simplify: And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.


simplify: And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.


rate difficulty: And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee, all thy days.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king’s cupbearer.

O Lord, let your ear take note of the prayer of your servant, and of the prayers of your servants, who take delight in worshipping your name: give help, O Lord, to your servant this day, and let him have mercy in the eyes of this man. (Now I was the king's wine-servant.)


simplify: And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.

And they went into the hill-country and were there three days, till the men who had gone after them had come back; and those who went after them were searching for them everywhere without coming across them.


simplify: Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the Lord:

Now Athaliah, hearing the noise of the people running and praising the king, came to the people in the house of the Lord:


rate difficulty: Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up an ensign for the peoples.

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


rate difficulty: take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


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

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


rate difficulty: Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

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


simplify: This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel:

This town will not be your cooking-pot, and you will not be the flesh inside it; I will be your judge at the limit of the land of Israel;


rate difficulty: And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.


simplify: The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The seventh Jesharelah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

and the man and his wife will become one;’ so that they are no longer two, but one.


rate difficulty: Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;


simplify: And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell it to any in the town.

And he sent him away to his house, saying, Do not even go into the town.


simplify: And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.

So that place was named Taberah, because of the fire of the Lord which had been burning among them.


rate difficulty: As most holy shalt thou eat it: every male shall eat it; it shall be holy unto thee.

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


simplify: And they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines on the west; together shall they despoil the children of the east: they shall put forth their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.


rate difficulty: Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;


simplify: But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.


simplify: Thus said Jehovah unto me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;


simplify: among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath--as also the others,

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

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


simplify: Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt:

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;


simplify: Then Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord: and one said unto him, Is all well? wherefore came this mad fellow to thee? And he said unto them, Ye know the man and what his talk was.

Then Jehu came out again to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? why did this man, who is off his head, come to you? And he said to them, You have knowledge of the man and of his talk.


rate difficulty: And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,

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


rate difficulty: He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

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


rate difficulty: Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.

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


simplify: And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,

And if a bad place has come out on the skin and is well again,


simplify: who may not receive back manifold more in this time, and in the coming age, life age-during.'

who will not receive many times as much in the present, and in the age that is coming eternal life.”


simplify: And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

And on his way Jacob came face to face with the angels of God.


simplify: And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

So, if Satan is in revolt against himself and is divided, he cannot last — his end has come!


simplify: And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?


simplify: And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;

To the angel of the church in Pergamus write: —  “These are the words of him who holds the sharp two-edged sword: —


simplify: When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

When you have gone away from me today, you will see two men by the resting-place of Rachel's body, in the land of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to you, The asses which you went in search of have come back, and now your father, caring no longer for the asses, is troubled about you, saying, What am I to do about my son?


simplify: And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I brought unto thee my son, who hath a dumb spirit;

And one of the number said to him in answer, Master, I came to you with my son, who has in him a spirit which takes away his power of talking;


rate difficulty: Moreover Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in the house of God.

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


simplify: For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.

It would, indeed, have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy command delivered to them.


simplify: Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.


simplify: Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,

Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon, our dear helper in the faith,


rate difficulty: Did [ever] people hear the voice ofGod speaking from the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

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


rate difficulty: These waited on the king, beside those whom the king put in the fenced cities throughout all Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to them the words which Jesus had said; and they let them go.

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


simplify: thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

But be certain to give it back to him when the sun goes down, so that he may have his clothing for sleeping in, and will give you his blessing: and this will be put to your account as righteousness before the Lord your God.


simplify: And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?


simplify: And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.


simplify: And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.


rate difficulty: According as it is written, For thy sake we are put to death all the day long; we have been reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

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


simplify: And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.


simplify: for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

judge for yourselves, for we cannot help speaking of what we have seen and heard.”


rate difficulty: Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.

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


simplify: And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bare unto him: and I put the ring upon her nose, and the bracelets upon her hands.

And questioning her, I said, Whose daughter are you? And she said, The daughter of Bethuel, the son of Nahor, and Milcah his wife. Then I put the ring on her nose and the ornaments on her hands.


simplify: And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, before the Lord.

And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean.


rate difficulty: and the battle is very hard on that day, and Abner is smitten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

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


simplify: And when he hath made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she be defiled, and have committed a trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her body shall swell, and her thigh shall fall away: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people.


rate difficulty: And Saul's father's brother said to him and his servant, Where have you been? And he said, Searching for the asses: and when we saw no sign of them, we came to Samuel.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be; For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.


simplify: Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Elam, Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Elijah.

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


simplify: Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee.

And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.


simplify: And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

That was the time when they made the calf and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held festivities in honor of their own handiwork!


rate difficulty: Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.

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


simplify: Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.


rate difficulty: for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

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


simplify: Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the breaking of bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the goodwill of all the people.


simplify: And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.


simplify: Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.


simplify: Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,

Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying,


rate difficulty: But the man Moses was very meek, above all men that were upon the face of the earth.


simplify: Therefore shall Moab wail for Moab, every one shall wail: for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth shall ye mourn, utterly stricken.

For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.


rate difficulty: Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

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


simplify: So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

So all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day, as the king had given orders, saying, Come back to me the third day.


simplify: And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.


simplify: Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

Send out a cry of grief, you men of the sea-land, traders of Zidon, who go over the sea, whose representatives are on great waters;


rate difficulty: What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.

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


simplify: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.


rate difficulty: and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

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


simplify: The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.

The king's wrath is like the loud cry of a lion, but his approval is like dew on the grass.


rate difficulty: And the pomegranates are ninety and six on a side, all the pomegranates <FI>are<Fi> a hundred on the net-work round about.

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


simplify: I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.


simplify: In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.


rate difficulty: Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

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


rate difficulty: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?


rate difficulty: just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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


rate difficulty: I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.

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


simplify: And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.


simplify: (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and his seed for ever.


rate difficulty: and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely bring them again unto thy brother.

If you see your brother's ox or his sheep wandering, do not go by without helping, but take them back to your brother.


rate difficulty: `Having obtained, therefore, help from God, till this day, I have stood witnessing both to small and to great, saying nothing besides the things that both the prophets and Moses spake of as about to come,

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore also I have been often hindered from coming to you.

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


rate difficulty: So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.


rate difficulty: But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

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


rate difficulty: But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.


rate difficulty: Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

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


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

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


simplify: Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

And so the law is holy, and each Commandment is also holy, and just, and good.


simplify: to a virgin, betrothed to a man, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Joseph, of the house of David, and the name of the virgin <FI>is<Fi> Mary.

to a maiden there who was engaged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. Her name was Mary.


rate difficulty: After this, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, sent his servants to Jerusalem (at that time he was stationed with all his army in front of Lachish), to say to Hezekiah and all the men of Judah in Jerusalem,

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


rate difficulty: So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.

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


rate difficulty: Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.

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


rate difficulty: Do the possessors of Keilah shut me up into his hand? doth Saul come down as Thy servant hath heard? Jehovah, God of Israel, declare, I pray Thee, to Thy servant.' And Jehovah saith, `He doth come down.'

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


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


rate difficulty: I tell you,”he continued, “that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.


rate difficulty: The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.


rate difficulty: For in that day they will all give up their images of silver and of gold, the sin which they made for themselves.

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


rate difficulty: The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.

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


rate difficulty: Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

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


rate difficulty: Sons of Laadan: the head <FI>is<Fi> Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.


simplify: Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed unto Cæsar: unto Cæsar shalt thou go.

Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.


rate difficulty: Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, — let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon hisGod.

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


rate difficulty: And, having seen him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, `Child, why didst thou thus to us? lo, thy father and I, sorrowing, were seeking thee.'

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


rate difficulty: And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.


simplify: Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?

Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.


simplify: And they made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.

And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.


rate difficulty: and are there not with thee there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? and it hath been, the whole of the matter that thou hearest from the house of the king thou dost declare to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests.

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


simplify: I have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.


rate difficulty: and he forsook Jehovah theGod of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Jehovah.

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simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it be Jehovah that hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if it be the children of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day that I should not cleave unto the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve other gods.

Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.


rate difficulty: And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

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rate difficulty: And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

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simplify: and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;


simplify: But he said unto them, Not all men can receive this saying, but they to whom it is given.

But he said to them, Not all men are able to take in this saying, but only those to whom it is given.


simplify: Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore ease thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father, and his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we will serve thee.

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.


simplify: For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

I do not understand my own actions. For I am so far from habitually doing what I want to do, that I find myself doing the thing that I hate.


simplify: Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

In the love of the community of the Lord's followers, be affectionate to one another; in showing respect, set an example of deference to one another;


simplify: And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

And he came to the second and said the same. And he made answer and said, I go, sir: and went not.


simplify: And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.


simplify: and Philip having opened his mouth, and having begun from this Writing, proclaimed good news to him--Jesus.

Then Philip began, and, taking this passage as his text, told him the good news about Jesus.


rate difficulty: And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

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rate difficulty: And the priest will give the sin-offering, and take away the sin of him who is to be made clean from his unclean condition; and after that he will put the burned offering to death.

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rate difficulty: So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.


rate difficulty: And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

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rate difficulty: Where no advice is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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


rate difficulty: He took into the house of the Lord all the things which his father had made holy, and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.

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simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.


simplify: And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel.

And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.


rate difficulty: And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

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simplify: who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.


rate difficulty: for as yet it was fallen upon none of them: only they had been baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.


simplify: Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

(Here there is need for discernment.) Let him who has the ability compute the number of the Beast; for the number indicates a person’s name. Its number is six hundred and sixty-six.


rate difficulty: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.


simplify: And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.

And the king was sad; but because of his oaths and because of his guests, he gave the order for it to be given to her;


rate difficulty: Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the Lord dwell among the children of Israel.

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simplify: but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.


simplify: Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

Once he was of little service to you, but now he has become of great service, not only to you, but to me as well;


simplify: And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.


rate difficulty: I will make the land of Egypt a waste among the countries which are made waste, and her towns will be unpeopled among the towns which have been made waste, for forty years: and I will send the Egyptians in flight among the nations and wandering through the countries.

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rate difficulty: Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

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


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

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rate difficulty: Be laying hands quickly on no one, nor be having fellowship with sins of others; be keeping thyself pure;


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; of artistic work shall it be made, with cherubim.

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


rate difficulty: And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

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simplify: Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

So you will see the land before you, but you will not go into the land which I am giving to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> its measures: the north side five hundred, and four thousand, and the south side five hundred, and four thousand, and on the east side five hundred, and four thousand, and the west side five hundred, and four thousand.

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


simplify: Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.


simplify: And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.

Crispus, the synagogue leader, came to believe in the Lord, and so did all his household; and many of the Corinthians, as they listened to Paul, became believers in Christ and were baptized.


simplify: As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, robbed his brother, and did that which is not good among his people, behold, he shall die in his iniquity.

As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.


simplify: For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

For that was why the good news was told to the dead also — that, after they have been judged in the body, as people are judged, they might live in the spirit, as God lives.


rate difficulty: And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.

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simplify: The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

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rate difficulty: And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

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simplify: Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of Jehovah.

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.


simplify: Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.


rate difficulty: In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.


simplify: And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses.

And they put the priests in their divisions and the Levites in their order, for the worship of God at Jerusalem; as it is recorded in the book of Moses.


rate difficulty: Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.

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simplify: I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

I am conscious of this, and am certain in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean in itself; but for the man in whose opinion it is unclean, for him it is unclean.


simplify: I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.


rate difficulty: But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

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simplify: And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:

but he rescued righteous Lot, whose heart was vexed by the wanton licentiousness of his neighbors;


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Ephraim by their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthelahites: of Becher, the family of the Becherites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the Lord.

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simplify: A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.

All round the skirt of the robe were bells and fruits in turn.


simplify: And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

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


rate difficulty: (Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg, the Edomite, chief of the shepherds that [belonged] to Saul.)

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


simplify: And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,


simplify: And the angel of the Lord said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; have no fear of him. So he got up and went down with him to the king.


simplify: Thou shalt not plant thee an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.


simplify: And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;

And he took him on one side from the people privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he put water from his mouth on the man's tongue with his finger;


rate difficulty: The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

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


rate difficulty: and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beer-sheba.


simplify: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

But the woman fled into the wilderness, where there is a place prepared for her by God, to be tended there for twelve hundred and sixty days.


simplify: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:


rate difficulty: we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.


rate difficulty: For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

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


rate difficulty: So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

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


simplify: And Cornelius said, Four days ago, until this hour, I was keeping the ninth hour of prayer in my house; and behold, a man stood before me in bright apparel,

And Cornelius said, Four days from now I was in my house in prayer at the ninth hour; and I saw before me a man in shining clothing,


rate difficulty: And this [man] shall be Peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight princes of men.

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


rate difficulty: `When thou begettest sons and sons' sons, and ye have become old in the land, and have done corruptly, and have made a graven image, a similitude of anything, and have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger: --

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


rate difficulty: For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will put stones in the way of this people: and the fathers and the sons together will go falling over them; the neighbour and his friend will come to destruction.

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


simplify: Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;

“See that you are on the watch; for you do not know when the time will be.


simplify: An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

An uncontrolled man is only looking for trouble, so a cruel servant will be sent against him.


rate difficulty: besides what [came] by the dealers, and by the traffic of the merchants, and by all the kings of Arabia, and by the governors of the country.

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simplify: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

I tell you, even the present generation will not pass away, until all these things have taken place.


simplify: Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

Cursed are those who go down to Egypt for help, and who put their faith in horses; looking to war-carriages for salvation, because of their numbers; and to horsemen, because they are very strong; but they are not looking to the Holy One of Israel, or turning their hearts to the Lord;


rate difficulty: Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


simplify: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.


simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.

And you will be hated by all men, because of my name; but he who goes through to the end will have salvation.


simplify: And he said, He that showed mercy on him. And Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

And he said, The one who had mercy on him. And Jesus said, Go and do the same.


simplify: If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

If we say, We will go into the town, there is no food in the town, and we will come to our end there; and if we go on waiting here, death will come to us. Come then, let us give ourselves up to the army of Aram: if they let us go on living, then life will be ours; and if they put us to death, then death will be ours.


simplify: And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

Jesus took him aside from the crowd quietly, put his fingers into the man’s ears, and touched his tongue with saliva.


simplify: And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true we may give you honour?


rate difficulty: There is no fear of God before their eyes.


rate difficulty: And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

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


simplify: And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.


simplify: And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, and honour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.


simplify: And I wish you to know, brethren, that the things concerning me, rather to an advancement of the good news have come,

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


simplify: Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.


rate difficulty: Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

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simplify: And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.


rate difficulty: And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.


simplify: He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

And he made ten washing-vessels, putting five on the right side and five on the left; such things as were used in making the burned offering were washed in them; but the great water-vessel was to be used by the priests for washing themselves.


simplify: And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.


rate difficulty: And with these sayings scarce restrained they the people, that they had not done sacrifice unto them.


simplify: Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own conceit.

Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.


rate difficulty: and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

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


simplify: Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

All such people we beg, and implore,, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to attend quietly to their business, and earn their own living.


simplify: Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.


simplify: As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a man, and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle.


simplify: Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth.

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rate difficulty: (The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.

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


simplify: I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.

I will make answer to you and to your friends:


rate difficulty: and had taken the women captives that were in it; both great and small: they had put none to death, but had carried them off, and went on their way.

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


rate difficulty: And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

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


simplify: And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were afraid.

And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.


rate difficulty: And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.

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


simplify: And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.

And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.


rate difficulty: all thy trees and the fruit of thy ground doth the locust possess;

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


simplify: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,


simplify: And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do questionings arise in your heart?

And he said to them, Why are you troubled, and why are your hearts full of doubt?


rate difficulty: And Hur was the father of Uri; and Uri was the father of Bezalel.


simplify: against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.

And the Lord said, Say to Aaron, Let the rod in your hand be stretched out over the waters of Egypt, and over the rivers and the streams and the pools, and over every stretch of water, so that they may be turned to blood; and there will be blood through all the land of Egypt, in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.


rate difficulty: They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.

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rate difficulty: And he said to them, `Doth the lamp come that under the measure it may be put, or under the couch--not that it may be put on the lamp-stand?

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: who also did declare to us your love in the Spirit.


simplify: David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

Then David gave orders to all the chiefs of Israel to give their help to Solomon his son, saying,


rate difficulty: “Master, take pity on my son, for he is epileptic and suffers terribly; indeed, he often falls into the fire and into the water;


rate difficulty: From that time <FI>one<Fi> hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us:

So that they might make search for God, in order, if possible, to get knowledge of him and make discovery of him, though he is not far from every one of us:


rate difficulty: And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

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


simplify: Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.


simplify: And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.


rate difficulty: And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

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


rate difficulty: greater than these things I have no joy, that I may hear of my children in truth walking.

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


simplify: and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-mew, and the hawk after its kind,

And the ostrich and the night-hawk and the sea-hawk, and birds of that sort;


simplify: And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?


rate difficulty: My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

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


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

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


simplify: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: as well as of my persecutions, and of the sufferings which I met with at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. You know what persecutions I underwent; and yet the Lord brought me safe out of all!


simplify: Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.


simplify: If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.

If there is still a long time, he will give back, on account of it, a part of the price which was given for him.


rate difficulty: Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> their generations: first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, and Adheel, and Mibsam,

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


simplify: For the king’s ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.


rate difficulty: But all this came to pass, that that might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying,

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


simplify: also from Beth-gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.


simplify: He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.


rate difficulty: On that day the number of those who had been put to death in the town of Shushan was given to the king.


rate difficulty: And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

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


simplify: Himthat removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;

It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:


rate difficulty: And, behold, the servants of David and Joab came from pursuing a troop, and brought in a great spoil with them: but Abner was not with David in Hebron; for he had sent him away, and he was gone in peace.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.


rate difficulty: My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.


simplify: For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

If a man comes across his hater, will he let him get away safe? so may you be rewarded by the Lord for what you have done for me today.


rate difficulty: The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.

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


simplify: Thou gavest me no kiss: but she, since the time I came in, hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.


rate difficulty: And as they went out from Jericho a great crowd followed him.


simplify: And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

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


simplify: And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.

The plate for the holy crown was made of the best gold, and on it were cut these words, HOLY TO THE LORD.


rate difficulty: But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.

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


simplify: and many first shall be last, and last first.

But many who are first now will then be last, and those who are last will be first.


rate difficulty: in order that, even as sin has reigned in [the power of] death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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


simplify: And thou shalt bring his sons, and clothe them with coats:

And take his sons with him and put coats on them;


simplify: Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat, thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.

Only those trees which you are certain are not used for food may be cut down and put to destruction: and you are to make walls of attack against the town till it is taken.


rate difficulty: Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

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


rate difficulty: `Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens;

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


simplify: Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.


simplify: And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it; and he gave to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.

And when they were taking food, Jesus took bread and, after blessing it, he gave the broken bread to the disciples and said, Take it; this is my body.


rate difficulty: evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


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

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


simplify: that ye also be subject to such, and to every one who is working with <FI>us<Fi> and labouring;

I want you, on your part, to show deference to such people as these, as well as to every fellow laborer and earnest worker.


simplify: Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?


simplify: Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, that hast drunk at the hand of Jehovah the cup of his wrath; thou hast drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.


simplify: they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guard, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home. So he dwelt among the people.

And they sent and took Jeremiah out of the place of the watchmen, and gave him into the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to his house: so he was living among the people.


simplify: Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.

Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.


simplify: And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, By the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall begin the battle? And he answered, Thou.

And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you.


simplify: Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the Lord, he delivered them into thine hand.

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a very great army, with war-carriages and horsemen more than might be numbered? but because your faith was in the Lord, he gave them up into your hands.


simplify: She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable; Her lamp goeth not out by night.

She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night.


simplify: Son of man, the house of Israel is become dross unto me: all of them are brass and tin and iron and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are the dross of silver.

Son of man, the children of Israel have become like the poorest sort of waste metal to me: they are all silver and brass and tin and iron and lead mixed with waste.


simplify: To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.


simplify: There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.


simplify: and they brought it unto Jesus, and having cast their garments upon the colt, they did set Jesus upon it.

Then they led it back to Jesus, and threw their cloaks on the foal and put Jesus on it.


simplify: I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,


rate difficulty: Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

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rate difficulty: And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is to the left of Damascus.

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


simplify: Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Let him have drink, and his need will go from his mind, and the memory of his trouble will be gone.


simplify: But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them.

But take care: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins; and in Synagogues you will be whipped; and you will be taken before rulers and kings because of me, for a sign to them.


simplify: We asked them their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of the men that were at the head of them.

And we made request for their names, so that we might send you word, and give you the names of the men at the head of them.


simplify: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

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


rate difficulty: And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.

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


simplify: Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.


simplify: And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?

Then Jacob was angry with Laban, and said, What crime or sin have I done that you have come after me with such passion?


simplify: Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.


simplify: But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:


rate difficulty: Has not the same Hezekiah removed his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

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


simplify: And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.


rate difficulty: And the priests dwell, and the Levites, and of the people, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, in their cities; even all Israel in their cities.

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


simplify: and Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.


rate difficulty: For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.

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


simplify: and he shall make restitution for that which he hath done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the trespass-offering, and he shall be forgiven.

And he is to make payment to the priest for what he has done wrong in relation to the holy thing, together with a fifth part of its value in addition; and the priest will take away his sin by the sheep of his offering, and he will have forgiveness.


rate difficulty: And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.

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


rate difficulty: And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.


rate difficulty: He called the Twelve to him, and began to send them out as his messengers, two and two, and gave them authority over foul spirits.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk as children of light,

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


simplify: The priests the Levites, evenall the tribe of Levi, shall have no portion nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of Jehovah made by fire, and his inheritance.

The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.


rate difficulty: And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.

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


rate difficulty: And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

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


rate difficulty: And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

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


simplify: And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.


rate difficulty: And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

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


rate difficulty: and had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent everything she had and had found no advantage from it, but had rather got worse,

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


rate difficulty: His left hand would be under my head, And his right hand embrace me.


simplify: For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.

For these words are the words of a promise — ‘About this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.’


simplify: These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

Ten times now you have made sport of me; it gives you no sense of shame to do me wrong.


simplify: `And having called near each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, How much dost thou owe to my lord?

One by one he called up his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked of the first.


rate difficulty: And Gaal said again, See! people are coming down from the middle of the land, and one band is coming by way of the oak-tree of the Seers.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle.


rate difficulty: and Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,


rate difficulty: and they were giving him to drink wine mingled with myrrh, and he did not receive.

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


simplify: Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.


simplify: And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

And they were all surprised and in doubt saying to one another, What is the reason of this?


simplify: And thou shalt bring the Levites before the tabernacle of the congregation: and thou shalt gather the whole assembly of the children of Israel together:

And make the Levites come forward in front of the Tent of meeting, and let all the children of Israel come together:


simplify: Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

If your brother or sister does wrong, go to them and convince them of their fault when you are both alone. If they listen to you, you have won them over.


simplify: And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.


rate difficulty: and from that time he was seeking a convenient season to deliver him up.

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


rate difficulty: of Methusala, of Enoch, of Jared, of Maleleel, of Cainan,

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


simplify: And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.


simplify: `They, therefore, having come together--I, making no delay, on the succeeding <FI>day<Fi> having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

So they met here, and without loss of time I took my seat on the Bench the very next day, and ordered the man to be brought before me.


simplify: Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

Are you married to a wife? Then do not seek to be separated. Are you separated from a wife? Then do not seek for a wife.


simplify: And say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:

And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.


simplify: Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah: Jehovah hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.


simplify: knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,


rate difficulty: And now, O Jehovah our God, save us, we pray Thee, out of his hand, and know do all kingdoms of the earth that Thou <FI>art<Fi> Jehovah God--Thyself alone.'

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


simplify: and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

But, if someone suffers as a Christian, do not let them be ashamed of it; let them bring honor to God even though they bear that name.


rate difficulty: and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting.

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


rate difficulty: and those eating were about four thousand. And he let them away,

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


rate difficulty: By their fruits you will get knowledge of them. Do men get grapes from thorns or figs from thistles?


simplify: The sons of Merari; Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzza his son,

The sons of Merari: Mahli, Libni his son, Shimei his son, Uzzah his son,


rate difficulty: Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

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


rate difficulty: or if he touch the uncleanness of man, any uncleanness of him by which he is defiled, and it be hid from him, when he knoweth [it], then he is guilty.

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


rate difficulty: When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

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


simplify: The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;


simplify: And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;


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

Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.


rate difficulty: Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.

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


rate difficulty: and he said to them, `Verily I say to you, that there is not one who left house, or parents, or brothers, or wife, or children, for the sake of the reign of God,


simplify: Agoodname is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one’s birth.

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.


simplify: And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan.


simplify: and there shall be no remnant unto them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

Not one of them will keep his life, for I will send evil on the men of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.


simplify: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben–hadad.

And I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, burning up the great houses of Ben-hadad.


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

Come back to him who has been so deeply sinned against by the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

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


simplify: For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

Let it not seem to such a man that he will get anything from the Lord;


rate difficulty: But Jesus said: “They need not go away, it is for you to give them something to eat.”


simplify: And when we had sailed over the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

And having gone across the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra, in Lycia.


simplify: And she answered and saith to him, `Yes, sir; for the little dogs also under the table do eat of the children's crumbs.'

“Yes, Master,” she replied; “even the dogs under the table do feed on the children’s crumbs.”


simplify: They feared Jehovah, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.

They gave worship to the Lord, but they gave honour to their gods like the nations did from whom they had been taken as prisoners.


simplify: In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;


rate difficulty: So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.

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


rate difficulty: After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.

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


rate difficulty: And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together, and passed over Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

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


simplify: And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!


simplify: And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:

“And at that time if anyone should say to you ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ‘Look, there he is!’, do not believe it;


simplify: and they came and besought them; and when they had brought them out, they asked them to go away from the city.

Then they came and made prayers to them, requesting them, when they had taken them out, to go away from the town.


simplify: And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


simplify: And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.

And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.