rate difficulty: And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron — the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-Arba; and they slew Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.

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rate difficulty: Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth will I cause you to hear them.

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


rate difficulty: David had also taken Ahinoam of Jizreel; and they became, even both of them, his wives.

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


rate difficulty: O Hope of Israel--its saviour in time of trouble, Why art Thou as a sojourner in the land? And as a traveller turned aside to lodge?

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


rate difficulty: This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

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


rate difficulty: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

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


rate difficulty: And God prepareth the great monsters, and every living creature that is creeping, which the waters have teemed with, after their kind, and every fowl with wing, after its kind, and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good.

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rate difficulty: And they say, `We give back, and of them we seek nothing; so we do as thou art saying.' And I call the priests, and cause them to swear to do according to this thing;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

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


simplify: And there was a certain disciple in Damascus, by name Ananias, and the Lord said unto him in a vision, `Ananias;' and he said, `Behold me, Lord;'

Now there was at Damascus a disciple named Ananias, to whom, in a vision, the Lord said: “Ananias.”  “Yes, Lord,” he answered.


simplify: And the evil spirit answered and said unto them, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

And the evil spirit, answering, said to them, I have knowledge of Jesus, and of Paul, but who are you?


simplify: Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaoh–necho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah.

Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah.


simplify: and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,


rate difficulty: And the other wife did everything possible to make her unhappy, because the Lord had not let her have children;

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


simplify: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.

And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands.


simplify: That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?


rate difficulty: Yea, my people are bent upon backsliding from me: though they call them to the Most High, none at all exalteth [him].


rate difficulty: And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to me, Behold, thou shalt conceive and bear a son; and now drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not anything unclean; for the boy shall be a Nazarite ofGod from the womb to the day of his death.

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


simplify: Man setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.


rate difficulty: When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a rising, a scab, or bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of leprosy; then he shall be brought unto Aaron the priest, or unto one of his sons the priests:

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


rate difficulty: and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

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


simplify: And of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

And of the sons of Pashhur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.


simplify: When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.


simplify: And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

Then the snake poured water from its mouth after the woman, like a river, so that it might sweep her away.


simplify: But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.

So they put off. While they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A squall swept down on the lake, and their boat was filling and they were in danger.


simplify: And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house of the Lord.

And they had the care of the Tent of meeting and the holy place, under the direction of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the work of the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.

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


rate difficulty: (This man had bought a piece of land with the price of his treachery; and, falling heavily, his body had burst open, and all his bowels protruded.


simplify: Then the Spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet; and he spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thy house.

Then the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and he had talk with me and said to me, Go and keep yourself shut up inside your house.


simplify: And the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,


rate difficulty: for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'


simplify: And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

And all the angels were standing around the throne and the councillors and the four Creatures, and they prostrated themselves on their faces in front of the throne and worshiped God,


rate difficulty: Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust,

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


simplify: Of Benjamin; Abidan the son of Gideoni.

From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;


rate difficulty: And you will be free from your oath to me when you come to my people; and if they will not give her to you, you will be free from your oath.

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


simplify: And Samson said unto them, Let me now put forth a riddle unto you: if ye can declare it unto me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of raiment;

And Samson said, Now I have a hard question for you: if you are able to give me the answer before the seven days of the feast are over, I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty changes of clothing;


simplify: And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering, while I meet the Lord yonder.

Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.


simplify: And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

As Jesus went along, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting in the tax office, and said to him: “Follow me.” Matthew got up and followed him.


simplify: And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.


simplify: But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.

But when her flow of blood is stopped, after seven days she will be clean.


simplify: Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee, is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have taken hold of thee as of a woman in travail?

Now why are you crying so loudly? is there no king in you? has destruction come on your wise helper? so that pains have taken you like the pains of a woman in childbirth:


rate difficulty: And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.


simplify: And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?


simplify: But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

But Peter and John replied: “Whether it is right, in the sight of God, to listen to you rather than to him —


simplify: And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:

And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:


simplify: And when they had gone through the whole island unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus;

And when they had gone through all the island to Paphos, they came across a certain wonder-worker and false prophet, a Jew whose name was Bar-Jesus;


simplify: And the men of Shechem set liers-in-wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.


rate difficulty: But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;


simplify: And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.


rate difficulty: And all the people come to cause David to eat bread while yet day, and David sweareth, saying, `Thus doth God to me, and thus He doth add, for--before the going in of the sun, I taste no bread or any other thing.'

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


simplify: Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:

Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!


simplify: Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.

Now this is the offering which you are to make on the altar: two lambs in their first year, every day regularly.


simplify: They make oil within the walls of these men; They treadtheirwinepresses, and suffer thirst.

Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.


simplify: for so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations--for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.'

For this is the Lord’s command to us —  ‘I have destined you for a light to the Gentiles, A means of salvation to the ends of the earth’.”


simplify: But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.


simplify: and he was supposing his brethren to understand that God through his hand doth give salvation; and they did not understand.

He thought his own people would understand that God was using him to save them; but they failed to do so.


simplify: Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.


simplify: Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.

Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.


rate difficulty: Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

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


simplify: He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,


simplify: For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.


simplify: And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.

And while they were seated taking food, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you will be false to me, one who is taking food with me.


rate difficulty: And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Mushi <FI>are<Fi> Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth; these <FI>are<Fi> sons of the Levites, for the house of their fathers,

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


rate difficulty: And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: for they were hearing them speaking with tongues and magnifying God.

for they heard them speaking with ‘tongues’ and extolling God. At this Peter asked:


simplify: Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.


rate difficulty: Moreover I call God for a record upon my soul, that to spare you I came not as yet unto Corinth.

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


simplify: For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

You have kept their hearts from wisdom: for this cause you will not give them honour.


simplify: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)


simplify: then hear thou from heaven, even from thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.


rate difficulty: `Son of man, lo, the house of Israel are saying, The vision that he is seeing <FI>is<Fi> for many days, and of times far off he is prophesying,

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


rate difficulty: His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.

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


simplify: And Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.

Now Satan, designing evil against Israel, put into David's mind the impulse to take the number of Israel.


simplify: And his house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken to wife), like unto this porch.

And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.


simplify: And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.


simplify: And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.


rate difficulty: And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two years.

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


rate difficulty: And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,

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


simplify: Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.

But still he did not go to one side: so Abner gave him a back blow in the stomach with his spear, so that the spear came out at his back; and he went down on the earth, wounded to death: and all those who came to the place where Asahel went down dead, came to a stop.


simplify: Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the Lord, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?


simplify: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

Say to the children of Israel, When you have come into the land which I am giving to you for your resting-place,


simplify: It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.


rate difficulty: And they hear the sound of Jehovah God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of Jehovah God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

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


simplify: And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.


simplify: He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part.

That man, among the sons of Aaron, by whom the blood of the peace-offering and the fat are offered, is to have the right leg for his part.


simplify: On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.


simplify: And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the lake of fire - of burning sulphur.


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

And when they had got their boats to the land, they gave up everything and went after him.


rate difficulty: No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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


simplify: I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

I give praise to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with my mind I am a servant to the law of God, but with my flesh to the law of sin.


rate difficulty: And after him Ibzan of Beth–lehem judged Israel.

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


simplify: And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

And take the best meal and make twelve cakes of it, a fifth part of an ephah in every cake.


simplify: For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts.

For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.


simplify: Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;

Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;


simplify: And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed: “Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?


simplify: Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?


simplify: And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

A teacher of the law came up to him, and said: “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”


simplify: And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

And Saul said to his servants, Then get me a man who is an expert player, and make him come to me.


simplify: Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.

Join these men, share their purification, and bear their expenses, so that they may shave their heads; and then all will see that there is no truth in what they have been told about you, but that, on the contrary, you yourself rule your life in obedience to the Jewish law.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria.


rate difficulty: For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

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


simplify: and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.


simplify: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.


rate difficulty: And Nogah and Nepheg and Japhia


rate difficulty: Of this man’s seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus:

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


simplify: And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.

But he said to them, I have to give the good news of the kingdom of God in other towns, because that is why I was sent.


simplify: And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.

So he kept them safe from the children of Israel, and did not let them be put to death.


simplify: And the children of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan unto Baal–hermon and Senir, and unto mount Hermon.

And the men of the half-tribe of Manasseh were living in the land: and their numbers were increased till all the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon and Senir and the mountain Hermon was theirs.


simplify: It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him:

How true this saying is — ‘If we have shared his death, we will also share his life.


simplify: for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;

You tolerate a person even when they enslave you, when they plunder you, when they get you into their power, when they put on airs of superiority, when they strike you in the face!


simplify: Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.

Take care, then, how you listen. For, to all those who have, more will be given; while, from all those who have nothing, even what they seem to have will be taken away.”


rate difficulty: In thee have they discovered their fathers’ nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.

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


simplify: I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?


simplify: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;


rate difficulty: When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

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simplify: Now Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim,


simplify: What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.


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


rate difficulty: And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

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rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Rise, and thou hast gone down <FI>to<Fi> the potter's house, and there I cause thee to hear My words;

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simplify: It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

It is not to be cooked with leaven. I have given it to them as their part of the offerings made by fire to me; it is most holy, as are the sin-offerings and the offerings for error.


rate difficulty: And the men, turning from that place, went on to Sodom: but Abraham was still waiting before the Lord.

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simplify: And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Now when it was evening they saw an old man coming back from his work in the fields; he was from the hill-country of Ephraim and was living in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.


rate difficulty: And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.


simplify: Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:


simplify: `Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary--is debtor!

Alas for you, you blind guides! You say ‘if any answer by the Temple, their oath counts for nothing; but, if anyone swears by the gold of the Temple, their oath is binding them’!


simplify: The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

The grass-lands by the Nile, and everything planted by the Nile, will become dry, or taken away by the wind, and will come to an end.


simplify: But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened, they saw him, and were amazed.

But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.


simplify: Seeing then that these things cannot be gainsaid, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rash.

So then, because these things may not be doubted, it would be better for you to be quiet, and do nothing unwise.


rate difficulty: The women of my people do ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children do ye take away my magnificence for ever.

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simplify: and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it round about.

And make an attack on it, shutting it in, building strong places against it, and making high an earthwork against it; and put up tents against it, placing engines all round it for smashing down its walls.


simplify: We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

We come from God. He who knows God listens to us; the person who does not come from God does not listen to us. By that we may know the true inspiration from the false.


simplify: Wherefore  Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate,   saith the Lord,  And touch no 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,


rate difficulty: Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.


rate difficulty: The Righteous One is acting wisely Towards the house of the wicked, He is overthrowing the wicked for wickedness.

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rate difficulty: And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

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


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

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


simplify: The burden of Dumah. One calleth unto me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?

The word about Edom. A voice comes to me from Seir, Watchman, how far gone is the night? how far gone is the night?


simplify: and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

And the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers which are in the heavens will be moved.


simplify: What then? only that in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed; and therein I rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.

What then? only that in every way, falsely or truly, the preaching of Christ goes on; and in this I am glad, and will be glad.


simplify: And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

We don't want you to be ignorant, friends, about those who have passed to their rest. We don't want you to grieve like other people who have no hope.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said, I put the question to you, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to take it away?

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


simplify: And they journeyed from Kadesh, and encamped in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

And they went on from Kadesh, and put up their tents in Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.


simplify: In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto your fathers.

In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.


rate difficulty: A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

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


simplify: For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?


simplify: Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother,


simplify: who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

They are the men who rob widows of their homes, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.”


rate difficulty: Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

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rate difficulty: Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.


rate difficulty: And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.

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rate difficulty: Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;

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


simplify: When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and the land is large; for God hath given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.

When you come there you will come to a people living without thought of danger; and the land is wide, and God has given it into your hands: a place where there is everything on earth for man's needs.


rate difficulty: And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God that is in thy hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people that are beyond the River, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye him that knoweth them not.

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simplify: If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;


rate difficulty: After him Amasiah, the son of Zichri, who freely gave himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand men of war;

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simplify: It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

And, therefore, I also, since I have investigated all these events with great care from their very beginning, have resolved to write a connected history of them for you,


rate difficulty: and the messenger saith unto David, `Surely the men have been mighty against us, and come out unto us into the field, and we are upon them unto the opening of the gate,

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


simplify: and there were given to the woman two wings of the great eagle, that she may fly to the wilderness, to her place, where she is nourished a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent;

But to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is being tended for ‘one year, and for two years, and for half a year’ in safety from the snake.


simplify: and I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast gone, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth.

And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.


rate difficulty: Yes, and all who aim at living a religious life in union with Christ Jesus will have to suffer persecution;

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rate difficulty: For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

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


rate difficulty: And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.

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


simplify: And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.


rate difficulty: Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.


simplify: Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Then the captain whose arm was supporting the king said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.


rate difficulty: And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

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


rate difficulty: with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is Jehovah our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

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


simplify: Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men that are a sign: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.

Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.


simplify: And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim.


rate difficulty: Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab to Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

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


simplify: The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus — he who is for ever blessed — knows that I am speaking the truth.


rate difficulty: and he saith, `Thus said Jehovah, Make this valley ditches--ditches;

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


rate difficulty: It gave me great joy to see some of your children walking in the true way, even as we were ordered to do by the Father.

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


simplify: And it shall be upon Aaron’s forehead, and Aaron shall bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before Jehovah.

And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.


simplify: He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

He who has a poor opinion of his neighbour has no sense, but a wise man keeps quiet.


rate difficulty: Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.


rate difficulty: And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the Lord; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

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


rate difficulty: What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of law? Heaven forbid!


simplify: Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;


simplify: Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.

Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.


rate difficulty: They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

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


simplify: And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly unto her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of asses: and she brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

Then her husband got up and went after her, with the purpose of talking kindly to her, and taking her back with him; he had with him his young man and two asses: and she took him into her father's house, and her father, when he saw him, came forward to him with joy.


simplify: And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.

Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.


simplify: And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

And word was given to Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, had gone up to Mount Tabor.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And having left all, rising up, he followed him.

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


rate difficulty: But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,


simplify: But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!


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.


simplify: And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

So Pilate questioned Jesus again. “Have you no reply to make?” he asked. “Listen, how many charges they are bringing against you.”


simplify: And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.

The men who held Jesus kept making sport of him and beating him.


simplify: And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.

There was a drove of many pigs close by feeding on the hill-side; and the demons begged Jesus to give them leave to enter into them. Jesus gave them leave.


rate difficulty: For the hind also calveth in the field, and forsaketh [its young], because there is no grass.

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rate difficulty: Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:

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


simplify: For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.


rate difficulty: And the first-born saith unto the younger, `Our father <FI>is<Fi> old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as <FI>is<Fi> the way of all the earth;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

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


rate difficulty: and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia:

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


simplify: But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy),

But so that you may see that the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins on earth, (he said to the man,)


rate difficulty: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

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


rate difficulty: But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

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


simplify: The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.


rate difficulty: The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.


rate difficulty: But me, [even] me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, he has not invited.

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


simplify: My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.


simplify: His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.


simplify: And demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, Thou art the Son of God. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.

And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.


simplify: And there fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan;


rate difficulty: For every soul that is not afflicted on that same day, shall be cut off from among his peoples.

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


rate difficulty: and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the hinder part westward.

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


rate difficulty: from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, every one that came to serve [in] the work of the service, and [in] the work of carrying, in the tent of meeting,

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simplify: And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.


simplify: Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam. And Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.


simplify: And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.


simplify: And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

And they gave the children of Israel a bad account of the land they had been to see, saying, This land through which we went is a land causing destruction to those living in it; and all the people we saw there are men of more than common size.


rate difficulty: I called for my lovers, they--they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.


rate difficulty: And of the tribe of the children of Ephraim a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

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


simplify: And whosoever shall compel thee to go one mile, go with him two.

And whoever makes you go one mile, go with him two.


rate difficulty: I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.

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


simplify: And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.


rate difficulty: But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

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rate difficulty: And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);

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


simplify: And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And from the needlework of blue and purple and red they made the robes used for the work of the holy place, and the holy robes for Aaron, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.


rate difficulty: The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.


rate difficulty: Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?

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


rate difficulty: This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words — ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass at that day, saith the Lord, that the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes; and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall wonder.

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.


simplify: Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man--a prophet--powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

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


rate difficulty: and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border thereof, unto the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistines gather their camps to battle, and are gathered to Shochoh, which <FI>is<Fi> to Judah, and encamp between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephes-Dammim;

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


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

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethanel, the son of Zuar.


simplify: the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

On the third day and on the seventh day he is to make himself clean with the water, and so he will be clean: but if he does not do this on the third day and on the seventh day, he will not be clean.


simplify: Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.


rate difficulty: A noise of battle <FI>is<Fi> in the land, and of great destruction.

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


rate difficulty: And Baal-hanan the son of Achbor died; and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred daughter of Mezahab.


rate difficulty: But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

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


simplify: For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

We know, indeed, that all Nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labor to this very hour.


rate difficulty: and never for a single day, either in the Temple Courts or in private houses, did they cease to teach, or to tell the good news of Jesus, the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And they passed thence to mount Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.


simplify: and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,

And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands;


rate difficulty: And they said to Jeremiah, Jehovah be a true and faithful witness amongst us, if we do not even according to all the word for which Jehovah thyGod shall send thee to us.

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


simplify: They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

They have gone deep in evil as in the days of Gibeah; he will keep in mind their wrongdoing, he will give them punishment for their sins.


simplify: But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

But we were hoping that he was the Destined Deliverer of Israel; yes, and besides all this, it is now three days since these things occurred.


simplify: and the border went out westward at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah;

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;


simplify: Then were the king’s scribes called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the three and twentiethday thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.


rate difficulty: We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, when they came forth out of Egypt.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.


rate difficulty: And what can David say more to thee? for thou, Lord Jehovah, knowest thy servant.

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


simplify: And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities.

And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.


rate difficulty: And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

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


rate difficulty: That which Chemosh thy god causeth thee to possess--dost thou not possess it? and all that which Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from our presence, --it we do possess.

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


rate difficulty: Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom.

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


rate difficulty: I looked <FI>to<Fi> the land, and lo, waste and void, And unto the heavens, and their light is not.

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


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

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


simplify: And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake them, and shalt without fail recover all.

Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.


rate difficulty: So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them:

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


simplify: For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

For this is God’s purpose — that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;


simplify: There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.

There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.


simplify: Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.

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


simplify: Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt;

Keep in mind what Amalek did to you on your way from Egypt;


rate difficulty: These shall ye eat of them: the arbeh after its kind, and the solam after its kind, and the hargol after its kind, and the hargab after its kind.

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


simplify: Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For this cause the Lord will have no pleasure in their young men, and no pity on their widows and the children without fathers: for they are all haters of God and evil-doers, and foolish words come from every mouth. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


simplify: The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way; But the folly of fools is deceit.

The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.


rate difficulty: The ants <FI>are<Fi> a people not strong, And they prepare in summer their food,

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


simplify: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah —


rate difficulty: For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.


rate difficulty: but whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat: it shall be unclean unto you.

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


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

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you.

And he said to them, May the Lord be with you, if I will let you and your little ones go! take care, for your purpose clearly is evil.


simplify: And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.

And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.


rate difficulty: And the battle increased that day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians until the even; and about the time of the going down of the sun he died.

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


rate difficulty: He measured then the gate from the roof of one little chamber to the roof of another: the breadth was five and twenty cubits, door against door.


simplify: And he burnt his burnt-offering and his meal-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings, upon the altar.

He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.


rate difficulty: only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish <FI>is<Fi> in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

But I say to every one of you, through the grace given to me, not to have an over-high opinion of himself, but to have wise thoughts, as God has given to every one a measure of faith.


rate difficulty: And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.


rate difficulty: And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

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


simplify: All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.

All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.


simplify: And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.


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

And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.


rate difficulty: Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.

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


rate difficulty: for the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years shall Ephraim be broken, so as to be no [more a] people;

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


rate difficulty: Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.

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


rate difficulty: In my judgment, therefore, we should not add to the difficulties of those Gentiles who are turning to God,

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


simplify: and every woman praying or prophesying with the head uncovered, doth dishonour her own head, for it is one and the same thing with her being shaven,

while any woman, who prays or preaches in public bare-headed, dishonors him who is her head; for that is to make herself like one of the shameless women who shave their heads.


simplify: And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.

And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.


simplify: And they went in to the king into the court; but they had laid up the roll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.

Then they went into the open square to the king; but the book they put away in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they gave the king an account of all the words.


rate difficulty: And while he was saying these words, there came a band of people, and Judas, one of the twelve, was in front of them, and he came near to Jesus to give him a kiss.


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

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.

Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he is to take out of the flames the vessels with the perfumes in them, turning the fire out of them, for they are holy;


simplify: And he said, Take the arrows; and he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground; and he smote thrice, and stayed.

And he said, Take the arrows: and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, Send them down into the earth; and he did so three times and no more.


rate difficulty: The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.

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


simplify: Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, came near,


simplify: And it came to pass, in his coming nigh to Jericho, a certain blind man was sitting beside the way begging,

As Jesus was getting near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside, begging.


simplify: For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.


rate difficulty: he having gone near to Pilate, asked for himself the body of Jesus; then Pilate commanded the body to be given back.


simplify: Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.


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

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


rate difficulty: But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

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


simplify: save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Jehovah.

But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord.


simplify: Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?


simplify: I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.


simplify: And it became known throughout all Joppa: and many believed on the Lord.

And news of it went all through Joppa, and a number of people had faith in the Lord.


simplify: Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:


simplify: But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God.


simplify: I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.

I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.


simplify: who sometime disbelieved, when once the long-suffering of God did wait, in days of Noah--an ark being preparing--in which few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water;

who once were disobedient, at the time when God patiently waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared; in which some few lives, eight in all, were saved by means of water.


rate difficulty: For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.


rate difficulty: And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

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


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the monuments of religious people,


rate difficulty: And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

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


simplify: And ran through that whole region round about, and began to carry about in beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

And went running through all the country round about, and took on their beds those who were ill, to where it was said that he was.


rate difficulty: And David maketh a name in his turning back from his smiting Aram in the valley of Salt--eighteen thousand;

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


rate difficulty: He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.

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


rate difficulty: and at Antioch they stayed with the disciples for a considerable time.


rate difficulty: Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul; He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.

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


rate difficulty: And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

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


rate difficulty: Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared,

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


rate difficulty: Otherwise it will come to pass, when my lord the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders.

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


rate difficulty: I have run the great race; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.


simplify: Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!


rate difficulty: And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;

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


simplify: Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.


rate difficulty: and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;

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


rate difficulty: and the chief captain having come near, said to him, `Tell me, art thou a Roman?' and he said, `Yes;'

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


rate difficulty: And if thou dost not go forth unto the heads of the king of Babylon, then hath this city been given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they have burnt it with fire, and thou dost not escape from their hand.'

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


rate difficulty: I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.


rate difficulty: submitting yourselves to one another in [the] fear of Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake.

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


simplify: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

And they went on their way from Elim, and all the children of Israel came into the waste land of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they went out of the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And when the men of that place had news of him, they sent into all the country round about, and took to him all who were ill,

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


rate difficulty: But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.


rate difficulty: When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.

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


rate difficulty: But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

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


rate difficulty: Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.

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


rate difficulty: The teachers of the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely, to see if he would work cures on the Sabbath, so that they might find a charge to bring against him.

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


simplify: And when the men of Israel turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.

And the men of Israel had made a turn about, and the men of Benjamin were overcome with fear, for they saw that evil had overtaken them.


simplify: so also ye, when ye may see all these, ye know that it is nigh--at the doors.

And so may you, as soon as you see all these things, know that he is at your doors.


rate difficulty: And Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and did prophesy, saying,

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


simplify: For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts,

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,


simplify: And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,

A week later they met to circumcise the child, and were about to call him ‘Zechariah’ after his father,


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:


rate difficulty: And they journey from the mount of Jehovah a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is journeying before them the journey of three days, to spy out for them a resting-place;

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


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

This man began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the cause of God to him more carefully still.


rate difficulty: And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.


simplify: Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.


simplify: Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord.

And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Joshua heareth the voice of the people in their shouting, and saith unto Moses, `A noise of battle in the camp!'

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


simplify: And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

and do not think that you can say among yourselves ‘Abraham is our ancestor,’ for I tell you that out of these stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!


simplify: Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for one year. His mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri, king of Israel.


simplify: And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

And our hope for you is certain; in the knowledge that as you take part in the troubles, so you will take part in the comfort.


simplify: Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us.

Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.


simplify: And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me go.

and, if I question you, you will not answer.


rate difficulty: And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.

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


simplify: Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.


rate difficulty: And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.

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


rate difficulty: And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

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


simplify: And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, and be not afraid of their words; for briars and thorns are with thee, and thou dwellest among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, and be not dismayed at their faces; for they are a rebellious house.

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


rate difficulty: And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

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


simplify: Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.


rate difficulty: All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

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


simplify: And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom, which God had put in his heart.

And all the kings of the earth came to see Solomon and to give ear to his wisdom, which God had put into his heart.


rate difficulty: `Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him,

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


rate difficulty: Better <FI>is<Fi> a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

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


rate difficulty: and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him.

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