simplify: These things ye shall do unto the Lord in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.

These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.


simplify: He openeth also their ear to instruction, And commandeth that they return from iniquity.

Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.


simplify: because whatever in the darkness ye said, in the light shall be heard: and what to the ear ye spake in the inner-chambers, shall be proclaimed upon the house-tops.

So all that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear, within closed doors, will be proclaimed on the housetops.


rate difficulty: But they shall not advance farther; for their folly shall be completely manifest to all, as that of those also became.

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


rate difficulty: And Arphaxad hath lived five and thirty years, and begetteth Salah.

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


rate difficulty: Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

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


simplify: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

Nation will go to war with nation, and kingdom with kingdom: there will be earth-shocks in different places; there will be times when there is no food; these things are the first of the troubles.


simplify: And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.

And he went about making his proclamation in their Synagogues all through Galilee, and driving out the demons.


simplify: and having plaited him a crown out of thorns they put <FI>it<Fi> on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and having kneeled before him, they were mocking him, saying, `Hail, the king of the Jews.'

and having twisted some thorns into a crown, put it on his head, and a rod in his right hand, and then, going down on their knees before him, they mocked him. “Long life to you, king of the Jews!” they said.


simplify: And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

But Abimelech said, I have no idea who has done this thing; you never gave me word of it, and I had no knowledge of it till this day.


simplify: And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem.

Near them was working Rephaiah, the son of Hur, the ruler of half Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he, being rich, became poor, in order that ye by his poverty might be enriched.

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


rate difficulty: And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

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


rate difficulty: On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

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


simplify: As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.


rate difficulty: Take heart, and let us be strong for our people and for the towns of our God; and may the Lord do what seems good to him.

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


simplify: But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.


simplify: and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

‘I do not know where you come from. Leave my presence, all you who are living in wickedness.’


rate difficulty: For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

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


rate difficulty: Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

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


rate difficulty: and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

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


simplify: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,


rate difficulty: Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.

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


rate difficulty: and Abraham calleth the name of that place `Jehovah-Jireh,' because it is said this day in the mount, `Jehovah doth provide.'

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


rate difficulty: And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.

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


simplify: And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.

And Israel said to Joseph, Now that I have seen you living again, I am ready for death.


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

Now after this, it came about that Absalom, David's son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and David's son Amnon was in love with her.


simplify: He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.


simplify: But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is in it, and shalt hallow it, and all its utensils; and it shall be holy.

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


simplify: Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:


simplify: Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know the dawning thereof: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou knowest not.

Because of this evil will come on you, which may not be turned away for any price: and trouble will overtake you, from which no money will give salvation: destruction will come on you suddenly, without your knowledge.


simplify: For that day is a day of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

But that day is the day of the Lord, the Lord of armies, a day of punishment when he will take payment from his haters: and the sword will have all its desire, drinking their blood in full measure: for there is an offering to the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the north country by the river Euphrates.


rate difficulty: My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.


simplify: And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

And while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.


rate difficulty: in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of the provinces being before him;

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


simplify: The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.


rate difficulty: Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.

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


simplify: But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have invaded the land.

But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.


simplify: And in his name shall the Gentiles trust.

and on his name will the Gentiles rest their hopes.”


simplify: and there shall be joy to thee, and gladness, and many at his birth shall joy,

He will be to you a joy and a delight; and many will rejoice over his birth.


rate difficulty: So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.

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


simplify: For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.

For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land.


rate difficulty: and he said unto me, Thou art my servant; Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistines add again, and rush into the valley,


rate difficulty: Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

And you are to make a distribution of it, by the decision of the Lord, for a heritage to you and to the men from other lands who are living among you and who have children in your land: they will be the same to you as if they were Israelites by birth, they will have their heritage with you among the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the women answered [one another] as they played, and said, Saul hath smitten his thousands, And David his ten thousands.

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


rate difficulty: Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?

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


simplify: And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.


simplify: Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.


rate difficulty: But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

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


simplify: Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.


rate difficulty: And the king said to Haman, The money is yours, and the people, to do with them whatever seems right to you.

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


simplify: And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, Ephraim, thou hast committed whoredom; Israel is defiled.

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


simplify: And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.

And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.


simplify: When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

When you go through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not go over you: when you go through the fire, you will not be burned; and the flame will have no power over you.


rate difficulty: For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.


rate difficulty: and the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he got, and with which he fought, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: So now, let me make a suggestion, so that you may keep your life safe and the life of your son Solomon.


rate difficulty: and stedfast <FI>is<Fi> thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

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


rate difficulty: And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.

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


rate difficulty: For it is written,  I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And the discernment of the discerning will I bring to nought.

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


simplify: Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.

Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.


simplify: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Let all bitterness, passion, anger, brawling, and abusive language be banished from among you, as well as all malice.


simplify: At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

that at midday, your Majesty, I saw right in my path, coming from the heavens, a light brighter than the glare of the sun, which shone all around me and those traveling with me.


simplify: Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:

“Lord,” exclaimed Ananias, “I have heard from many people about this man — how much harm he has done at Jerusalem to your people there.


rate difficulty: and all the heads, and the mighty men, and also all the sons of king David have given a hand under Solomon the king;

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


rate difficulty: Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.


rate difficulty: Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

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


simplify: When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

But when these words came to their ears, they were cut to the heart, and had a mind to put them to death.


rate difficulty: and if ye shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhor mine ordinances, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;

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


rate difficulty: And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest, and he had no war in those years; because the Lord had given him rest.

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


simplify: And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

And the heaven was open; and I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it was named Certain and True; and he is judging and making war in righteousness.


rate difficulty: Of Zebulun, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, with all manner of instruments of war, fifty thousand, and that could order the battle array, and were not of double heart.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

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


rate difficulty: How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

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


simplify: Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.


simplify: And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.


simplify: But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice of Jehovah, in that which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well with thee, and thy soul shall live.

But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.


simplify: And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God.

And David was greatly troubled; for the people were talking of stoning him, because their hearts were bitter, every man sorrowing for his sons and his daughters: but David made himself strong in the Lord his God.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send punishment on the king of Babylon and on his land, as I have given punishment to the king of Assyria.


rate difficulty: And she seeth that she is strengthening herself to go with her, and she ceaseth to speak unto her;

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


rate difficulty: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

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


rate difficulty: but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

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


rate difficulty: [Let] your word [be] always with grace, seasoned with salt, [so as] to know how ye ought to answer each one.

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


simplify: Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.

Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its regular time.


simplify: But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the Lord is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.

But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, that is, the children of Ephraim.


simplify: and two chains of pure gold; like cords shalt thou make them, of wreathen work: and thou shalt put the wreathen chains on the settings.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause I also, when I could no longer forbear, sent that I might know your faith, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor should be in vain.

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


simplify: How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan is slain upon thy high places.

How have the great ones been made low in the fight! Jonathan is dead on your high places.


rate difficulty: has not my hand made all these things?

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


rate difficulty: If a man vow a vow to Jehovah, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; according to all that hath gone out of his mouth shall he do.


simplify: Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:


rate difficulty: A foolish woman <FI>is<Fi> noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

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


simplify: For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.


rate difficulty: Then went Solomon to Ezion–geber, and to Eloth, at the sea side in the land of Edom.

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


rate difficulty: `For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

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


rate difficulty: And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as to the sea; but Silas and Timotheus abode there.

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


simplify: And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

And he gave him no answer, not even a word: so that the ruler was greatly surprised.


simplify: Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

But I have to go on my way today and tomorrow and the third day, for it is not right for a prophet to come to his death outside Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;


rate difficulty: And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.

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


simplify: Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

And he took me back to the door of the house; and I saw that waters were flowing out from under the doorstep of the house on the east, for the house was facing east: and the waters came down from under, from the right side of the house, on the south side of the altar.


simplify: And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

And to take with you the silver and gold freely offered by the king and his wise men to the God of Israel, whose Temple is in Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: You have shown me the path to life, You will fill me with gladness in your presence.’


rate difficulty: And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,

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


rate difficulty: And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.


simplify: And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening meal-offering, and the king’s burnt-offering, and his meal-offering, with the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.


simplify: And Jehovah called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.

And again the Lord said, Samuel. And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, Here am I; for you certainly said my name. But he said in answer, I said nothing, my son; go to your rest again.


simplify: so, then--not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness:

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God’s mercy.


simplify: but not in all men <FI>is<Fi> the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat <FI>it<Fi> , and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Still, it is not everyone that has this knowledge. Some people, because of their association with idols, continued down to the present time, eat the food as food offered to an idol; and their consciences, while still weak, are dulled.


rate difficulty: And he saith unto her, `As one of the foolish women speaketh, thou speakest; yea, the good we receive from God, and the evil we do not receive.' In all this Job hath not sinned with his lips.

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


simplify: And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour.

And they will be your children's heritage after you, to keep as their property; they will be your servants for ever; but you may not be hard masters to your countrymen, the children of Israel.


simplify: Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;


rate difficulty: And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts;


simplify: For this is a word of promise, According to this season will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.

For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.


rate difficulty: And he took him by the right hand, and raised him up: and immediately his feet and his ankle-bones received strength.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent him them to Jezreel.

And when the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and put them to death, all the seventy, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.


simplify: He keepeth back his soul from the pit, And his life from perishing by the sword.

To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.


rate difficulty: Uthai the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the children of Pharez the son of Judah.

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


simplify: And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as their uncircumcision: three years shall they be as uncircumcised unto you; it shall not be eaten.

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.


rate difficulty: In the midst of the pierced of the sword they fall, <FI>To<Fi> the sword she hath been given, They drew her out, and all her multitude.

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


simplify: And in the hearing of all the people he said unto his disciples,

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,


simplify: And Jesus having heard, did wonder, and said to those following, `Verily I say to you, not even in Israel so great faith have I found;

Jesus was surprised to hear this, and said to those who were following him: “Never I tell you, in any Israelite have I met with such faith as this!


simplify: And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.


rate difficulty: scripture says — ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long, We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’

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


rate difficulty: But now thy kingdom shall not continue: Jehovah hath sought him a man after his own heart, and Jehovah hath appointed him to be prince over his people, because thou hast not kept that which Jehovah commanded thee.

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


simplify: And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

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


rate difficulty: And his prayer, and [howGod] was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.

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


simplify: When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.


simplify: He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:


simplify: And when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

And when this letter has been made public among you, let the same be done in the church of Laodicea; and see that you have the letter from Laodicea.


rate difficulty: Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.


rate difficulty: Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

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


simplify: Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again;

Servants are to be under the authority of their masters, pleasing them in all things, without argument;


rate difficulty: But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they rent their garments, and sprang forth among the multitude, crying out

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


simplify: Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

Maharai the Netophathite, Heled, the son of Baanah the Netophathite,


simplify: And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.

And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.


simplify: Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?


simplify: Slander not a servant unto his master, Lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

Do not say evil of a servant to his master, or he will put a curse on you, and you will get into trouble.


simplify: whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.


simplify: Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.


rate difficulty: 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?

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


rate difficulty: So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.


simplify: I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.

I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;


rate difficulty: And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.

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


rate difficulty: In the multitude of people is the king’s honour: but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.


simplify: And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

“What authority have you to do these things?” they said. “Who gave you the authority to do them?”


simplify: And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

And it will be like a man cutting the growth of his grain, pulling together the heads of the grain with his arm; even as when they get in the grain in the valley of Rephaim.


simplify: He who is having an ear--let him hear what the Spirit saith to the assemblies: He who is overcoming may not be injured of the second death.

Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Those who conquer will suffer no hurt from the Second Death.”


simplify: They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking.

Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.


rate difficulty: Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: So the king said to Shimei, You will not be put to death. And the king gave him his oath.

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


rate difficulty: And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.

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


simplify: And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

And by him the tribe of Manasseh with Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, as their chief.


simplify: And he said unto them, `Who of you shall have a friend, and shall go on unto him at midnight, and may say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

Jesus also said to them: “Suppose that one of you who has a friend were to go to him in the middle of the night and say ‘Friend, lend me three loaves,


simplify: For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:

For, if we have been made like him in his death, we will, in the same way, be like him in his coming to life again;


rate difficulty: And they came as far as the valley of Eshcol, and cut down thence a branch with one bunch of grapes, and they bore it between two upon a pole; and [they brought] of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

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


rate difficulty: for, if thou art refusing to send away, and art still keeping hold upon them,

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


rate difficulty: And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.

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


simplify: For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:

This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:


rate difficulty: that men come in from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria--eighty men--with shaven beards, and rent garments, and cutting themselves, and an offering and frankincense in their hand, to bring in to the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and discomfited them.

And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.


simplify: Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;


simplify: Of the sons of Zebulun after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.

The sons of Zebulun by their families: of Sered, the family of the Seredites: of Elon, the family of the Elonites: of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.


simplify: That Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.

Hadad, being still a young boy, went in flight to Egypt, with certain Edomites, servants of his father;


rate difficulty: There were seven brethren; and the first took a wife, and dying did not leave seed;

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


simplify: The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,


rate difficulty: And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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


simplify: For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;


rate difficulty: but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

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


rate difficulty: Wilt thou put confidence in him, because his strength is great? and wilt thou leave thy labour to him?

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


simplify: But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.

But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.


simplify: But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.


rate difficulty: “Listen!”he said. “We are going up to Jerusalem; and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and they will condemn him to death, and they will give him up to the Gentiles,


simplify: now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;

For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:


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

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


simplify: Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

Does anyone ever serve as a soldier at his own expense? Does anyone plant a vineyard and not eat its produce? Or does anyone look after a herd and not drink the milk?


simplify: Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet thou wast not satisfied.

And you went with the Assyrians, because of your desire which was without measure; you were acting like a loose woman with them, and still you had not enough.


simplify: In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father’s house three months:

It was just at this time that Moses was born. He was an exceedingly beautiful child, and for three months was brought up in his own father’s house;


simplify: The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;


simplify: And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;


simplify: And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.

And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.


rate difficulty: Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

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


simplify: And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.


simplify: How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

how he went into the house of God, and how they ate the consecrated bread, through it was not allowable for him or his companions to eat it, but only for the priests?


rate difficulty: There were many women there, watching from a distance, who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had been attending on him.

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


rate difficulty: My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:

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


rate difficulty: And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?

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


simplify: Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.

Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.


rate difficulty: and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer [it];

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


simplify: Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?


rate difficulty: And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

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


simplify: Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.


rate difficulty: And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.

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


simplify: then he received him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

Then he took him in his arms and gave praise to God and said,


simplify: And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;


simplify: And it was told king Solomon, Joab is fled unto the Tent of Jehovah, and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.

And they said to King Solomon, Joab has gone in flight to the Tent of the Lord and is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, make an attack on him.


rate difficulty: And the king talked with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

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


simplify: The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; And the treacherouscomethin the stead of the upright.

The evil-doer will be given as a price for the life of the good man, and the worker of deceit in the place of the upright.


rate difficulty: He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.


simplify: And having ended all temptation, the Devil departed from him till a convenient season.

When he had tried every kind of temptation, the devil left Jesus, until another opportunity.


rate difficulty: and there is great joy in Jerusalem; for from the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel there is not like this in Jerusalem,


simplify: For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.

It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.


simplify: And the thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight because of his son.

And this was a great grief to Abraham because of his son.


simplify: Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.

Take part in the joy of those who are glad, and in the grief of those who are sorrowing.


simplify: When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

So when Esau saw that Isaac had given Jacob his blessing, and sent him away to Paddan-aram to get a wife for himself there, blessing him and saying to him, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;


simplify: He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

He says, whose ears are open to the words of God, who has seen the vision of the Ruler of all, falling down, but having his eyes open:


simplify: And wherefore doth Jehovah bring us unto this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: were it not better for us to return into Egypt?

Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?


rate difficulty: And Solomon loved Jehovah, walking in the statutes of David his father; only, he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

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


rate difficulty: And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.


simplify: And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

And Balak did as Balaam said, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.


rate difficulty: But now Jehovah my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.

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


simplify: And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.

Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.


rate difficulty: A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.


rate difficulty: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.


simplify: And they cried out again, Crucify him.

And they said again loudly, To the cross with him!


simplify: your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.

For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.


simplify: My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

My people have been wandering sheep: their keepers have made them go out of the right way, turning them loose on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, having no memory of their resting-place.


simplify: And when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, Jehovah raised up a saviour to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

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


rate difficulty: And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.

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


simplify: Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he-goats before the flocks.

Go in flight out of Babylon, go out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and be like he-goats before the flocks.


simplify: a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,

a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he has brought the judgment to a victorious issue,


simplify: And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?


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

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


rate difficulty: On the eighth day offered Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh:

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


simplify: And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.


simplify: Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Jesus says to him, I say not to you, Till seven times; but, Till seventy times seven.


rate difficulty: But of a truth I say unto you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there came a great famine over all the land;

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


simplify: then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.

Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.


rate difficulty: Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

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


rate difficulty: Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

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


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


rate difficulty: And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour, as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

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


simplify: If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to the Satan, See, I give all he has into your hands, only do not put a finger on the man himself. And the Satan went out from before the Lord.


rate difficulty: This is to give the king word that we went into the land of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is made of great stones, and has its walls supported with wood, and the work is going on with industry, and they are doing it well.

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


rate difficulty: So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him; and she hath hid her son.

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


simplify: I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.


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


rate difficulty: And the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country; and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

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


simplify: Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.


rate difficulty: cure the sick there, and tell people ‘The kingdom of God is close at hand.

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


rate difficulty: If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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


rate difficulty: And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him.

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


simplify: And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt-offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come unto thee, and show thee what thou shalt do.

Then you are to go down before me to Gilgal, where I will come to you, for the offering of burned offerings and peace-offerings: go on waiting there for seven days till I come to you and make clear to you what you have to do.


simplify: When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

When evening had fallen, there came a rich man belonging to Ramah, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.


simplify: Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,


rate difficulty: Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

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


rate difficulty: “Wisely answered, teacher!” exclaimed the teacher of the law. “It is true, as you say, that ‘there is one God,’ and that ‘there is no other besides him’;


simplify: Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.

Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.


rate difficulty: and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.


rate difficulty: And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

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


simplify: I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

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.


rate difficulty: Hear attentively my speech and my declaration with your ears.

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


simplify: A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

A word at the right time is like apples of gold in a network of silver.


simplify: And as to every garment, and all that is made of skin, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood, ye shall purify yourselves.

And every bit of clothing, and anything made of leather or goats' hair or wood, you are to make clean.


rate difficulty: And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer a burnt-offering without cost.

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


simplify: Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision;


simplify: And every daughter, that possesseth an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel, shall be wife unto one of the family of the tribe of her father, that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers.

And every daughter owning property in any tribe of the children of Israel is to be married to one of the family of her father's tribe, so that every man of the children of Israel may keep the heritage of his fathers.


simplify: every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straightness, and the rough become smooth ways;

Every chasm will be filled, Every mountain and hill will be leveled, The winding ways will be straightened, The rough roads made smooth,


simplify: Swift <FI>are<Fi> their feet to shed blood.


simplify: And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

And Reuben said, Put my two sons to death if I do not come back to you with him; let him be in my care and I will give him safely back to you.


simplify: In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.


rate difficulty: No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,

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


simplify: And gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.

And they gave for the use of the house of the Lord, five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.


simplify: Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.


rate difficulty: And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working-days; but on the sabbath-day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.


simplify: And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:


simplify: After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him.


simplify: And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.


simplify: and spared not the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;


simplify: Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

You have severed yourselves from Christ — you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through law; you have fallen away from love.


simplify: And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

And in order to make the house clean, let him take two birds and cedar-wood and red thread and hyssop;


rate difficulty: Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

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


simplify: Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

Keep your mind on the higher things, not on the things of earth.


rate difficulty: And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.

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


simplify: He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.


rate difficulty: and it hath come to pass, in the passing by of Mine honour, that I have set thee in a cleft of the rock, and spread out My hands over thee, until My passing by,

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


rate difficulty: thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice was I shipwrecked, a night and a day in the deep I have passed;

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


rate difficulty: Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord, for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken kindly unto thy handmaid, though I be not as one of thy handmaidens.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Jehu the son of Hanani, which is inserted in the book of the kings of Israel.

Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, they are recorded in the words of Jehu, the son of Hanani, which were put in the book of the kings of Israel.


rate difficulty: A rash speaker is like piercings of a sword, And the tongue of the wise is healing.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, and the people mourn exceedingly,

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


simplify: While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cesar, have I offended any thing at all.

Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.


simplify: and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

And suppose that the other should answer from inside ‘Do not trouble me; the door is already fastened, and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything’;


rate difficulty: Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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


rate difficulty: or the riches of His goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, dost thou despise? --not knowing that the goodness of God doth lead thee to reformation!

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


rate difficulty: And the king riseth, and sitteth in the gate, and to all the people they have declared, saying, `Lo, the king is sitting in the gate;' and all the people come in before the king, and Israel hath fled, each to his tents.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.

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


simplify: And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.


rate difficulty: His strength shall be hunger-bitten, And calamity shall be ready at his side.

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


simplify: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.


simplify: Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

There was a large drove of pigs close by, feeding on the hillside;


simplify: And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

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


simplify: He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.

By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.


rate difficulty: And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for my name.

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


simplify: Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

Is this the town which was full of joy, whose start goes back to times long past, whose wanderings took her into far-off countries?


rate difficulty: And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

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


simplify: Now David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

Now David, the son of Jesse, was king over all Israel.


simplify: And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:

And you have done worse evil than your fathers; for see, every one of you is guided by the pride of his evil heart, so as not to give ear to me:


rate difficulty: and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Every thing that openeth the matrix in all flesh, which they bring unto the Lord, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.


simplify: Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.


simplify: And these are the children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.


simplify: For judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy: mercy glorieth against judgment.

For the man who has had no mercy will be judged without mercy, but mercy takes pride in overcoming judging.


rate difficulty: And in all the land were no women found [so] fair as the daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.

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


simplify: It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.


simplify: And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

And at Lystra there was a certain man, who from birth had been without the use of his feet, never having had the power of walking.


rate difficulty: And he said, But who do you say that I am? And Peter, answering, said, The Christ of God.

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


simplify: And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.


simplify: Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;


simplify: Then Naomi her mother in law said unto her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for thee, that it may be well with thee?

And Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, My daughter, am I not to get you a resting-place where you may be in comfort?


rate difficulty: and I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.

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


simplify: And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged.

And he took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from that place; and they got together the bones of those who had been put to death by hanging.


rate difficulty: The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Bebai: Jehohanan, Hananiah, Zabbai, Athlai.


simplify: And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.

And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death.


simplify: All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.


rate difficulty: I hope, however, it will not be long before I see you, and then we will speak face to face. Peace be with you. Our friends here send you their greetings. Greet each one of our friends.

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


rate difficulty: And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

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


rate difficulty: As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

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


simplify: to them that by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruption, eternal life:

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:


rate difficulty: Now, shortly I pour out My fury on thee, And have completed Mine anger against thee, And judged thee according to thy ways, And set against thee all thine abominations.

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


simplify: Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

Men of pride are the cause of violent acts in a town, but by wise men wrath is turned away.


rate difficulty: For the third time I am coming to see you. ‘By the word of two or three witnesses each statement will be established.’


rate difficulty: And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree.


simplify: As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.


rate difficulty: One day the Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.

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


simplify: And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

And they got to work and took away all the altars in Jerusalem, and they put all the vessels for burning perfumes into the stream Kidron.


simplify: A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs;

And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;


simplify: In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.


rate difficulty: In Damascus, the ruler under Aretas the king kept watch over the town of the people of Damascus, in order to take me:


simplify: And it came to pass--he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields--and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,

One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the cornfields, his disciples began to pick the ears of wheat as they went along.


simplify: And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.

And Leah said, It has gone well for me: and she gave him the name Gad.


simplify: because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.

Therefore, when I come, I will not forget his conduct in ridiculing us with his wicked tongue. Not content with that, he not only declines to recognize our friends who are followers himself, but actually prevents those who would, and expels them from the church.


simplify: And Shaharaim begat children in the field of Moab, after he had sent them away; Hushim and Baara were his wives.

And Shaharaim became the father of children in the country of the Moabites after driving out Hushim and Beerah his wives;


simplify: All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

All the time he is under his oath let no blade come near his head; till the days while he is separate are ended he is holy and his hair may not be cut.


simplify: If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;


simplify: And with many such parables spake he the word unto them, as they were able to hear it;

And with a number of such stories he gave them his teaching, as they were able to take it:


simplify: and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.

And he will have to give back four times the value of the lamb, because he has done this and because he had no pity.


rate difficulty: He saith, Yea. And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? from their sons, or from strangers?

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


simplify: For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

If you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? for even sinners have love for those who have love for them.


simplify: and having come to the house, he doth call together the friends and the neighbours, saying to them, Rejoice with me, because I found my sheep--the lost one.

and, on reaching home, he calls his friends and his neighbors together, and says ‘Come and rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.’


simplify: The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.


simplify: And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

And send for Jesse to be present at the offering, and I will make clear to you what you are to do: and you are to put the holy oil on him whose name I give you.


simplify: Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.


simplify: Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.


rate difficulty: Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his precious fruits.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;

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


rate difficulty: and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,

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


rate difficulty: And he made the altar of burnt-offering of acacia-wood; five cubits the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof, square, and three cubits the height thereof.

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


simplify: and he put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and waved them for a wave-offering before Jehovah.

And he put them all on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

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


rate difficulty: All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

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


simplify: His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


simplify: And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

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


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Surely extortion maketh the wise man foolish; and a bribe destroyeth the understanding.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.


simplify: If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?


simplify: And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

while a man who is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit?


rate difficulty: So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,


simplify: But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.


simplify: So they two went until they came to Beth-lehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Beth-lehem, that all the city was moved about them, and the women said, Is this Naomi?

So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?


simplify: And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.

At this they exclaimed: “Why do we want any more evidence? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!”


simplify: that think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgat my name for Baal.

Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal.


rate difficulty: Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the house of Onesiphorus.

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


simplify: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,

while as to those who are factious, and disobedient to truth but obedient to evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair,


rate difficulty: And take with thee ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he will tell thee what shall become of the child.

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


rate difficulty: But that we may not be an offence to them, go to the sea and cast a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when thou hast opened its mouth thou wilt find a stater; take that and give it to them for me and thee.

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


rate difficulty: But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

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


simplify: And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth–addar, unto Beth–horon the upper;

And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by their families was marked out in this way: the limit of their heritage to the east was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the higher;


simplify: Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother’s sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; But mine own vineyard have I not kept.

Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.


simplify: Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...


rate difficulty: Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

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


simplify: In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah.

In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the middle of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at the edge of the land.


simplify: I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:

I, indeed, baptize you with water to teach repentance; but he who is coming after me is more powerful than I, and I am not fit even to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.