simplify: For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.


simplify: And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar–enan: this shall be your north border.

And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.


simplify: Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.


rate difficulty: And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.

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


simplify: They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

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


simplify: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.


rate difficulty: Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

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


rate difficulty: For behold, I have made thee small among the nations, despised among men.

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


simplify: This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.

This was the Moses who said to the people of Israel — ‘God will raise up for you, from among yourselves, a prophet, as he raised up me.’


rate difficulty: And there came one to David who reported saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.

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


simplify: Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.

Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.


rate difficulty: Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

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


simplify: And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, that he made with the children of Israel.

And there I have put the ark, in which is the agreement of the Lord, which he made with the people of Israel.


simplify: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

So then, give comfort to one another with these words.


simplify: And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;


simplify: Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.

You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.


rate difficulty: The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

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


rate difficulty: Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.


simplify: And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.

Again he was aware of a voice which said — “What God has pronounced ‘clean’, do not regard as ‘defiled’.”


rate difficulty: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is lying with his mother-in-law, --and all the people have said, Amen.

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


simplify: And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.


rate difficulty: And sons of Issachar; Tola, and Puah, Jashub, and Shimron, four.

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


simplify: Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.


simplify: Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was king for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.


simplify: Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite,

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel, the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,


simplify: But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;

And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;


simplify: But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what is with me in the house, and he hath put all that he hath into my hand:

But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;


simplify: And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;

And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee;


rate difficulty: And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

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


rate difficulty: and said to them, Whosoever shall receive this little child in my name receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me. For he who is the least among you all, he is great.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have wrought among them?

And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?


rate difficulty: and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done;

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


rate difficulty: And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.

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


simplify: Then said Absalom, If not, I pray thee, let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said unto him, Why should he go with thee?

Then Absalom said, If you will not go, then let my brother Amnon go with us. And the king said to him, Is there any reason for him to go with you?


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

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


simplify: Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

So, looking down from your holy place in heaven, send your blessing on your people Israel and on the land which you have given us, as you said in your oath to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.


rate difficulty: Lest I strip her naked. And have set her up as <FI>in<Fi> the day of her birth, And have made her as a wilderness, And have set her as a dry land, And have put her to death with thirst.

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


simplify: Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.


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

“The men and women of this world,”said Jesus, “marry and are given in marriage;


simplify: And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering him said, `Get thee behind me, Adversary, for it hath been written, Thou shalt bow before the Lord thy God, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I rejoice that in everything I am confident as to you.

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


simplify: And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,

The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;


simplify: and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries set to Alamoth;

And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth.


rate difficulty: and one slaughtered [it]; and Moses took of its blood, and put [it] on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot;


simplify: And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?


rate difficulty: And now, Jehovah, thou art thatGod, and hast promised this goodness unto thy servant;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Ye shall not make other gods with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud; and with them seventy males.

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


simplify: and they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.


simplify: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.


rate difficulty: And he went out the day after and saw two of the Hebrews fighting: and he said to him who was in the wrong, Why are you fighting your brother?

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


simplify: I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.


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

But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.


rate difficulty: Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

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


simplify: And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.


simplify: Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

Then the priest is to give orders to take, for him who is to be made clean, two living clean birds and some cedar wood and red thread and hyssop.


rate difficulty: But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily,  Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.


simplify: These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west.


simplify: Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.


simplify: saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, `Loose the four messengers who are bound at 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 He hath passed over through the sea, And hath pressed and smitten billows in the sea, And dried up have been all depths of a flood, And brought down hath been the excellency of Asshur, And the rod of Egypt doth turn aside.

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


rate difficulty: And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.


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

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


simplify: Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

To begin with, it is undoubtedly a loss to you to have lawsuits with one another. Why not rather let yourselves be wronged? Why not rather let yourselves be cheated?


rate difficulty: What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after othergods whom ye know not...

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


rate difficulty: And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.


simplify: Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by faith;

Now that no man gets righteousness by the law in the eyes of God, is clear; because, The upright will be living by faith.


simplify: His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.


simplify: And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

He went back to his brothers, and said, The child is gone; what am I to do?


simplify: And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.

And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.


simplify: and if by the Spirit ye are led, ye are not under law.

But, if you follow the guidance of the Spirit, you are not subject to law.


rate difficulty: shun every form of evil.

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


simplify: Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

Or those eighteen men who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, were they worse than all the other men living in Jerusalem?


rate difficulty: `This <FI>is<Fi> the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, the holy of holies:


rate difficulty: 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.


rate difficulty: What <FI>is<Fi> that which hath been? it <FI>is<Fi> that which is, and what <FI>is<Fi> that which hath been done? it <FI>is<Fi> that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

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


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.


simplify: One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


simplify: He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually.

Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.


rate difficulty: And Aaron lifteth up his hand towards the people, and blesseth them, and cometh down from making the sin-offering, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings.

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


rate difficulty: In the fourth month, on the ninth of the month, the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

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


rate difficulty: we have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses.

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


simplify: Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

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


simplify: and having come to the place, he said to them, `Pray ye not to enter into temptation.'

And, when he reached the spot, he said to them: “Pray that you may not fall into temptation.”


simplify: Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

“How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food.”


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

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


simplify: and to have authority to cast out demons:

And give them the power of driving out evil spirits:


rate difficulty: For, lo, I am stirring up, And am causing to come up against Babylon, An assembly of great nations from a land of the north, And they have set in array against her, From thence she is captured, Its arrow--as a skilful hero--returneth not empty,

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


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

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


rate difficulty: To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

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


simplify: Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy conception; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.


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

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


simplify: Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;


simplify: Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chiefs of the priests and of their brothers in the days of Jeshua.


rate difficulty: And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And so thou shalt do on the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house.

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


rate difficulty: `On the eighth day a restraint ye have, ye do no servile work;

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


rate difficulty: Or thinkest thou that I cannot now call upon my Father, and he will furnish me more than twelve legions of angels?

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


simplify: I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.


simplify: `Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?'

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


simplify: I went by the field of the sluggard, And by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;

I went by the field of the hater of work, and by the vine-garden of the man without sense;


rate difficulty: There shall be a voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howling of the noble ones of the flock: for Jehovah layeth waste their pasture;


rate difficulty: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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


simplify: Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:


simplify: Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

Have you understood all this?” Jesus asked. “Yes,” they answered.


simplify: Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

Then the king of Israel sent for all the responsible men of the land, and said, Now will you take note and see the evil purpose of this man: he sent for my wives and my children, my silver and my gold, and I did not keep them back.


simplify: for the Son of God, Jesus Christ, among you through us having been preached--through me and Silvanus and Timotheus--did not become Yes and No, but in him it hath become Yes;

The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we — Silas, Timothy, and I — proclaimed among you, never wavered between ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ With him it has always been ‘Yes.’


simplify: And he came to him, and, lo, he was standing by his burnt-offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath Jehovah spoken?

So he came to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with the chiefs of Moab by his side. And Balak said to him, What has the Lord said?


rate difficulty: And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not fit that thou shouldest enter under my roof; but only speak a word, and my servant shall be healed.


rate difficulty: All these <FI>are<Fi> sons of Asher, heads of the house of the fathers, chosen ones, mighty in valour, heads of the princes, with their genealogy, for the host, for battle, their number <FI>is<Fi> twenty and six thousand men.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.

And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.


simplify: And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish.


simplify: In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

In the first war-carriage were red horses; and in the second, black horses;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, [that] the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not lend upon interest to thy brother; interest of money, interest of victuals, interest of anything that is lent upon interest.

Do not take interest from an Israelite on anything, money or food or any other goods, which you let him have:


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

However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day.


rate difficulty: And every man with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' [hair], and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, brought [them].

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


rate difficulty: And Moses seeing it wondered at the vision; and as he went up to consider it, there was a voice of [the] Lord,

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


rate difficulty: And David said unto Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

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


rate difficulty: Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.

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


rate difficulty: Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

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


simplify: And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves and worshipped.

And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads.


simplify: And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,

After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying,


rate difficulty: Jehovah ourGod made a covenant with us in Horeb.

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


simplify: But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; He shall give all the substance of his house.

But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.


rate difficulty: And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances that I speak in your ears this day, and learn them, and keep them to do them.

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


rate difficulty: And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.


simplify: For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then shall I bear the blame to my father for ever.

For I made myself responsible for the boy to my father, saying, If I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.


rate difficulty: And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.

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


rate difficulty: Dear friend, I pray that all may be well with you and that you may have good health — I know that all is well with your soul.

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


simplify: And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.

And straight away it seemed as if a veil was taken from his eyes, and he was able to see; and he got up, and had baptism;


rate difficulty: Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath of God through him.

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


rate difficulty: These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

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


rate difficulty: Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,


simplify: And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.


simplify: On the cliff she dwelleth, and maketh her home, Upon the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

On the rock is his house, and on the mountain-top his strong place.


simplify: That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

So that you may take food and drink at my table in my kingdom, and be seated like kings, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.


simplify: This is the copy of the letter that they sent unto him, even unto Artaxerxes the king; Thy servants the men on this side the river, and at such a time.

This is a copy of the letter which they sent to Artaxerxes the king: Your servants living across the river send these words:


simplify: Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.

See, the Lord has a strong and cruel one; like a rain of ice, a storm of destruction, like the overflowing of a strong river, he will violently overcome them.


rate difficulty: And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.

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


rate difficulty: And he brought the people’s offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

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


rate difficulty: for I will shew to him how much he must suffer for my name.


rate difficulty: And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.


simplify: Gird yourselveswith sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.


simplify: if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, be made known to him, he shall bring for his oblation a goat, a male without blemish.

When the sin which he has done is made clear to him, let him give for his offering a goat, a male without any mark.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.

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


rate difficulty: And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that <FI>are<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to the centurion, Go, and as thou hast believed, be it to thee. And his servant was healed in that hour.

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


simplify: And as he was entering into the boat, he that had been possessed with demons besought him that he might be with him.

And when he was getting into the boat, the man in whom had been the evil spirits had a great desire to come with him.


rate difficulty: So also ye, when ye see these things take place, know that the kingdom ofGod is near.

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


rate difficulty: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:


rate difficulty: It is the desire of these men to be at peace with us; let them then go on living in this country and doing trade here, for the country is wide open before them; let us take their daughters as wives and let us give them our daughters.


simplify: The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?


rate difficulty: For lo, the stone that I put before Joshua, On one stone <FI>are<Fi> seven eyes, Lo, I am graving its graving, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have removed the iniquity of that land in one day.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

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


rate difficulty: And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.


simplify: But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;


simplify: And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.


rate difficulty: And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;

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


rate difficulty: Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, holy to Jehovah: whoever doeth work on the sabbath day shall certainly be put to death.

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


rate difficulty: But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, The Son of man is lord of the sabbath.

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


simplify: and she bare him sons: Jeush, and Shemariah, and Zaham.

And she had sons by him, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.


rate difficulty: Who <FI>art<Fi> thou, O great mountain Before Zerubbabel--for a plain! And he hath brought forth the top-stone, Cries of Grace, grace--<FI> are<Fi> to it.'

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


rate difficulty: This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?


simplify: And they shall keep all the furniture of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the children of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

And they will have the care of all the vessels of the Tent of meeting, and will do for the children of Israel all the necessary work of the House.


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

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.


rate difficulty: I the Lord have said the word and I will do it; I will not go back or have mercy, and my purpose will not be changed; in the measure of your ways and of your evil doings you will be judged, says the Lord.


simplify: Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.


simplify: And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

Then I said to them, Whoever has any gold, let him take it off; so they gave it to me, and I put it in the fire, and this image of an ox came out.


simplify: Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?

Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?


simplify: And the children of Israel fled before Judah; and God delivered them into their hand.

And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.


rate difficulty: And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed — such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.

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


rate difficulty: Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.

And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.


simplify: Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and became foul: and Moses was wroth with them.

But they gave no attention to Moses, and some of them kept it till the morning and there were worms in it and it had an evil smell: and Moses was angry with them.


rate difficulty: One that is righteous wisely considereth the house of the wicked: he overthroweth the wicked to [their] ruin.

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


rate difficulty: And he stayed yet other seven days, and sent forth the dove; and she returned not again unto him any more.


simplify: Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reproached him.

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross, so that we may see and have belief. And those who were put on crosses with him said evil things against him.


simplify: but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

But put him to death without question; let your hand be the first stretched out against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.


rate difficulty: At that time Herod the king laid his hands on some of those of the assembly to do them hurt,

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


simplify: But some of them said, By Beelzebub the prince of the demons casteth he out demons.

But some of them said, He sends out evil spirits by Beelzebul, the ruler of evil spirits.


rate difficulty: And we went to sea in a ship of Adramyttium which was sailing to the sea towns of Asia, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

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


rate difficulty: but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, like the fornications of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren, thy father's house who were better than thyself:

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


rate difficulty: for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

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


simplify: Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called ‘The Uncircumcised’ by those who were called ‘The Circumcised’ — circumcised only by human hands!


rate difficulty: And it was given unto him to give breath to it, even to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as should not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

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


simplify: Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,


simplify: Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee, and accomplish mine anger upon thee: and I will judge thee according to thy ways, and will recompense thee for all thine abominations.

Now, in a little time, I will let loose my passion on you, and give full effect to my wrath against you, judging you for your ways, and sending punishment on you for all your disgusting works.


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

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


rate difficulty: And his father-in-law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

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


rate difficulty: Then give ear to their prayer and to their cry in heaven your living-place, and see right done to them;


rate difficulty: And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;


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

His winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor, and store his grain in the barn, but the chaff he will burn with a fire that cannot be put out.”


simplify: But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the Lord.

But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.


rate difficulty: Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;


rate difficulty: I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.


rate difficulty: For the trader will not go back to the things for which he had his price, even while he is still living:


simplify: Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.


simplify: Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.

You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;


simplify: Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered.


simplify: Asthe waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;


rate difficulty: And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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


simplify: And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.


simplify: And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.

And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames.


simplify: `Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

Do not judge and you will not be judged.


rate difficulty: But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

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


simplify: And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils; for the boils were upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.


simplify: Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas salute you.

Luke, our well-loved medical friend, and Demas, send you their love.


simplify: Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast thee off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will it be ere they attain to innocency?

I will have nothing to do with your young ox, O Samaria; my wrath is burning against them; how long will it be before the children of Israel make themselves clean?


rate difficulty: And Jehu came forth to the servants of his lord. And one said to him, Is all well? why came this madman to thee? And he said to them, Ye know the man, and his mind.

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


simplify: the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion with the Holy Spirit, be with you all.


simplify: Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness?

Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?


simplify: This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty;

These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:


simplify: And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:


rate difficulty: And he is to put drops of the blood of the offering on the side of the altar, and the rest of the blood is to be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin-offering.

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


simplify: And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.

When he saw her, the Master was moved with compassion for her, and he said to her: “Do not weep.”


simplify: They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

They have made all your boards of fir-trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make the supports for your sails.


simplify: And it was told him, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

And someone said to him, Your mother and your brothers are outside desiring to see you.


rate difficulty: Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;

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


rate difficulty: and commit whoredom against him doth his concubine, and she goeth from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days--four months.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.


simplify: And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

He sent and beheaded John in the prison;


simplify: And now, I pray you, beseech God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your persons? saith the Lord of hosts.

And now, make request for the grace of God so that he may have mercy on us: this has been your doing: will he give his approval to any of you? says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: If in one of thy cities, which Jehovah thyGod hath given thee to dwell there, thou hearest, saying,

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


simplify: And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,


simplify: and by some, that Elijah had appeared; and by others, that one of the old prophets was risen again.

And by some, that Elijah had come; and by others, that one of the old prophets had come back to life.


simplify: And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,

And Abishua was the father of Bukki, and Bukki was the father of Uzzi,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

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


rate difficulty: And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.

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


rate difficulty: Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

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


simplify: They shall not take a woman that is a harlot, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God.


rate difficulty: And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

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


rate difficulty: At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.


rate difficulty: Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is far off.

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


simplify: And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.


simplify: As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, So the heart of kings is unsearchable.

The heaven is high and the earth is deep, and the hearts of kings may not be searched out.


simplify: And Samuel did that which Jehovah spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

And Samuel did as the Lord said and came to Beth-lehem. And the responsible men of the town came out to him in fear and said, Do you come in peace?


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

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


simplify: and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.

And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.


simplify: And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

And my master made me take an oath, saying, Do not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;


simplify: And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the Lord.

And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

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


rate difficulty: By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.


simplify: Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs.


simplify: Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.


rate difficulty: And I have multiplied on you man and beast, And they have multiplied and been fruitful, And I have caused you to dwell according to your former states, And I have done better than at your beginnings, And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi>  Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.


simplify: And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.


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


simplify: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.


rate difficulty: Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.


simplify: And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

And in the middle of them one like a son of man, clothed with a robe down to his feet, and with a band of gold round his breasts.


simplify: And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

And make all its vessels, the baskets for taking away the dust of the fire, the spades and basins and meat-hooks and fire-trays, of brass.


rate difficulty: whom I would fain have kept with me, that in thy behalf he might minister unto me in the bonds of the gospel:

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simplify: And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; and he also shall be a remnant for our God; and he shall be as a chieftain in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his disgusting things from between his teeth; and some of his people will be kept for our God: and he will be as a family in Judah, and Ekron as one living in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: In answer Jesus said: “It is not those who are well who need a doctor, but those who are ill.


rate difficulty: And having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, I have believed, therefore have I spoken; we also believe, therefore also we speak;

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


rate difficulty: As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool.

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


simplify: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.


rate difficulty: The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,


simplify: Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

Every man who takes part in prayer, or gives teaching as a prophet, with his head covered, puts shame on his head.


simplify: And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God, and to heal the sick.

He sent them out as his messengers, to proclaim the kingdom of God, and to work cures.


simplify: And I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I set my face against them.

And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.


simplify: And David divided them into courses according to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

And David put them into divisions under the names of the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.


simplify: Thou that dwellest in the gardens, The companions hearken for thy voice: Cause me to hear it.

You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.


rate difficulty: Making void the tokens of devisers, And diviners it maketh mad, Turning the wise backward, And their knowledge it maketh foolish.

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rate difficulty: So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.


rate difficulty: They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.


simplify: and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Jehovah liveth, before whom I have stood--if I take <FI>it<Fi> ;' and he presseth on him to take, and he refuseth.

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


rate difficulty: Then came the word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah, saying,

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rate difficulty: But, addressing him, Jesus said: “Simon, I have something to say to you.”   “Pray do so, teacher,” Simon answered; and Jesus began:

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rate difficulty: The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal.

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


rate difficulty: And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard [them].


simplify: And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people.

And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people.


rate difficulty: And they cook the passover with fire, according to the ordinance, and the sanctified things they have cooked in pots, and in kettles, and in pans--for all the sons of the people.

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


rate difficulty: whom I have sent to you for this very thing, that ye may know of our affairs and that he may encourage your hearts.

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


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

And before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus;


rate difficulty: And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent, and their fathers, set over the camp of Jehovah, were keepers of the entrance.

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


simplify: And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

And he who takes up the dust of the burned cow is to have his clothing washed with water and be unclean till evening: this is to be a law for ever, for the children of Israel as well as for the man from another country who is living among them.


rate difficulty: And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.

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


simplify: And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.


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

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael;


rate difficulty: And the women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.


rate difficulty: And Achish believeth in David, saying, `He hath made himself utterly abhorred among his people, in Israel, and hath been to me for a servant age-during.'

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

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


simplify: And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,

And the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite,


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Can the sons of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast.

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.


simplify: Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.


simplify: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Now we know that everything said in the law is addressed to those who are under its authority, in order that every mouth may be closed, and to bring the whole world under God's judgment.


simplify: And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs; four cities.

And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns.


rate difficulty: And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;

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


rate difficulty: And he shall slaughter the he-lamb at the place where the sin-offering and the burnt-offering are slaughtered, in a holy place; for as the sin-offering, so the trespass-offering is the priest's: it is most holy.


simplify: The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

The camel-trains of Tema were searching with care, the bands of Sheba were waiting for them:


simplify: The children of Adonikam, six hundred threescore and seven.

The children of Adonikam, six hundred and sixty-seven.


simplify: But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

What I am doing now I will continue to do in order to cut away the ground from under those who are wishing for some ground for attacking me, so that as regards the thing of which they boast they may appear in their true characters, just as we do.


rate difficulty: Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

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


simplify: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.


simplify: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

High and low, rich and poor, free and enslaved — it causes a brand to be put on the right hand or on the forehead of every one of them,


simplify: And thou saidst, I shall be mistress for ever; so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end thereof.

And you said, I will be a queen for ever: you did not give attention to these things, and did not keep in mind what would come after.


simplify: And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.


simplify: And when it rested, he said, Return, O Jehovah, unto the ten thousands of the thousands of Israel.

And when it came to rest, he said, Take rest, O Lord, and give a blessing to the families of Israel.


rate difficulty: Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, they that trafficked with thee from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his own quarter; there is none to save thee.

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rate difficulty: And David cometh in unto Ziklag, and sendeth of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, (saying, `Lo, for you a blessing, of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah),'

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and lo, a leper having come, was bowing to him, saying, `Sir, if thou art willing, thou art able to cleanse me;'

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.

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


simplify: Yea, also I continued in the work of this wall, neither bought we any land: and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work.

And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.


simplify: Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

Make wide the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your house be stretched out without limit: make your cords long, and your tent-pins strong.


simplify: Speak, Thus saith the Lord, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

The bodies of men will be falling like waste on the open fields, and like grain dropped by the grain-cutter, and no one will take them up.


simplify: And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?

So when I saw that there was no help to be had from you, I put my life in my hand and went over against the children of Ammon, and the Lord gave them into my hands: why then have you come up to me this day to make war on me?


simplify: And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged every man by his works.


simplify: And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.


simplify: And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?

And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?


simplify: And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it.


rate difficulty: She dealeth hardly with her young ones, as if they were not hers: Though her labor be in vain, she is without fear;

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


simplify: But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God; for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?


simplify: But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.


simplify: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.

But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.


simplify: They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.


rate difficulty: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.


simplify: And the fourth messenger did sound, and smitten was the third of the sun, and the third of the moon, and the third of the stars, that darkened may be the third of them, and that the day may not shine--the third of it, and the night in like manner.

Then the fourth angel blew; and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were blasted, so that a third of them was eclipsed, and for a third part of the day there was no light, and at night it was the same.


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, in her being sharply pained in her bearing, that the midwife saith to her, `Fear not, for this also <FI>is<Fi> a son for thee.'

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


simplify: `And the servants of the householder, having come near, said to him, Sir, good seed didst thou not sow in thy field? whence then hath it the darnel?

The owner’s servants came to them, and said ‘Was not it good seed that you sowed in your field? Where, then, do the weeds in it come from?’


simplify: And as for thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, whom thou shalt have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

But you may get servants as property from among the nations round about; from them you may take men-servants and women-servants.


simplify: And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.

And, when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything, and followed him.


rate difficulty: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

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


simplify: And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.

And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan;


rate difficulty: They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find [him]: he hath withdrawn himself from them.


simplify: And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king to the sword; every soul in it he gave up to the curse without mercy: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.


rate difficulty: And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.


rate difficulty: And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

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


rate difficulty: And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

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


simplify: Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.


rate difficulty: Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.


rate difficulty: Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.


simplify: then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.

Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.


simplify: Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.


rate difficulty: In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; But the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

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


simplify: But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:


rate difficulty: But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

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


simplify: `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day;

And you, Capernaum! Will you ‘exalt yourself to heaven’? ‘You will go down to the place of death.’ For, if the miracles which have been done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been standing to this day.


simplify: For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.


simplify: I have known what I shall do, that, when I may be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me to their houses.

I know what I will do, so that, as soon as I am turned out of my stewardship, people may welcome me into their homes.’


simplify: And while he yet spake, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said unto him, Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.

And while the words were on his lips, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest, came; and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a man of good faith and the news which you have for us will be good.


simplify: Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Three times in the year you are to keep a feast to me.


rate difficulty: Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, the first, and with the last; I am he.

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


simplify: Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:

Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;


simplify: And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.


simplify: Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

Of Moab. The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Sorrow on Nebo, for it has been made waste; Kiriathaim has been put to shame and is taken: the strong place is put to shame and broken down.


rate difficulty: He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.

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


simplify: In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Suddenly they come to an end, even in the middle of the night: the blow comes on the men of wealth, and they are gone, and the strong are taken away without the hand of man.


rate difficulty: So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.

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


simplify: A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit.

A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.


simplify: And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

If the king is angry and says, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall?


rate difficulty: They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: And he said,  Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will ye build unto me? and what place shall be my rest?

The Lord says, Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is the resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, and what place will be my resting-place?


simplify: He was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

He was honoured over the rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe.


simplify: And the messenger said unto David, The men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entrance of the gate.

And the man said to David, Truly the men got the better of us, and came out against us into the open country, but we sent them back to the very doors of the town.


simplify: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

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


simplify: And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.

And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.


simplify: The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.


rate difficulty: and hast brought in the table, and set its arrangement in order, and hast brought in the candlestick, and caused its lamps to go up.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the land: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Nevertheless for David’s sake did Jehovah his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

But because of David, the Lord gave him a light in Jerusalem, making his sons king after him, so that Jerusalem might be safe;


rate difficulty: And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;


simplify: Didst not thou, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for ever?

Did you not, O Lord our God, after driving out the people of this land before your people Israel, give it to the seed of Abraham, your friend, for ever?


rate difficulty: Go down to Ahab, king of Israel, in Samaria; see, he is in the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, where he has gone to take it as his heritage.


simplify: And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:


rate difficulty: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

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


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

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they collected together.


simplify: And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

And questioning Baruch, they said, Say now, how did you put all these words down in writing from his mouth?


simplify: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.


simplify: But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;


simplify: And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


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

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.


rate difficulty: Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price!

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


simplify: Yea and thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Most High: For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to make ready his ways;

And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;


simplify: And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

And the king of Sodom with the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is Zoar), went out, and put their forces in position in the valley of Siddim,


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

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


simplify: Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

Shaking fear is coming; and they will be looking for peace, and there will be no peace.


rate difficulty: Of the thirty, lo, he <FI>is<Fi> honoured, and unto the <FI>first<Fi> three he hath not come, and David setteth him over his guard.

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


rate difficulty: `None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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


simplify: For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.

Even the Christ did not please himself! On the contrary, as scripture says of him — ‘The reproaches of those who were reproaching you fell upon me.’


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

For sin will not lord it over you. You are living under the reign, not of law, but of love.


simplify: And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.


simplify: Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, ‘you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.’ For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.