simplify: This is the law of the beast, and of the bird, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth;

This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:


simplify: Ask thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.


rate difficulty: And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,

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


simplify: Then Achish called David, and said unto him, As Jehovah liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favor thee not.

Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you.


simplify: For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)


simplify: Then arose Peter, and ran unto the sepulchre; and stooping down, he beheld the linen clothes laid by themselves, and departed, wondering in himself at that which was come to pass.

But Peter got up and went to the place where the body had been put, and looking in he saw nothing but the linen cloths, and he went to his house full of wonder at what had taken place.


simplify: And she said unto Elijah, What have I to do with thee, O thou man of God? thou art come unto me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son!

And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? have you come to put God in mind of my sin, and to put my son to death?


simplify: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,


rate difficulty: For walking in flesh, we do not war according to flesh.

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


rate difficulty: That place hath <FI>one<Fi> called Brook of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut from thence.

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


rate difficulty: And Caleb stilleth the people concerning Moses, and saith, `Let us certainly go up--and we have possessed it; for we are thoroughly able for it.'

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


rate difficulty: They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

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


simplify: The sons of Shemaiah: Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were valiant men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.


rate difficulty: therefore do we reckon a man to be declared righteous by faith, apart from works of law.

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


simplify: If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

If a man does wrong to his neighbour and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:


simplify: And it came to pass, while they were perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel:

And while they were in doubt about it, they saw two men in shining clothing by them:


simplify: And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

And the sons of Jether: Jephunneh and Pispah and Ara.


simplify: And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.

And Israel said, It is enough: Joseph my son is still living; I will go and see him before my death.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

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


rate difficulty: and not by his coming only, but also through the encouragement with which he was encouraged as to you; relating to us your ardent desire, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I the more rejoiced.


rate difficulty: And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.

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


rate difficulty: `And in the seventh month, in the first of the month, a holy convocation ye have, ye do no servile work; a day of shouting it is to you;

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


rate difficulty: O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!

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


rate difficulty: Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah has blessed my master greatly, and he is become great; and he has given him sheep and cattle, and silver and gold, and bondmen and bondwomen, and camels and asses.


simplify: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

Even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the angel of Jehovah spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.


simplify: For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:


simplify: The word which came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, when king Zedekiah sent unto him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, and Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah the priest, saying,


rate difficulty: For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: and there is a great famine in Samaria, and lo, they are laying siege to it, till the head of an ass is at eighty silverlings, and a forth of the cab of dovesdung at five silverlings.

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


simplify: This is the first and great commandment.


rate difficulty: Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.


rate difficulty: and turn him aside doth the king of Egypt in Jerusalem, and fineth the land a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold;

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


simplify: Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.

Only it was their desire that we would give thought to the poor; which very thing I had much in mind to do.


rate difficulty: And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

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


simplify: and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?


simplify: `And when ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (whoever is reading let him understand), then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains;

“As soon, however, as you see ‘the Foul Desecration’ standing where he ought not”(the reader must consider what this means) “then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains;


simplify: And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”


simplify: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.


simplify: And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David’s servants. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.


rate difficulty: And some seeds went among thorns, and the thorns came up and they had no room for growth:

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


simplify: So when his fellowservants saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told unto their lord all that was done.

When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and went to their master and laid the whole matter before him.


simplify: And when Jesus had crossed over again in the boat unto the other side, a great multitude was gathered unto him; and he was by the sea.

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


rate difficulty: The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: he that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

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


rate difficulty: He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.


rate difficulty: Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?


simplify: As thou didst rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?


rate difficulty: This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.

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


simplify: But certain worthless fellows said, How shall this man save us? And they despised him, and brought him no present. But he held his peace.

But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again dwell do old men and old women, In broad places of Jerusalem, And each his staff in his hand, Because of abundance of days.

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


simplify: And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.


simplify: And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanath–shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;

The line goes out to the west at Michmethath on the north; then turning to the east to Taanath-shiloh, going past it on the east of Janoah;


rate difficulty: And they helped David in his expeditions; for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host.


simplify: And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders.


rate difficulty: and clothe yourselves with that new self, which, as it gains in knowledge, is being constantly renewed ‘in resemblance to him who made it.’

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


simplify: And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth–el.

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.


simplify: And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square.


rate difficulty: And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.

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


simplify: And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)


rate difficulty: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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


rate difficulty: In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.

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


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

And when he came back again, having got his kingdom, he gave orders for those servants to whom he had given the money to come to him, so that he might have an account of what business they had done.


rate difficulty: Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

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


simplify: speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that, as I thought to do unto them, so will I do unto you.

And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.


rate difficulty: I [am] Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.

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


simplify: Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,


simplify: And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord.


simplify: And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: Keep with care the orders of the Lord your God, and his rules and his laws which he has given you;

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


simplify: breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him.

Wound for wound, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever damage he has done, so let it be done to him.


simplify: Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides unto them many like words.

Then Jeremiah took another book, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who put down in it, from the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the book which had been burned in the fire by Jehoiakim, king of Judah: and in addition a number of other words of the same sort.


simplify: thou, therefore, mayest thou not yield to them, for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who did anathematize themselves--not to eat nor to drink till they kill him, and now they are ready, waiting for the promise from thee.'

But do not let them persuade you, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, who have taken an oath that they will not eat or drink, until they have made away with him; and they are at this very moment in readiness, counting on your promise.”


simplify: And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.

but, finding no way of getting him in owing to the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him through the tiles, with his pallet, into the middle of the people and in front of Jesus.


simplify: And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.

And the Lord sent punishment on the people because they gave worship to the ox which Aaron made.


rate difficulty: Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.


simplify: for there stood by me this night a messenger of God--whose I am, and whom I serve--

For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong, and whom I serve, stood by me, and said —


simplify: Now therefore, O Lord God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that thy children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as thou hast walked before me.

So now, O Lord, the God of Israel, let your word to your servant David, my father, come true, when you said, You will never be without a man to take his place before me on the seat of the kingdom of Israel; if only your children give attention to their ways, walking in my law, as you have done before me.


simplify: For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness; thou hast said, None seeth me; thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee, and thou hast said in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.

For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.


rate difficulty: no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;

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


rate difficulty: And David became greater and greater in power, because the Lord of armies was with him.


simplify: And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.

And when they had made sport of him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothing on him, and took him away to put him on the cross.


simplify: Salute Herodion my kinsman. Salute them of the household of Narcissus, that are in the Lord.

Give my love to Herodion, my relation. Say a kind word to those of the house of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.


simplify: For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.

For I, through the law, have become dead to the law, so that I might be living to God.


simplify: and of the Nethinim, whom David and the princes had given for the service of the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim: all of them were mentioned by name.

And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.


simplify: Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

Son of man, let your face be turned against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and be a prophet against him and against all Egypt:


rate difficulty: The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

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


rate difficulty: the throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was rounded behind; and there were arms on each side at the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the arms;

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, who said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which have not delivered their own people out of thy hand?

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


rate difficulty: I took money from other churches as payment for my work, so that I might be your servant;


rate difficulty: And I will send the beast of the field among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your ways shall become desolate.


rate difficulty: And Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs:

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


simplify: Where now are your prophets that prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land?

Where now are your prophets who said to you, The king of Babylon will not come against you and against this land?


rate difficulty: According to their uncleanness, And according to their transgressions, I have done with them, And I do hide My face from them.

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


simplify: But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

But I will be at Ephesus till Pentecost;


rate difficulty: And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.


simplify: Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.


simplify: And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark.


rate difficulty: But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.


simplify: For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

(For Og, king of Bashan, was the last of all the Rephaim; his bed was made of iron; is it not in Rabbah, in the land of the children of Ammon? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide, measured by the common cubit.)


rate difficulty: But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

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


rate difficulty: Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah,

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


simplify: Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.

Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son, Samuel his son.


simplify: And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest’s office.

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


simplify: And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.


rate difficulty: And they sent a message unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

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


rate difficulty: But I say to you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, the Son of man will confess him also before the angels ofGod;

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore if ye will, look upon me; and it shall be to your face if I lie.

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


rate difficulty: And he sent him away to his home, saying, Do not even enter into the village.

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


simplify: Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many, and they had not leisure even to eat.

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


rate difficulty: I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good in the eyes of Jehovah to bless Israel, and he hath not gone as time by time to meet enchantments, and he setteth towards the wilderness his face;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,

no more will the light of a lamp shine in you; no more will the voices of groom and bride be heard in you. Your merchants were the great men of the earth, for all the nations were deceived by your magical charms.


rate difficulty: 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: And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

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


simplify: But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

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


simplify: And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.

We started first, went on board ship, and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. This was by his own arrangement, as he intended to go by land himself.


simplify: And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

And another angel came out from the altar, who has power over fire; and he gave a loud cry to him who had the sharp curved blade, saying, Put in your sharp blade, and let the grapes of the vine of the earth be cut; for her grapes are fully ready.


rate difficulty: and not having found him, they turned back to Jerusalem seeking him.


rate difficulty: And Bela, the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who was living in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-meon;

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


rate difficulty: Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; and go not into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

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


simplify: Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.

and said: “People of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the heavens? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into the heavens, will come in the same way in which you have seen him go into the heavens.”


rate difficulty: And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.


rate difficulty: But the Lord answered him, and said, Ye hypocrites, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

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


simplify: And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

In the morning the Magistrates sent the police with an order for the men to be discharged.


rate difficulty: The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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


rate difficulty: “I have most earnestly wished,”he said, “to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man whom I had devoted to destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

I will get up and go to my father, and say to him “Father, I sinned against heaven and against you;


simplify: therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes and to the cities that are forsaken, which are become a prey and derision to the residue of the nations that are round about;

For this reason, you mountains of Israel, give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and to the hills, to the streams and to the valleys, to the unpeopled wastes and to the towns where no one is living, from which the goods have been taken and which have been put to shame by the rest of the nations who are round about:


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning, that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little lad with him.

Now in the morning, Jonathan went out into the fields at the time he had said to David, and he had a little boy with him.


rate difficulty: He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more.

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


simplify: Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, which brought us out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

while they said to Aaron — ‘Make us Gods who will lead the way for us, since, as for this Moses who has brought us out of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’


simplify: For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

For all the law is made complete in one word, even in this, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.


rate difficulty: And Samuel grew, and Jehovah was with him, and let none of his words fall to the ground.

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


simplify: And the Pharisees came to him, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.

Presently some Pharisees came up and, to test him, asked: “Has a husband the right to divorce his wife?”


rate difficulty: The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.


rate difficulty: and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send <FI>him<Fi> away empty.

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


rate difficulty: A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.


simplify: and that no one may be able to buy, or to sell, except he who is having the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

so that no one is able to buy or sell, except those that bear this brand — either the name of the Beast or the number indicated by the letters of his name.


simplify: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:

The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,


simplify: And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:


rate difficulty: For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy.


simplify: I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...


simplify: And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.

And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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


simplify: and Jehovah hath brought it, and done according as he spake: because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

*** and the Lord has made it come, and has done as he said; because of your sin against the Lord in not giving ear to his voice; and that is why this thing has come on you.


rate difficulty: And served him have all the nations, and his son, and his son's son, till the coming in of the time of his land, also it; and done service for him have many nations and great kings.


rate difficulty: Wherefore thou art great, Jehovah Elohim; for there is none like thee, neither is there anyGod beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

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


rate difficulty: And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.


rate difficulty: The covenantwhich he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

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


rate difficulty: And a man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the country; and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

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


rate difficulty: And then he will reply ‘I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however unimportant, you failed to do it to me.’

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


rate difficulty: And Balak said to Balaam, Did I not earnestly send to thee to call thee? why didst thou not come to me? am I not surely able to honour thee?

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


simplify: But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the truth.


simplify: And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

And when we went back to your servant, our father, we gave him an account of my lord's words.


rate difficulty: And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses.

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


rate difficulty: Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

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


rate difficulty: For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.


rate difficulty: `And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, If ye do not hearken unto Me, to walk in My law, that I set before you,

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


simplify: If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.


simplify: And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.

And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.


rate difficulty: But they cried out in reply saying, Crucify, crucify him.


rate difficulty: Epaphras, who is [one] of you, [the] bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all [the] will ofGod.

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


rate difficulty: I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

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


simplify: A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.


simplify: A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.


simplify: And he said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

And he said to him, What does the law say, in your reading of it?


simplify: But if any harm follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

But if damage comes to her, let life be given in payment for life,


simplify: for I also am a man placed under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this <FI>one<Fi> , Go, and he goeth; and to another, Be coming, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doth <FI>it<Fi> .'

For I myself am a man under the orders of others, with soldiers under me; and if I say to one of them ‘Go,’ he goes, and to another ‘Come,’ he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this,’ he does it.”


simplify: And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.

So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.


rate difficulty: and the Spirit of Jehovah came upon him, and he rent it as one rends a kid, and nothing was in his hand. And he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.


rate difficulty: 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?

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


simplify: Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord God.

And all the people of the land will put them in the earth; and it will be to their honour in the day when I let my glory be seen, says the Lord.


simplify: And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

And he said to his servant, Go now, and take a look in the direction of the sea. And he went up, and after looking said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times; and he went seven times.


simplify: These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and four thousand and three hundred.

These are the families of Issachar, as they were numbered, sixty-four thousand, three hundred.


simplify: And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

This is what they are to make: a priest's bag, an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of coloured needlework, a head-dress, and a linen band; they are to make holy robes for Aaron your brother and for his sons, so that they may do the work of priests for me.


rate difficulty: And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

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


rate difficulty: Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.

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


simplify: And they gave them Hebron in the land of Judah, and the suburbs thereof round about it.

To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Why do they say that the Christ is the son of David?

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


rate difficulty: `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

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


rate difficulty: And he called him, and said unto him, What is this that I hear of thee? render the account of thy stewardship; for thou canst be no longer steward.

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


rate difficulty: But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation is of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands on him, so that he may be able to see.

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


rate difficulty: These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;


rate difficulty: And Adah beareth to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath hath born Reuel;

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


simplify: And when the disciples saw it, they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!

And when the disciples saw it they were surprised, saying, How did the fig-tree become dry in so short a time?


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


rate difficulty: Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.

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


rate difficulty: And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?


rate difficulty: Fools! Did not the maker of the outside make the inside too?


simplify: They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.


rate difficulty: and Samuel is causing the burnt-offering to go up--and the Philistines have drawn nigh to battle against Israel--and Jehovah doth thunder with a great noise, on that day, upon the Philistines, and troubleth them, and they are smitten before Israel.

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


rate difficulty: As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,


rate difficulty: And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

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


simplify: At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

At his right hand was the fate of Jerusalem, to give orders for destruction, to send up the war-cry, to put engines of war against the doors, lifting up earthworks, building walls.


rate difficulty: Only in Jehovah, shall one say, have I righteousness and strength. To him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.


rate difficulty: Thou hast known that <FI>for<Fi> all things Thou art able, And not withheld from Thee is <FI>any<Fi> device:

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


rate difficulty: Behold, I and the children whom Jehovah hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Jehovah of hosts, who dwelleth in mount Zion.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the Lord was come into the camp.

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


simplify: thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the grains thereof: his name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.

Your seed would have been like the sand, and your offspring like the dust: your name would not be cut off or come to an end before me.


simplify: The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying,

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,


rate difficulty: And they eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great joy, and cause Solomon son of David to reign a second time, and anoint <FI>him<Fi> before Jehovah for leader, and Zadok for priest.

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


rate difficulty: Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite of the hill-country of Ephraim, named Elkanah; he was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:


rate difficulty: He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;


simplify: In the seventhmonth, in the one and twentiethdayof the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


rate difficulty: And the woman conceived, and bore a son. And she saw him that he was fair, and hid him three months.

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


simplify: And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.

Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.


simplify: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;


simplify: Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?


rate difficulty: sorrowing most of all for the word which he had spoken, that they should behold his face no more. And they brought him on his way unto the ship.

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


simplify: But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

While, if all those present use the gift of preaching, and an unbeliever, or someone without the gift, comes in, they are convinced of their sinfulness by them all, they are called to account by them all;


rate difficulty: Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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


rate difficulty: The soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took charge of Paul and conducted him by night to Antipatris;

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


simplify: The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.


rate difficulty: these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

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


rate difficulty: And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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


rate difficulty: And when they had gone away from Rephidim and had come into the waste land of Sinai, they put up their tents in the waste land before the mountain: there Israel put up its tents.


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

And word of this was given to David: and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam. And the Aramaeans put their forces in position against David, and made an attack on him.


rate difficulty: Therefore I entreat you — Follow my example.


simplify: The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:


simplify: Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them.

Now after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes up his account with them.


simplify: Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;


rate difficulty: And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.


rate difficulty: And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

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


simplify: Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead beast shall be his own.

But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.


simplify: For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.


simplify: And they rose up early in the morning, and the sun shone upon the water, and the Moabites saw the water over against them as red as blood:

And early in the morning they got up, when the sun was shining on the water, and they saw the water facing them as red as blood.


rate difficulty: Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

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


simplify: `And--a certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, making merry sumptuously every day,

There was once a rich man, who dressed in purple robes and fine linen, and feasted every day in great splendor.


rate difficulty: And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,

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


simplify: And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.

And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it out of the house of Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of the cart.


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

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


rate difficulty: And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith, `What <FI>is<Fi> the word which He hath spoken unto thee? I pray thee, hide it not from me; so doth God do to thee, and so doth He add, if thou hidest from me a word of all the words that He hath spoken unto thee.'

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


simplify: Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for the governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

So they were put into groups, by the Lord's decision, one with another; for there were rulers of the holy place and rulers of the house of God among the sons of Eleazar and the sons of Ithamar.


simplify: And he said unto them, This kind can come out by nothing, save by prayer.

And he said to them, Nothing will make this sort come out but prayer.


simplify: For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

You ought, rather, to say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’


simplify: I now rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry unto repentance; for ye were made sorry after a godly sort, that ye might suffer loss by us in nothing.

Now I am glad, not that you had sorrow, but that your sorrow was the cause of a change of heart; for yours was a holy sorrow so that you might undergo no loss by us in anything.


simplify: Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

And there came together to him the Pharisees and certain of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,


simplify: Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption.

For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass the next day, that he took the coverlet and dipped [it] in water, and spread it over his face, so that he died; and Hazael reigned in his stead.


rate difficulty: Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.

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


simplify: Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.


simplify: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.


simplify: And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

And it gives much increase to the kings whom you have put over us because of our sins: and they have power over our bodies and over our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great trouble.


rate difficulty: That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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


simplify: The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

At the judgment, the people of Nineveh will stand up with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and here is more than a Jonah!


rate difficulty: Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee to this day, that I should not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

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


simplify: When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

And while he was on the judge's seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that upright man, for I have had much trouble this day in a dream because of him.


simplify: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:


simplify: and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,

And he gave orders to the man who took the news, saying, After you have given the king all the news about the war,


simplify: For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

For the daughters of Moab will be like wandering birds, like a place from which the young birds have gone in flight, at the ways across the Arnon.


rate difficulty: From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.

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


simplify: And fear took hold on all: and they glorified God, saying, A great prophet is arisen among us: and, God hath visited his people.

And fear came on all, and they gave praise to God, saying, A great prophet is among us: and, God has given thought to his people.


simplify: Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

But all this time the people were making their offerings in the high places, because no house had been put up to the name of the Lord till those days.


rate difficulty: six of their names on the one stone, and the six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.

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


simplify: And David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Beth-lehem.

And at that time David had taken cover in the strong place, and an armed force of the Philistines was in Beth-lehem.


simplify: He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and drove asunder the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered; The everlasting hills did bow; His goings were as of old.

From his high place he sent shaking on the earth; he saw and nations were suddenly moved: and the eternal mountains were broken, the unchanging hills were bent down; his ways are eternal.


simplify: And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon: for they heard that they should eat bread there.

And they got ready the things for Joseph before he came in the middle of the day: for word was given to them that they were to have a meal there.


simplify: Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

Unequal weights and unequal measures, they are all disgusting to the Lord.


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

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


simplify: These are they that went over the Jordan in the first month, when it had overflowed all its 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: hospitable to one another, without murmuring;

Never grudge hospitality to one another.


simplify: The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand: they brought thee in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.

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


rate difficulty: At that time will I bring you, yea, at the time that I gather you; for I will make you a name and a praise, among all the peoples of the earth, when I shall turn again your captivity before your eyes, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: We met and decided to choose certain men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,

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


simplify: So Aaron drew near unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which was for himself.

So Aaron came near to the altar and put to death the ox for the sin-offering for himself;


rate difficulty: He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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


rate difficulty: Yet I--I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,


simplify: If any man is for captivity, into captivity he goeth: if any man shall kill with the sword, with the sword must he be killed. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

If any man sends others into prison, into prison he will go: if any man puts to death with the sword, with the sword will he be put to death. Here is the quiet strength and the faith of the saints.


simplify: Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?


simplify: There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

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


rate difficulty: After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying, Have no fear, Abram: I will keep you safe, and great will be your reward.

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


simplify: and by him every one that believeth is justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.


rate difficulty: they will scourge him, and then put him to death; and on the third day he will rise again.”

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


simplify: And they gave lots for them; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

And they put it to the decision of chance, and the decision was given for Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven Apostles.


simplify: And also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and rebuke her not.

And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.


simplify: Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)


rate difficulty: The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.

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


simplify: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?


simplify: And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.


simplify: O Jehovah, to thee do I cry; for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.


rate difficulty: The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

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


rate difficulty: How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?


rate difficulty: The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.


rate difficulty: Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thine own name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

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


simplify: And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.

“How many loaves have you?” said Jesus. “Seven,” they answered, “and a few small fish.”


simplify: For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it be love or hatred, man knoweth it not; all is before them.

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.


simplify: And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.

And she said, The glory is gone from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.


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

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


simplify: For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

For I have had the years of their sin measured for you by a number of days, even three hundred and ninety days: and you will take on yourself the sin of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

For it is necessary for a Bishop to be a man of virtue, as God's servant; not pushing himself forward, not quickly moved to wrath or blows, not desiring profit for himself;


simplify: And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:


rate difficulty: While as for you, even the hairs of your head are numbered.

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


simplify: Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;


simplify: In that day will I make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they shall devour all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left; and they of Jerusalem shall yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:

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


simplify: Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.

Yes, I will have you walked on by the feet of men, even my people Israel; they will have you for a heritage and you will be theirs, and never again will you take their children from them.


simplify: And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.


simplify: And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

And they made signs to his father, to say what name was to be given to him.


simplify: It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

We could but make merry and rejoice, for here is your brother who was dead, and is alive; who was lost, and is found.’”


rate difficulty: And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.


rate difficulty: He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten <FI>to<Fi> its wall, and prepared is the covering.

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


simplify: for he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

The person who, when speaking, uses the gift of ‘tongues’ is speaking, not to people, but to God, for no one understands them; yet in spirit they are speaking of hidden truths.


simplify: Thou shalt even take five shekels apiece by the poll, after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them: (the shekel is twenty gerahs:)

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


rate difficulty: He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?

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


simplify: He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Those who conquer will enter into possession of these things, and I will be their God, and they will be my children.


simplify: By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.


simplify: And for the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive-wood: the lintel and door-posts were a fifth part of the wall.

For the way into the inmost room he made doors of olive-wood, the arch and the door supports forming a five-sided opening.


rate difficulty: If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD;

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


rate difficulty: I tell you, wherever, in the whole world, this good news is proclaimed, what this woman has done will be told in memory of her.”

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


simplify: Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

And someone came and said to them, The men, whom you put in prison, are in the Temple teaching the people.


simplify: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.


simplify: He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red.


rate difficulty: And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.

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


rate difficulty: The men of Netophah, fifty and six.

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


rate difficulty: Then spake Solomon, Jehovah hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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


simplify: and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.


rate difficulty: And I commanded you at that time all the things that ye should do.

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


simplify: And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

And he has made of one blood all the nations of men living on all the face of the earth, ordering their times and the limits of their lands,


simplify: But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?


simplify: And the second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.

And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.


simplify: for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The twenty-first Hothir, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.


simplify: Then began he to reproach the cities in which were done most of his mighty works, because they did not reform.

Then Jesus began to reproach the towns in which most of his miracles had been done, because they had not repented:


simplify: And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And Mary said:  “My soul exalts the Lord,


rate difficulty: And Saul and all the people with him came together and went forward to the fight: and every man's sword was turned against the man at his side, and there was a very great noise.

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


rate difficulty: When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

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


rate difficulty: and Jethro saith, `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, who hath delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians, and from the hand of Pharaoh--who hath delivered this people from under the hand of the Egyptians;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

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


simplify: and the more boldly I did write to you, brethren, in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me by God,

But in parts of this letter I have expressed myself somewhat boldly — by way of refreshing your memories —


simplify: And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.


rate difficulty: Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

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


simplify: Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.

And so, being lifted up to the right hand of God, and having the Father's word that the Holy Spirit would come, he has sent this thing, which now you see and have knowledge of.


simplify: Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.

Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.


rate difficulty: Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben–ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.

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


rate difficulty: two handles <FI>are<Fi> to the one board, joined one unto another; so he hath made for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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


simplify: And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules, camels, and young dromedaries:

The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:


simplify: Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.

Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.


simplify: But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

But Peter made them all go outside, and went down on his knees in prayer; and turning to the body, he said, Tabitha, get up. And, opening her eyes, she saw Peter and got up.


simplify: And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city,

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


rate difficulty: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

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


rate difficulty: Men will get fields for money, and put the business in writing, stamping the papers and having them witnessed, in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill-country and in the towns of the lowland and in the towns of the South: for I will let their fate be changed, says the Lord.

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


simplify: And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah


rate difficulty: And he made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia-wood, standing up;

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


simplify: Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still shut up in the place of the armed watchmen, saying,


simplify: For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

For the destruction of the daughter of my people I am broken: I am dressed in the clothing of grief; fear has taken me in its grip.


rate difficulty: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith,

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


rate difficulty: But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.

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


simplify: The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The hands of kind-hearted women have been boiling their children; they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.


simplify: and he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee?

And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you?


simplify: He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then both it and that for which it is changed shall be holy.

It may not be changed in any way, a good given for a bad, or a bad for a good; if one beast is changed for another, the two will be holy.


simplify: And the king of Sodom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, at the vale of Shaveh (the same is the King’s Vale).

And when he was coming back after putting to flight Chedorlaomer and the other kings, he had a meeting with the king of Sodom in the valley of Shaveh, that is, the King's Valley.


simplify: And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord:

And those who went in front, and those who came after, were crying, Glory: A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord:


simplify: They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.


rate difficulty: And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get;

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rate difficulty: The captain went with the lad to the commanding officer, and said: “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this lad to you, as he has something to tell you.”


rate difficulty: yea, Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Speak unto Aaron thy brother, and he cometh not in at all times unto the sanctuary within the vail, unto the front of the mercy-seat, which <FI>is<Fi> upon the ark, and he dieth not, for in a cloud I am seen upon the mercy-seat.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Take on yourselves one another's troubles, and so keep the law of Christ.


simplify: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

And Joseph went up from Galilee, out of the town of Nazareth, into Judaea, to Beth-lehem, the town of David, because he was of the house and family of David,


simplify: And Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba; and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.

And Jonathan made an attack on the armed force of the Philistines stationed at Gibeah; and news was given to the Philistines that the Hebrews were turned against them. And Saul had a horn sounded through all the land,


simplify: And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.


simplify: But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

But, when they persecute you in one town, escape to the next; for, I tell you, you will not have come to the end of the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.


simplify: Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.

And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.


rate difficulty: Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?

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simplify: Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.

The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.


simplify: And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.

And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.


simplify: And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until the morning.

And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning.


rate difficulty: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.

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rate difficulty: which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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rate difficulty: Have you no memory of the evil-doing of your fathers, and the evil-doing of the kings of Judah, and the evil-doing of their wives, and the evil which you yourselves have done, and the evil which your wives have done, in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

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


simplify: And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.

In the same way he who had been given the two got two more.


simplify: And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.


simplify: And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.

And he put to death the burned offering; and Aaron's sons gave him the blood and he put some of it on and round the altar;