simplify: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

In whose hand is the instrument with which he will make clean his grain; he will put the good grain in his store, but the waste will be burned in the fire which will never be put out.


rate difficulty: Now what I write to you, behold, beforeGod, I do not lie.

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Say to the children of Israel, when you have gone over Jordan into the land of Canaan;


simplify: And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.

And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.


rate difficulty: Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:

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


rate difficulty: And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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


simplify: Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.

Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.


simplify: and they have no root in themselves, but endure for a while; then, when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, straightway they stumble.

And they have no root in themselves, but go on for a time; then, when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, they quickly become full of doubts.


rate difficulty: And again he denied with an oath: I do not know the man.


rate difficulty: And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.


rate difficulty: Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

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


simplify: Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.


rate difficulty: Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And Jehovah was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

And the Lord was with Joseph, and he did well; and he was living in the house of his master the Egyptian.


simplify: and I say this, that each one of you saith, `I, indeed, am of Paul' --`and I of Apollos,' --`and I of Cephas,' --`and I of Christ.'

I mean this: that every one of you says either ‘I follow Paul,’ or ‘I Apollos,’ or ‘I Cephas,’ or ‘I Christ.’


rate difficulty: And it was told Saul that David was fled to Gath: and he sought no more again for him.


simplify: and having declared to them all things, he sent them to Joppa.

and, after telling them the whole story, sent them to Jaffa.


rate difficulty: Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called [the mount] of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath-day's journey off.


rate difficulty: For Thy salvation I have waited, Jehovah!

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


simplify: dost thou see that the faith was working with his works, and out of the works the faith was perfected?

You see how, in his case, faith and actions went together; that his faith was perfected as the result of his actions;


simplify: Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.


rate difficulty: And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

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


simplify: And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.

And the shekel is to be twenty gerahs: five shekels are five, and ten shekels are ten, and your maneh is to be fifty shekels


rate difficulty: and Er, Judah's first-born, is evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah doth put him to death.

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


rate difficulty: So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.


simplify: He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me.

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.


simplify: `But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

But to you who hear I say — love your enemies, show kindness to those who hate you,


rate difficulty: And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

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


rate difficulty: Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

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


rate difficulty: And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.

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


rate difficulty: And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

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


simplify: for nothing did we bring into the world--<FI> it is<Fi> manifest that we are able to carry nothing out;

For we brought nothing into the world, because we cannot even carry anything out of it.


simplify: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

For the person who asks receives, the person who searches finds, and to the door will be opened to the person who knocks.


simplify: And he said to him, Go now, see whether it is well with thy brethren, and well with the flock; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

And he said to him, Go now, and see if your brothers are well and how the flock is; then come back and give me word. So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.


simplify: Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth–el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Michmash and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: the rest of the people he sent back to their tents.


rate difficulty: And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.


simplify: Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.


simplify: For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

Because of your help in giving the good news from the first day till now;


rate difficulty: Then Moses, with the responsible men of Israel, went back to the tent-circle.

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


rate difficulty: Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

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


simplify: The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,


rate difficulty: He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

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


rate difficulty: And he took the captains of the hundreds, and the bodyguard, and the couriers, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Jehovah, and came by the way through the gate of the couriers into the king's house. And he sat upon the throne of the kings.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?


simplify: And six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;


rate difficulty: Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.

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


rate difficulty: And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents, glad and merry in heart for the goodness that the Lord had shewed unto David, and to Solomon, and to Israel his people.

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


simplify: Flee ye, turn back, dwell in the depths, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I shall visit him.

Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.


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

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


simplify: Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.


rate difficulty: And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, seeing they are burned?

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


simplify: And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man hasted, and came and told Eli.

And Eli, hearing the noise and the cries, said, What is the reason of this outcry? And the man came quickly and gave the news to Eli.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel remembered not Jehovah their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;


simplify: Now when even was come, he was sitting at meat with the twelve disciples;

Now when evening was come, he was seated at table with the twelve disciples;


rate difficulty: And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.

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


simplify: Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.

Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.


rate difficulty: And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

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


simplify: The eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim,

The eleventh Eliashib, the twelfth Jakim,


simplify: I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.

I was making prayer to your name, O Lord, out of the lowest prison.


rate difficulty: I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up--even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.


simplify: As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

As Babylon had the dead of Israel put to the sword, so in Babylon the dead of all the land will be stretched out.


simplify: And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was threescore and twelve.

The number of oxen was thirty-six thousand, of which the Lord's part was seventy-two;


rate difficulty: The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

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


rate difficulty: Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:

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


rate difficulty: So there went one on horseback to meet him; and he said, Thus saith the king: Is it peace? And Jehu said, What hast thou to do with peace? turn thee behind me. And the watchman told saying, The messenger came to them, and he does not return.

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


rate difficulty: Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.


rate difficulty: His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

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


simplify: For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.

For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.


rate difficulty: But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.


rate difficulty: Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,

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


rate difficulty: And where <FI>is<Fi> now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

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


simplify: But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.

But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.


simplify: And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?


rate difficulty: Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.

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


simplify: But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.


rate difficulty: And out of the city he took a chamberlain that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.

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


rate difficulty: and that a man doth find his enemy, and hath sent him away in a good manner; and Jehovah doth repay thee good for that which thou didst to me this day.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw a round cover of lead lifted up; and a woman was seated in the middle of the ephah.


rate difficulty: The breathing out of true words gives knowledge of righteousness; but a false witness gives out deceit.

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


rate difficulty: Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,

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


simplify: And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt-offerings and for peace-offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Jehovah.

Then Hezekiah put in order the divisions of the priests and Levites, every man in his division, in relation to his work, for the burned offerings and peace-offerings, and for the ordering of worship and for giving praise at the doors of the Lord's house.


rate difficulty: And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send them in flight among the nations, driving them out through the countries.

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


rate difficulty: And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.


rate difficulty: Then the woman became with child and gave birth to a son at the time named, in the year after, as Elisha had said to her.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Then the chief captain came near, and laid hold on him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and inquired who he was, and what he had done.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

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


simplify: then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.'

Festus, after conferring with his Council, answered: “You have appealed to the Emperor; to the Emperor you will go.”


rate difficulty: Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?


rate difficulty: for the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;


rate difficulty: And there appeareth in the cherubs the form of a hand of man under their wings,

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


rate difficulty: They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.


simplify: Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:


rate difficulty: And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.


simplify: Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;


rate difficulty: Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.


simplify: ThenGodis gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.

And if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: He will take his place before Eleazar the priest, so that he may get directions from the Lord for him, with the Urim: at his word they will go out, and at his word they will come in, he and all the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward.

And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the boards at the back, on the west.


rate difficulty: And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode the grapes, and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

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


simplify: For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.

For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.


simplify: And king David said, Call to me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.

And King David said, Send for Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.


simplify: For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

Remember, friends, to you the call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.


simplify: whensoever I go unto Spain (for I hope to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first in some measure I shall have been satisfied with your company)—

Whenever I go to Spain (for it is my hope to see you on my way, and to be sent on there by you, if first I may in some measure have been comforted by your company)--


simplify: And I will hold up the arms of the king of Babylon; and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

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.


simplify: Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

And so I say to you, She will have forgiveness for her sins which are great in number, because of her great love: but he who has small need of forgiveness gives little love.


simplify: which in His own times He shall shew--the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,

This will be brought about in his own time by the one ever-blessed Potentate, the king of all kings and Lord of all lords,


simplify: My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding:

My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:


rate difficulty: And they came out of the prison and went to the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers they gave them comfort and went away.

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


rate difficulty: And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

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


simplify: Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.


simplify: Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.


rate difficulty: not lightly to let your minds become unsettled, or disturbed by any revelation, or by any message, or by any letter, purporting to come from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord is come.

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


rate difficulty: And when all the men of Israel that were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.

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


rate difficulty: Look at my hands and my feet, and you will know that it is I. Feel me, and look at me, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”


rate difficulty: And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

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


rate difficulty: And they set the altar on its base; for fear was upon them because of the people of the countries; and they offered up burnt-offerings on it to Jehovah, the morning and evening burnt-offerings.


simplify: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.


rate difficulty: Then Solomon offered burnt-offerings unto Jehovah on the altar of Jehovah, which he had built before the porch,

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


simplify: Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.

For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel.


simplify: who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;

Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;


simplify: The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

I, Paul, send you these words of love in my writing.


simplify: The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

The secret things are the Lord our God's: but the things which have been made clear are ours and our children's for ever, so that we may do all the words of this law.


rate difficulty: So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.


simplify: I say unto thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house.

I say to you, Get up, take up your bed, and go to your house.


simplify: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;


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

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


simplify: saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat:

The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;


simplify: For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.

For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.


rate difficulty: And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

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simplify: He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.

And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.


rate difficulty: And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

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rate difficulty: But Saul increased the more in power, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

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simplify: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.

and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations — beginning at Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: But if you say, The word of weight of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you say, The weight of the Lord, and I have sent to you, saying, You are not to say, The weight of the Lord;

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


simplify: What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.


rate difficulty: And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the stronghold unto David.


rate difficulty: For who is God save Jehovah? And who a Rock save our God?


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give Pharaoh–hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

The Lord has said, See, I will give up Pharaoh Hophra, king of Egypt, into the hands of those who are fighting against him and desiring to take his life, as I gave Zedekiah, king of Judah, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, his hater, who had designs against his life.


simplify: If nowthou hastunderstanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.

If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.


rate difficulty: So then, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye were taught, whether by word, or by epistle of ours.

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rate difficulty: The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

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simplify: Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

I tell you that their master will put them in charge of the whole of his property.


rate difficulty: Who is this coming up like the Nile, whose waters are lifting their heads like the rivers?

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simplify: The noise thereof telleth concerning him, The cattle also concerningthe stormthat cometh up.

The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.


rate difficulty: for he has remembered his humble servant girl; And from this hour all ages will count me happy!


rate difficulty: And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him;


rate difficulty: But the noble deviseth noble things; and in noble things shall he continue.

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simplify: Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


simplify: The sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


simplify: Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:


simplify: And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Jehovah of hosts.

And after David had made the burned offerings and the peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.


simplify: And they were not able to take hold of the saying before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.


simplify: And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit;

“Teacher,” answered a man in the crowd, “I brought my son to see you, as he has a dumb spirit in him;


simplify: And it came to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.

And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.


simplify: And on the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish:

And on the sixth day eight oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:


simplify: And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, A man went out to put seed in the earth;


rate difficulty: and he saith, `I--I send a kid of the goats from the flock.' And she saith, `Dost thou give a pledge till thou send <FI>it<Fi> ?'

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rate difficulty: and said to him, Thus saith Jephthah: Israel took not away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon.

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rate difficulty: had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the porters; and the heave-offerings for the priests.

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simplify: salute all the brethren in an holy kiss;

Greet all the Lord's followers with a sacred kiss.


rate difficulty: And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

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simplify: and having seen <FI>it<Fi> , they were all murmuring, saying--`With a sinful man he went in to lodge!'

On seeing this, everyone began to complain: “He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast.”


simplify: And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael.


rate difficulty: And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

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simplify: And the passover and the unleavened food were after two days, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by guile, having taken hold of him, they might kill him;

It was now two days before the Festival of the Passover and the unleavened bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus by stealth, and to put him to death;


rate difficulty: And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Make thee a fiery [serpent], and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, and looketh upon it, shall live.

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


rate difficulty: And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.

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


rate difficulty: Of a truth I know it is so; but how can man be just withGod?


rate difficulty: And Jesus went away from there into the country of Tyre and Sidon.


rate difficulty: Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.


rate difficulty: So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;

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rate difficulty: For I am Jehovah who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be yourGod: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

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


rate difficulty: and Nathan saith unto David, `All that <FI>is<Fi> in thy heart do, for God <FI>is<Fi> with thee.'

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rate difficulty: — therefore, ye shepherds, hear the word of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: as an hireling, as a settler, he is with thee, till the year of the jubilee he doth serve with thee, --

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


simplify: And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack’s mouth of the youngest, and his grain money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

And put my cup, my silver cup, in the youngest one's bag, with his money. So he did as Joseph said.


simplify: And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these things must needs come to pass first; but the end is not immediately.

And when news of wars and troubled times comes to your ears, have no fear; for these things have to be, but the end will not be now.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, You had pity on the vine, for which you did no work and for the growth of which you were not responsible; which came up in a night and came to an end in a night;


simplify: Himthat saith to a king, Thou art vile, Orto nobles, Ye arewicked;

He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners;


rate difficulty: But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?


rate difficulty: He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

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


rate difficulty: Give them, O Jehovah—what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.


rate difficulty: But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to sanhedrims, and scourge you in their synagogues;


rate difficulty: For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.


rate difficulty: their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.


simplify: Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and was standing before the angel.

Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.


simplify: So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses.


simplify: And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.

And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.


simplify: And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

And he was preaching in the Synagogue without fear. But Priscilla and Aquila, hearing his words, took him in, and gave him fuller teaching about the way of God.


rate difficulty: And he was preaching in their synagogues in the whole of Galilee, and casting out demons.

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simplify: Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.


simplify: How are the things of Esau searched! how are his hidden treasures sought out!

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!


simplify: And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Moreover, our eyes have seen — and we are testifying to the fact — that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.


simplify: Then I set apart twelve of the chiefs of the priests, even Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,

So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.


simplify: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;


rate difficulty: And the king sware, and said, As Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

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rate difficulty: But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: An evil, an only evil; behold, it cometh.

This is what the Lord has said: An evil, even one evil; see, it is coming.


simplify: so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure;

So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;


rate difficulty: But piety with contentment is great gain.

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rate difficulty: Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

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


simplify: These twelve Jesus sent forth, and charged them, saying, Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans:

These twelve Jesus sent out and gave them orders, saying, Do not go among the Gentiles, or into any town of Samaria,


rate difficulty: And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

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


rate difficulty: Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, myGod, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day;

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


simplify: Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?


rate difficulty: And in that day shall ye say, Give ye thanks to Jehovah, call upon his name, declare his deeds among the peoples, make mention that his name is exalted.

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simplify: If any hath ears to hear--let him hear.'

Let all who have ears to hear with hear.


simplify: And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.

Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.


rate difficulty: `Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

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


rate difficulty: As a citron among trees of the forest, So <FI>is<Fi> my beloved among the sons, In his shade I delighted, and sat down, And his fruit <FI>is<Fi> sweet to my palate.

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


rate difficulty: And the people took their bread-paste before it was leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their backs.

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


simplify: For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and, My mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be carried away before the king of Assyria.

For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.


rate difficulty: Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.

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rate difficulty: For we are glad when we are feeble and you are strong: and this is our prayer, even that you may be made complete.


rate difficulty: And Joshua dismissed the people, every man to his inheritance.

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rate difficulty: to me--the less than the least of all the saints--was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news--the untraceable riches of the Christ,

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simplify: The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.


rate difficulty: The little owl and the great owl and the water-hen;


simplify: And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah: If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,


rate difficulty: And when the sun is down, he shall be clean, and shall afterward eat of the holy things; because it is his food.

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rate difficulty: And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?


rate difficulty: For it shall be that, as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so shall the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

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simplify: And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and sore troubled.

And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and became sad and very troubled.


simplify: then the priest shall come in and look; and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.

Then the priest will come and see it; and if the disease in the house is increased in size, it is the leper's disease working out in the house: it is unclean.


rate difficulty: I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to the same end.


simplify: Yea, ye would castlotsupon the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.

Truly, you are such as would give up the child of a dead man to his creditors, and would make a profit out of your friend.


simplify: But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

As for ourselves, friends, our having been bereaved of you even for a short time — though in body only, and not in spirit — made us all the more eager to see your faces again; and the longing to do so was strong on us.


rate difficulty: But truly it is the spirit in man, even the breath of the Ruler of all, which gives them knowledge.


rate difficulty: Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

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rate difficulty: And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

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simplify: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.


rate difficulty: And you gave them kingdoms and peoples, making distribution to them in every part of the land: so they took for their heritage the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og, king of Bashan.

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


rate difficulty: Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

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rate difficulty: Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the Lord;

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


rate difficulty: — The nations shall see, and be ashamed for all their might: they shall lay [their] hand upon [their] mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

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


simplify: `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one--God?'

“Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins except God?”


simplify: and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

And then all Israel will be saved. As scripture says — ‘From Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.


simplify: By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.


rate difficulty: And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.

Do not go about saying untrue things among your people, or take away the life of your neighbour by false witness: I am the Lord.


simplify: We certify the king that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, by this means thou shalt have no portion beyond the River.

We give you word, that if the building of this town and its walls is made complete, there will be an end of your power in the country across the river.


simplify: And now, behold, I go unto my people: come, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come.


simplify: And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

And another angel came out from the house of God, crying with a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, Put in your blade, and let the grain be cut: because the hour for cutting it is come; for the grain of the earth is over-ready.


simplify: And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.


rate difficulty: of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

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rate difficulty: For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people for ever; and thou, Jehovah, becamest their God.

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


rate difficulty: And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;


simplify: and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;

The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead — and of that we are ourselves witnesses.


simplify: There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

His mother and his brothers came, and stood outside, and sent to ask him to come to them.


rate difficulty: and that which to thee and to thy brethren is good to do with the rest of the silver and gold, according to the will of your God ye do.'

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


simplify: Look even out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.

Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.


simplify: And the multitudes gave heed with one accord unto the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard, and saw the signs which he did.

And all the people gave attention to the words which Philip said, when they saw the signs which he did.


rate difficulty: And Moses was angry with the chiefs of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds who had come back from the war.

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


rate difficulty: In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.

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simplify: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,

Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes,


rate difficulty: Wastes I do make thee, and thou art not, And thou art sought, and art not found any more--to the age, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

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


simplify: so that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.


simplify: None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.


simplify: And Jehovah came down upon mount Sinai, to the top of the mount: and Jehovah called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.


rate difficulty: Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We beseech thee, O Jehovah, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood; for thou, O Jehovah, hast done as it pleased thee.

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


simplify: And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

And Solomon went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Rehoboam his son became king in his place.


simplify: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?


simplify: And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.


rate difficulty: And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

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


simplify: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor archangels, nor the Present, nor the Future, nor any powers,


simplify: And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.

And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.


rate difficulty: But Noah had grace in the eyes of God.

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


simplify: For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.

For see, I have made you small among the nations, looked down on by men.


simplify: Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.


simplify: For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one shall the many be made righteous.

Because, as numbers of men became sinners through the wrongdoing of one man, even so will great numbers get righteousness through the keeping of the word of God by one man.


simplify: To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.

Tomorrow about this time I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and on him you are to put the holy oil, making him ruler over my people Israel, and he will make my people safe from the hands of the Philistines: for I have seen the sorrow of my people, whose cry has come up to me.


rate difficulty: We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.


rate difficulty: Will not your creditors suddenly be moved against you, and your troublers get up from their sleep, and you will be to them like goods taken in war?

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simplify: and not only in his presence, but also in the comfort with which he was comforted over you, declaring to us your longing desire, your lamentation, your zeal for me, so that the more I did rejoice,

And it is not only by his arrival that we are encouraged, but also by the encouragement which he received from you; for he tells us of your strong affection, your penitence, and your zeal on my behalf — so that I am happier still.


rate difficulty: yea, they have turned back unto Thee, with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and have prayed unto Thee the way of their land, which Thou gavest to their fathers, the city which Thou hast chosen, and the house which I have builded for Thy name:

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


simplify: Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armorbearer were not there.

Then Saul said to the people who were with him, Let everyone be numbered and let us see who has gone from us. And when they had been numbered, it was seen that Jonathan and his servant were not there.


simplify: and die did the third of the creatures that <FI>are<Fi> in the sea, those having life, and the third of the ships were destroyed.

and a third part of all created things that are in the sea — that is, of all living things — died, and a third of the ships was destroyed.


simplify: And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.

Then he gave a kiss to all his brothers, weeping over them; and after that his brothers had no fear of talking to him.


rate difficulty: saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at the great river Euphrates;'

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


rate difficulty: And as she was dying, the women that stood by her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not answer, neither did she take it to heart.

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


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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast slaughtered the bullock before Jehovah, at the opening of the tent of meeting,

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


rate difficulty: And the whole city was moved, and there was a concourse of the people; and having laid hold on Paul they drew him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.


simplify: And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

And they put Abner's body to rest in Hebron; and the king and all the people were weeping loudly by the resting-place of Abner's body.


rate difficulty: I have cut off nations, Desolated have been their chief ones, I have laid waste their out-places without any passing by, Destroyed have been their cities, Without man, without inhabitant.

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


simplify: Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

Now there were among us seven brothers; and the first was married and at his death, having no seed, gave his wife to his brother;


simplify: Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.


simplify: But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully,

We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,


simplify: and if the Adversary did rise against himself, and hath been divided, he cannot be made to stand, but hath an end.

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


rate difficulty: And she said, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a southern land; give me also springs of water. Then he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


simplify: And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;


simplify: he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God--the life he hath not.

The person who finds the Son finds life; the person who does not find the Son of God does not find life.


rate difficulty: Whoso is taking away a garment in a cold day, <FI>Is as<Fi> vinegar on nitre, And a singer of songs on a sad heart.

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


simplify: At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.

On the word of two or three witnesses, a man may be given the punishment of death; but he is not to be put to death on the word of one witness.


simplify: And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

Then Esther again came before the king, falling down at his feet, and made request to him with weeping, that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs which he had made against the Jews.


simplify: We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you all;


simplify: For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

For I was afraid of you, because you are a stern man. You take what you have not planted, and reap what you have not sown.’


simplify: In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.


rate difficulty: And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

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rate difficulty: and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away to Babylon.


rate difficulty: And Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the first-born, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.


simplify: and the disciples having seen him walking upon the sea, were troubled saying--`It is an apparition,' and from the fear they cried out;

But, when they saw him walking on the water, they were terrified. “It is a ghost,” they exclaimed, and cried out in fear.


simplify: to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.


simplify: And David went on, and grew great, and the Lord God of hosts was with him.

And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.


rate difficulty: By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall: the terrible of the nations are they all: and they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.

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


rate difficulty: And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.


rate difficulty: Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.

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


rate difficulty: by the lot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

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


rate difficulty: (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

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


simplify: And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Jehovah hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

And Hazael said, How is it possible that your servant, who is only a dog, will do this great thing? And Elisha said, The Lord has made it clear to me that you will be king over Aram.


simplify: And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west.


simplify: For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;


simplify: That thou sayest, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?


simplify: And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.

And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.


rate difficulty: And they found written in the law which Jehovah had commanded through Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month,

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


simplify: And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

People will come from East and West, and from North and South, and take their places at the banquet in the kingdom of God.


simplify: There is none holy as Jehovah; For there is none besides thee, Neither is there any rock like our God.

No other is holy as the Lord, for there is no other God but you: there is no Rock like our God.


simplify: And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.

By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:


simplify: And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal.

And the town is square, as wide as it is long; and he took the measure of the town with the rod, one thousand and five hundred miles: it is equally long and wide and high.


simplify: Take us the foxes, the little foxes, That spoil the vineyards; For our vineyards are in blossom.

Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, which do damage to the vines; our vines have young grapes.


rate difficulty: Of the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth Malcam possess Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

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


simplify: Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.

See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove.


simplify: And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,


simplify: Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, When they refuse to receive the cup out of thy hand to drink, That thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do certainly drink.

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


simplify: And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

They did so, and enclosed such a great shoal of fish that their nets began to break.


rate difficulty: But he kept his place in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack and overcame the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great salvation.

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


rate difficulty: and they said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

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


simplify: and they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.

And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.


rate difficulty: Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.


rate difficulty: Close to the margin shall the rings be, as receptacles of the staves to carry the table.

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


rate difficulty: As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense?

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simplify: If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

If you are cruel to my daughters, or if you take other wives in addition to my daughters, then though no man is there to see, God will be the witness between us.


rate difficulty: For whoso is finding me, hath found life, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: But Jehovah was wroth with me for your sakes, and hearkened not unto me; and Jehovah said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.


rate difficulty: `Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, This <FI>is<Fi> a law of the sin-offering: in the place where the burnt-offering is slaughtered is the sin-offering slaughtered before Jehovah; it <FI>is<Fi> most holy.


simplify: From above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his house.

Further on, past the horse doorway, the priests were at work, every one opposite his house.


simplify: the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.

The secret of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and of the seven gold vessels with burning lights. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven lights are the seven churches.


rate difficulty: On hearing this, Jesus said: “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill.


simplify: Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria;


rate difficulty: Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

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


simplify: But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

But the men who had gone up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.


simplify: And again he entered into Capernaum after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house.

And when he came into Capernaum again after some days, the news went about that he was in the house.


simplify: And when they opposed themselves and blasphemed, he shook out his raiment and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

And when they put themselves against him, and said evil words, he said, shaking his clothing, Your blood be on your heads, I am clean: from now I will go to the Gentiles.


simplify: and so were also James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were working with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, Have no fear; from this time forward you will be a fisher of men.


rate difficulty: And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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simplify: And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


rate difficulty: And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come; and when he comes he must remain [only] a little while.

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


simplify: And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth–shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel–meholah, unto Tabbath.

And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.


simplify: and if indeed there may be there the son of peace, rest on it shall your peace; and if not so, upon you it shall turn back.

Then, if anyone there is deserving of a blessing, your blessing will rest on him; but if not, it will come back on yourselves.


rate difficulty: And given hath the tree of the field its fruit, And the land doth give her increase, And they have been on their land confident, And they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, In My breaking the bands of their yoke, And I have delivered them from the hand of those laying service on them.

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


simplify: and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who have fallen asleep, arose,

the tombs opened, and the bodies of many of God’s people who had fallen asleep rose,


simplify: And she took the pan, and poured them out before him; but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went out every man from him.

And she took the cooking-pot, and put the cakes before him, but he would not take them. And Amnon said, Let everyone go away from me. So they all went out.


simplify: But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.


simplify: When they went, they went in their four directions: they turned not when they went.

The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.


simplify: Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

Men gave ear to me, waiting and keeping quiet for my suggestions.


rate difficulty: From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,

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


simplify: And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of Jehovah appeared unto all the people.

And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of meeting, and came out and gave the people a blessing, and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.


rate difficulty: And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.

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


simplify: And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.

And Ezra gave praise to the Lord, the great God. And all the people in answer said, So be it, so be it; lifting up their hands; and with bent heads they gave worship to the Lord, going down on their faces to the earth.


rate difficulty: I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them;


simplify: Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

It is this Jesus whom God has exalted to his right hand, to be a guide and a Savior, to give Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins.


rate difficulty: save thyself, and descend from the cross.

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


rate difficulty: For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord of hosts.

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


simplify: and they went away. `Again, having gone forth about the sixth and the ninth hour, he did in like manner.

So they went. Going out again about midday and about three o’clock, he did as before.


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

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


rate difficulty: Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.

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


simplify: And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:

And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:


simplify: and they knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

And they had no care till the waters came and took them all away; so will be the coming of the Son of man.


simplify: And Naaman said, Be pleased to take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

And Naaman said, Be good enough to take two talents. And forcing him to take them, he put two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and gave them to his two servants to take before him.


simplify: I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.


simplify: and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

Did I take him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest and to go up to my altar to make the smoke of the offerings go up and to take up the ephod? Did I give to your father's family all the offerings made by fire by the children of Israel?


simplify: And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:

And Saul's son had two men, captains of bands, one named Baanah and the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the tribe of Benjamin; (for Beeroth was at one time taken to be part of Benjamin:


simplify: Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.

Then Tattenai, the ruler across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and their people, because of the order given by King Darius, did as he had said with all care.


rate difficulty: And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

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rate difficulty: So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.

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simplify: Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it:

So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:


simplify: Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.

Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.


simplify: The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.


simplify: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,


rate difficulty: And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.


rate difficulty: while on her forehead there was written this mystic name — ‘BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF ALL IDOLATROUS ABOMINATIONS on EARTH.’

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simplify: neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

And he is not dependent on the work of men's hands, as if he had need of anything, for he himself gives to all life and breath and all things;


rate difficulty: How is it possible for it to be quiet, seeing that the Lord has given it orders? against Ashkelon and against the sea-land he has given it directions.


simplify: Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?

Do not you know that those who do the work of the Temple live on what comes from the Temple, and that those who serve at the altar share the offerings with the altar?


rate difficulty: And Ittai answered the king, and said, As Jehovah liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, even there also will thy servant be.

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simplify: And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him--also the chiefs of the people--

Jesus continued to teach each day in the Temple Courts; but the chief priests and teachers of the law were eager to take his life, and so also were the leaders of the people.


simplify: Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.

You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.


simplify: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.


simplify: Two things have I asked of thee; Deny methemnot before I die:

I have made request to you for two things; do not keep them from me before my death:


simplify: Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:

Alexander, the coppersmith, showed much ill feeling towards me. ‘The Lord will give him what his actions deserve.’


rate difficulty: And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength toward the morning; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overturned the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.

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simplify: And the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:

The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.


rate difficulty: To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?


rate difficulty: Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

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simplify: If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?