simplify: and as they were affrighted and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

And while their faces were bent down to the earth in fear, these said to them, Why are you looking for the living among the dead?


rate difficulty: And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.

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


simplify: What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

What is your opinion? They made answer and said, It is right for him to be put to death.


rate difficulty: And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

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


simplify: suffer both to grow together till the harvest, and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the darnel, and bind it in bundles, to burn it, and the wheat gather up into my storehouse.'

Let both grow side by side until harvest; and then I will say to the reapers, Gather the weeds together first, and tie them in bundles for burning; but bring all the wheat into my barn.’”


simplify: and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts:

And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;


simplify: He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.

And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.


simplify: And I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:

And I took them into the house of the Lord, into the room of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the rulers' room, which was over the room of Maaseiah, the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door;


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

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


rate difficulty: Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.

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


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

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


simplify: The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:

The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> the law for burnt-offering, for present, and for sin-offering, and for guilt-offering, and for consecrations, and for a sacrifice of the peace-offerings,

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


simplify: I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repenteth him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turneth to his course, as a horse that rusheth headlong in the battle.

I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.


simplify: and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

and a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.


simplify: And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

On getting to the other side — the country of the Gadarenes — Jesus met two men who were possessed by demons, coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one was able to pass that way.


simplify: For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.


simplify: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.

Which is not another sort: only there are some who give you trouble, desiring to make changes in the good news of Christ.


rate difficulty: So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.

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


simplify: And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.


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

Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:


simplify: This is now, beloved, the second epistle that I write unto you; and in both of them I stir up your sincere mind by putting you in remembrance;

My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;


simplify: And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

And they were all weeping, falling on Paul's neck and kissing him,


simplify: I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.


simplify: for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.

Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.


simplify: Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

You may have as food any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot, and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again.


simplify: and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,


simplify: For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God destined us, not for wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,


simplify: She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.


simplify: Is he the God of the Jews only? is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also:

Or can it be that God is the God only of the Jews? Is not he also the God of the Gentiles?


simplify: and ye did not so learn the Christ,

But far different is the lesson you learned from the Christ — if, that is, you really listened to him,


simplify: Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men in whom he is well pleased.

Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.


simplify: But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

You, however, must now lay aside all such things — anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse.


rate difficulty: and the priest hath brought it near unto the altar, and hath wrung off its head, and hath made perfume on the altar, and its blood hath been wrung out by the side of the altar;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?


rate difficulty: And ye mountains of Israel shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel: for they are at hand to come.

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


simplify: Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:

And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar;


rate difficulty: There <FI>is<Fi> Elam, and all her multitude, Round about <FI>is<Fi> her grave, All of them wounded, who are falling by sword, Who have gone down uncircumcised unto the earth--the lower parts, Because they gave their terror in the land of the living, And they bear their shame with those going down to the pit.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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


rate difficulty: But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

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


simplify: And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word of the Lord.

And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Israel was waxed strong, that they put the Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.

And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.


rate difficulty: clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

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


rate difficulty: A provocation to his father <FI>is<Fi> a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.


simplify: And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.

And those men who were not overtaken by death were cruelly diseased: and the cry of the town went up to heaven.


simplify: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

and, noticing a fig-tree at a distance in leaf, he went to it to see if by any chance he could find something on it; but, on coming up to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.


simplify: And Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said unto them, These are the words which Jehovah hath commanded, that ye should do them.

And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.


simplify: and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible;

Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.


simplify: Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, which hath put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem:

Praise be to the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing into the heart of the king, to make fair the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem;


rate difficulty: And Moses taketh the tent, and hath stretched it out at the outside of the camp, afar off from the camp, and hath called it, `Tent of Meeting;' and it hath come to pass, every one seeking Jehovah goeth out unto the tent of meeting, which <FI>is<Fi> at the outside of the camp.

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


rate difficulty: Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.

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


rate difficulty: And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances.

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


rate difficulty: And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher, one portion.

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


rate difficulty: A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled <FI>is<Fi> wisdom.

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


simplify: Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

To the eternal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.


simplify: But I tell you of a truth, There are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

But truly I say to you, Some of those who are here now will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.


simplify: So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

So, being sent out by the Holy Spirit, they went down to Seleucia; and from there they went by ship to Cyprus.


simplify: Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.

Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.


simplify: Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

An attempt was made by some itinerant Jews, who were exorcists, to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had wicked spirits in them.   “I order you,” they would say, “by the Jesus, whom Paul preaches.”


rate difficulty: Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

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


rate difficulty: For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.

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


simplify: And he passed through the hill-country of Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shaalim, and there they were not: and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not.

So they went through the hill-country of Ephraim and through the land of Shalishah, but they saw no sign of them: then they went through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there: and they went through the land of the Benjamites, but they did not come across them.


rate difficulty: And said to him, Let me not be judged as a sinner in your eyes, O my lord, and do not keep in mind the wrong I did on the day when my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, or take it to heart.

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


simplify: and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose, and was ministering to them.

On his taking her hand, the fever left her, and she rose and began to take care of him.


simplify: And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.


simplify: whom he gathered together, with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this business we have our wealth.

Whom he got together, with other workmen of the same trade, and said to them, Men, it is clear that from this business we get our wealth.


rate difficulty: Before certain persons came from James, he had been in the habit of eating with the Gentile converts; but, when they came, he began to withdraw and hold aloof, because he was afraid of offending those who still held to circumcision.

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


simplify: (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), a man of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews, who was looking for the kingdom of God:

(He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:


simplify: And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and was teaching them on the sabbaths,

Then Jesus went down to Capernaum, a city in Galilee. On the Sabbath he taught the people.


simplify: And it shall be, when Jehovah shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.


simplify: and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-trees in abundance to David.

And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.


simplify: His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

‘Well done, good, trustworthy servant!’ said his master. ‘You have been trustworthy with a small sum; now I will place a large one in your hands; come and share your master’s joy!’


simplify: `Happy are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach, and shall cast forth your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake--

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they expel you from among them, and insult you, and reject your name as an evil thing — because of the Son of Man.


rate difficulty: And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: verily I say to you, whoever may not receive the reign of God, as a child--he may not enter into it;'

I tell you, unless a person receives the kingdom of God like a child, they will not enter it at all.”


simplify: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.


rate difficulty: And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

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


simplify: For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.

For Moses, from times long past, has his preachers in every town, reading his law in the Synagogues every Sabbath.


rate difficulty: The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.

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


simplify: wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

In my judgment, therefore, we should not add to the difficulties of those Gentiles who are turning to God,


simplify: And Ner begat Kish; and Kish begat Saul; and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi–shua, and Abinadab, and Esh–baal.

And Ner was the father of Kish; and Kish was the father of Saul; and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.


simplify: A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.


rate difficulty: Thou pursuest in anger, and destroyest them, From under the heavens of Jehovah!

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


rate difficulty: And he that had the right of redemption said, I cannot redeem [it] for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance. Redeem thou for thyself what I should redeem, for I cannot redeem [it].

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


rate difficulty: Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

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


simplify: For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.


simplify: And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

And he put the male sheep of the burned offering before the Lord, and Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head,


simplify: Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

So go to the cross-roads, and invite everyone you find to the banquet.’


simplify: and the men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.


simplify: I charge thee in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.


rate difficulty: the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam,


rate difficulty: And he made the utensils that were on the table, the dishes thereof, and the cups thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the goblets with which to pour out, of pure gold.

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


rate difficulty: If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For he that is dead is freed from sin.

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


simplify: But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.

while Israel, which was in search of a law which would ensure righteousness, failed to discover one.


rate difficulty: Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

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


simplify: and give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for which I have made provision.

And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.


simplify: Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which Jehovah of hosts had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets: therefore there came great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.

And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: AndGod helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-Baal, and the Maonites.


simplify: And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.


rate difficulty: the <FI>son<Fi> of Joanna, the <FI>son<Fi> of Rhesa, the <FI>son<Fi> of Zerubbabel, the <FI>son<Fi> of Shealtiel,

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


simplify: We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.

In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.


rate difficulty: For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

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


simplify: And Jeshua begat Joiakim, Joiakim also begat Eliashib, and Eliashib begat Joiada,

And Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, and Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, and Eliashib was the father of Joiada,


simplify: And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: take one young bullock and two rams without blemish,

This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,


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

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


simplify: And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, draining out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burned offering.


simplify: `And he was angry, and would not go in, therefore his father, having come forth, was entreating him;

This made him angry, and he would not go in. But his father came out and begged him to do so.


rate difficulty: and did not find what they could do, for all the people hung on him to hear.


simplify: On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.


simplify: Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.


simplify: His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.

His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.


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

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


simplify: And the seventh poured out his bowl upon the air; and there came forth a great voice out of the temple, from the throne, saying, It is done:

And the seventh let what was in his vessel come out on the air; and there came out a great voice from the house of God, from the high seat, saying, It is done.


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

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


simplify: I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal–peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.


simplify: And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.

These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.


rate difficulty: If his master have given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out alone.

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


simplify: So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.


simplify: Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

And the army of your attackers will be like small dust, and all the cruel ones like dry stems gone before the wind; suddenly it will come about.


rate difficulty: So that his glory might have praise through us who first had hope in Christ:

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


simplify: And the sons of Shimon were, Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben–hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi were, Zoheth, and Ben–zoheth.

And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ...


rate difficulty: According to all the works that they have done from the day of My bringing them up out of Egypt, even unto this day, when they forsake Me, and serve other gods--so they are doing also to thee.

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


rate difficulty: And he refuseth to turn aside, and Abner smiteth him with the hinder part of the spear unto the fifth <FI>rib<Fi> , and the spear cometh out from behind him, and he falleth there, and dieth under it; and it cometh to pass, every one who hath come unto the place where Asahel hath fallen and dieth--they stand still.

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


rate difficulty: and they eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow of the passover, unleavened things and roasted <FI>corn<Fi> , in this self-same day;

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his goodness, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and the good he did, are recorded in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, and in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


rate difficulty: For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.

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


rate difficulty: The commandments, ‘You must not commit adultery, You must not kill, You must not steal, You must not covet,’ and whatever other commandment there is, are all summed up in the words — ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

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


simplify: And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,

But Saul, still burning with desire to put to death the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,


simplify: And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto Jehovah.

And he sent some of the young men of the children of Israel to make burned offerings and peace-offerings of oxen to the Lord.


simplify: And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.


simplify: And the little chambers thereof were three on this side and three on that side; and the posts thereof and the arches thereof were after the measure of the first gate: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

And it had three rooms on this side of it and three on that; its uprights and its covered ways were the same size as those of the first doorway: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


simplify: My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.


rate difficulty: And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

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


simplify: And, behold, I have given the children of Levi all the tenth in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they serve, even the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And there shall be no leaven seen with thee in all thy borders seven days; neither shall any of the flesh, which thou sacrificest the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning.


simplify: And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.

Now there was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, to whom, in a vision, the Lord said: “Ananias.”  “Yes, Lord,” he answered.


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

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


rate difficulty: But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

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


simplify: Then cried a wise woman out of the city, Hear, hear; say, I pray you, unto Joab, Come near hither, that I may speak with thee.

Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.


rate difficulty: and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

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


rate difficulty: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth 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.


simplify: and certain began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say to him, `Prophesy;' and the officers were striking him with their palms.

Some of those present began to spit at him, and to blindfold his eyes, and strike him, saying, as they did so, “Now play the prophet!” and even the police officers received him with blows.


simplify: And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it thrown into Gehenna.


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto Jehovah; peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.

And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.


simplify: but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

But those are preaching Christ in a spirit of competition, not from their hearts, but with the purpose of giving me pain in my prison.


simplify: and all the same spiritual food did eat,

and that they all ate the same supernatural food,


rate difficulty: Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;


rate difficulty: But they gave no attention to his words and went to the top of the mountain, though Moses and the ark of the Lord's agreement did not go out of the tent-circle.

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


simplify: Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

And he is to have a good name among those outside the church, so that nothing may be said against him and he may not be taken by the designs of the Evil One.


simplify: And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us.

and, when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us to become her guests.   “Since you have shown your conviction,” she said, “that I really am a believer in the Lord, come and stay in my house.” And she insisted on our doing so.


rate difficulty: The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.

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


rate difficulty: And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.


simplify: And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

And David said to Abiathar, I was certain that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would take the news to Saul: I am responsible for the lives of all your father's family.


simplify: Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?

Master, which is the chief rule in the law?


rate difficulty: I will therefore chastise him, and release him.


simplify: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take the meal-offering of jealousy out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the meal-offering before Jehovah, and bring it unto the altar:

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


simplify: Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.


simplify: Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

And all will go well for you, if you take care to keep the laws and the rules which the Lord gave to Moses for Israel: be strong and take heart; have no fear and do not be troubled.


simplify: And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;


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

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


simplify: so that contrariwise ye should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his overmuch sorrow.

So that now, on the other hand, it is right for him to have forgiveness and comfort from you, for fear that his sorrow may be over-great.


simplify: The Philistines also came and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.


simplify: and gave them for the field of the potter, as the Lord did appoint to me.'

and gave them for the Potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.’


simplify: And they journeyed from Haradah, and encamped in Makheloth.

And they went on from Haradah, and put up their tents in Makheloth.


rate difficulty: So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

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


simplify: When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

When the Lord your God takes you into the land where you are going, which is to be your heritage, and has sent out the nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you;


simplify: and he said to them, `Why are ye so fearful? how have ye not faith?'

“Why are you so timid?”he exclaimed. “Have you no faith yet?”


rate difficulty: And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

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


simplify: For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.


simplify: look to the dogs, look to the evil-workers, look to the concision;

Beware of those ‘dogs’! Beware of those mischievous workers! Beware of the men who mutilate themselves!


rate difficulty: For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

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


simplify: Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.

Male or female they are to be put outside the tent-circle, so that they may not make unclean my resting-place among them.


simplify: and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

But any which have no skin-plates or wings for swimming, you may not take; they are unclean for you.


simplify: Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.

So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath repented of this, `It also shall not be,' said the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And next unto him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief.


simplify: They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

They are of the world, so their talk is the world's talk, and the world gives ear to them.


rate difficulty: And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill and eat.


rate difficulty: But God took the people round by the waste land near the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up in fighting order out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: Why is light givento a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.


simplify: Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

For this cause I am writing these things while I am away, so that there may be need for me, when I am present, to make use of sharp measures, by the authority which the Lord has given me for building up and not for destruction.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said to them, `Every kingdom having been divided against itself is desolated, and no city or house having been divided against itself, doth stand,

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as hitherto Jehovah hath blessed me?

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


rate difficulty: Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.

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


rate difficulty: And her husband went with her as far as Bahurim, weeping while he went. Then Abner said to him, Go back. And he went back.


simplify: Then said I to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?

And I said to the angel who was talking to me, Where are they taking the ephah?


simplify: And when I looked, behold, a hand was put forth unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein;

And looking, I saw a hand stretched out to me, and I saw the roll of a book in it;


simplify: And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

And the ruler is to go in through the covered way of the outer doorway outside, and take his place by the pillar of the doorway, and the priests will make his burned offering and his peace-offerings and he will give worship at the doorstep of the doorway; then he will go out, and the door will not be shut till the evening.


rate difficulty: Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

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


simplify: If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

If, then, your whole body is lit up, and no corner of it darkened, the whole will be lit up, just as when a lamp gives you light by its brilliance.”


rate difficulty: `Remember that which Amalek hath done to thee in the way, in your going out from Egypt,

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


rate difficulty: But Samuel was not pleased when they said to him, Give us a king to be our judge. And Samuel made prayer to the Lord.


rate difficulty: for the momentary light matter of our tribulation, more and more exceedingly an age-during weight of glory doth work out for us--

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


simplify: A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.


simplify: Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

Then some little children were brought to Jesus, for him to place his hands on them, and pray; but the disciples found fault with those who had brought them.


rate difficulty: It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.


simplify: And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

And put the cover over the ark, and in the ark the record which I will give you.


rate difficulty: For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.

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


simplify: And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

But Jesus said, Someone was touching me, for I had the feeling that power had gone out from me.


simplify: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes.


simplify: And when they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.


rate difficulty: The word of the Lord which came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.

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


simplify: Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.

Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself.


rate difficulty: But the days will come; and when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, then will they fast in those days.

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


simplify: Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.


simplify: And the gate of the outward court that looked toward the north, he measured the length thereof, and the breadth thereof.

And there was a doorway to the outer square, looking to the north; and he took the measure of it to see how wide and how long it was.


simplify: And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.

And they were broken by divisions, nation against nation and town against town, because God sent all sorts of trouble on them.


simplify: So Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel; and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.

So the Lord sent disease on Israel, causing the death of seventy thousand men.


simplify: so <FI>is<Fi> he who is treasuring up to himself, and is not rich toward God.'

So it is with those who lay by wealth for themselves and are not rich to the glory of God.”


rate difficulty: And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:


simplify: And he, having gone forth, began to proclaim much, and to spread abroad the thing, so that no more he was able openly to enter into the city, but he was without in desert places, and they were coming unto him from every quarter.

The man, however, went away, and began to speak about it publicly, and to spread the story so widely, that Jesus could no longer go openly into a town, but stayed outside in lonely places; and people came to him from every direction.


simplify: therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have sworn, saying, Surely the nations that are round about you, they shall bear their shame.

For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.


simplify: And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of Jehovah. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again.


simplify: And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail, and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.


rate difficulty: My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, at Beth-shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner-gate, four hundred cubits.

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


simplify: Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.

Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,


simplify: For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?


simplify: Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

Are all these things now clear to you? They say to him, Yes.


simplify: One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?

There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?


rate difficulty: The burden of the Valley of Vision. What--to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee--to the roofs?

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


simplify: And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

And they will be mine, says the Lord, in the day when I make them my special property; and I will have mercy on them as a man has mercy on his son who is his servant.


simplify: Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

leave your gift there, before the altar, go and be reconciled to them, first, then come and present your gift.


rate difficulty: and sons of Pharez are: of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Hamul the family of the Hamulite.

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


simplify: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of peace-offerings an offering made by fire unto Jehovah; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,


simplify: Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

Are not sparrows two a farthing? and not one of them comes to an end without your Father:


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.


simplify: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.


rate difficulty: And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

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simplify: And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.


rate difficulty: And turned aside his blood from his mouth, His abominations from between his teeth, And he hath remained, even he, to our God, And he hath been as a leader in Judah, And Ekron as a Jebusite.

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


simplify: Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?


simplify: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

For this cause, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when it will no longer be said, By the living Lord, who took the children of Israel up out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and of these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, in the order of their generations and their nations: from these came all the nations of the earth after the great flow of waters.


simplify: And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

When the Recorder had succeeded in quieting the crowd, he said: “People of Ephesus, who is there, I ask you, who needs to be told that this city of Ephesus is the Warden of the Temple of the great Artemis, and of the statue which fell down from Zeus?


simplify: But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

However, when they recognized him as a Jew, one cry broke from them all, and they continued shouting for two hours — “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”


simplify: And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

So, with food and shelter, we will be content.


rate difficulty: and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by Moses.

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simplify: Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, is risen up, and hath rebelled against his lord.

But Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David, took up arms against his lord.


simplify: Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.

But you are those who have kept with me through my troubles;


simplify: Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia;

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


rate difficulty: And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

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


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that there was again war with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbecai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

Now after this there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Saph, one of the offspring of the Rephaim.


simplify: And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.


rate difficulty: And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And lo, I have put on thee thick bands, and thou dost not turn from side to side till thy completing the days of thy siege.

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


simplify: It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.

It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.


rate difficulty: And he sat down over against the treasury, and beheld how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:


rate difficulty: For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know them:

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


rate difficulty: And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And every man of Israel goeth up from after David, after Sheba son of Bichri, and the men of Judah have cleaved to their king, from the Jordan even unto Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves.

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


simplify: For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

For he will be given up to the Gentiles, mocked, insulted and spat on;


simplify: The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

The woodworker is measuring out the wood with his line, marking it out with his pencil: after smoothing it with his plane, and making circles on it with his instrument, he gives it the form and glory of a man, so that it may be placed in the house.


simplify: And Ben-hadad the king of Syria gathered all his host together; and there were thirty and two kings with him, and horses and chariots: and he went up and besieged Samaria, and fought against it.

Now Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got all his army together, and thirty-two kings with him, and horses and carriages of war; he went up and made war on Samaria, shutting it in.


rate difficulty: Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them all, and set him for their watchman:

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


rate difficulty: For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.


simplify: And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

And Jesus went into the Temple and sent out all who were trading there, overturning the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those trading in doves.


rate difficulty: And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.


simplify: Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle 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.


rate difficulty: his offering <FI>is<Fi> one silver dish, its weight a hundred and thirty <FI>shekels<Fi> ; one silver bowl of seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of flour mixed with oil, for a present;

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


simplify: and see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.


simplify: Who should not fear thee, O King of the nations? for to thee doth it appertain; forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like unto thee.

Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.


simplify: That he may withdraw man from his purpose, And hide pride from man;

In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;


simplify: For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.

For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.


simplify: Of Simeon; Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

From Simeon, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai;


simplify: A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

If someone is causing divisions among you, after warning them once or twice, have nothing more to say to them.


simplify: When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.


simplify: And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

They handed him a piece of broiled fish,


simplify: That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.


simplify: And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.


rate difficulty: The sixth Bukkiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

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


rate difficulty: And it was told king Solomon that Joab had fled to the tent of Jehovah; and behold, he is by the altar. And Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall on him.

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


rate difficulty: [where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched].

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


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

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.


simplify: Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;


simplify: And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.


rate difficulty: Just when Herod was intending to bring him before the people, on that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, chained to them both, while there were sentries in front of the door, guarding the prison.

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


simplify: and Paul said, `I did not know, brethren, that he is chief priest: for it hath been written, Of the ruler of thy people thou shalt not speak evil;'

“I did not know, brothers, that it was the high priest,” said Paul, “for scripture says —  ‘Of the Ruler of your people you should speak no ill’.”


simplify: Also, that the soul be without knowledge is not good; And he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.


rate difficulty: if thou shouldest afflict my daughters, or if thou shouldest take wives besides my daughters, — no man is with us; see,God is witness between me and thee!

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


rate difficulty: Precious she <FI>is<Fi> above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

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


rate difficulty: And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?


rate difficulty: Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

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


simplify: Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,

Eleazar was the father of Phinehas; Phinehas was the father of Abishua;


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

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


rate difficulty: In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;


rate difficulty: And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.


rate difficulty: And the queen of Sheba seeth the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he hath built,

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


rate difficulty: but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I go.

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


simplify: And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.

Jesus said: “Come.” So Peter got down from the boat, and walked on the water, and went towards Jesus;


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

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


simplify: But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.

But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:

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


rate difficulty: So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

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


simplify: And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.


rate difficulty: And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, and all the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar;

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


simplify: Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.


rate difficulty: And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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


simplify: If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having been baptised, went up straightway from the water, and lo, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit ofGod descending as a dove, and coming upon him:

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rate difficulty: And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.


simplify: Then came the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph: and these are the names of his daughters; Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, came forward: their names are Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.


rate difficulty: But ye, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor, and all ye are brethren.

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


simplify: but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.


simplify: For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,


simplify: And Herod said, John I beheaded: but who is this, about whom I hear such things? And he sought to see him.

And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.


simplify: And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.


simplify: and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?


rate difficulty: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

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


rate difficulty: What knowest thou that we know not? [what] understandest thou which is not in us?

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


rate difficulty: It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.

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


rate difficulty: And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.

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


simplify: I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.


rate difficulty: And when they draw nigh unto Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth two of his disciples,

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


simplify: `And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,

Then a famine spread over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, causing great distress, and our ancestors could find no food.


rate difficulty: After this his enemies were eager to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed the parable. So they let him alone, and went away.


simplify: For he saith, Are not my princes all of them kings?

For he says, Are not all my captains kings?


simplify: For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.


simplify: Let not then the sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires;

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal bodies and compel you to obey its cravings.


rate difficulty: Now David had said, What was the use of my taking care of this man's goods in the waste land, so that there was no loss of anything which was his? he has only given me back evil for good.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said unto them, What seemeth you best I will do. And the king stood by the gate side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.

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


simplify: And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.


simplify: Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.


rate difficulty: `And ye come in unto this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon--also Og king of Bashan--doth come out to meet us, to battle, and we smite them,

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


simplify: And they said, We will call the damsel, and enquire at her mouth.

And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.


rate difficulty: Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

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


rate difficulty: And that which fell among the thorns, these are they that have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

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rate difficulty: The tenth to Shimei; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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


rate difficulty: The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!


simplify: And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.


simplify: Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;


simplify: Arise; for the matter belongeth unto thee, and we are with thee: be of good courage, and do it.

Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.


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 about that time a great outcry took place about the Way.


simplify: I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:


rate difficulty: And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;

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


simplify: And the meal-offering thereof shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah for a sweet savor; and the drink-offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.

And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.


rate difficulty: By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

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


simplify: But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but thou art worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city.

But the people said, It is better for you not to go out: for if we are put to flight, they will not give a thought to us, and if death overtakes half of us, it will be nothing to them: but you are of more value than ten thousand of us: so it is better for you to be ready to come to our help from this town.


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.


simplify: And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought the signs in his sight, wherewith he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and them that worshipped his image: they two were cast alive into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone:

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.


simplify: His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.

He himself is to take to the Lord the offering made by fire, even the fat with the breast, so that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets Who are causing My people to err, Who are biting with their teeth, And have cried `Peace,' And he who doth not give unto their mouth, They have sanctified against him war.

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


simplify: And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the armies of the Philistines, and spake according to the same words: and David heard them.

And while he was talking to them, the fighter, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came out from the Philistines' lines and said the same words, in David's hearing.


rate difficulty: He hath neither son nor grandson among his people, nor any remaining in the places of his sojourn.

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


simplify: And David the king said unto all the assembly, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Jehovah God.

And David the king said to all the people, Solomon my son, the only one who has been marked out by God, is still young and untested, and the work is great, for this great house is not for man, but for the Lord God.


rate difficulty: And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;

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


simplify: and Lydda being nigh to Joppa, the disciples having heard that Peter is in that <FI>place<Fi> , sent two men unto him, calling on him not to delay to come through unto them.

Jaffa was near Lydda, and the disciples, having heard that Peter was at Lydda, sent two men with the request that he come to them without delay.


rate difficulty: For I say to you, I will not take it till it is made complete in the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I am the Lord your God;

And say to them, This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I took Israel for myself, when I made an oath to the seed of the family of Jacob, and I gave them knowledge of myself in the land of Egypt, saying to them with an oath, I am the Lord your God;


rate difficulty: And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

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


simplify: We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.

We are accordingly sending Judas and Silas, and they will tell you by word of mouth what we are now writing.


simplify: But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp:

But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;


simplify: So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

So those who are last will be first, and the first last.”


simplify: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

There will be signs, too, in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth despair among the nations, in their dismay at the roar of the sea and the surge.


simplify: And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

And news was given to David of what Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, one of Saul's wives, had done.


rate difficulty: And when it was evening he cometh with the twelve.

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


simplify: For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

I was quickly angry with his evil ways, and sent punishment on him, veiling my face in wrath: and he went on, turning his heart from me.


simplify: and the stork, and the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe, and the bat.

The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.


rate difficulty: Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

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


rate difficulty: And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.

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


simplify: And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords, to break through even unto the king of Edom: but they could not.

And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.


rate difficulty: But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the Lord.


rate difficulty: These words Jehovah spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them upon two tables of stone, and gave them unto me.

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


rate difficulty: Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

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


simplify: Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.


rate difficulty: For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

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