simplify: A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.


simplify: and they were silent, for with one another they did reason in the way who is greater;

But they were silent; for on the way they had been arguing with one another which was the greatest.


simplify: And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'

The men replied: “Our captain, Cornelius, a pious man who reverences God and is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, has been instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to listen to what you have to say.”


rate difficulty: And they shall be as mighty men, treading down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Jehovah is with them; and the riders on horses shall be confounded.

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simplify: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.


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

Then he told them many truths in parables. “The sower,” he began, “went out to sow; and,


simplify: Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

See, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and they will give him the name Immanuel, that is, God with us.


simplify: Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Show tact in your behavior to the outside world, making the most of every opportunity.


rate difficulty: And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

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simplify: Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.


rate difficulty: He is a young ox, glory is his; his horns are the horns of the mountain ox, with which all peoples will be wounded, even to the ends of the earth: they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh.


simplify: but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.


rate difficulty: But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.


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

For this reason the Lord, the saviour of Abraham, says about the family of Jacob, Jacob will not now be put to shame, or his face be clouded with fear.


simplify: Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the line by lot in the assembly of Jehovah.

For this cause you will have no one to make the decision by the measuring line in the meeting of the Lord.


simplify: but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;


rate difficulty: And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

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rate difficulty: And Samuel is ministering <FI>in<Fi> the presence of Jehovah, a youth girt <FI>with<Fi> an ephod of linen;

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


rate difficulty: He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

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


simplify: The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the upright man running into it is safe.


simplify: Moreover Elihu answered and said,


rate difficulty: Abiezer the Anathothite, Sibbecai the Hushathite,

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rate difficulty: Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine.

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


simplify: And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.


rate difficulty: If a man makes himself clean from these, he will be a vessel for honour, made holy, ready for the master's use, ready for every good work.

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simplify: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.


simplify: We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side 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.


rate difficulty: Joel the brother of Nathan, Mibhar the son of Hagri,

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.

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simplify: But I say to you, That also Elijah hath come, and they did to him what they willed, as it hath been written of him.'

But I tell you that Elijah has come, and people have treated him just as they pleased, as scripture says of him.”


simplify: And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him: and he was nigh unto the sea.

And when Jesus had gone over again in the boat to the other side, a great number of people came to him: and he was by the sea.


simplify: And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.


simplify: And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time,

And the devil led Jesus up, and showing him in a single moment all the kingdoms of the earth, said to him:


rate difficulty: In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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


simplify: Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

“Teacher, what is the great commandment in the law?”


rate difficulty: to those in Beth-El, and to those in South Ramoth, and to those in Jattir,

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


simplify: And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.

And the Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you have not given attention and your ear has not been open to give hearing;


simplify: Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Your sun will never again go down, or your moon keep back her light: for the Lord will be your eternal light, and the days of your sorrow will be ended.


rate difficulty: But it is my hope that you will have no doubt that we are truly Christ's.


simplify: and it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of Jehovah.

Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him.


simplify: The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:


rate difficulty: And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.

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


simplify: For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.


rate difficulty: As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

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rate difficulty: Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ without fear, and no orders were given that he was not to do so.

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simplify: And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

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


simplify: But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

But he gave her no answer. And his disciples came and said to him, Send her away, for she is crying after us.


rate difficulty: And Elijah answered and said to them, If I be a man ofGod, let fire come down from the heavens and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire ofGod came down from the heavens, and consumed him and his fifty.

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rate difficulty: And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.

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rate difficulty: And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,


rate difficulty: `And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word,

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


simplify: And David’s men said unto him, Behold, we be afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we come to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?


simplify: if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.


simplify: And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the high seat, a book with writing inside it and on the back, shut with seven stamps of wax.


simplify: And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.

Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.


rate difficulty: And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

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


rate difficulty: to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell.

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


rate difficulty: And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

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


rate difficulty: And Nebuchadnezzar carried [part] of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

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


simplify: And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is impurity: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

And if a man takes his brother's wife, it is an unclean act; he has put shame on his brother; they will have no children.


rate difficulty: For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.

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


simplify: And when his friends heard it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.

And when his friends had news of it, they went out to get him, saying, He is off his head.


simplify: Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,

Then after the book, in which Baruch had put down the words of Jeremiah, had been burned by the king, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,


rate difficulty: and he readeth in it before the broad place that <FI>is<Fi> before the water-gate, from the light till the middle of the day, over-against the men, and the women, and those intelligent, and the ears of all the people <FI>are<Fi> unto the book of the law.

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rate difficulty: And he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Jehovah saying,


rate difficulty: So we abode in the valley over against Beth–peor.


rate difficulty: And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

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rate difficulty: And He saith unto me, `Son of man, do these bones live?' And I say, `O Lord Jehovah, Thou--Thou hast known.'

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


simplify: but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.


simplify: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.


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

Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.


rate difficulty: behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

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


simplify: God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?

God is not a man, to say what is false; or the son of man, that his purpose may be changed: what he has said, will he not do? and will he not give effect to the words of his mouth?


simplify: And the border of the Canaanite was from Sidon, as thou goest toward Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, unto Lasha.

Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar; and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim.


simplify: Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.


rate difficulty: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

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


rate difficulty: For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.


simplify: Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But pleasant wordsarepure.

Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.


simplify: and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

And if that is so, your faith is of no effect; you are still in your sins.


simplify: and when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

And when I was present with you, and was in need, I let no man be responsible for me; for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, gave me whatever was needed; and in everything I kept myself from being a trouble to you, and I will go on doing so.


simplify: Send therefore to Joppa, and call unto thee Simon, who is surnamed Peter; he lodgeth in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea side.

Send, then, to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you; he is living in the house of Simon, a leather-worker, by the sea.


simplify: Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:


simplify: who through him are believers in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.


rate difficulty: Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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rate difficulty: And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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


rate difficulty: And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

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

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


simplify: Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes were fixed so that he was not able to see.


simplify: and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

Going down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain, and on as far as the east side of the sea of Chinnereth:


simplify: And this shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite all the peoples that have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their sockets, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.


simplify: For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:

‘The person who wants to enjoy life And see happy days — Let them keep their tongue from evil And their lips from deceitful words,


rate difficulty: “Master,” they replied, “we want our eyes to be opened.”


simplify: And he went forth again by the sea side; and all the multitude resorted unto him, and he taught them.

And he went out again by the seaside; and all the people came to him, and he gave them teaching.


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

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


rate difficulty: Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

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rate difficulty: And they removed from Ezion–gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

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simplify: For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.


simplify: And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.


rate difficulty: Now Hadad was very pleasing to Pharaoh, so that he gave him the sister of his wife, Tahpenes the queen, for his wife.

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


simplify: If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?


rate difficulty: Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;


simplify: Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

If only there was one among you who would see that the doors were shut, so that you might not put a light to the fire on my altar for nothing! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of armies, and I will not take an offering from your hands.


simplify: The Lord God which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.

The Lord God, who gets together the wandering ones of Israel, says, I will get together others in addition to those of Israel who have come back.


rate difficulty: And the famine was sore in the land.

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simplify: He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?

“Yes,” answered Peter. But, on going into the house, before he could speak, Jesus said: “What do you think, Simon? From whom do earthly kings take taxes or tribute? From their sons, or from others?”


rate difficulty: For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.

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rate difficulty: On the fifth of the month, (it was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,)


rate difficulty: And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.


simplify: And the sons of Javan: Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.

And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.


simplify: This day will Jehovah deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day unto the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;


simplify: And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.


simplify: but because of this I found kindness, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern of those about to believe on him to life age-during:

Yet mercy was shown me for the express purpose that Christ Jesus might exhibit in my case, beyond all others, his exhaustless patience, as an example for those who were afterwards to believe on him and attain eternal life.


simplify: And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will show thee the man whom thou seekest. And he came unto her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.

Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.


rate difficulty: There a man named Ananias, a strict observer of our law, well spoken of by all the Jewish inhabitants, came to see me.


simplify: Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.

See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.


simplify: Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

In the next place, friends, I do not want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts.


simplify: Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;


simplify: O Lord God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.

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


simplify: Now these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar–enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan.

Now these are the names of the tribes: from the north end, from the west on the way of Hethlon to the way into Hamath, in the direction of Hazar-enon, with the limit of Damascus to the north, by Hamath; and on the limit from the east side to the west side: Dan, one part.


simplify: Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.


rate difficulty: And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;


simplify: And she called the name of Jehovah that spake unto her, Thou art a God that seeth: for she said, Have I even here looked after him that seeth me?

And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?


simplify: And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.


simplify: And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.

And he said, Far be it from me, O Lord, to do this; how may I take as my drink the life-blood of men who have put their lives in danger? So he would not take it. These things did the three great men of war.


rate difficulty: Likewise when the Lord sent you from Kadesh–barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

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simplify: And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Let them have the land of Goshen; and if there are any able men among them, put them over my cattle.


rate difficulty: And Peter began to say to him, `Lo, we left all, and we followed thee.'

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rate difficulty: And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;

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rate difficulty: Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

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simplify: King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.

King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.


simplify: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.


simplify: And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.


simplify: Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?


simplify: And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.

And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.


simplify: For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:

And they went after other gods and gave them worship, gods who were strange to them, and whom he had not given them:


rate difficulty: And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee; I will blow upon thee with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.

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rate difficulty: But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.

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rate difficulty: And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.


rate difficulty: So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.

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

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simplify: And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.


rate difficulty: and Allammelech, and Amead, and Mishal; and [the border] reached to Carmel westwards, and to Shihor-libnath,

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rate difficulty: Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.

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simplify: So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the guard being with them.

So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.


rate difficulty: And Moses was wroth with the officers of the army, with the captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war;

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simplify: And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house he asked them, What were ye reasoning on the way?

And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house, he put the question to them, What were you talking about on the way?


simplify: When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.


rate difficulty: I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock;

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rate difficulty: Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

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rate difficulty: 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.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

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rate difficulty: And yet I have been full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his transgression, And to Israel his sin.


simplify: and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

Pilate decided that their demand should be granted.


rate difficulty: So Solomon made all these vessels, a very great store of them, and the weight of the brass used was not measured.

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simplify: For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.

For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker: Ask me of the things that are to come; concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands, command ye me.

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?


simplify: He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.


simplify: Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,


simplify: Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad, the son of Chislon.


simplify: And Edom shall become an astonishment: every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.


simplify: but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever; no, not when Jehovah hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

And let not your mercy ever be cut off from my family, even when the Lord has sent destruction on all David's haters, cutting them off from the face of the earth.


simplify: to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility--life age-during;

To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give immortal life;


simplify: When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.


rate difficulty: Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.

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simplify: Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Jehovah, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:

Further, Jeremiah said to all the people and all the women, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all those of Judah who are living in Egypt:


rate difficulty: And there were shepherds in that country abiding without, and keeping watch by night over their flock.


simplify: And Miriam was shut up without the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.

So Miriam was shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days: and the people did not go forward on their journey till Miriam had come in again.


simplify: And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

And because the women who took care of the Hebrew mothers had the fear of God, he gave them families.


simplify: And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.


rate difficulty: I who am myself one of the rulers of the church, and a witness of the death of Christ, having my part in the coming glory, send this serious request to the chief men among you:

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simplify: Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.


rate difficulty: and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water.

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rate difficulty: And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having [the] everlasting glad tidings to announce to those settled on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,

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rate difficulty: Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.

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rate difficulty: He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall round about, five hundred long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.

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rate difficulty: For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

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simplify: that search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time; for which cause was this city laid waste.

So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.


simplify: Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

Were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.

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rate difficulty: And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,

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simplify: And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.


rate difficulty: Know ye not, that to whom ye present yourselves as servants unto obedience, his servants ye are whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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rate difficulty: And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.


simplify: Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.


rate difficulty: (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?


rate difficulty: And make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end: of one piece with the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

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rate difficulty: And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.

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rate difficulty: And he said, Swear to me; and he swore to him. And Israel worshipped on the bed's head.

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rate difficulty: And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.


rate difficulty: Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasu,

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rate difficulty: And Samuel said all these words of the Lord to the people who were desiring a king.


rate difficulty: And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, This time will I praise Jehovah: therefore she called his name Judah; and she left off bearing.


simplify: who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:


rate difficulty: the son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

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simplify: This is thy lot, the portion measured unto thee from me, saith Jehovah; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.


simplify: Behold ye among the nations, and look, and wonder marvellously; for I am working a work in your days, which ye will not believe though it be told you.

See among the nations, and take note, and be full of wonder: for in your days I am doing a work in which you will have no belief, even if news of it is given to you.


simplify: Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.

But do not let him be free from punishment, for you are a wise man; and it will be clear to you what you have to do with him; see that his white head goes down to the underworld in blood.


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

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simplify: I have also seen wisdom under the sun on this wise, and it seemed great unto me:

This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.


rate difficulty: and have taken you to Me for a people, and I have been to you for God, and ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, who is bringing you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians;

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simplify: being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

with their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.


simplify: And the messenger having come in unto her, said, `Hail, favoured one, the Lord <FI>is<Fi> with thee; blessed <FI>art<Fi> thou among women;'

Gabriel came into her presence and greeted her, saying: “You have been shown great favor - the Lord is with you..”


rate difficulty: neither will I any more cause the foot of Israel to wander away from the land that I gave their fathers; if they will only take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.


simplify: And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

the sun being eclipsed; and the Temple curtain was torn down the middle.


simplify: Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even so as it hath been spoken unto me.

And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me.


rate difficulty: Two [women] shall be grinding together; the one shall be seized and the other shall be let go.


rate difficulty: And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.


rate difficulty: And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah hearkened to the voice of a man; for Jehovah fought for Israel.


rate difficulty: And one of the elders answered, saying to me, These who are clothed with white robes, who are they, and whence came they?

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simplify: And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Jesus said to his disciples: “There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.


rate difficulty: I did not send the prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.

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simplify: So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:

And when this took place, all the others in the island who had diseases came and were made well.


rate difficulty: So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the good news should get their living from the good news.

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rate difficulty: For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

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rate difficulty: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

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rate difficulty: And as he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and dazzling.

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simplify: And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.


simplify: She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.

At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;


simplify: And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones.

And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.


simplify: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

If we go on to the end, then we will be ruling with him: if we say we have no knowledge of him, then he will say he has no knowledge of us:


rate difficulty: and He is not a God of dead men, but of living, for all live to Him.'


rate difficulty: The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

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rate difficulty: And Jehoahaz besought the Lord, and the Lord hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

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simplify: And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.

And being in great trouble of soul, the force of his prayer became stronger, and great drops, like blood, came from him, falling to the earth.


rate difficulty: they became aware of it, and fled unto the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region round about:

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simplify: Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.


rate difficulty: And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph, the son of Reuel

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rate difficulty: Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

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rate difficulty: For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.

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simplify: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.

For you do not forget the loving kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ — how that for your sakes, although he was rich, he became poor, so that you also might become rich through his poverty.


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

However I have received help from God to this very day, and so stand here, and bear my testimony to high and low alike — without adding a word to what the prophets, as well as Moses, declared should happen —


simplify: And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.


simplify: For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

For truly I was taken by force from the land of the Hebrews; and I have done nothing for which I might be put in prison.


simplify: He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house; But he that hateth bribes shall live.

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.


simplify: but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized--and thou dost come unto me!'

But John tried to prevent him.   “I need to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why have you come to me?”


rate difficulty: When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

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simplify: And the flax and the barley were smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.

And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.


rate difficulty: he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

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simplify: And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening.

They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the law of Moses and from the prophets — speaking from morning until evening.


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: in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my good news, through Jesus Christ.

on the day when God passes judgment on people’s inmost lives, as the good news that I tell declares that he will do through Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:

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simplify: And those conducting Paul, brought him unto Athens, and having received a command unto Silas and Timotheus that with all speed they may come unto him, they departed;

The friends who escorted Paul took him as far as Athens, and, after receiving a message for Silas and Timothy to join him as quickly as possible, they started on their return.


rate difficulty: And Joshua saith, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, why hast Thou at all caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us? --and oh that we had been willing--and we dwell beyond the Jordan!

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


simplify: My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:

My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;


rate difficulty: And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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


simplify: And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.


rate difficulty: And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

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


simplify: And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.


rate difficulty: They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;


rate difficulty: Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:


simplify: Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.


rate difficulty: And I have thrust thee from thy station, And from thine office he throweth thee down.

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


simplify: Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take out your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, and falling on it, put an end to himself.


simplify: Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection,

They must learn, listening quietly to their teachers and showing them all deference.


rate difficulty: Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

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


simplify: And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And rods of the same wood plated with gold.


simplify: And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

And their fear was great, and they said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea do his orders?


simplify: every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

Every good thing given us, and every perfect gift, is from above, and comes down to us from the Maker of the lights in the heavens, who is himself never subject to change or to eclipse.


simplify: And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.


rate difficulty: And you went on in your loose ways, even as far as the land of Chaldaea, and still you had not enough.

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


simplify: So Zedekiah the king sware secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the Lord liveth, that made us this soul, I will not put thee to death, neither will I give thee into the hand of these men that seek thy life.

So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life.


rate difficulty: The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.

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


rate difficulty: and ye have taken the ark of Jehovah, and put it on the cart, and the vessels of gold which ye have returned to Him--a guilt-offering--ye put in a coffer on its side, and have sent it away, and it hath gone;

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


simplify: and in her blood of prophets and of saints was found, and of all those who have been slain on the earth.'

Yes, and in her was to be found the blood of the prophets and of Christ’s people, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.’


simplify: And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance.


rate difficulty: The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

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


simplify: Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

To him, our God and Father, be ascribed all glory for every and ever. Amen.


simplify: Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!


simplify: That no flesh should glory in his presence.

so that in his presence no one should boast.


rate difficulty: And as Samuel was offering up the burnt-offering, the Philistines advanced to battle against Israel. And Jehovah thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were routed before Israel.


simplify: And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.


simplify: So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:

So the bearers of this letter were sent on their way, and went down to Antioch. There they called a meeting of all the followers,


simplify: salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.

Greet one another with a sacred kiss. All the churches of the Christ send you greetings.


rate difficulty: The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.

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


simplify: And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

And the Lord will be seen over them, and his arrow will go out like the thunder-flame: and the Lord God, sounding the war-horn, will go in the storm-winds of the South.


rate difficulty: And Jonathan climbed up upon his hands and upon his feet, and his armourbearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armourbearer slew after him.


simplify: And being grieved exceedingly, they began to say to him, each of them, `Is it I, Sir?'

In great grief they began to say to him, one by one: “Can it be I, Master?”


simplify: At the sound of the cry of thy pilots the suburbs shall shake.

At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.


simplify: The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

The children of Israel, every man and woman, from the impulse of their hearts, gave their offerings freely to the Lord for the work which the Lord had given Moses orders to have done.


simplify: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Any woman using unnatural powers or secret arts is to be put to death.


rate difficulty: And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

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


rate difficulty: So the children of Israel took off their ornaments at Mount Horeb, and did not put them on again.

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


rate difficulty: Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The Lord look upon it, and require it.

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


simplify: Because that which is known of God is manifest among them, for God did manifest <FI>it<Fi> to them,

This is so, because what can be known about God is plain to them; for God himself has made it plain.


rate difficulty: and Jesus said to them, `Neither do I say to you by what authority I do these things.'

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


simplify: And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

And Elisha sent a servant to him, saying, Go to Jordan, and after washing seven times in its waters your flesh will be well again and you will be clean.


simplify: and he said, `The things impossible with men are possible with God.'

But Jesus said: “What is impossible with people is possible with God.”


simplify: But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.


rate difficulty: for all the men who are seeing My honour, and My signs, which I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and try Me these ten times, and have not hearkened to My voice--

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


simplify: Would that ye could bear with me in a little foolishness: but indeed ye do bear with me.

Put up with me if I am a little foolish: but, truly, you do put up with me.


simplify: And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije–abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrising.

And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.


rate difficulty: Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, gone have inhabitants of one To another, saying: We go diligently, To appease the face of Jehovah, To seek Jehovah of Hosts--I go, even I.

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


rate difficulty: For, lo, I <FI>am<Fi> for you, and have turned to you, And ye have been tilled and sown.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to them, Have you come out as against a thief, with swords and sticks to take me?


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, because the midwives fearedGod, that he made them houses.


rate difficulty: And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made.

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


simplify: Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

It spoke to the sixth angel — the angel with the trumpet — and said ‘Let loose the four angels that are in chains at the great river Euphrates.’


rate difficulty: and having come near, he touched the bier, and those bearing <FI>it<Fi> stood still, and he said, `Young man, to thee I say, Arise;'

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


rate difficulty: Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things are? Say, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king and its princes, and led them with him to Babylon.

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


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

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


simplify: And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.

And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart, and the hearts of his people, were moved, like the trees of the wood shaking in the wind.


simplify: And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.


rate difficulty: Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the fire of coals, and bringeth forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

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


rate difficulty: For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon finisheth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king; and all that hath come on the heart of Solomon to do in the house of Jehovah, and in his own house, he hath caused to prosper.


simplify: Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.


simplify: Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

Then it seemed good to the Apostles and the rulers and all the church, to send men from among them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; Judas, named Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers:


rate difficulty: Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done: and he was much perplexed, because that it was said by some, that John was risen from the dead;

Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;


simplify: Be not ye therefore partakers with them.


simplify: saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

Say, His disciples came by night and took him away secretly while we were sleeping.


simplify: and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,

And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,


rate difficulty: And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

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


simplify: And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.


rate difficulty: Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

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


simplify: And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me:

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


simplify: but taking his leave of them, and saying, I will return again unto you if God will, he set sail from Ephesus.

And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.


simplify: And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, whom Jehovah thy God hath given thee, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee.

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.


rate difficulty: For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

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


rate difficulty: And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,


simplify: And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the upper room: therefore they took the key, and opened them; and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.


simplify: And when they came unto the multitude, there came to him a man, kneeling down to him,

When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, and, kneeling down before him, said:


simplify: Be not ye therefore partakers with them;


simplify: And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.


simplify: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;


simplify: If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;


rate difficulty: Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with [his] span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?

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


simplify: And Moses said unto his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:

And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to get directions from God:


simplify: And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.

And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.


simplify: But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.

But he, turning to Peter, said, Get out of my way, Satan: you are a danger to me because your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.


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

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


simplify: The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.

The men of Rodan were your traders: a great number of sea-lands did business with you: they gave you horns of ivory and ebony as an offering.


simplify: Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?


simplify: And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.

And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.


simplify: and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

The nations were enraged, and your wrath fell on them; the time came for the dead to be judged, and for you to give the reward to your servants the prophets, and to the people of Christ, and to those who honor your name — the high and the low alike — and to destroy those who are destroying the earth.’


simplify: And he appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise, and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

And he gave the divisions of the priests their places for their work, as ordered by his father David, and to the Levites he gave their work of praise and waiting on the priests, to do what was needed day by day; and he gave the door-keepers their places in turn at every door; for so David, the man of God, had given orders.


rate difficulty: And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

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


simplify: For the Lord saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter: for there was not any shut up, nor any left, nor any helper for Israel.

For the Lord saw how bitter was the trouble of Israel, and that everyone was cut off, he who was shut up and he who went free, and that Israel had no helper.


rate difficulty: The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.

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


simplify: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.


simplify: And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;


simplify: Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.


simplify: He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.


rate difficulty: So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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


simplify: For behold your calling, brethren, that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:


simplify: And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered;

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


simplify: and they laid hands upon them, and did put them in custody unto the morrow, for it was evening already;

They arrested the apostles and, as it was already evening, had them placed in custody until the next day.


rate difficulty: In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

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


rate difficulty: but declared both to them of Damascus first, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judæa, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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


rate difficulty: Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.

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


rate difficulty: ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl.

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


simplify: Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the good news.


rate difficulty: and the king of Israel saith unto his servants, `Have ye not known that ours <FI>is<Fi> Ramoth-Gilead? and we are keeping silent from taking it out of the hand of the king of Aram!'

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


simplify: And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and drove out all those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers,


rate difficulty: And Shaharaim begat in the field of Moab, after his sending them away; Hushim and Baara <FI>are<Fi> his wives.

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


simplify: And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?

And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.


simplify: And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word:

And the Lord said, I have had mercy, as you say:


rate difficulty: and, having cast off the anchors, they left [them] in the sea, at the same time loosening the lashings of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the strand.

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


simplify: Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

Simon has described the manner in which God first visited the Gentiles, in order to take from among them a people to bear his name.


simplify: But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

There is a baptism that I must undergo, and how great is my distress until it is over!


simplify: And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.

And its streams will be turned into boiling oil, and its dust into burning stone, and all the land will be on fire.


simplify: And he put them all together into ward three days.

So he put them in prison for three days.


rate difficulty: So that do not judge anything before [the] time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have [his] praise fromGod.

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


rate difficulty: Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David waxed stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul waxed weaker and weaker.

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


simplify: And the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians the men of seven hundred chariots, and forty thousand horsemen, and smote Shobach the captain of their host, so that he died there.

And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.


simplify: But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.


simplify: And be it <FI>so<Fi> , I--I did not burden you, but being crafty, with guile I did take you;

You will admit that I was not a burden to you but you say that I was “crafty” and caught you “by a trick”!


rate difficulty: The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

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


simplify: And they put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate.

And they put the two twisted chains on the two rings at the ends of the priest's bag;


rate difficulty: And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah: and his name spread abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself exceedingly.

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


simplify: and they beckoned unto their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink.

And they made signs to their friends in the other boat to come to their help. And they came, and the two boats were so full that they were going down.


rate difficulty: When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.

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


simplify: And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam.

And Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, and got together the men of Judah and Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam.


rate difficulty: But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.


rate difficulty: Lo, I am stirring up against them the Medes, Who silver esteem not, And gold--they delight not in it.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest who is anointed of his sons in his stead shall prepare it: [it is] an everlasting statute; it shall be wholly burned to Jehovah.


simplify: Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Under all circumstances let your lives be worthy of the good news of the Christ: so that, whether I come and see you, or whether I hear of your affairs at a distance, I may know that you are standing firm, animated by one spirit, and joining with one heart in a common struggle for the faith taught by the good news,


simplify: And having turned unto the disciples, he said, by themselves, `Happy the eyes that are perceiving what ye perceive;

Then, turning to his disciples, Jesus said to them alone: “Blessed are the eyes that see what you are seeing;


simplify: For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.

For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.


rate difficulty: So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord, turning round, looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he said to him, Before [the] cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.

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