simplify: and they prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven.

And they were overcome, and there was no more place for them in heaven.


simplify: `Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

Alas for you! You are like unsuspected graves, over which men walk unawares.”


simplify: And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same;


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

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.


simplify: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.


simplify: For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

For so the Lord has given us orders, saying, I have given you for a light to the Gentiles so that you may be for salvation to the ends of the earth.


simplify: How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;


rate difficulty: And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and sat upon it.

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


simplify: Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.


simplify: Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.

You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.


rate difficulty: And when ye blow an alarm, the camps that lie eastward shall set forward.

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


simplify: It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

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.


simplify: And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

From his mouth comes a sharp sword, with which ‘to smite the nations; and he will rule them with an iron rod.’ He ‘treads the grapes in the press’ of the maddening wine of the wrath of Almighty God;


rate difficulty: So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

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


rate difficulty: Sheol is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.


rate difficulty: And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah on the fourth [day] of the ninth month, [even] in Chislev,

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


simplify: And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.

And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith Jehovah; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.

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


simplify: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

No, the more you share the sufferings of the Christ, the more may you rejoice, that, when the time comes for the manifestation of his glory, you may rejoice and exult.


rate difficulty: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

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


simplify: These things I did write to you who are believing in the name of the Son of God, that ye may know that life ye have age-during, and that ye may believe in the name of the Son of God.

I write this to you so that you may realize that you have found eternal life — you who believe in the name of the Son of God.


rate difficulty: — If thou at all take thy neighbour's garment in pledge, thou shalt return it to him before the sun goes down;

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


simplify: And when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.

And when the people saw it hanging on his hand, they said to one another, Without doubt this man has put someone to death, and though he has got safely away from the sea, God will not let him go on living.


rate difficulty: And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

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


rate difficulty: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

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


rate difficulty: and saith to him, `Wherefore <FI>art<Fi> thou thus lean, O king's son, morning by morning? dost thou not declare to me?' And Amnon saith to him, `Tamar--sister of Absalom my brother--I am loving.'

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


rate difficulty: A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.

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


rate difficulty: Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

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


rate difficulty: But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love ofGod: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

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simplify: Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

Waters were flowing over my head; I said, I am cut off.


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

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


rate difficulty: And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, unto the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: and having taken him, they did kill, and cast <FI>him<Fi> forth without the vineyard.

So they seized him, and killed him, and threw his body outside the vineyard.


simplify: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.

You may not have sex connection with your father's sister, for she is your father's near relation.


rate difficulty: And the youth Samuel is serving Jehovah before Eli, and the word of Jehovah hath been precious in those days--there is no vision broken forth.

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


rate difficulty: And his father refuseth, and saith, `I have known, my son, I have known; he also becometh a people, and he also is great, and yet, his young brother is greater than he, and his seed is the fulness of the nations;'

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


rate difficulty: This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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


rate difficulty: All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men in strength for the service; threescore and two of Obed-edom.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And see, my father, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: for the fact that I took off the skirt of your robe and did not put you to death is witness that I have no evil purpose, and I have done you no wrong, though you are waiting for my life to take it.

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


simplify: But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him — and I will loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, and the gates shall not be shut:

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


rate difficulty: The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

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


rate difficulty: For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

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


simplify: What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.


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

So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.


rate difficulty: The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

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


simplify: Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.


simplify: O Jehovah, the God of Israel, thou art righteous; for we are left a remnant that is escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our guiltiness; for none can stand before thee because of this.

O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.


simplify: And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you.


rate difficulty: Wisdom and knowledge and wise suggestions are of no use against the Lord.


simplify: And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein,

Now when you have come into the land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage, and you have made it yours and are living in it;


rate difficulty: Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, that Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the curse (for as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king); and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them;


simplify: And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.


simplify: If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth.

When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.


rate difficulty: and Moab saith unto the elders of Midian, `Now doth the assembly lick up all that is round about us, as the ox licketh up the green thing of the field.' And Balak son of Zippor <FI>is<Fi> king of Moab at that time,

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


simplify: And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit, because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind of God.


simplify: Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts.

And I will send you away as prisoners farther than Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.


simplify: Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.


simplify: And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

And when he had come out of that place, the scribes and the Pharisees came round him angrily, questioning him about more things;


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

He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.


rate difficulty: For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.


simplify: And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.

The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.


simplify: Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

But Agrippa said to Paul: “You are soon trying to make a Christian of me!”


rate difficulty: And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

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


rate difficulty: and they did not understand the saying that he spake to them,

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


rate difficulty: that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

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


simplify: For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

But there is no need for me to say anything in my letter about the giving to the saints:


simplify: The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.


rate difficulty: Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

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


simplify: So went Satan forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.


rate difficulty: But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men whom David had, were not with Adonijah.

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


simplify: and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.


rate difficulty: Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.

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


rate difficulty: for they are [the] spirits of demons, doing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole habitable world to gather them together to the war of [that] great day ofGod the Almighty.

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


rate difficulty: David smote also Hadadezer, the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his border at the river Euphrates.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Pahath-Moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

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


simplify: And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram.

And one who had got away from the fight came and gave word of it to Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the holy tree of Mamre, the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner, who were friends of Abram.


rate difficulty: `A covenant <FI>is<Fi> between me and thee, between my father and thy father; lo, I have sent to thee a reward of silver and gold; go, break thy covenant with Baasha king of Israel, and he goeth up from off me.'

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


rate difficulty: crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man that teacheth all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place; and moreover he brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place.

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


rate difficulty: become watching, and strengthen the rest of the things that are about to die, for I have not found thy works fulfilled before God.

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


simplify: And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.

while we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the Passover, and joined them five days later at Troas, where we stayed for a week.


rate difficulty: Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from Jehovah; unto us is this land given for a possession.

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


simplify: She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

The Lord of armies will come in with thunder and earth-shaking and great noise, with rushing wind and storm, and the flame of burning fire.


simplify: What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.


rate difficulty: O Israel, you have done evil from the days of Gibeah; there they took up their position, so that the fighting against the children of evil might not overtake them in Gibeah.


simplify: His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.


simplify: When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.


simplify: Every man praying or prophesying, having the head covered, doth dishonour his head,

Any man who keeps his head covered, when praying or preaching in public, dishonors him who is his head;


simplify: Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

You will send the wind over them, and it will take them away; they will go in all directions before the storm-wind: you will have joy in the Lord, and be glad in the Holy One of Israel.


rate difficulty: and one having run, and having filled a spunge with vinegar, having put <FI>it<Fi> also on a reed, was giving him to drink, saying, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come to take him down.'

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


simplify: Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Do not become idolaters, as some of them became. Scripture says —  ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to dance.’


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

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


simplify: for the sin, having received an opportunity, through the command, did deceive me, and through it did slay <FI>me<Fi> ;

sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.


rate difficulty: I have looked, and lo, The fruitful place <FI>is<Fi> a wilderness, And all its cities have been broken down, Because of Jehovah, Because of the fierceness of His anger.

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


simplify: And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

And he was pleased with the girl and was kind to her; and he quickly gave her what was needed for making her clean, and the things which were hers by right, and seven servant-girls who were to be hers from the king's house: and he had her and her servant-girls moved to the best place in the women's part of the house.


rate difficulty: [As] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily in the place of the king that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he broke, even with him, in the midst of Babylon, shall he die.

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


rate difficulty: For the cry goeth round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

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


rate difficulty: And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

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


rate difficulty: And the king saith, `Is the hand of Joab with thee in all this?' And the woman answereth and saith, `Thy soul liveth, my lord, O king, none <FI>doth turn<Fi> to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king hath spoken; for thy servant Joab he commanded me, and he put in the mouth of thy maid-servant all these words;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.


simplify: We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride and passion: his high words about himself are false.


rate difficulty: So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

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


rate difficulty: Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

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


rate difficulty: `O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;

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


rate difficulty: and you are deferential to the visitor who is wearing grand clothes, and say — “There is a good seat for you here,” but to the poor man — “You must stand; or sit down there by my footstool,”

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


simplify: Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: this is known in all the earth.

Make a song to the Lord; for he has done noble things: give news of them through all the earth.


rate difficulty: and Hadad dieth, and reign in his stead doth Samlah from Masrekah;

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


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

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


simplify: and the pelican, and the vulture, and the cormorant,

And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;


simplify: And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved.

So he went and got them and took them to his mother: and she made a meal to his father's taste.


rate difficulty: Sons of Dedan <FI>are<Fi> thy merchants, Many isles <FI>are<Fi> the mart of thy hand, Horns of ivory and ebony they sent back thy reward.

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah answereth and saith, `Now ye have filled your hand to Jehovah, come nigh, and bring in sacrifices and thank-offerings to the house of Jehovah;' and the assembly bring in sacrifices and thank-offerings, and every willing-hearted one--burnt-offerings.

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


simplify: But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.


rate difficulty: Jehovah ourGod, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

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


rate difficulty: Baanah the son of Hushai, in Asher and in Aloth.


simplify: And those are they that were sown upon the good ground; such as hear the word, and accept it, and bear fruit, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.

And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.


rate difficulty: Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

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


rate difficulty: And Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.

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


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

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


simplify: and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

And let the robes and the horse be given to one of the king's most noble captains, so that they may put them on the man whom the king has delight in honouring, and let him go on horseback through the streets of the town, with men crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.


simplify: And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

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


rate difficulty: and beseecheth him much, saying, My little daughter is at the point of death: I pray thee, that thou come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be made whole, and live.

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


simplify: The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.


rate difficulty: and said to him, These vessels lift up, go, put them down in the temple that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem, and the house of God is builded on its place.

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


rate difficulty: His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.

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


rate difficulty: He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;


simplify: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

and the crowds were astonished, when they saw the dumb talking, the cripples made sound, the lame walking about, and the blind with their sight restored; and they praised the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

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


simplify: Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.

Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.


simplify: Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

See, now my mouth is open, my tongue gives out words.


simplify: 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:

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: and saith, `Whose daughter <FI>art<Fi> thou? declare to me, I pray thee, is the house of thy father a place for us to lodge in?'

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


simplify: For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.


rate difficulty: And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

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


simplify: And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

Jesus called a little child to him, and placed it in the middle of them, and then said:


rate difficulty: because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual [power] of wickedness in the heavenlies.

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


simplify: A gentle tongue is a tree of life; But perverseness therein is a breaking of the spirit.

A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.


simplify: Abstain from all appearance of evil.


simplify: Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

Dear friends, do not be astonished at the trial of fire that you are passing through, to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.


simplify: And having called near his disciples, he saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath put in more than all those putting into the treasury;

Then, calling his disciples to him, Jesus said: “I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all the others who were putting money into the chests;


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

These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.


rate difficulty: “But you,”he went on, “who do you say that I am?”And to this Peter answered: “The Christ of God.”


rate difficulty: And I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, burning up its great houses:


simplify: Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

Give ear, my dear brothers; are not those who are poor in the things of this world marked out by God to have faith as their wealth, and for their heritage the kingdom which he has said he will give to those who have love for him?


rate difficulty: For the needy shall never cease from within the land; therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand bountifully unto thy brother, to thy poor and to thy needy, in thy land.

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


simplify: But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by <FI>that which is<Fi> not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

But again I ask ‘Did not the people of Israel understand? First there is Moses, who says — ‘I, the Lord, will stir you to rivalry with a nation which is no nation; Against an undiscerning nation I will arouse your anger.’


simplify: And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;


rate difficulty: To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer–sheba.

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


simplify: The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers, on the outside, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side-chambers that belonged to the house.

The wall supporting the side-rooms on the outside was five cubits thick: and there was a free space of five cubits between the side-rooms of the house.


simplify: with oil my head thou didst not anoint, but this woman with ointment did anoint my feet;

You did not anoint even my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume.


rate difficulty: with thee he doth dwell, in thy midst, in the place which he chooseth within one of thy gates, where it is pleasing to him; thou dost not oppress him.

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


simplify: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will get glory for myself in you: and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send my punishments on her, and I will be seen to be holy in her.


simplify: The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord;

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.


simplify: so that your enemy have I become, being true to you?

Am I to think, then, that I have become your enemy by telling you the truth?


simplify: Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

(‘I am coming like a thief! Happy will he be who is on the watch, and keeps his clothing at hand, so that he will not have to walk about unclothed and let men see his nakedness.’)


rate difficulty: And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.


rate difficulty: And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him commandment, as Jehovah had said through Moses.

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


simplify: And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

And the east side will be from Hazar-enon, which is between Hauran and Damascus; and between Gilead and the land of Israel the Jordan will be the limit, to the east sea, to Tamar. This is the east side.


simplify: And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall ye say unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, To-morrow, by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have deliverance. And the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

Then he said to the representatives who had come, Say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by the time the sun is high, you will be made safe. And the representatives came and gave the news to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.


simplify: Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.

For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.


rate difficulty: This is the law for every sore of leprosy, and for the scall,

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


rate difficulty: If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.

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


simplify: And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.

So Balak sent more chiefs, greater in number and of higher position than the others.


rate difficulty: the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;

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


simplify: Nevertheless in thy manifold mercies thou didst not make a full end of them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.


simplify: Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, in the Lord.

But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.


rate difficulty: And as they are coming down from the mount, he charged them that they may declare to no one the things that they saw, except when the Son of Man may rise out of the dead;

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


rate difficulty: And there went out fire from before Jehovah, and consumed on the altar the burnt-offering, and the pieces of fat; and all the people saw it, and they shouted, and fell on their face.


rate difficulty: Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.

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


simplify: Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;


simplify: But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment, than for you.

Yet the doom of Tyre and Sidon will be more bearable at the judgment than yours.


simplify: And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man that is armed to battle, before Jehovah, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:


simplify: Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath.

Have true scales and a true ephah and a true bath.


simplify: Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

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


simplify: and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

Those are the points you should teach, so that there may be no call for your censure.


rate difficulty: Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?


rate difficulty: And the children are hard and stiff-hearted; I am sending you to them: and you are to say to them, These are the words of the Lord.

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


simplify: `The tabernacle of the testimony was among our fathers in the wilderness, according as He did direct, who is speaking to Moses, to make it according to the figure that he had seen;

Our ancestors had the tent where they worshipped God in the desert, constructed, just as he who spoke to Moses had directed him to make it, after the model which he had seen.


rate difficulty: My brothers, let every man keep in that condition which is the purpose of God for him.

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


rate difficulty: But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.


simplify: Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies.


simplify: These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite, against eight hundred slain at one time.

These are the names of David's men of war: Ishbaal the Hachmonite, chief of the three; his axe was lifted up against eight hundred put to death at one time.


simplify: And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull.

And they took him to the place named Golgotha, which is, Dead Man's Head.


simplify: Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;


rate difficulty: The son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; which had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife:


rate difficulty: and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away.

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


rate difficulty: But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,

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


rate difficulty: And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

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


simplify: And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.

He went near her, and with a sharp word he gave orders to the disease and it went away from her; and straight away she got up and took care of their needs.


simplify: And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together praying.

And when he became clear about this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John named Mark, where a number of them had come together for prayer.


simplify: in meekness correcting them that oppose themselves; if peradventure God may give them repentance unto the knowledge of the truth,

Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said in answer, Say to him, The time for loud talk is not when a man is putting on his arms, but when he is taking them off.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.

After he had taken his place at the table with them, he took the bread and said the blessing, and broke it, and gave it to them.


simplify: Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.


rate difficulty: From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

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


simplify: And on that day, when even was come, he saith unto them, Let us go over unto the other side.

And on that day, when the evening had come, he said to them, Let us go over to the other side.


simplify: saying to Aaron, Make to us gods who shall go on before us, for this Moses, who brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, we have not known what hath happened to him.

while they said to Aaron — ‘Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’


rate difficulty: So that thou art no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.

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


simplify: Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.

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


simplify: And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;'

And the angel said to me — ‘The waters that you saw, where the Harlot is seated, are throngs of people and men of all nations and languages.


simplify: Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men that have a vow on them;

Do this, then, which we say to you: We have four men who have taken an oath;


rate difficulty: And these are the sons of Benjamin: Sallu, the son of Meshullam, the son of Joed, the son of Pedaiah, the son of Kolaiah, the son of Maaseiah, the son of Ithiel, the son of Jeshaiah.


simplify: And the king said unto Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.

And the king said to the Cushite, Is the young man Absalom safe? And the Cushite said in answer, May all the king's haters and those who do evil against the king, be as that young man is!


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.

And it will be in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made small, and the strength of his body will become feeble.


simplify: But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.


simplify: How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?


rate difficulty: And I will appoint judgment for a line, and righteousness for a plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.

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


simplify: And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless.

When he came out, he was unable to speak to them, and they perceived that he had seen a vision there. But Zechariah kept making signs to them, and remained dumb.


simplify: For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:


simplify: I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:


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

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


rate difficulty: In his days hath Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and cause a king to reign over them;

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one of these things,

If he has a son who is a thief, a taker of life, who does any of these things,


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant, and do them.

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


rate difficulty: Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.

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


simplify: And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.

And David said to Jonathan, Tomorrow is the new moon, and I will not be seated with the king at his table: but let me go to a safe place in the country till the evening.


rate difficulty: With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.


rate difficulty: Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.


rate difficulty: Peter, meanwhile, was sitting outside in the courtyard; and a maidservant came up to him, and exclaimed: “Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean!”


rate difficulty: and Paul was not thinking it good to take him with them who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and did not go with them to the work;

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


simplify: And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

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


rate difficulty: I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: My justice was as a robe and a diadem.


simplify: For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of the Arabah.

For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.


rate difficulty: Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house of the Lord, from beside the incense altar.

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


rate difficulty: House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

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


simplify: I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

I always mention you in my prayers and thank God for you,


rate difficulty: 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.


simplify: And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.


rate difficulty: And a number, who were ill with different diseases, he made well, and sent out evil spirits; but he did not let the evil spirits say anything, because they had knowledge of him.


simplify: For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

Who may take food or have pleasure without him?


simplify: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:


simplify: and he in the field--let him not turn back to take his garments.

nor must one who is on their farm turn back to get his cloak.


rate difficulty: laying traps for him, so as to seize on anything that he might say.


simplify: But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

Only give away what is in them in charity, and at once you have the whole clean.


simplify: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.


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


rate difficulty: The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-six.


simplify: And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?

But some of them were angry among themselves, saying, For what purpose has this oil been wasted?


simplify: And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?


simplify: Then he sent out a second on horseback, which came to them, and said, Thus saith the king, Is it peace? And Jehu answered, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me.

Then he sent out a second horseman, who came up to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said in answer, What have you to do with peace? come after me.


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

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


rate difficulty: Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?

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


simplify: And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

And at that time I made request to the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: and they said to him, `Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'

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


rate difficulty: But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

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


simplify: My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.


rate difficulty: Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

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


rate difficulty: And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

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


simplify: Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?


rate difficulty: And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the money of every one that passes [the account], the money at which every man is valued, [and] all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,

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


simplify: And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:

And he said, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has given more than all of them:


rate difficulty: And I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; and they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer–sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.


rate difficulty: Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

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


simplify: And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.

And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.


simplify: And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,

And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,


rate difficulty: But the servant who had received the one bag went and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money.

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


rate difficulty: For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

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


rate difficulty: So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, they that inhabit those waste places in the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland districts of Roman Asia, and went to Ephesus. There he found some disciples, of whom he asked:


rate difficulty: And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

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


simplify: The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.


simplify: They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.


simplify: and out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its suburbs, and Abdon with its suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Pekah, and all that he did, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And about the space of one hour after another confidently affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is a Galilean.


simplify: And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean shall eat thereof:

And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food:


rate difficulty: for she having put this ointment on my body--for my burial she did <FI>it<Fi> .


simplify: And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.

Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.


simplify: And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:

And these are the sons of Ehud, heads of families of those living in Geba: Iglaam and Alemeth


simplify: and his head was brought upon a plate, and was given to the damsel, and she brought <FI>it<Fi> nigh to her mother.

and his head was brought on a dish and given to the girl, and she took it to her mother.


rate difficulty: and to Solomon my son give a perfect heart, to keep Thy commands, Thy testimonies, and Thy statutes, and to do the whole, even to build the palace <FI>for<Fi> which I have prepared.'

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


simplify: Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying,

Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true,


rate difficulty: And Gaal spoke again, and said, Behold, people are coming down from the high part of the land, and one company is coming along by the way of the Magician's oak.

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


rate difficulty: And she shall continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.

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


rate difficulty: That which hath been the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh smiteth Gaza:

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


simplify: After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

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


simplify: Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.


simplify: But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.

But if the one who is not a Christian has a desire to go away, let it be so: the brother or the sister in such a position is not forced to do one thing or the other: but it is God's pleasure that we may be at peace with one another.


simplify: Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

Give ear, you wise, to my words; and you who have knowledge, give attention to me;


simplify: And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

And he put out his hand to his disciples and said, See, my mother and my brothers!


rate difficulty: for as the lightning, when it lighteneth out of the one part under the heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day.

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


rate difficulty: So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

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


rate difficulty: and we receive from him whatever we ask, because we are laying his commands to heart, and are doing what is pleasing in his sight.

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


simplify: Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

By doing this you are furnishing evidence against yourselves that you are true children of the people who murdered the prophets.


rate difficulty: Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth:

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


simplify: My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord God.

And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.


simplify: For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.


simplify: As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

As it is said in the holy Writings, Because of you we are put to death every day; we are like sheep ready for destruction.


simplify: And men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.


simplify: and he agreed, and was seeking a favourable season to deliver him up to them without tumult.

So Judas assented, and looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus to them, in the absence of a crowd.


simplify: And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.

And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadar became king in his place; his chief town was named Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel; she was the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.


rate difficulty: And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.


simplify: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:

And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:


rate difficulty: for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.

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


simplify: The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,


rate difficulty: And you may not have sex relations with your father's wife: she is your father's.


rate difficulty: great <FI>is<Fi> my freedom of speech unto you, great my glory on your behalf; I have been filled with the comfort, I overabound with the joy on all our tribulation,

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


rate difficulty: And when evening was come, he comes with the twelve.


rate difficulty: And thou hast brought forth thy vessels as vessels of removal by day before their eyes, and thou, thou dost go forth at even before their eyes, as the goings forth of a removal.

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


simplify: The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.


rate difficulty: And Saul abode at the extreme end of Gibeah under the pomegranate-tree which [was] in Migron; and the people that were with him were about six hundred men.


simplify: And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.


rate difficulty: So he overtook them and said these words to them.


rate difficulty: And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

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


simplify: For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

I, indeed, through law became dead to law, in order to live for God.


simplify: And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

May the Lord bring you to the love of God, and to the patience of the Christ.


rate difficulty: Hear ye now what the Lord saith; Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

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


rate difficulty: Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;

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


simplify: moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

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


simplify: And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border thereof, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;


simplify: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Do not keep back good from those who have a right to it, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.


rate difficulty: And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And Jehovah said to David, Go and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

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


simplify: And a certain one of them smote the servant of the chief priest, and took off his right ear,

And one of them struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear;


simplify: Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Do not be a violent witness against your neighbour, or let your lips say what is false.


simplify: And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.


rate difficulty: The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

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


simplify: And she conceived again, and bare a son: and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I am hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.


rate difficulty: and if indeed it may bear fruit--;and if not so, thereafter thou shalt cut it off.'

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


simplify: And thou shalt not give any of thy seed to make them pass through the fire to Molech; neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am Jehovah.

And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.


simplify: Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

Now may the God of peace be with you all. So be it.


simplify: and having come forth out of the tombs after his rising, they went into the holy city, and appeared to many.

and they, leaving their tombs, went, after the resurrection of Jesus, into the Holy City, and appeared to many people.


simplify: An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.

and a teacher of the childish, because in the law you possess the outline of all knowledge and truth.


simplify: No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.


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

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


simplify: and he charged them much, that no one may know this thing, and he said that there be given to her to eat.

but Jesus repeatedly cautioned them not to let anyone know of it, and told them to give her something to eat.


simplify: And did all eat the same spiritual meat;


simplify: Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher);

... the son of Hesed in Arubboth; Socoh and all the land of Hepher were under his control;


simplify: They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name.

So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.


simplify: and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;


rate difficulty: And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.

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


simplify: For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.


simplify: And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.

And then, two of them, on that very day, were going to a little town named Emmaus, which was about seven miles from Jerusalem.


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

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


rate difficulty: all this, O king, doth Araunah give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, Jehovah thy God accept thee.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And Gideon saith unto them, `I do not rule over you, nor doth my son rule over you; Jehovah doth rule over you.'

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


simplify: Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye have made your iniquity to be remembered, in that your transgressions are discovered, so that in all your doings your sins do appear; because, I say, that ye are come to remembrance, ye shall be taken with the hand.

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your evil-doing come to mind by the uncovering of your wrongdoing, causing your sins to be seen in all your evil-doings; because you have come to mind, you will be taken in them.


rate difficulty: How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?


rate difficulty: For the whole house of Ahab shall perish: and I will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel:


rate difficulty: It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.


simplify: And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.


simplify: One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you.


rate difficulty: that Jehovah spake unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: `A land of Rephaim it is reckoned, even it; Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;

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


simplify: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.


simplify: And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

And one of them went quickly and, getting a sponge full of bitter wine, put it on a rod, and gave it to him for drink, saying, Let be; let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.


simplify: And as he was going forth into the way, there ran one to him, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?

And while he was going out into the way, a man came running to him, and went down on his knees, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?


simplify: And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer–sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;


rate difficulty: A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's vexation is heavier than them both.


rate difficulty: thus saith Jehovah: Take heed to your souls, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, and bring nothing in through the gates of Jerusalem;

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


simplify: And he calleth unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

And he gave orders to the twelve, and sent them out two by two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;


rate difficulty: who once [were] not a people, but nowGod's people; who were not enjoying mercy, but now have found mercy.


rate difficulty: And in the fourth year all the fruit will be holy as a praise-offering to the Lord.


rate difficulty: and the border hath turned round to you from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and hath passed on to Zin, and its outgoings have been from the south to Kadesh-Barnea, and it hath gone out at Hazar-Addar, and hath passed on to Azmon;

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simplify: If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.

If he said, All those in the flock which have marks are to be yours, then all the flock gave birth to marked young; and if he said, All the banded ones are to be yours, then all the flock had banded young.


simplify: for the sun did rise with the burning heat, and did wither the grass, and the flower of it fell, and the grace of its appearance did perish, so also the rich in his way shall fade away!

As the sun rises, and the hot wind blows, ‘the grass withers, its flower fades,’ and all its beauty is gone. So is it with the rich . In the midst of their pursuits they will come to an untimely end.


rate difficulty: And lo, the honour of the God of Israel hath come from the way of the east, and His voice <FI>is<Fi> as the noise of many waters, and the earth hath shone from His honour.

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simplify: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage.

He who sends news by the hand of a foolish man is cutting off his feet and drinking in damage.


simplify: And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude?

And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?


rate difficulty: And whenever I say anything about building up a nation or a kingdom, and planting it;

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simplify: All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.

All the time he is separate he may take nothing made from the grape-vine, from its seeds to its skin.


simplify: So he died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.


simplify: They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.


simplify: he foreseeing this spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.

He, having knowledge of the future, was talking of the coming again of Christ from the dead, that he was not kept in hell and his body did not see destruction.


simplify: And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.


rate difficulty: And when the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

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rate difficulty: And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

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rate difficulty: Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

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


simplify: thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.

Thirty gold basins, four hundred and ten silver basins, and a thousand other vessels.


rate difficulty: And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

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


simplify: Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.


rate difficulty: I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

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rate difficulty: And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

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


simplify: Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.


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

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simplify: Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.