rate difficulty: The wilderness and its cities do lift up <FI>the voice<Fi> , The villages Kedar doth inhabit, Sing do the inhabitants of Sela, From the top of mountains they cry.

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


simplify: and having gone through Phrygia and the region of Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,

They next went through the Phrygian district of Galatia, but were restrained by the Holy Spirit from delivering the message in Roman Asia.


simplify: And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force.

And from the days of John the Baptist till now, the kingdom of heaven is forcing its way in, and men of force take it.


simplify: And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death.


rate difficulty: And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, yet not like David his father: he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

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


rate difficulty: that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

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


rate difficulty: The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

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


rate difficulty: And the men were in great fear, and they said to him, What is this you have done? For the men had knowledge of his flight from the Lord because he had not kept it from them.


rate difficulty: And if the disease comes out again in the house after he has taken out the stones and after the walls have been rubbed and the new paste put on,

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


simplify: And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;


simplify: My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if anyone should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father — Jesus Christ, the righteous —


rate difficulty: Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

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


rate difficulty: The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.


rate difficulty: Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

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


rate difficulty: and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> against thee, O Zidon, And I have been honoured in thy midst, And they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, In My doing in her judgments, And I have been sanctified in her.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt not give of thy seed to let them pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thyGod: I am Jehovah.

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


simplify: Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

Then, stretching yourself out on your left side, take the sin of the children of Israel on yourself: for as long as you are stretched out, so long will the sin of the children of Israel be on you.


rate difficulty: As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:

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


simplify: And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back.


simplify: And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

And he put up the curtain at the doorway of the House.


rate difficulty: till that Jehovah give rest to your brethren like yourselves, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God is giving to them beyond the Jordan, then ye have turned back each to his possession, which I have given to you.

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


simplify: and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,

And they are singing a new song —  ‘You are worthy to take the book and break its seals, for you were sacrificed, and with your blood you did buy for God people of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,


rate difficulty: which no one of the rulers of this age did know, for if they had known, the Lord of the glory they would not have crucified;

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


simplify: Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brethren and sons were twelve:

Now of the group of Asaph, the first name to come out was Joseph; the second Gedaliah; he and his brothers and sons were twelve?


simplify: And Jehovah God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.


rate difficulty: and Abraham putteth forth his hand, and taketh the knife--to slaughter his son.

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


simplify: Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.


simplify: And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bare Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.

And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.


simplify: So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places;

It has even become evident, not only to all the imperial guard, but to everyone else, that it is for Christ’s sake that I am in chains.


simplify: Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Jehovah.

You have not gone up into the broken places or made up the wall for the children of Israel to take your place in the fight in the day of the Lord.


rate difficulty: ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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


simplify: He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.

Then he said, I have something to say to you. And she said, Say on.


rate difficulty: a nation of fierce countenance, which regardeth not the person of the old, nor is kind to the young;

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


rate difficulty: But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.

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


simplify: And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.


rate difficulty: On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.


rate difficulty: then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

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


rate difficulty: Then the priest is to see him: and if the mark is increased, the priest, without looking for the yellow hair, will say that he is unclean.


rate difficulty: These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.

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


rate difficulty: And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

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


simplify: And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

Then Moses quickly went down on his face in worship.


simplify: for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

There are some who have already left us, to follow Satan.


rate difficulty: and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

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


simplify: The wise in heart shall be called prudent; And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.


rate difficulty: and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there are trees in it, or not. And take courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first grapes.


simplify: Then let him count the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; that he may return unto his possession.

Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said to Joshua,


rate difficulty: Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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


simplify: Thou heardest my voice; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.


simplify: He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, He lifteth up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, And inherit the throne of glory: For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah’s, And he hath set the world upon them.

Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.


rate difficulty: And Rehoboam cometh to Jerusalem, and assembleth all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen warriors, to fight with the house of Israel, to bring back the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

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


rate difficulty: And the heads of the fathers’housesof the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spake before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ houses of the children of Israel:

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


simplify: Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why make ye trial of me? bring me a denarius, that I may see it.

Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.


rate difficulty: The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

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


simplify: But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside, and this is not a thing which may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.


rate difficulty: He however, having shaken off the beast into the fire, felt no harm.

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


rate difficulty: For Jehovah spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

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


simplify: Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

For this cause I will get together all your lovers with whom you have taken your pleasure, and all those to whom you have given your love, with all those who were hated by you; I will even make them come together against you on every side, and I will have you uncovered before them so that they may see your shame.


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

A little while afterwards some one else — a man — saw him and said: “Why, you are one of them!”  “No,” Peter said, “I am not.”


rate difficulty: And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:


simplify: in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? --for the seven had her as wife.'

About the woman, then — at the resurrection, whose wife is she to be, all seven brothers having had her as their wife?”


simplify: But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men that belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.


rate difficulty: And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,

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


rate difficulty: And David took the strong tower for his living-place, so it was named the town of David.

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


rate difficulty: Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.

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


simplify: But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.


simplify: And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, who trespassed against Jehovah, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

Do not be like your fathers and your brothers, who were sinners against the Lord, the God of their fathers, so that he made them a cause of fear, as you see.


rate difficulty: and they conspire, all of them together, to come in to fight against Jerusalem, and to do to it injury.

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


simplify: And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.

And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh's heart is unchanged; he will not let the people go.


rate difficulty: For I have put his terror in the land of the living; and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.

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


simplify: Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.


simplify: Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is, and they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city:

Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:


simplify: Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times greater, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord puts oil on the wounds of his people, and makes them well from the blows they have undergone.


simplify: And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.

And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.


simplify: And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

The other guests began to say to one another: “Who is this man who even pardons sins?”


simplify: Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.

And at sundown all those who had anyone ill with any sort of disease, took them to him, and he put his hands on every one of them and made them well.


rate difficulty: he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb,

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


rate difficulty: And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.


simplify: None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah.

You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.


simplify: And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.


rate difficulty: The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.

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


simplify: Therefore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for removing, and remove by day in their sight; and thou shalt remove from thy place to another place in their sight: it may be they will consider, though they are a rebellious house.

And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.


simplify: And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

And one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warm and full of food; but you do not give them the things of which their bodies have need, what profit is there in this?


simplify: and having found him, he brought him to Antioch, and it came to pass that they a whole year did assemble together in the assembly, and taught a great multitude, the disciples also were divinely called first in Antioch Christians.

and, when he had found him, he brought him to Antioch. And so it came about that, for a whole year, they attended the meetings of the church there, and taught a large number of people; and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called ‘Christians.’


simplify: And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.


simplify: And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after him.

And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.


rate difficulty: And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.

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


rate difficulty: The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

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


simplify: So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;


rate difficulty: But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

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


simplify: as also the chief priest doth testify to me, and all the eldership; from whom also having received letters unto the brethren, to Damascus, I was going on, to bring also those there bound to Jerusalem that they might be punished,

And to that the high priest himself and all the Council can testify. For I had letters of introduction from them to our fellow Jews at Damascus, and I was on my way to that place, to bring those whom I might find there prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.


rate difficulty: And whoever gives honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me:


rate difficulty: and he sware to her--`Whatever thou mayest ask me, I will give to thee--unto the half of my kingdom.'

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


simplify: The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.


rate difficulty: The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.


rate difficulty: And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;

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


rate difficulty: And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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


rate difficulty: one tenth part for each lamb of the seven lambs;


rate difficulty: Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

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


simplify: And they come, bringing unto him a man sick of the palsy, borne of four.

And four men came to him with one on a bed who had no power of moving.


simplify: And this thing became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.


simplify: And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David.

And some of the children of Benjamin and Judah came to David in his strong place.


rate difficulty: And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

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


simplify: Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.


simplify: And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

And its growth went on and it became a vine, low and widely stretching, whose branches were turned to him and its roots were under him: so it became a vine, putting out branches and young leaves.


simplify: And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in the house of Jehovah.

And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord.


simplify: My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

My breath is strange to my wife, and I am disgusting to the offspring of my mother's body.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: Is it possible for Leviathan to be pulled out with a fish-hook, or for a hook to be put through the bone of his mouth?

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


rate difficulty: And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

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


simplify: And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.


rate difficulty: And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty.


rate difficulty: `Jehovah was wroth against your fathers--wrath!


simplify: But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.


rate difficulty: and ye have compassed the city--all the men of battle--going round the city once; thus thou dost six days;

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.

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


rate difficulty: If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

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


rate difficulty: So now, get the rest of the people together, and put them in position against the town and take it, for if I take it, it will be named after my name.

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


simplify: But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

But my words and my orders, which I gave to my servants the prophets, have they not overtaken your fathers? and turning back they said, As it was the purpose of the Lord of armies to do to us, in reward for our ways and our doings, so has he done.


simplify: But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart; it is I, have no fear.


rate difficulty: A king sitting on a throne of judgment, Is scattering with his eyes all evil,

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rate difficulty: For the Son of man is lord of the sabbath.


simplify: And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth,

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,


rate difficulty: But he that is sown on the rocky places — this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy,

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rate difficulty: The meal in the barrel did not waste, neither did the oil in the cruse fail, according to the word of Jehovah which he had spoken through Elijah.

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simplify: And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

Then he left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.


rate difficulty: Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen.


simplify: And Jehovah said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

And the Lord said, Give him the name Lo-ammi; for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.


simplify: And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a father’s house of the Levites.

And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.


rate difficulty: The consequence was that people would bring out their sick even into the streets, and lay them on mattresses and mats, in the hope that, as Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some one of them.

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rate difficulty: And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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rate difficulty: And the sons of Appaim; Ishi. And the sons of Ishi; Sheshan. And the children of Sheshan; Ahlai.

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rate difficulty: thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye spare him, neither shalt thou pity him, neither shalt thou screen him,

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rate difficulty: For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.


simplify: And the people gat them by stealth that day into the city, as people being ashamed steal away when they flee in battle.

And the people made their way back to the town quietly and secretly, as those who are shamed go secretly when they go in flight from the war.


rate difficulty: Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

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


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the house; but thy son which shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

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rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.

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simplify: And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years: and he died.

And all the years of Lamech's life were seven hundred and seventy-seven: and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

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


rate difficulty: But if the ox have gored heretofore, and it have been testified to its owner, and he have not kept it in, and it kill a man or a woman, — the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

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


simplify: That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


simplify: and lo, there was a certain dropsical man before him;

There he saw before him a man who was suffering from dropsy.


simplify: and having found a certain Jew, by name Aquilas, of Pontus by birth, lately come from Italy, and Priscilla his wife--because of Claudius having directed all the Jews to depart out of Rome--he came to them,

There he met a Jew of the name of Aquila, from Pontus, who, with his wife Priscilla, had lately come from Italy, in consequence of the order which had been issued by the Emperor Claudius for all Jews to leave Rome. Paul paid them a visit,


simplify: And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House.


rate difficulty: Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the Lord shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

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


rate difficulty: And when he saw that he was under the authority of Herod, he sent him to Herod, who was in Jerusalem himself at that time.

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rate difficulty: Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.

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simplify: And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;


rate difficulty: Therefore wild beasts of the desert with jackals shall dwell there, and ostriches shall dwell therein; and it shall be no more inhabited for ever, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

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


rate difficulty: Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth–aven, after thee, O Benjamin.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

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


simplify: For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.

For the breast which is waved and the right leg which is lifted up on high I have taken from the children of Israel, from their peace-offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their right for ever from the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Then Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, Neither has Jehovah chosen this one.

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


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

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


simplify: sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the ship.

Being sad most of all because he had said that they would not see his face again. And so they went with him to the ship.


simplify: But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,


rate difficulty: because bread and water shall fail them, and they shall be astonied one with another, and waste away in their iniquity.


rate difficulty: Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Then the wonder-workers said to Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: but Pharaoh's heart was hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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simplify: If any one sin, and commit a trespass against Jehovah, and deal falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or have oppressed his neighbor,

If anyone does wrong, and is untrue to the Lord, acting falsely to his neighbour in connection with something put in his care, or something given for a debt, or has taken away anything by force, or has been cruel to his neighbour,


simplify: and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.

And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.


simplify: And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in that which is to come.

And whoever says a word against the Son of man, will have forgiveness; but whoever says a word against the Holy Spirit, will not have forgiveness in this life or in that which is to come.


rate difficulty: `My judgments ye do, and My statutes ye keep, to walk in them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God;


rate difficulty: And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.

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rate difficulty: And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.


rate difficulty: And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?

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


simplify: And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.


simplify: Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;


rate difficulty: this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.


simplify: Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.


simplify: When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.


simplify: And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.

And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.


simplify: And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance;

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;


rate difficulty: Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

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rate difficulty: Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

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simplify: Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.


simplify: Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Then he says, I will go back into my house from which I came out; and when he comes, he sees that there is no one in it, but that it has been made fair and clean.


rate difficulty: And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.


simplify: Remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Miriam, by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt.

Keep in mind what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the way, when you came out of Egypt.


simplify: Now when much time was spent, and when sailing was now dangerous, because the fast was now already past, Paul admonished them,

And as a long time had gone by, and the journey was now full of danger, because it was late in the year, Paul put the position before them,


simplify: The salutation by the hand of me Paul. Remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.  Written from Rome to the Colossians by Tychicus and Onesimus.

I, Paul, give you this word of love in my handwriting. Keep in memory that I am a prisoner. Grace be with you.


simplify: And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.

And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.


simplify: therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

Do not, therefore, be ashamed of the testimony which we have to bear to our Lord, or of me imprisoned for his sake; but join with me in suffering for the good news, as far as God enables you.


simplify: As a madman who casteth firebrands, Arrows, and death,

As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,


rate difficulty: And Saul’s uncle said, Tell me, I pray thee, what Samuel said unto you.

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simplify: The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

The knees of the evil are bent before the good; and sinners go down in the dust at the doors of the upright.


simplify: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;


simplify: And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,

And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;


rate difficulty: But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:


rate difficulty: And all the tithe of the herd or the flock, whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: And behold, one of them that were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and smote the servant of the high priest, and struck off his ear.

And one of those who were with Jesus put out his hand, and took out his sword and gave the servant of the high priest a blow, cutting off his ear.


rate difficulty: And his master saw that Jehovah was with him, and that Jehovah made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

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


simplify: Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Or ‘are we to rouse the jealousy of the Lord’? Are we stronger than he?


simplify: And the seven lean and ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind; they shall be seven years of famine.

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.


simplify: And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.

And when God gave help to the Levites who were lifting up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, they made an offering of seven oxen and seven sheep.


rate difficulty: Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage.


simplify: And the wild asses did stand in the high places, they snuffed up the wind like dragons; their eyes did fail, because there was no grass.

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


rate difficulty: I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

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


simplify: Give us day by day our daily bread.


rate difficulty: for man's wrath does not workGod's righteousness.

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


simplify: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

And he was seen by Cephas; then by the twelve;


simplify: I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

I did not send these prophets, but they went running: I said nothing to them, but they gave out the prophet's word.


simplify: And he shall offer the second for a burnt-offering, according to the ordinance; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin which he hath sinned, and he shall be forgiven.

And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.


simplify: And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters: and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.

And at his death Eleazar had no sons, but only daughters, and their relations, the sons of Kish, took them as wives.


rate difficulty: Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!


rate difficulty: And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

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rate difficulty: Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of them that did the work according to their service was:

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


simplify: And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:


simplify: Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.

Give my love to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and the brothers who are with them.


rate difficulty: And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.

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


simplify: Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

So then, because these things may not be doubted, it would be better for you to be quiet, and do nothing unwise.


simplify: But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes.


rate difficulty: Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?

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


rate difficulty: And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.


simplify: Let Jehovah, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,


rate difficulty: [let] nothing [be] in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;


simplify: All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

Every male among the children of Aaron may have it for food; it is their right for ever through all your generations, from the offerings made by fire to the Lord: anyone touching them will be holy.


rate difficulty: the first of thy corn, of thy new wine, and of thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy flock, thou dost give to him;

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


simplify: And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.


rate difficulty: Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.

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


simplify: But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

But the person with spiritual insight is able to understand everything, although they themselves are understood by no one.


rate difficulty: But Paul thought not good to take with them him who withdrew from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

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simplify: And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.

But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.


simplify: And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.

One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to dine with him, so Jesus went to his house and took his place at the table.


simplify: But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succoured him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the light of Israel.

But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.


simplify: Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.


simplify: Above him stood the seraphim: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.


rate difficulty: And to the half of the tribe of Manasseh hath Moses given, in Bashan, and to its <FI>other<Fi> half hath Joshua given with their brethren beyond the Jordan westward; and also when Joshua hath sent them away unto their tents, then he doth bless them,

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simplify: And there were eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; under every board two sockets.

So there were eight boards with sixteen bases of silver, two bases under every board.


simplify: And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my lord:

And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord;


rate difficulty: How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

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


simplify: But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.


rate difficulty: and the border hath gone over thence to Luz, unto the side of Luz (it <FI>is<Fi> Beth-El) southward, and the border hath gone down <FI>to<Fi> Atroth-Addar, by the hill that <FI>is<Fi> on the south of the lower Beth-Horon;

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


simplify: For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

For it is said in the holy Writings, By my life, says the Lord, to me every knee will be bent, and every tongue will give worship to God.


simplify: And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.


rate difficulty: And David enquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the Lord said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thine hand.

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


rate difficulty: And on the seventh day, seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;

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rate difficulty: And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any longer, but Jesus only with themselves.

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rate difficulty: Then he found another man, and said, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man smote him, so that in smiting he wounded him.

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rate difficulty: If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

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


simplify: And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Jehovah that he had wrought for Israel.

And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.


rate difficulty: “Friends,” he said, “it was necessary who the prediction of scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit made by the lips of David about Judas, who acted as guide to the men that arrested Jesus,

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


simplify: And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

and, following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three Sabbaths addressed them, drawing his arguments from the scriptures.


simplify: and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its suburbs, and Bileam with its suburbs, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.

And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath.


rate difficulty: In that day is a highway out of Egypt to Asshur, And come in have the Assyrians to Egypt, And the Egyptians into Asshur, And the Egyptians have served with the Assyrians.

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rate difficulty: And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.

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simplify: `In which things, also, going on to Damascus--with authority and commission from the chief priests--

It was while I was traveling to Damascus on an errand of this kind, entrusted with full powers by the chief priests,


simplify: Moreover thou shalt speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithe which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up a heave-offering of it for Jehovah, a tithe of the tithe.

Say to the Levites, When you take from the children of Israel the tenth which I have given to you from them as your heritage, a tenth part of that tenth is to be offered as an offering lifted up before the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to othergods, and all the women who stood by, a great assemblage, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

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simplify: And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; forthey werethe terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

And they have been put to rest with the fighting men who came to their end in days long past, who went down to the underworld with their instruments of war, placing their swords under their heads, and their body-covers are over their bones; for their strength was a cause of fear in the land of the living.


rate difficulty: Thus shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely they that are in the waste places shall fall by the sword; and him that is in the open field will I give to the beasts to be devoured; and they that are in the strongholds and in the caves shall die of the pestilence.

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


simplify: See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Take care that none of you ever pays back wrong for wrong, but always follow the kindest course with one another and with everyone.


simplify: And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Simon Peter made answer and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.


simplify: The first man <FI>is<Fi> out of the earth, earthy; the second man <FI>is<Fi> the Lord out of heaven;

the first man was from the dust of the earth; the second man from heaven.


simplify: Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the watch at the store-houses of the gates.

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.


rate difficulty: Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath the Lord answered thee? and, What hath the Lord spoken?

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rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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


rate difficulty: Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

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


rate difficulty: And having folded the roll, having given <FI>it<Fi> back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him.

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rate difficulty: according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.

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rate difficulty: And he presented the burnt-offering, and offered it according to the ordinance.

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


rate difficulty: and saith unto the sons of Israel, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I have brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I deliver you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms who are oppressing you;

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simplify: And knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;

and, having been carefully instructed from the law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions.


simplify: Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary.


rate difficulty: The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

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


simplify: O earth, cover not thou my blood, And let my cry have noresting-place.

O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!


rate difficulty: And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

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


simplify: To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:


simplify: And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done:


rate difficulty: for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

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rate difficulty: And the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him; and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.


rate difficulty: And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

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


rate difficulty: For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph’s),

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


simplify: because also in Thessalonica, both once and again to my need ye sent;

Indeed, even while I was still in Thessalonica, you sent more than once to relieve my wants.


simplify: Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;

Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;


simplify: Then Nathan spake unto Bath-sheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not?

Then Nathan said to Bath-sheba, the mother of Solomon, Has it not come to your ears that Adonijah, the son of Haggith, has made himself king without the knowledge of David our lord?


rate difficulty: The children of Immer, a thousand and fifty-two.


simplify: And onyx stones, and stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

And beryls and jewels to be cut for the ephod and for the priest's bag.


simplify: But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

Friends, I want you to realize that what has happened to me has actually served to forward the good news.


simplify: And they shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

The two are to be joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, forming the two angles.


rate difficulty: Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.

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simplify: the obedience <FI>is<Fi> not of him who is calling you!

The persuasion brought to bear on you does not come from him who calls you.


simplify: And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake unto him.

Then the prophet who had made him come back, hearing it, said, It is the man of God, who went against the word of the Lord; that is why the Lord has given him to the lion to be wounded to death, as the Lord said.


simplify: Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;

So now, if you have done truly and uprightly in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well to Jerubbaal and his house in reward for the work of his hands;


rate difficulty: And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.

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


rate difficulty: And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.

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simplify: and forgive thy people who have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee; and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them

Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;


rate difficulty: All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

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


simplify: It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

It may be that the people of Judah, hearing of all the evil which it is my purpose to do to them, will be turned, every man from his evil ways; so that they may have my forgiveness for their evil-doing and their sin.


rate difficulty: Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

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


simplify: And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.

And there were seven sons of a man named Sceva, a Jew and a chief priest, who did this.


simplify: And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.

So, when a light wind sprang up from the south, thinking that they had found their opportunity, they weighed anchor and kept along the coast of Crete, close in shore.


simplify: And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.


rate difficulty: And they cried to Jehovah and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths; and now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

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simplify: His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.


simplify: What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?


rate difficulty: And when the demon was cast out, the dumb man spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.


rate difficulty: And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord.

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


simplify: Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.


rate difficulty: And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.

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rate difficulty: And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

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


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

For we are not like the great number who make use of the word of God for profit: but our words are true, as from God, being said as before God in Christ.


simplify: And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:


rate difficulty: And the three mighty ones cleave through the camp of the Philistines, and draw water out of the well of Beth-Lehem, which <FI>is<Fi> by the gate, and take <FI>it<Fi> up, and bring in unto David; and he was not willing to drink it, and poureth it out to Jehovah,

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


simplify: For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father’s brothers’ sons:

For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, took as their husbands the sons of their father's brothers:


rate difficulty: And the terror ofGod was on all the kingdoms of the lands, when they had heard that Jehovah fought against the enemies of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: because of the Chaldeans; for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor over the land.

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


simplify: And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

And the angel said to the women, Have no fear: for I see that you are searching for Jesus, who was put to death on the cross.


rate difficulty: Then were fulfilled these words spoken in the prophet Jeremiah, where he says —

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


simplify: sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.

Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.


simplify: Now therefore why hast thou not reproved Jeremiah of Anathoth, which maketh himself a prophet to you?

So why have you made no protest against Jeremiah of Anathoth, who is acting as a prophet to you?


rate difficulty: But do not give way to them, for more than forty of them are waiting for him, having taken an oath not to take food or drink till they have put him to death: and now they are ready, waiting for your order.

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


rate difficulty: lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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


rate difficulty: by the command of Jehovah the sons of Israel journey, and by the command of Jehovah they encamp; all the days that the cloud doth tabernacle over the tabernacle they encamp.

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


rate difficulty: And this shall be the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and bases thereof,

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


rate difficulty: of Simeon, of Juda, of Joseph, of Jonan, of Eliakim,

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


simplify: Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?


rate difficulty: But we make this request to you, my brothers: give attention to those who are working among you, who are over you in the Lord to keep order among you;

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


simplify: to whom God did will to make known what <FI>is<Fi> the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations--which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,

to whom it was his pleasure to make known the surpassing glory of that hidden truth when proclaimed among the Gentiles — ‘Christ among you! Your hope of glory!’


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And an angel from heaven came to him, to give him strength.

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


rate difficulty: Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

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


simplify: Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? Yet not one of them has escaped God’s notice.


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


rate difficulty: For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even though he consider it not.

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


simplify: Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings unto me out of the cave.

Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth of the hole in the rock, and make those five kings come out to me.


simplify: Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.


rate difficulty: And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

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


simplify: Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,


simplify: I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news;

I am astonished at your so soon deserting him, who called you through the love of Christ, for a different ‘good news,’


rate difficulty: and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God--the God of Israel.

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


simplify: And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

And having a high opinion of Joseph as his servant, he made him the overseer of his house and gave him control over all he had.


rate difficulty: And he rose up and went to his house.


rate difficulty: This is [the] great and first commandment.


simplify: because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

For God’s ‘folly’ is wiser than people, and God’s ‘weakness’ is stronger than people.


simplify: `And of which of you--the father--if the son shall ask a loaf, a stone will he present to him? and if a fish, will he instead of a fish, a serpent present to him?

What father among you, if his son asks him for a fish, will give him a snake instead,


simplify: So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.

And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.


rate difficulty: For all His judgments <FI>are<Fi> before me, As to His statutes, I turn not from them.


rate difficulty: And put spices on the fire in them before the Lord tomorrow; then the man marked out by the Lord will be holy: you take overmuch on yourselves, you sons of Levi.


rate difficulty: And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.


simplify: In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer.

In overflowing wrath my face was veiled from you for a minute, but I will have pity on you for ever, says the Lord who takes up your cause.


simplify: I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledgeanddiscretion.

I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.


simplify: salute thee do the children of thy choice sister. Amen.

The children of your eminent sister send you their greetings.


simplify: And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.


rate difficulty: I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless Kain shall be wasted, Until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said, This is what the Lord has said you are to do; and you will see the glory of the Lord.

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


simplify: And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.


simplify: Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.


rate difficulty: For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.

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


rate difficulty: Cypresses with nard--nard and saffron, Cane and cinnamon, With all trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, with all chief spices.

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


simplify: And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel; the same did very wickedly:

After this Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, became friends with Ahaziah, king of Israel, who did much evil:


simplify: And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?

And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?


simplify: And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

And he put not his hand on the chiefs of the children of Israel: they saw God, and took food and drink.


simplify: through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;

Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:


simplify: Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!


rate difficulty: And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh.


simplify: And in the morning, a great while before day, he rose up and went out, and departed into a desert place, and there prayed.

And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.


simplify: And I have taken the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel.

And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites.


simplify: Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized into the name of Paul?

Is there a division in Christ? was Paul nailed to the cross for you? or were you given baptism in the name of Paul?


simplify: Now the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

Now the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah while he was shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,


rate difficulty: And when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To-morrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: and he goeth into the house of his father at Ophrah, and slayeth his brethren, sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone; and Jotham, youngest son of Jerubbaal, is left, for he was hidden.

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simplify: Shall even he that hateth right govern? and wilt thou condemn him that is most just?

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?


simplify: And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.

And at the first notes of song and praise the Lord sent a surprise attack against the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were overcome.


rate difficulty: Let not then your good be evil spoken of:

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simplify: Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now herewith, saith Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.


rate difficulty: Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.

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simplify: And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

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simplify: And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it.

And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean.


simplify: `And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins--(he saith to the paralytic) --

But so you may know that the Son of Man has power to forgive sins on earth”— here he said to the paralyzed man —


rate difficulty: The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur,


rate difficulty: Produce therefore fruit worthy of repentance.

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rate difficulty: And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic, and interpreted in Aramaic.


simplify: Ye observe days, and months, and seasons, and years.

You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.


rate difficulty: Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.


rate difficulty: And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia;


simplify: Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?


simplify: who did save us, and did call with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, that was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the times of the ages,

It was God who saved us, and from him we received our solemn call — not as a reward for anything that we had done, but in fulfillment of his own loving purpose. For that love was extended to us, through Christ Jesus, before time began,


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, after <FI>some<Fi> days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;' and her father hath not permitted him to go in,

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rate difficulty: For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:

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simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him; for he had been put in chains, among all the prisoners of Jerusalem and Judah who were taken away prisoners to Babylon.


rate difficulty: But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.