simplify: For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.


simplify: She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need.


rate difficulty: And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned against Jehovah theGod of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

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simplify: And the damsel ran, and told her mother’s house according to these words.

So the girl went running and took the news of these things to her mother's house


simplify: Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life.


simplify: `And when the seven to the four thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' and they said, `Seven.'

“And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you pick up?”   “Seven,” they said.


simplify: And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.

And the burned offering is to be skinned and cut up into its parts.


simplify: Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household:

Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:


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

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simplify: And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

And there will be no more curse: and the high seat of God and of the Lamb will be there; and his servants will be worshipping him;


rate difficulty: And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

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rate difficulty: Jehovah your God, who is going before you--He doth fight for you, according to all that He hath done with you in Egypt before your eyes,

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


rate difficulty: and because of the abounding of the lawlessness, the love of the many shall become cold;

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


simplify: There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

There is, for instance, a certain number of different languages in the world, and not one of them fails to convey meaning.


simplify: And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and will flog the servant severely, and assign them their place among the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.


simplify: His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.


simplify: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Then I saw thrones, and to those who took their seats on them authority was given to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony to Jesus and because of the message of God, for they had refused to worship the Beast or its image, and had not received the brand on their foreheads and on their hands. They were restored to life, and they reigned with the Christ for a thousand years.


simplify: And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

And he is clothed in a robe washed with blood: and his name is The Word of God.


simplify: Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience.

And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.


rate difficulty: And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the ignominy of the nations any more.

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


rate difficulty: When my steps were washed with butter, And the rock poured me out streams of oil!

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


rate difficulty: As whenGod overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and their neighbour cities, saith Jehovah, no one shall dwell there, neither shall a son of man sojourn therein.

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


rate difficulty: And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, what the Lord saith unto me, that will I speak.

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


rate difficulty: For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: After honour He hath sent me unto the nations who are spoiling you, For he who is coming against you, Is coming against the daughter of His eye.

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


rate difficulty: And Pilate said to them, `Why--what evil did he?' and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;'

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


simplify: The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapor driven to and fro by them that seek death.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.


rate difficulty: After these things hath the king Ahasuerus exalted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and lifteth him up, and setteth his throne above all the heads who <FI>are<Fi> with him,

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


simplify: For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.


rate difficulty: Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the knowledge of the meeting of the people, let all the meeting give a young ox as a burned offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, as is ordered in the law, together with a he-goat for a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; And a man istriedby his praise.


simplify: And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Ram the first-born of Jerahmeel were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.


simplify: for the unbelieving husband hath been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife hath been sanctified in the husband; otherwise your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

For, through his wife, the husband who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people; and the wife who is an unbeliever has become associated with Christ’s people through the Lord's follower whom she has married. Otherwise your children would be ‘defiled,’ but, as it is, they belong to Christ’s people.


simplify: But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.

But when he saw the wind he was in fear and, starting to go down, he gave a cry, saying, Help, Lord.


simplify: having known that, not with corruptible things--silver or gold--were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers,

For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,


rate difficulty: And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

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


simplify: He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.


simplify: Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

And some traders from Midian went by; so pulling Joseph up out of the hole, they gave him to the Ishmaelites for twenty bits of silver, and they took him to Egypt.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


simplify: And having gone forth quickly from the tomb, with fear and great joy, they ran to tell to his disciples;

They left the tomb quickly, in awe and great joy, and ran to tell the news to the disciples.


rate difficulty: Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.


simplify: For they refreshed my spirit and yours: acknowledge ye therefore them that are such.

For they gave comfort to my spirit and to yours: for which cause give respect to such people.


simplify: Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

And of the Levites, Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.


simplify: And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.

And Saul, answering him, said, He gave us word that the asses had come back. But he said nothing to him of Samuel's words about the kingdom.


simplify: And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.


simplify: And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

And before all the people Hananiah said, The Lord has said, Even so will I let the yoke of the king of Babylon be broken off the necks of all the nations in the space of two years. Then the prophet Jeremiah went away.


simplify: Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do.

If Timothy comes, take care that he has no cause for feeling anxious while he is with you. He is doing the Master’s work no less than I am.


simplify: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

And have no fear of those who put to death the body, but are not able to put to death the soul. But have fear of him who has power to give soul and body to destruction in hell.


simplify: Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

I beg you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;


rate difficulty: For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

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simplify: But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ.

But Saul went on increasing in power, and the Jews in Damascus were not able to give answers to the arguments by which he made it clear that Jesus was the Christ.


simplify: And the prince of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bukki the son of Jogli.

And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli.


simplify: Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


simplify: And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

And his brothers were two thousand, seven hundred able men, heads of families, whom King David made overseers over the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in everything to do with God, and for the king's business.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.

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


rate difficulty: And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto him, `Lo, I have accepted thy face also for this thing, without overthrowing the city <FI>for<Fi> which thou hast spoken;

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


rate difficulty: He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.

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


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Say to the bird--every wing, and to every beast of the field: Be assembled and come in, Be gathered from round about, For My sacrifice that I am sacrificing for you, A great sacrifice on mountains of Israel, And ye have eaten flesh, and drunk blood.

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


simplify: and one of the four living creatures did give to the seven messengers seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who is living to the ages of the ages;

One of the four Creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls, filled with the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with despite of soul to destroy with perpetual enmity;

This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;


simplify: And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

And all your builders will be made wise by the Lord; and great will be the peace of your children.


simplify: And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;

And I have made selection of Oholiab with him, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all who are wise I have put the knowledge to make whatever I have given you orders to have made;


rate difficulty: He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

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


simplify: Shimei the son of Ela, in Benjamin;


rate difficulty: and behold, a spirit takes him, and suddenly he cries out, and it tears him with foaming, and with difficulty departs from him after crushing him.

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rate difficulty: But the free giving of God is not like the wrongdoing of man. For if, by the wrongdoing of one man death came to numbers of men, much more did the grace of God, and the free giving by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ, come to men.

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


rate difficulty: `And if his offering <FI>is<Fi> out of the flock--out of the sheep or out of the goats--for a burnt-offering, a male, a perfect one, he doth bring near,


rate difficulty: I have become a fool--boasting; ye--ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles--even if I am nothing.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> in thy midst, A mighty one doth save, He rejoiceth over thee with joy, He doth work in His love, He joyeth over thee with singing.'

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For thou didst separate them from among all the peoples of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus began to say unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray.


simplify: He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.


simplify: If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

If they say to us, Keep quiet where you are till we come to you; then we will keep our places and not go up to them.


rate difficulty: One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.

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


rate difficulty: That in the time to come he might make clear the full wealth of his grace in his mercy to us in Christ Jesus:

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


rate difficulty: and He hath given their kings into thy hand, and thou hast destroyed their name from under the heavens; no man doth station himself in thy presence till thou hast destroyed them.

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


rate difficulty: `Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.

And the king, hearing the words of the book of the law, took his robe in his hands, violently parting it as a sign of his grief;


simplify: Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.


simplify: this one did bring them forth, having done wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years;

He it was who led them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the desert during forty years.


rate difficulty: And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and the arms of Pharaoh will be hanging down; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and it is stretched out against the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.

With a loud cry the spirit threw the boy into repeated convulsions, and then came out from him. The boy looked like a corpse, so that most of them said that he was dead.


simplify: And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.


simplify: And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

And Joseph, her husband, being an upright man, and not desiring to make her a public example, had a mind to put her away privately.


rate difficulty: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

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


simplify: And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

And they let down the lead, and saw that the sea was a hundred and twenty feet deep; and after a little time they did it again and it was ninety feet.


simplify: And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;

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


rate difficulty: On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the children of Zebulun, did offer:

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


simplify: For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.


simplify: Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

Uzziah made towers in Jerusalem, at the doorway in the angle and at the doorway in the valley and at the turn of the wall, arming them.


simplify: But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

But now, get me a player of music, and it will come about that while the man is playing, the hand of the Lord will come on me and I will give you the word of the Lord: and they got a player of music, and while the man was playing, the hand of the Lord was on him.


simplify: Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.


rate difficulty: also heretofore, in Saul's being king over us, thou hast been he who is bringing out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah saith to thee, Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art for leader over Israel.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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


simplify: For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

For the children of Israel are servants to me; they are my servants whom I took out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?

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


rate difficulty: And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.


simplify: But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

Before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you, and they will betray you to Synagogues and put you in prison, when you will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name.


simplify: And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

‘My Lord,’ I answered, ‘it is you who know.’   ‘These,’ he said, ‘are they who come through the Great Persecution; they washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, When any man of you presenteth an offering to Jehovah, ye shall present your offering of the cattle, of the herd and of the flock.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the priest shall take the basket out of thy hand, and set it down before the altar of Jehovah thy God.

Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.


simplify: Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her lord was, till it was light.

Then at the dawn of day the woman came, and, falling down at the door of the man's house where her master was, was stretched there till it was light.


simplify: The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

The first words of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.


rate difficulty: Can, my brethren, a fig produce olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt [water] make sweet water.

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


rate difficulty: But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.


rate difficulty: And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now exercise sovereignty over Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Thus saith Jehovah: Make this valley full of ditches.


simplify: And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

That is what is meant by the words — ‘Adam, the first man, became a human being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.


rate difficulty: And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

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


rate difficulty: and ye shall break down their altars, and shatter their statues, and burn their Asherahs with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of theirgods, and ye shall destroy the names of them out of that place.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the Lord of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.


simplify: And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

And Moses went up the mountain, into the cloud, and was there for forty days and forty nights.


rate difficulty: And Eleazar the priest taketh the brazen censers which they who are burnt had brought near, and they spread them out, a covering for the altar--

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


rate difficulty: Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness will he deal wrongfully, and will not behold the majesty of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save thy life.

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


simplify: And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.


simplify: they that devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.


rate difficulty: then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.

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


rate difficulty: And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,

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


simplify: Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.


simplify: And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David’s brother slew him.

And when he put shame on Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, put him to death.


rate difficulty: And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.

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


simplify: For I bear him record, that he hath a great zeal for you, and them that are in Laodicea, and them in Hierapolis.

I can bear testimony to the deep interest he takes in you, as well as in the followers at Laodicea and at Hierapolis.


simplify: Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus;

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax-gather; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;


simplify: And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.

And put oil on the altar of burned offering, and make it and all its vessels holy; this altar is to be most holy.


rate difficulty: To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

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


simplify: Even a full wind from those places shall come unto me: now also will I give sentence against them.

A full wind will come for me: and now I will give my decision against them.


rate difficulty: giving no manner of offence in anything, that the ministry be not blamed;

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


rate difficulty: and everyone will see the salvation of God.”’


rate difficulty: And those left flee to Aphek, unto the city, and the wall falleth on twenty and seven chief men who are left, and Ben-Hadad hath fled, and cometh in unto the city, into the innermost part.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they understand.

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.


rate difficulty: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

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


rate difficulty: And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.

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


simplify: The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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


simplify: Yet these may ye eat of all winged creeping things that go upon all fours, which have legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth;

But of the winged four-footed things, those which have long legs for jumping on the earth you may have for food;


simplify: And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the Lord, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:


simplify: with good will doing service, as unto the Lord, and not unto men:

Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:


simplify: And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.


simplify: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.


simplify: Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.


simplify: And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went back to his house and was living there.


simplify: Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.

Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.


rate difficulty: Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you.

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


rate difficulty: one kid of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.

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


rate difficulty: Will be five shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place (the shekel is twenty gerahs);

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


simplify: And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward.

And whoever gives to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he will not go without his reward.


simplify: For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:


rate difficulty: There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

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


simplify: For many bare false witness against him, and their witness agreed not together.

For a number gave false witness against him and their witness was not in agreement.


simplify: And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

And more than all, have love; the only way in which you may be completely joined together.


rate difficulty: And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of Jehovah unto Beth-el: and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

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


rate difficulty: Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:

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


simplify: Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the Lord.

Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.


simplify: And the children of Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.


rate difficulty: And they came and besieged him in Abel of Beth–maachah, and they cast up a bank against the city, and it stood in the trench: and all the people that were with Joab battered the wall, to throw it down.


simplify: They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

“Miserable wretches!” they exclaimed, “he will put them to a miserable death, and he will let out the vineyard to other tenants, who will pay him his share of the produce at the proper times.”


rate difficulty: And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

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


simplify: They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.

Let them be holy to their God and not make the name of their God common; for the fire offerings of the Lord and the bread of their God are offered by them, and they are to be holy.


simplify: and those having seen <FI>it<Fi> , declared to them how it had come to pass to the demoniac, and about the swine;

Then those who had seen it related to them all that had happened to the possessed man, as well as about the pigs;


simplify: That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.


rate difficulty: Therefore now, Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

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


simplify: When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?


rate difficulty: But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I put my name at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil-doing of my people Israel.

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


simplify: And Bela died, and Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

At his death, Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, became king in his place.


simplify: Wherefore thou art great, O Jehovah God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God besides thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.


simplify: Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

Let the first male child of every mother among the children of Israel be kept holy for me, even the first male birth among man or beast; for it is mine.


simplify: And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

And, on your way, say, The kingdom of heaven is near.


simplify: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Meanwhile faith, hope, and love endure — these three, but the greatest of these is love.


rate difficulty: He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.

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


simplify: While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.


simplify: Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, Neither shall my pressure be heavy upon thee.

Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.


simplify: `And other fell amidst the thorns, and the thorns having sprung up with it, did choke it.

Other seed fell in the middle of brambles, but the brambles grew up with it and choked it entirely.


rate difficulty: In the evening the people brought to Jesus many who were possessed by demons; and he drove out the spirits with a word, and cured all who were ill,

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


simplify: But when the multitudes saw it, they were afraid, and glorified God, who had given such authority unto men.

But when the people saw it they were full of fear, and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.


rate difficulty: And Hilkiah goeth, and they of the king, unto Huldah the prophetess, wife of Shallum son of Tikvath, son of Hasrah, keeper of the garments, and she is dwelling in Jerusalem in the Second, and they speak unto her thus.

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


rate difficulty: And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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


simplify: Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

Men whose ideas are all false, who say that the coming back from the dead has even now taken place, overturning the faith of some.


rate difficulty: And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadarezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

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


simplify: Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.


simplify: But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall be set before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him that vowed shall the priest value him.

But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give.


simplify: And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.


rate difficulty: And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the standing grain, and his arm reapeth the ears; yea, it shall be as when one gleaneth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

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


rate difficulty: I would declare unto him the number of my steps; As a prince would I go near unto him.

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


simplify: And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us?


simplify: Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

Then the Lord put out his hand, touching my mouth; and the Lord said to me, See, I have put my words in your mouth:


rate difficulty: But Jesus said to him, Come after me; and let the dead take care of their dead.

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


rate difficulty: And all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

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


rate difficulty: What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the Lord shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the Lord from my youth.

And straight away, when I have gone from you, the spirit of the Lord will take you away, I have no idea where, so that when I come and give word to Ahab, and he sees you not, he will put me to death: though I, your servant, have been a worshipper of the Lord from my earliest years.


simplify: on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,


simplify: And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clave unto her.

Then again they were weeping; and Orpah gave her mother-in-law a kiss, but Ruth would not be parted from her.


rate difficulty: Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

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


rate difficulty: `And it hath been, when Jehovah doth to my lord according to all the good which He hath spoken concerning thee, and appointed thee for leader over Israel,

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


simplify: The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

The plates of his flesh are joined together, fixed, and not to be moved.


simplify: `And, when the unclean spirit may go forth from the man, it doth walk through dry places seeking rest, and doth not find;

No sooner does a foul spirit leave a person, than it passes through places where there is no water, in search of rest, and does not find it.


simplify: and from the fear of him did the keepers shake, and they became as dead men.

and, in their terror of him, the men on guard trembled violently and became like dead men.


simplify: And he that sitteth on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he saith, Write: for these words are faithful and true.

And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.


simplify: Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Truly, if the river is overflowing, it gives him no cause for fear; he has no sense of danger, even if Jordan is rushing against his mouth.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.


simplify: And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban’s flock.

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


rate difficulty: and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened [bread] that is before Jehovah;

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


rate difficulty: Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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


rate difficulty: gold by weight for [things] of gold, for all utensils of each kind of service; for all utensils of silver, by weight, for all utensils of each kind of service;


simplify: And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

Immediately afterwards, getting into the boat with his disciples, Jesus went to the district of Dalmanutha.


simplify: which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God;

To the order which I gave your fathers on the day when I took them out of the land of Egypt, out of the oven of iron, saying, Give ear to my voice, and do all the orders I have given you: so you will be my people, and I will be your God:


simplify: Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even.

And, in addition, anyone who goes into the house at any time, while it is shut up, will be unclean till evening.


simplify: And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?

The people standing near said to Paul: “Do you know that you are insulting God’s high priest?”


simplify: Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.


rate difficulty: They will be the teachers of your decisions to Jacob and of your law to Israel: the burning of perfumes before you will be their right, and the ordering of burned offerings on your altar.

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


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: And Gaal went out before the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech.

So Gaal went out at the head of the townsmen of Shechem and made war on Abimelech.


rate difficulty: My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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


simplify: And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.

And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.


simplify: For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.

For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.


rate difficulty: to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;'

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


simplify: In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

In the thirty-eighth year of Azaliah, king of Judah, Zechariah, son of Jeroboam, was king over Israel for six months.


rate difficulty: and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the net above the liver, which he shall take away as far as the kidneys.

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


rate difficulty: He who is slow to be angry has great good sense; but he whose spirit is over-quick gives support to what is foolish.


rate difficulty: and it hath been, any one who goeth out from the doors of thy house without, his blood <FI>is<Fi> on his head, and we are innocent; and any one who is with thee in the house, his blood <FI>is<Fi> on our head, if a hand is on him;

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


simplify: Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to me,

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


simplify: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.


simplify: For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

I am of the opinion that there is no comparison between the pain of this present time and the glory which we will see in the future.


simplify: If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.


rate difficulty: And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

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


simplify: For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.


rate difficulty: For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice,

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


simplify: And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

When Jesus was still at Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, while he was sitting at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of choice spikenard perfume of great value. She broke the jar, and poured the perfume on his head.


rate difficulty: And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

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


simplify: The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.


simplify: But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

But give honour to Christ in your hearts as your Lord; and be ready at any time when you are questioned about the hope which is in you, to give an answer in the fear of the Lord and without pride;


rate difficulty: Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

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


simplify: Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be ye far from thence:

So now, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and your people the Apharsachites across the river, keep far from that place:


rate difficulty: and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.

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


rate difficulty: All of them are turned aside by apostates, Walking slanderously--brass and iron, All of them are corrupters.

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


rate difficulty: Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?


simplify: Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

From the town come sounds of pain from those who are near death, and the soul of the wounded is crying out for help; but God does not take note of their prayer.


simplify: And immediately doth the Spirit put him forth to the wilderness,

Immediately afterwards the Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness;


rate difficulty: The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent,

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


simplify: But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

But the Pharisees said: “He drives out the demons by the help of the chief of the demons.”


simplify: And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And now, my sister, I make a request to you, not sending you a new law, but the law which we had from the first, that we have love for one another.


simplify: And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

And he was changed in form before them; and his face was shining like the sun, and his clothing became white as light.


rate difficulty: Because, knowingGod, they glorified [him] not asGod, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoshabeath daughter of the king taketh Joash son of Ahaziah, and stealeth him from the midst of the sons of the king who are put to death, and putteth him and his nurse into the inner part of the bed-chambers, and Jehoshabeath daughter of king Jehoram, wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she hath been sister of Ahaziah, hideth him from the face of Athaliah, and she hath not put him to death.

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


simplify: And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

And I gave baptism to the house of Stephanas; but I am not certain that any others had baptism from me.


rate difficulty: As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: the fire went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.


simplify: And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

The girl went out, and said to her mother “What must I ask for?”   “The head of John the Baptizer,’ answered her mother.


simplify: henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

And now the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will give me on ‘that day’ — and not only to me, but to all who have loved his appearing.


simplify: and he was charging them, saying, `Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'

So Jesus gave them this warning. “Take care,”he said, “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”


rate difficulty: And behold, a man of the children of Israel came and brought a Midianitish woman to his brethren, in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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


simplify: And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

So he called out ‘Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering agony in this flame.’


simplify: Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?


rate difficulty: and the border turned from Baalah westwards toward mount Seir, and passed toward the side of Har-jearim, that is, Chesalon, northwards, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed Timnah.

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


rate difficulty: “Why, then,” they said, “did Moses direct that a man should ‘serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her’?”

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


simplify: And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.

And they went away and saw a young ass by the door outside in the open street; and they were getting him loose.


rate difficulty: For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

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


simplify: And Micaiah said, If thou return at all in peace, the Lord hath not spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, O people, every one of you.

And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.


simplify: Let thy foot be seldom in thy neighbor’s house, Lest he be weary of thee, and hate thee.

Let not your foot be frequently in your neighbour's house, or he may get tired of you, and his feeling be turned to hate.


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

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


simplify: therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will lay bare their secret parts.

The Lord will send disease on the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will let their secret parts be seen.


simplify: And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

Joseph, having bought a linen sheet, took Jesus down, and wound the sheet around him, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of the rock; and then rolled a stone up against the entrance of the tomb.


simplify: And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife.


simplify: As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

For example, if a man goes into the woods with his neighbour for the purpose of cutting down trees, and when he takes his axe to give a blow to the tree, the head of the axe comes off, and falling on to his neighbour gives him a wound causing his death; then the man may go in flight to one of these towns and be safe:


simplify: And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.


simplify: And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.

And make me food, good to the taste, such as is pleasing to me, and put it before me, so that I may have a meal and give you my blessing before death comes to me.


simplify: And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.


rate difficulty: Therefore, hear a word of Jehovah, ye men of scorning, Ruling this people that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that knoweth how to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

So now send me an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron? in purple and red and blue, and in the cutting of all sorts of ornament, to be with the expert workmen who are here in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David got together.


rate difficulty: And in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, having Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of Chinnereth on the east side of Jordan.

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


simplify: And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.

Jesus looked at them, and answered: “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for everything is possible with God.”


simplify: And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.

For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the children of Issachar by their families;


rate difficulty: Be imitators [all] together of me, brethren, and fix your eyes on those walking thus as you have us for a model;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

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


rate difficulty: And when they had come to an end, James, answering, said, My brothers, give ear to me:

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


rate difficulty: In this are manifest the children ofGod and the children of the devil. Whoever does not practise righteousness is not ofGod, and he who does not love his brother.

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


rate difficulty: And at the rear of the tabernacle, westward, he made six boards;


rate difficulty: And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

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


simplify: And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.


simplify: for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.

for, seeing and hearing what he did, as he lived his righteous life among them, day after day, Lot’s righteous soul was tortured by their wicked doings.


simplify: But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

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


rate difficulty: Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar-boznai, and their companions, because of that which king Darius had sent, did so diligently.

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


simplify: And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.


simplify: As birds hovering, so will Jehovah of hosts protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it, he will pass over and preserve it.

Like birds with outstretched wings, so will the Lord of armies be a cover to Jerusalem; he will be a cover and salvation for it, going over it he will keep it from danger.


simplify: Even a child maketh himself known by his doings, Whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

Even a child may be judged by his doings, if his work is free from sin and if it is right.


simplify: And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

And I made them come together by the river flowing to Ahava; and we were there in tents for three days: and after viewing the people and the priests I saw that no sons of Levi were there.


simplify: A wicked man hardeneth his face; But as for the upright, he establisheth his ways.

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


rate difficulty: Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

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


simplify: pursued, yet not forsaken; smitten down, yet not destroyed;

We are cruelly attacked, but not without hope; we are made low, but we are not without help;


simplify: And the Nazirite shall shave the head of his separation at the door of the tent of meeting, and shall take the hair of the head of his separation, and put it on the fire which is under the sacrifice of peace-offerings.

Then let his long hair, the sign of his oath, be cut off at the door of the Tent of meeting, and let him put it on the fire on which the peace-offerings are burning.


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, Ye be righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and slew him: but who slew all these?

And in the morning he went out and, stopping, said to all the people there, You are upright men: it is true that I made designs against my master, and put him to death; but who is responsible for the death of all these?


rate difficulty: this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken against him: The virgin-daughter of Zion despiseth thee, laugheth thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem shaketh her head at thee.

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


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

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


simplify: At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.


rate difficulty: We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and of the poor of the land hath the chief of the executioners left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

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


simplify: Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.


rate difficulty: And they set over them service-masters to oppress them with their burdens. And they built store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Rameses.


simplify: and ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

And you have gone against my father's family this day, and have put to death his sons, even seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his servant-wife, king over the townsmen of Shechem because he is your brother;)


simplify: Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

Because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord their God, but went against his agreement, even against everything ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and they did not give ear to it or do it.


simplify: God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

God will not fail you, and it is he who called you into communion with his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.


simplify: Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


rate difficulty: and of the herd six and thirty thousand;

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


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


simplify: He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.


simplify: And he departed thence, and went into their synagogue:

And he went from there into their Synagogue:


rate difficulty: And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath,


rate difficulty: 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: The word that the Lord spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet.

The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.


simplify: And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another.

And they were all given their seats before him in order of birth, from the oldest to the youngest: so that they were looking at one another in wonder.


simplify: And I bowed my head, and worshipped Jehovah, and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.

And with bent head I gave worship and praise to the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, by whom I had been guided in the right way, to get the daughter of my master's brother for his son.


simplify: In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

In the morning you will say, If only it was evening! And at evening you will say, If only morning would come! Because of the fear in your hearts and the things which your eyes will see.


rate difficulty: And she said, Behold, thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people, and unto her god: return thou after thy sister-in-law.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: ye <FI>are<Fi> witnesses--God also--how kindly and righteously, and blamelessly to you who believe we became,

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

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


simplify: And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah.


simplify: Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

With it we give praise to our Lord and Father; and with it we put a curse on men who are made in God's image.


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they went in unto her, as they go in unto a harlot: so went they in unto Oholah and unto Oholibah, the lewd women.

And they went in to her, as men go to a loose woman: so they went in to Oholibah, the loose woman.


simplify: These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: I go down now, and see whether according to its cry which is coming unto Me they have done completely--and if not--I know;'

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


simplify: and they played the harlot in Egypt; they played the harlot in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.

They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.


rate difficulty: And Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ houses.

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


simplify: Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then said Jehovah unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.

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


simplify: There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.


rate difficulty: Now he is not God of dead people, but of living. For in his sight all are alive.”

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


rate difficulty: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:

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


rate difficulty: Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?


simplify: Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:

So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor;


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall accomplish a vow, the persons shall be for Jehovah by thy estimation.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.


rate difficulty: He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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


rate difficulty: Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not--where, who <FI>is<Fi> he?

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, and Jehovah raiseth to them a saviour, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjamite (a man--shut of his right hand), and the sons of Israel send by his hand a present to Eglon king of Moab;

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


rate difficulty: And they have not hearkened unto Me, Nor inclined their ear, and harden their neck, They have done evil above their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.


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

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


simplify: And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.


rate difficulty: And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon them;

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


rate difficulty: Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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


rate difficulty: Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not Jehovah.

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


simplify: Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

Now the feast of unleavened bread was near, which is called the Passover.


simplify: As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.

As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:


rate difficulty: Now when she had weaned Lo–ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.

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


simplify: Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

Now in the fifteenth year of the rule of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being ruler of Judaea, and Herod being king of Galilee, his brother Philip king of the country of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias king of Abilene,


rate difficulty: And they take two chariot-horses, and the king sendeth after the camp of Aram, saying, `Go, and see.'

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


simplify: And behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was threescore furlongs from Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judæa and from beyond the Jordan.

And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.


rate difficulty: And I, John, am he who saw these things and to whose ears they came. And when I had seen and given ear, I went down on my face to give worship at the feet of the angel who made these things clear to me.

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


simplify: So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.

So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying, Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief.


rate difficulty: unto a month of days, till that it come out from your nostrils, and it hath become to you an abomination; because that ye have loathed Jehovah, who <FI>is<Fi> in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this? --we have come out of Egypt!'

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


rate difficulty: And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.

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


simplify: Then will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand can save thee.

Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.


simplify: and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'

But Jesus answered: “No one who looks back, after putting their hand to the plow, is fitted for the kingdom of God.”


simplify: And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.

And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:


simplify: Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.


simplify: This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

This order I give to you, Timothy my son, in harmony with the words of the prophets about you, so that by them you may be strong, fighting the good fight,


simplify: And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.

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


simplify: (but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.


rate difficulty: Maharai the Netophathite, Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite,

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


simplify: Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.


simplify: Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

Be glad, O you his people, over the nations; for he will take payment for the blood of his servants, and will give punishment to his haters, and take away the sin of his land, for his people.


rate difficulty: And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

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


rate difficulty: And thou hast let go--even through thyself, Of thine inheritance that I gave to thee, And I have caused thee to serve thine enemies, In a land that thou hast not known, For a fire ye have kindled in Mine anger, Unto the age it doth burn.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,

The son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

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


simplify: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.


simplify: and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

Jesus, however, called the ten to him, and said: “The rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them as you know, and their high officials oppress them.


simplify: And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.


rate difficulty: Elders of Gebal and its wise men have been in thee, Strengthening thy breach; All ships of the sea and their mariners, Have been in thee, to trade <FI>with<Fi> thy merchandise.

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