he comes back from the bride-feast; so that when he comes to the door, it will be open to him quickly.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

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


simplify: saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.

Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.


rate difficulty: And the king and Haman came to drink with Esther the queen.

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


simplify: Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.

Now Moses was looking after the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian: and he took the flock to the back of the waste land and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.


rate difficulty: For the mystery of lawlessness already works; only [there is] he who restrains now until he be gone,

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


simplify: Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.


simplify: And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,

When King Herod heard of this, he was much troubled, and so, too, was all Jerusalem.


simplify: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Let the wrong-doer continue to do wrong; the filthy-minded continue to be filthy; the righteous continue to act righteously; and the holy-minded continue to be holy.’


simplify: But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.


rate difficulty: And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded: Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread that I gave you to eat in the wilderness, when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.

Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.


simplify: Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the Lord, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.


rate difficulty: Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Simon, Simon, Satan has made a request to have you, so that he may put you to the test as grain is tested:

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


simplify: For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

for, just as lightning will start from the east and flash across to the west, so will it be with the coming of the Son of Man.


simplify: And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.


rate difficulty: then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people.

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


rate difficulty: So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.


rate difficulty: And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.

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


simplify: The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.


rate difficulty: Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

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


simplify: And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and seized him, and brought him into the council,

And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,


rate difficulty: The baptism of John, whence was it? from heaven, or of men? And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him?

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


rate difficulty: And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;

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


simplify: And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

As for the woman whom you saw, she is the great city that holds sway over all the kings of the earth.’


simplify: Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spake all his words before Jehovah in Mizpah.

So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.


simplify: In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.


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

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


rate difficulty: If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

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


rate difficulty: Hezrai the Carmelite, Paarai the Arbite,

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


rate difficulty: This is that Benaiah, who was the mighty man of the thirty, and over the thirty: and of his course was Ammizabad his son.

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


rate difficulty: And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.


rate difficulty: And they smote of the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. And the people were very faint;


rate difficulty: Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

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


simplify: And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.

‘Child,’ the father answered, ‘you are always with me, and everything that I have is yours.


simplify: For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

For God’s will is this — that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.


simplify: They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

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


simplify: And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left.

Now while they were on their way, news was given to David that Absalom had put to death all the sons of the king and that not one of them was still living.


rate difficulty: and for the rising, and for the scab, and for the bright spot,


simplify: Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counsellor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons:

Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in discussion, and a man of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni, had the care of the king's sons;


simplify: The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.

The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? give me an answer.


simplify: of gold by weight for the vessels of gold, for all vessels of every kind of service; of silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for all vessels of every kind of service;

Of gold, by weight, for the vessels of gold, for all the vessels of different uses; and silver for all the vessels of silver by weight, for vessels of different uses;


rate difficulty: My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto Korah, Hear, I pray you, ye sons of Levi:

And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:


simplify: Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow:

A man went out to put seed in the earth:


rate difficulty: Therefore many from among them believed, and of Grecian women of the upper classes and men not a few.

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


rate difficulty: And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

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


simplify: Your country is desolate; your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.


simplify: So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting upon his seat by the door-post of the temple of Jehovah.

So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And having assembled with the elders, and having taken counsel, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

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


simplify: Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.


simplify: On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”


rate difficulty: And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.

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


simplify: Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?


rate difficulty: And, just as the weeds are gathered and burnt, so it will be at the close of the age.

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


rate difficulty: and Chephar-Haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities and their villages.

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


simplify: Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

Dear friends, since God loved us in this way, we, surely, ought to love one another.


simplify: For it is a jubilee; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.

For it is the Jubilee, and it is holy to you; your food will be the natural increase of the field.


simplify: For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.


rate difficulty: They put him in chains and led him away, and gave him up to the Roman Governor, Pilate.


simplify: And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,

Then the sixth angel blew; and I heard a voice proceeding from the corners of the golden altar that stood before God.


rate difficulty: And he brought me to the entry of the gate of Jehovah's house that was toward the north; and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.

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


rate difficulty: and strip him, and bear away his head, and his weapons, and send into the land of the Philistines round about to proclaim tidings <FI>to<Fi> their idols and the people,

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


rate difficulty: Melchiah, Addi, Cosam, Elmodam, Er,


rate difficulty: Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,

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


simplify: Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.


rate difficulty: I beheld the earth, and lo, it was waste and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.


simplify: Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to the messengers that had come, Thus shall ye say to the men of Jabesh-Gilead: To-morrow ye shall have deliverance when the sun is hot. And the messengers came and informed the men of Jabesh-Gilead; and they were glad.

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


rate difficulty: And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were made well.


simplify: What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?


simplify: The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.

The children of Parosh, two thousand, one hundred and seventy-two.


rate difficulty: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount 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 Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.

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


simplify: The caravans of Tema looked, The companies of Sheba waited for them.

The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:


simplify: No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal: Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies.

There is no need to say anything about coral or crystal; and the value of wisdom is greater than that of pearls.


simplify: The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! And wisdom is justified by her works.

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.


simplify: But think on me when it shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:


simplify: And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

This is the list of David's men of war: Ishbaal, the son of a Hachmonite, the chief of the three: he put to death three hundred at one time with his spear.


simplify: But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the Lord shall forgive her.

But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.


simplify: But shall minister with their brethren in the tabernacle of the congregation, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charge.

But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.


simplify: And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

After three months, we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island. She was an Alexandrian vessel, and had the Twin sons of Zeus for her figure-head.


rate difficulty: And Balaam goeth with Balak, and they come to Kirjath-Huzoth,

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rate difficulty: And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.

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simplify: (But there was none like unto Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.


simplify: And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

And he took the measure of its wall, one hundred and forty-four cubits, after the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.


rate difficulty: Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;

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rate difficulty: Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And Judah and all its towns will be living there together; the farmers and those who go about with flocks.


simplify: And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

So the king of Aram said, Go then; and I will send a letter to the king of Israel. And he went, taking with him ten talents of silver and six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.


simplify: And having looked round on them all, he said to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other;

Then, looking around at them all, he said to the man: “Stretch out your hand.”The man did so; and his hand had become sound.


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

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


simplify: It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.


simplify: A wicked man hardeneth his face: but as for the upright, he directeth his way.

The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many.


simplify: And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

Then will ‘Wickedness Incarnate’ appear, but the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his lips, and annihilate him by the splendor of his coming.


simplify: And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And I will make my agreement with you; never again will all flesh be cut off by the waters; never again will the waters come over all the earth for its destruction.


rate difficulty: and I have brought you in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and have given it to you--a possession; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.'

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simplify: Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made ‘in God’s likeness.’


simplify: And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, And the good will of him that dwelt in the bush. Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers.


rate difficulty: And Joshua saith unto the people, `Witnesses ye are against yourselves, that ye have chosen for you Jehovah to serve Him (and they say, `Witnesses!')

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rate difficulty: Ashkelon will see it with fear, and Gaza, bent with pain; and Ekron, for her hope will be shamed: and the king will be cut off from Gaza, and Ashkelon will be unpeopled.


simplify: And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Ahimaaz,


rate difficulty: For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. And wouldest thou have no fear of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise from the same:

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


rate difficulty: And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

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simplify: And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.

The brass which was given was seventy talents, two thousand four hundred shekels;


rate difficulty: Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! Should I find thee without, I would kiss thee; And they would not despise me.


rate difficulty: For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

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simplify: And Jesus said, `Forbid him not, for there is no one who shall do a mighty work in my name, and shall be able readily to speak evil of me:

“None of you must prevent the man,”answered Jesus, “for no one will use my name in working a miracle, and yet find it easy to speak evil of me.


simplify: And Simon and they that were with him followed after him.

And Simon and those who were with him came after him.


rate difficulty: And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

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simplify: and he said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven, or on earth; who keepest covenant and lovingkindness with thy servants, that walk before thee with all their heart;

And he said, O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth; keeping faith and mercy unchanging for your servants, while they go in your ways with all their hearts;


rate difficulty: Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

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simplify: And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.


rate difficulty: And I saw on the right hand of him that sat upon the throne a book, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

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rate difficulty: The assemblies therefore were confirmed in the faith, and increased in number every day.

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rate difficulty: And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

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rate difficulty: So Joab blew a trumpet, and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

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simplify: For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.


simplify: If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.


rate difficulty: He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

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rate difficulty: and Jesus answering said to them, `Think ye that these Galileans became sinners beyond all the Galileans, because they have suffered such things?

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simplify: And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.


simplify: All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.


rate difficulty: and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty man among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Jozabad the Gederathite,

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rate difficulty: lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

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simplify: Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.

Then Jeremiah said to all the rulers and to all the people, The Lord has sent me as his prophet to say against this house and against this town all the words which have come to your ears.


simplify: And the skilfully woven band, that was upon it, wherewith to gird it on, was of the same piece and like the work thereof; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And the beautifully worked band which went on it was of the same design and the same material, worked in gold and blue and purple and red and twisted linen-work, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedmah.

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


simplify: When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

On hearing this, they were baptized into the faith of the Lord Jesus,


simplify: And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots.

And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;


simplify: And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.


simplify: Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.


rate difficulty: From the brightness before him Burned forth coals of fire.

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


rate difficulty: He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread; But he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

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simplify: Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.

Now that you have made search through all my goods, what have you seen which is yours? Make it clear now before my people and your people, so that they may be judges between us.


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

And let this fiftieth year be kept holy, and say publicly that everyone in the land is free from debt: it is the Jubilee, and every man may go back to his heritage and to his family.


rate difficulty: A scattered sheep is Israel, lions have driven away, At first, devour him did the king of Asshur, And now, at last, broken his bone Hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

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rate difficulty: `Reform! and if not, I come to thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

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simplify: for if the things I threw down, these again I build up, a transgressor I set myself forth;

For, if I rebuild the things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong.


rate difficulty: and they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill, and under every green tree;

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simplify: My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbor, If thou hast stricken thy hands for a stranger;

My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,


simplify: As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

For his divine power has given us everything that is needful for a life of piety, as we advance in the knowledge of him who called us by a glorious manifestation of his goodness.


rate difficulty: But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.

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rate difficulty: If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

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


rate difficulty: And when he had come into the Temple, the chief priests and those in authority over the people came to him while he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?

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rate difficulty: A hearing ear, and a seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.


simplify: and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;


rate difficulty: And his relatives having heard [of it] went out to lay hold on him, for they said, He is out of his mind.

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simplify: so that ye became patterns to all those believing in Macedonia and Achaia,

and so became a pattern to all who believed in Christ throughout Macedonia and Greece.


rate difficulty: In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and unto Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, saying:

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


rate difficulty: Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

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


rate difficulty: and he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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


rate difficulty: Ho, ye who are desiring the day of Jehovah, Why <FI>is<Fi> this to you--the day of Jehovah? It is darkness, and not light,

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rate difficulty: All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.


simplify: In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.

In that day there will be a fountain open to the family of David and to the people of Jerusalem, for sin and for that which is unclean.


simplify: And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

If there is division in a kingdom, that kingdom will come to destruction;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.


rate difficulty: And all the women whose heart moved them in wisdom spun goats' [hair].


simplify: Like as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I enter into judgment with you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

As I took up the cause with your fathers in the waste land of the land of Egypt, so will I take up the cause with you says the Lord.


simplify: Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.

They went without turning, every one went straight forward.


simplify: And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.

And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Gad by their families.


simplify: He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and passeth over to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

He who keeps in this town will come to his death by the sword and through need of food and through disease; but he who goes out and gives himself up to the Chaldaeans who are shutting you in, will go on living, and will keep his life safe.


rate difficulty: What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?

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


simplify: These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

These men have the power to close the heavens, so that ‘no rain may fall’ during the time that they are teaching; and they have power ‘to turn the streams into blood, and to smite the land with any curse,’ whenever they will.


simplify: And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him.

And Joseph had Manasseh and Ephraim in the land of Egypt, by Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On.


rate difficulty: And he answering said to them, Elias indeed comes first and will restore all things.

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simplify: And the Spirit of Jehovah fell upon me, and he said unto me, Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Thus have ye said, O house of Israel; for I know the things that come into your mind.

And the spirit of the Lord came on me, and he said to me, Say, These are the words of the Lord: This is what you have said, O children of Israel; what comes into your mind is clear to me.


simplify: (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)

(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)


simplify: And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.


rate difficulty: that setteth his heart to seek God, Jehovah, the God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.

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simplify: And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.

And he was unable to do any work of power there, but only to put his hands on one or two persons who were ill, and make them well.


simplify: And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.


simplify: And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

God has power to shower all kinds of blessings on you, so that, having, under all circumstances and on all occasions, all that you can need, you may be able to shower all kinds of benefits on others.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when Joshua speaketh unto the people, that the seven priests bearing seven trumpets of the jubilee before Jehovah have passed over and blown with the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is going after them;

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


rate difficulty: Then the disciples understood that he spoke to them of John the baptist.

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simplify: That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

That all of you have made designs against me, and not one of you gave me word when my son made an agreement with the son of Jesse, and not one of you has pity for me or has made my eyes open to the fact that my servant has been moved by my son against me, as at this day?


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

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


simplify: And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.

And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.


rate difficulty: In future the children of Israel are not to come near the Tent of meeting, so that death may not come to them because of sin.

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rate difficulty: The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.


rate difficulty: Be not led astray, my brethren beloved;

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


rate difficulty: And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah; Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Perez;

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simplify: To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?


rate difficulty: And by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth–shean and her towns, Taanach and her towns, Megiddo and her towns, Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel.

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


simplify: and they said among themselves, `Who shall roll away for us the stone out of the door of the sepulchre?'

They were saying to one another: “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”


rate difficulty: All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

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


simplify: In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof threescore cubits;

In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;


simplify: and a certain one of those standing by, having drawn the sword, struck the servant of the chief priest, and took off his ear.

One of those who were standing by drew his sword, and struck at the high priest’s servant, and cut off his ear.


simplify: And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were sore afraid.

And all the men of Israel, when they saw him, went in flight, overcome with fear.


rate difficulty: thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

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rate difficulty: Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.


simplify: for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,

For you are all sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: And if it be from sixty years old and upward; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.


simplify: The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.


simplify: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, be with his people.


rate difficulty: And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.


simplify: And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:

This, then, is the confidence in regard to God that we have gained through the Christ.


rate difficulty: Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;


rate difficulty: and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.

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


simplify: And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.

And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.


rate difficulty: Come to Beth-el, and transgress; to Gilgal, and multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three days;


simplify: Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy hordes, and the peoples that are with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.

On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.


rate difficulty: His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

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


rate difficulty: But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

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


simplify: Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.


simplify: The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,


simplify: I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.

My ears have been open to the bitter words of Moab and the words of shame of the children of Ammon, which they have said against my people, lifting themselves up against the limit of their land.


simplify: He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

He who makes a hole for others will himself go into it, and for him who makes a hole through a wall the bite of a snake will be a punishment.


rate difficulty: and if he ask a fish, will give him a serpent?

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


simplify: And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.


simplify: And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

And Pharaoh said, Truly, the people of the land are increasing in number, and you are keeping them back from their work.


simplify: And commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, save a staff only; no scrip, no bread, no money in their purse:

And he said that they were to take nothing for their journey, but a stick only; no bread, no bag, no money in their pockets;


simplify: And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah: and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about.

And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.


rate difficulty: Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,

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


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

And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, but Jesus only.


rate difficulty: For I say not this that others may be eased and ye distressed;

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


rate difficulty: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, And the years of thy life shall be increased.

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


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

The number of his army was fifty-nine thousand, three hundred.


simplify: For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God’s message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God’s commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.


rate difficulty: But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

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


rate difficulty: Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeribai, and Joshaviah, sons of Elnaam, and Ithmah the Moabite,

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


simplify: And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.


simplify: All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.

All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.


rate difficulty: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.


rate difficulty: And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

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


simplify: But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.


simplify: of their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

Their men who were still living in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not put an end to, these Solomon put to forced work, as is done to this day;


rate difficulty: The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

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


simplify: But when he heard these things, he became exceeding sorrowful; for he was very rich.

But at these words he became very sad, for he had great wealth.


rate difficulty: Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.


rate difficulty: And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thy hand with thy rod over the rivers, over the streams, and over the pools, and cause frogs to come up upon the land of Egypt.

And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the streams and the waterways and the pools, causing frogs to come up on the land of Egypt.


simplify: Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.

Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you.


simplify: If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;


rate difficulty: who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,

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


simplify: And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.


rate difficulty: So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

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


simplify: And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.


rate difficulty: And I give [my] opinion in this, for this is profitable for you who began before, not only to do, but also to be willing, a year ago.

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,


simplify: and another messenger did come forth out from the altar, having authority over the fire, and he called with a great cry to him having the sharp sickle, saying, `Send forth thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, because come to perfection have her grapes;'

Then another angel came out of the altar; he had power over fire, and he called in a loud voice to the angel that had the sharp sickle — ‘Take your sharp sickle, and gather the bunches from the Vine of Earth, for its grapes are ripe.’


simplify: And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for thee, and for all thy father’s house?

As for your asses which have been wandering for three days, give no thought to them, for they have come back. And for whom are all the desired things in Israel? are they not for you and your father's family?


simplify: And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name of the Lord?

Then the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?


rate difficulty: And he measured the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was inward.

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


simplify: And when the men of that place knew him, they sent into all that region round about, and brought unto him all that were sick;

And when the men of that place had news of him, they sent into all the country round about, and took to him all who were ill,


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon him that smote them, but shall lean upon Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

And it will be in that day that the rest of Israel, and those of Jacob who have come safely through these troubles, will no longer go for help to him whose rod was on their back, but their faith will be in the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, so that they cannot arise: Yea, they are fallen under my feet.

I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.


simplify: But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.


simplify: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? Forrichescertainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.


simplify: And Jehovah thy God will make thee plenteous in all the work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good: for Jehovah will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers;

And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:


simplify: Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.


simplify: For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will send on her disease and blood in her streets; and the wounded will be falling in the middle of her, and the sword will be against her on every side; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you.


simplify: And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you.


rate difficulty: The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.


rate difficulty: And the seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us through thy name.

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


rate difficulty: And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

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


simplify: for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life — that person will save it.


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

vacillating as they are, irresolute at every turn.


simplify: And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,

And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,


simplify: And if the Lord thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;

And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;


rate difficulty: And looking around in a circuit at those that were sitting around him, he says, Behold my mother and my brethren:

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


simplify: And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

And the people said, This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.


simplify: `And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive--thou--thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

‘Child,’ answered Abraham, ‘remember that you in your lifetime received what you thought desirable, just as Lazarus received what was not desirable; but now he has his consolation here, while you are suffering agony.


simplify: and he being minded to go through into Achaia, the brethren wrote to the disciples, having exhorted them to receive him, who having come, did help them much who have believed through the grace,

When he wanted to cross to Greece, the followers furthered his plans, and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival he proved of great assistance to those who had, through the loving kindness of God, become believers in Christ,


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, and behold the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.


simplify: And of the sons of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.

And of the sons of Immer, Hanani and Zebadiah.


simplify: That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.


simplify: And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and the other side of Jordan, and the country about Tyre and Sidon, a great number, hearing what great things he did, came to him.


rate difficulty: And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart by themselves: and he was transfigured before them;

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


rate difficulty: concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, as to his human nature, was descended from David,

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


simplify: Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth–anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh and of Beth–anath became tributaries unto them.

Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work.


rate difficulty: I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

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


simplify: Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!


rate difficulty: Concerning this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.

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


simplify: And we have the word of prophecy made more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;


rate difficulty: And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.

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


simplify: Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

For my hope is to visit you on my journey, and then to be sent on my way by you, after I have first partly satisfied myself by seeing something of you.


rate difficulty: and charged them strictly that they should not make him publicly known:

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


rate difficulty: But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,


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

And they took the boy in, living, and were greatly comforted.


rate difficulty: The heart of her husband confideth in her, and he shall have no lack of spoil.

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


rate difficulty: But he denied, saying, Woman, I know him not.

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


rate difficulty: And as some spoke of the temple, that it was adorned with goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,

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


rate difficulty: And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Where do you come from? And the Satan said in answer, From wandering this way and that on the earth, and walking about on it.


rate difficulty: All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

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


simplify: And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou art also of them. And Peter said, Man, I am not.

And after a little time, another saw him and said, You are one of them; and he said, Man, I am not.


simplify: The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?


rate difficulty: every day also in the temple, and in every house, they were not ceasing teaching and proclaiming good news--Jesus the Christ.

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


simplify: And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

And the bow will be in the cloud, and looking on it, I will keep in mind the eternal agreement between God and every living thing on the earth.


rate difficulty: Jehovah therefore shall be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and do me justice [in delivering me] out of thy hand.

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


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he became king, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


simplify: The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

It was the purpose of the Lord of armies to put pride to shame, to make sport of the glory of those who are honoured in the earth.


simplify: The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to Moses and Aaron, with orders for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

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


simplify: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.


simplify: Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.


rate difficulty: As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

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


simplify: When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

When they put out their young leaves, you take note of it, and it is clear to you that summer is coming.


rate difficulty: Now there are different qualities given to men, but the same Spirit.


simplify: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit of Jehovah prospereth over him, and he goeth down to Ashkelon, and smiteth of them thirty men, and taketh their armour, and giveth the changes to those declaring the riddle; and his anger burneth, and he goeth up to the house of his father;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

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


simplify: And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maacah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

And Sheba went through all the tribes of Israel, to Abel of Beth-maacah; and all the Bichrites came together and went in after him.


simplify: And as Jesus came up to the place, having looked up, he saw him, and said unto him, `Zaccheus, having hastened, come down, for to-day in thy house it behoveth me to remain;'

When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him: “Zacchaeus, be quick and come down, for I must stop at your house today.”


simplify: And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

And, in the east, I saw another angel, ascending, holding the seal of the living God; and he cried in a loud voice to the four angels, to whom there had been given power to harm the earth and the sea —


simplify: Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben–ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.

Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.


simplify: And if the priest shall come in, and look upon it, and, behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house was plaistered: then the priest shall pronounce the house clean, because the plague is healed.

And if the priest comes in, and sees that the disease is not increased after the new paste has been put on the house, then the priest will say that the house is clean, because the disease is gone.


simplify: The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,

And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;


rate difficulty: And his wife Jehudijah bare Jered the father of Gedor, and Heber the father of Socho, and Jekuthiel the father of Zanoah. And these are the sons of Bithiah the daughter of Pharaoh, which Mered took.

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


rate difficulty: to which I have been appointed a herald and apostle and teacher of [the] nations.


simplify: And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

But he who is in doubt is judged if he takes food, because he does it not in faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.


simplify: for what is there in which ye were inferior to the rest of the assemblies, except that I myself was not a burden to you? forgive me this injustice!

In what respect, I ask, were you treated worse than the other churches, unless it was that, for my part, I refused to become a burden to you? Forgive me the wrong I did to you!


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

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


simplify: Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.

Israel has given up what is good; his haters will go after him.


simplify: and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.


simplify: Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast labored from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Go on now with your secret arts, and all your wonder-working, to which you have given yourself up from your earliest days; it may be that they will be of profit to you, or by them you may put fear into your attackers.


simplify: Was he not most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.


simplify: And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!

And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!


simplify: Then he mustered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty-two: and after them he mustered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.

Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.


simplify: Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

“Do not you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is afterwards expelled?


rate difficulty: Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

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


rate difficulty: and the king Zedekiah sendeth, and taketh him, and the king asketh him in his house in secret, and saith, `Is there a word from Jehovah?' And Jeremiah saith, `There is,' and he saith, `Into the hand of the king of Babylon thou art given.'

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


simplify: and into whatever city ye enter, and they may receive you, eat the things set before you,

Whatever town you visit, if the people welcome you, eat what is set before you;


simplify: And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?

and then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, said to Jesus: “Are you staying by yourself at Jerusalem, that you have not heard of the things that have happened there within the last few days?”


simplify: Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

Then Baruch, answering, said, He said all these things to me by word of mouth, and I put them down with ink in the book.


simplify: Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and the base thereof of brass, whereat to wash. And thou shalt put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.

You are to make a brass washing-vessel, with a brass base; and put it between the Tent of meeting and the altar, with water in it;