simplify: And the Spirit bade me go with them, making no distinction. And these six brethren also accompanied me; and we entered into the man’s house:

And the Spirit gave me orders to go with them, doubting nothing. And these six brothers came with me; and we went into that man's house:


simplify: and she had also a sister, called Mary, who also, having seated herself beside the feet of Jesus, was hearing the word,

She had a sister called Mary, who seated herself at the Master’s feet, and listened to his teaching;


simplify: Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?


simplify: Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

So then, friends, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.


rate difficulty: To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews. To those who are subject to law I became like a man subject to law — though I was not myself subject to law — to win those who are subject to law.

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


rate difficulty: Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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


rate difficulty: then Thou dost hear from the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy people Israel, and caused them to turn back unto the ground that Thou hast given to them, and to their fathers.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.


rate difficulty: Of Merari <FI>is<Fi> the family of the Mahlite, and the family of the Mushite; these <FI>are<Fi> the families of Merari.

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


rate difficulty: My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.

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


rate difficulty: And <FI>in<Fi> these hath Solomon been instructed to build the house of God: The length <FI>in<Fi> cubits by the former measure <FI>is<Fi> sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

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


rate difficulty: Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.


rate difficulty: and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and rend each his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads--heavenward.

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


rate difficulty: And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make them holy.

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


simplify: Their horses were seven hundred thirty and six; their mules, two hundred forty and five;

They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts,


rate difficulty: and behold, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth, and it hardly departeth from him, bruising him sorely.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to speak anything? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

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


rate difficulty: From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the appointment of God, our Savior, and Christ Jesus, our hope.

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


simplify: Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.

Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.


simplify: Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do any thing till thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar.


rate difficulty: Only in the land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.


simplify: And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

And the Lord gave me an answer, and said, Put the vision in writing and make it clear on stones, so that the reader may go quickly.


rate difficulty: Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

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


rate difficulty: The children of Nebo, fifty-two.


rate difficulty: Then the angel of the Lord put out the stick which was in his hand, touching the meat and the cakes with the end of it; and a flame came up out of the rock, burning up the meat and the cakes: and the angel of the Lord was seen no longer.


simplify: Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

But as the church submits to the Christ, so also should wives submit to their husbands in everything.


simplify: When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

And after you have made it clean, let a young ox without a mark be offered, and a male sheep from the flock without a mark.


rate difficulty: And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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


simplify: And of it he shall offer one out of each oblation for a heave-offering unto Jehovah; it shall be the priest’s that sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offerings.

And let him give one out of every offering to be lifted up before the Lord; that it may be for the priest who puts the blood of the peace-offering on the altar.


rate difficulty: And if Satan sends out Satan, he makes war against himself; how then will he keep his kingdom?


simplify: and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying--`This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'

and, after retiring, discussed the case among themselves. “There is nothing,” they said, “deserving death or imprisonment in this man’s conduct”;


rate difficulty: before Jehovah thy God thou dost eat it year by year, in the place which Jehovah doth choose, thou and thy house.

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


rate difficulty: Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I <FI>am<Fi> their song.

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


rate difficulty: and the four of the waggons and the eight of the oxen he hath given to the sons of Merari, according to their service, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest;

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


rate difficulty: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

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


simplify: Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, even of Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.


rate difficulty: For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

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


rate difficulty: And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.

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


simplify: And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beautiful town which is the pride of the Chaldaeans, will be like God's destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.


simplify: For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.

For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.


simplify: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.


rate difficulty: Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.


rate difficulty: So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem, and did not go away from there.

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


simplify: And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.

And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.


rate difficulty: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

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


simplify: Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Put the question and see if it is possible for a man to have birth-pains: why do I see every man with his hands gripping his sides, as a woman does when the pains of birth are on her, and all faces are turned green?


rate difficulty: To do righteousness and judgment, Is chosen of Jehovah rather than sacrifice.

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


simplify: And of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.

And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli.


simplify: Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Is it for nothing that Job is a god-fearing man?


simplify: Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.


simplify: And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices, so that they might go and anoint the body of Jesus.


simplify: The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.


rate difficulty: And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, That is the reason we have come back to you; so go with us and make war against the children of Ammon, and we will make you our head over all the people of Gilead.

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


simplify: Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.


simplify: And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew 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.


rate difficulty: Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

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


simplify: Neither shall the inheritance remove from one tribe to another tribe; but every one of the tribes of the children of Israel shall keep himself to his own inheritance.

And no property will be handed from one tribe to another, but every tribe of the children of Israel will keep its heritage.


rate difficulty: Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.

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


simplify: But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

For, just as in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.


simplify: and that all this assembly may know that Jehovah saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is Jehovah’s, and he will give you into our hand.

And all these people who are here today may see that the Lord does not give salvation by sword and spear: for the fight is the Lord's, and he will give you up into our hands.


simplify: And it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and sought to kill him.

Now on the journey, at the night's resting-place, the Lord came in his way and would have put him to death.


rate difficulty: That the Lord spake unto me, saying,


simplify: He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their loins with a girdle.

He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;


rate difficulty: `And the west quarter <FI>is<Fi> the great sea, from the border till over-against the coming in to Hamath: this <FI>is<Fi> the west quarter.

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


simplify: As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Whatever the gift that each has received, use it in the service of others, as good stewards of the varied bounty of God.


simplify: I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing.

And there was the sound of the wings of the living beings touching one another, and the sound of the wheels at their side, the sound of a great rushing.


simplify: And Saul smote the Amalekites, from Havilah as thou goest to Shur, that is before Egypt.

And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.


simplify: And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,

So now, may my prayer come before you, and let the power of the Lord be great, as you said:


simplify: But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?


rate difficulty: Forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty of the tribe of Gad were numbered.

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


rate difficulty: Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.


simplify: And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife.


simplify: And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish: but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.

Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.


simplify: Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish.

Truly, all those who are angry with you will be made low and put to shame: those desiring to do you wrong will come to nothing and never again be seen.


simplify: `Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men--good will.'

“glory to God on high, And on earth peace among those in whom he finds pleasure.”


rate difficulty: While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

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


rate difficulty: Are there yet <FI>in<Fi> the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to make acquaintance with Peter, and I remained with him fifteen days;

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


simplify: And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah’s.

And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord's.


rate difficulty: and he cometh in unto the high place, and taketh out of their hand, and layeth up in the house, and sendeth away the men, and they go.

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


simplify: For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

And this, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not put to death, Do not take what is another's, Do not have desire for what is another's, and if there is any other order, it is covered by this word, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.


rate difficulty: Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 14 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: for perhaps because of this he did depart for an hour, that age-duringly thou mayest have him,

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


simplify: If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

If any man among you becomes unclean through anything which has taken place in the night, he is to go out from the tent-circle and keep outside it:


rate difficulty: Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of you shall perish.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, I will give diligence that at every time ye may be able after my decease to call these things to remembrance.

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


rate difficulty: O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

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


rate difficulty: And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood (and he supported himself upon them), the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

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


simplify: Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

And he took me back to the outer doorway of the holy place, looking to the east; and it was shut.


rate difficulty: Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,


simplify: And lo, one having come near, said to him, `Good teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have life age-during?'

A man came up to Jesus, and said: “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”


rate difficulty: Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its small towns; and they encamp from Beer-Sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

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


simplify: Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after many days, that the word of Jehovah came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself to Ahab; and I will send rain upon the face of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless the Kenite shall be wasted, until Asshur shall carry thee away captive.

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


simplify: And when he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.

And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.


rate difficulty: And they could not answer again unto these things.


rate difficulty: Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail; and spare not her young men: destroy utterly all her host.

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


simplify: It is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall not shut him up: for he is unclean.

It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean.


simplify: And in like manner also the chief priests, mocking with one another, with the scribes, said, `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save.

In the same way the chief priests, with the teachers of the law, said to one another in mockery:


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.

And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.


rate difficulty: But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

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


simplify: Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas;

Then the chief priests and the rulers of the people came together in the house of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.


simplify: And Moza begat Binea; Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

And Moza was the father of Binea: Raphah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son;


simplify: for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

For I am the meanest of the apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of ‘apostle,’ because I persecuted the church of God.


rate difficulty: Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

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


simplify: In the mouth of the foolish is a rod forhispride; But the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.


simplify: nor seeking glory of men, neither from you nor from others, when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.


rate difficulty: If anyone thinks that he has the gift of preaching or any other spiritual gift, let him recognize that what I am now saying to you is a command from the Lord.

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


simplify: For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.


simplify: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?


simplify: When thou art come unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are round about me;

When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and have taken it for a heritage and are living in it, if it is your desire to have a king over you, like the other nations round about you;


rate difficulty: Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this.

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


rate difficulty: as newborn babes desire earnestly the pure mental milk of the word, that by it ye may grow up to salvation,

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


rate difficulty: To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

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


simplify: Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.


rate difficulty: But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. And Aaron was separated, that he should be hallowed as most holy, he and his sons for ever, to offer before Jehovah, to do service to him, and to bless in his name for ever.

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


simplify: And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

And the shepherds went back, giving glory and praise to God for all that they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.


simplify: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.


simplify: Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

Go up to the top of Pisgah, and turning your eyes to the west and the north, to the south and the east, see the land with your eyes: for you are not to go over Jordan.


rate difficulty: Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

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


simplify: And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war.

For Ahab, king of Israel, said to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead? And he said, I am as you are, and my people as your people; we will be with you in the war.


simplify: Andofthe sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

And of the sons of Harim, Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,


rate difficulty: And in prophets of Samaria I have seen folly, They have prophesied by Baal, And cause my people--Israel--to err.

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


rate difficulty: For I will defend this city to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.


rate difficulty: And his tail was pulling a third part of the stars of heaven down to the earth, and the dragon took his place before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when the birth had taken place he might put an end to her child.

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


simplify: And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost ready to stone me.

And Moses, crying out to the Lord, said, What am I to do to this people? they are almost ready to put me to death by stoning.


simplify: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.  The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.

for there are those who, while asserting their proficiency in it, have yet, as regards the faith, gone altogether astray.    God bless you all.


rate difficulty: And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the days of his ministration were fulfilled, he departed unto his house.

And when the days of his work in the Temple were ended, he went back to his house.


simplify: Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

The Son of man will be given up into the hands of evil-doers, and be put to death on the cross, and on the third day he will come back to life.


simplify: And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore?

And the responsible men of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's overseers had put over them, were given blows, and they said to them, Why have you not done your regular work, in making bricks as before?


simplify: Wise men lay up knowledge; But the mouth of the foolish is a present destruction.

Knowledge is stored up by the wise, but the mouth of the foolish man is a destruction which is near.


simplify: And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, blessing God.

And straight away his mouth was open and his tongue was free and he gave praise to God.


simplify: And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.

And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.


simplify: And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

While they were still talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them.


rate difficulty: And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

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


rate difficulty: There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is not the beauty of the earthly.


rate difficulty: Yet have respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, Jehovah, myGod, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing:


simplify: There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

Your pain may not be made better; you are wounded to death: all those hearing the news about you will be waving their hands in joy over you: for who has not undergone the weight of your evil-doing again and again?


simplify: My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.


rate difficulty: And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?

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


rate difficulty: And these are those who did this work, and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman, who made melody, the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

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


simplify: for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'

For you are bringing some strange things to our notice, and we should like to know what they mean.”


simplify: And the man, the lord of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the famine of your households, and be gone:

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;


simplify: For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.

For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.


simplify: And if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

If she made an oath while she was under the authority of her husband,


simplify: And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what was done, came in.

And about three hours after, his wife, having no knowledge of what had taken place, came in.


rate difficulty: And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Did I not adjure thee by Jehovah, and protest unto thee, saying, Know for certain, that on the day thou goest out, and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me, The saying that I have heard is good.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 14 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof with the loss of Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates thereof with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

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


simplify: Also he built Beth–horon the upper, and Beth–horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

And of Beth-horon the higher and the lower, walled towns with walls and doorways and locks;


rate difficulty: But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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


rate difficulty: And the youth Samuel is going on and growing up, and <FI>is<Fi> good both with Jehovah, and also with men.

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


simplify: Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

Being gentle to one another and having forgiveness for one another, if anyone has done wrong to his brother, even as the Lord had forgiveness for you:


rate difficulty: Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.

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


rate difficulty: And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.


simplify: Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art; the Holy One of God.

Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.


simplify: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your friend’s eye, while you pay no attention at all to the plank of wood in yours?


simplify: Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

Will a lion give his loud cry in the woodland when no food is there? will the voice of the young lion be sounding from his hole if he has taken nothing?


simplify: Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.

For this cause be a prophet against them, be a prophet, O son of man.


simplify: Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,


simplify: But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.


rate difficulty: The Romans, when they had examined me, were ready to release me, because there was nothing in my conduct deserving death.


rate difficulty: For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

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


rate difficulty: And he was in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

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


simplify: As for Elkanah, the sons of Elkanah: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,

Elkanah his son: Zophai his son, and Nahath his son,


rate difficulty: And there falleth a fire of Jehovah, and consumeth the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and the water that <FI>is<Fi> in the trench it hath licked up.

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


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

Then Peter began.   “I see, beyond all doubt,” he said, “that ‘God does not show partiality,’


rate difficulty: And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

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


simplify: And Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

And Shimei, the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim, got up quickly and went down with the men of Judah for the purpose of meeting King David;


rate difficulty: Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

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


simplify: If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the king hath said.

If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.


rate difficulty: and he bringeth near the tribe of Benjamin by its families, and the family of Matri is captured, and Saul son of Kish is captured, and they seek him, and he hath not been found.

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


simplify: Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.

Now, while they were going, some of the watchmen came into the town and gave news to the chief priests of all the things which had taken place.


rate difficulty: “Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

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


rate difficulty: And Rehoboam dwelt in Jerusalem, and built cities for defence in Judah.

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


simplify: And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!

Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!


simplify: And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;


rate difficulty: If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:

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


rate difficulty: for I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I did persecute the assembly of God,

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


simplify: That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that all that are left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.

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


rate difficulty: but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim--a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people--commanded to put the apostles forth a little,

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


simplify: When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.

And after hearing the king, they went on their way; and the star which they saw in the east went before them, till it came to rest over the place where the young child was.


simplify: And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:

And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:


simplify: And as a yearly hired servant shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigour over him in thy sight.

And he will be with him as a servant working for payment year by year; his master is not to be cruel to him before your eyes.


rate difficulty: All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.

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


simplify: The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.


simplify: learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.


rate difficulty: When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.

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


simplify: And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.

“What is it that you want?” he asked. “I want you to say,” she replied, “that in your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right, and the other on your left.”


simplify: Ebed-melech went forth out of the king’s house, and spake to the king, saying,

And Ebed-melech went out from the king's house and said to the king,


simplify: And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,

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


rate difficulty: And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

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


rate difficulty: And this man shall be our peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.


simplify: And the measuring line shall go out further straight onward unto the hill Gareb, and shall turn about unto Goah.

And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.


rate difficulty: And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in that night, that Jehovah said to him, Arise, go down to the camp; for I have given it into thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: As to a bruised, or beaten, or enlarged, or cut thing--ye do not bring <FI>it<Fi> near to Jehovah; even in your land ye do not do it.

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


simplify: And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

and everyone will see the salvation of God.”’


rate difficulty: And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

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


rate difficulty: And he removed that day the he-goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons;

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


simplify: `Watch ye therefore, because ye have not known in what hour your Lord doth come;

Therefore watch; for you cannot be sure on what day your Master is coming.


simplify: But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.


simplify: take heed to thyself, and to the teaching; remain in them, for this thing doing, both thyself thou shalt save, and those hearing thee.

Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.


simplify: The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.

The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.


simplify: And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians.


simplify: the pure candlestick, the lamps thereof, even the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for the light;

The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights;


rate difficulty: And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

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


simplify: And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.

They were glad of this, and agreed to pay him.


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

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


simplify: For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.


simplify: Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Every board is to be joined to the one nearest to it by two tongues, and so for every board in the House.


simplify: And Jesus answered unto him, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone.

And Jesus made answer to him, It has been said in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need.


rate difficulty: Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: the children of Reuben: [of] Enoch, the family of the Enochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

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


simplify: Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.


simplify: But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,

But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,


rate difficulty: And He lifted up an ensign to nations afar off, And hissed to it from the end of the earth, And lo, with haste, swift it cometh.

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


simplify: But thou hast a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments: and they shall walk with me in white; for they are worthy.

But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.


simplify: Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.

Make the tribe of Levi come near, and put them before Aaron the priest, to be his helpers,


rate difficulty: And going on board a ship of Adramyttium about to navigate by the places along Asia, we set sail, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

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


rate difficulty: If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there shall it be.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: But the inside parts and the legs are to be washed with water; and the priest will make an offering of all of it, burning it on the altar: it is a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;

Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;


rate difficulty: And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: medium


simplify: My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

“What direction did Moses give you?”replied Jesus.


simplify: And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.

And he said to them, When I sent you out without money or bag or shoes, were you in need of anything? And they said, Nothing.


rate difficulty: Take him, and keep an eye upon him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.

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


simplify: Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the sojourner, as for the home-born: for I am Jehovah your God.

You are to have the same law for a man of another nation living among you as for an Israelite; for I am the Lord your God.


simplify: Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

No, those parts which seem to be feeble are the more necessary;


simplify: But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.


rate difficulty: For God has made my heart feeble, and my mind is troubled before the Ruler of all.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.

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


simplify: And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, The time of my death has come; but God will keep you in mind and take you out of this land into the land which he gave by his oath to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.


simplify: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.

and presently, as he was sowing, some of the seed fell along the path; and the birds came, and ate it up.


simplify: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.

But when one who is stronger makes an attack on him and overcomes him, he takes away his instruments of war, in which he had put his faith, and makes division of his goods.


simplify: He suffered no man to do them wrong; Yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,


simplify: And he was three days without sight, and did neither eat nor drink.

And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.


simplify: The earth trembleth at the noise of their fall; there is a cry, the noise whereof is heard in the Red Sea.

The earth is shaking with the noise of their fall; their cry is sounding in the Red Sea.


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;


simplify: Forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah; and evil shall not be found in thee all thy days.

And may the sin of your servant have forgiveness: for the Lord will certainly make your family strong, because my lord is fighting in the Lord's war; and no evil will be seen in you all your days.


rate difficulty: And Beth–zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,

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simplify: Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

Make all the people come together, men and women and children, and anyone from another country who is with you, so that hearing they may become wise in the fear of the Lord your God, and take care to do all the words of this law;


simplify: (Now the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that standeth out.)

(Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)


simplify: How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!

How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!


simplify: And he did not suffer any one to follow with him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James;

And he allowed no one to accompany him, except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.


rate difficulty: And he hath given it to be furbished that it may be handled. The sword, — it is sharpened, and it is furbished to give it into the hand of the slayer.

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


simplify: And unto David were sons born in Hebron: and his first-born was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;

While David was in Hebron he became the father of sons: the oldest was Amnon, son of Ahinoam of Jezreel;


rate difficulty: Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

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


rate difficulty: He shaketh off as a vine his unripe fruit, And casteth off as an olive his blossom.

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


simplify: Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.

He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.


simplify: and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.

And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.


simplify: For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.


rate difficulty: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest of it thou shalt certainly die.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

As soon as the Lamb had broken the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for, it might be, half an hour.


simplify: Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

You are not to be moved in your judging by a man's position, you are not to take rewards; for rewards make the eyes of the wise man blind, and the decisions of the upright false.


rate difficulty: (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and his seed for ever.

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


rate difficulty: `The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> any one doing these.

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


rate difficulty: And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

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


rate difficulty: And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

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rate difficulty: Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

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


rate difficulty: but, if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to show proper regard for the members of their own family first, and to make some return to their parents; for that is pleasing in God’s sight.

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


rate difficulty: So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.

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


simplify: And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, that are gone away from you.

And Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his rulers I will give into the hands of their haters and into the hands of those who have designs against their lives, and into the hands of the king of Babylon's army which has gone away from you.


rate difficulty: And the peoples shall be [as] burnings of lime, [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

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


simplify: And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.


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


rate difficulty: And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.


simplify: And he took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bullock and a ram on every altar.

So he took him into the country of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and there they made seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.


simplify: and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that <FI>are<Fi> in Christ,

But I was still unknown even by sight to the Christian churches in Judea;


simplify: And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, giveth you.

And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so that life may be yours, and you may go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.


rate difficulty: I robbed other churches by taking pay from them, so that I might serve you!

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


simplify: And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.


rate difficulty: And they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.

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


simplify: And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.


simplify: In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

I also desire that women should adorn themselves with appropriate dress, worn quietly and modestly, and not with wreaths or gold ornaments for the hair, or pearls, or costly clothing,


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

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


simplify: and said unto them, Ye are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel, unto the place that I have prepared for it.

And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.


simplify: But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.


rate difficulty: Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

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rate difficulty: And when the people were come into the wood, behold, the honey dropped; but no man put his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oath.


simplify: And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon.

Then they led it back to Jesus, and threw their cloaks on the foal and put Jesus on it.


simplify: but rise, and stand upon thy feet, for for this I appeared to thee, to appoint thee an officer and a witness both of the things thou didst see, and of the things <FI>in which<Fi> I will appear to thee,

but get up and stand upright; for I have appeared to you in order to appoint you a servant and a witness of those revelations of me which you have already had, and of those in which I will yet appear to you,


simplify: The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.


simplify: And Jesus said to him, `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thine understanding--

His answer was: “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’


rate difficulty: And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

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simplify: And she went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the bed, and the demon gone out.

And she went away to her house, and saw the child on the bed, and the evil spirit gone out.


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

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


rate difficulty: But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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


simplify: And if he smote him with a stone in the hand, whereby a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Or if he gives him a blow with a stone in his hand, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.


simplify: And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

And when they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king's scribe and the high priest came and put it in bags, noting the amount of all the money there was in the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will give you a price for it; I will not give to the Lord my God burned offerings for which I have given nothing. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

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


rate difficulty: And the man of God is wroth against him, and saith, `By smiting five or six times then thou hadst smitten Aram till consuming; and now, three times thou dost smite Aram.'

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


simplify: I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.


simplify: And he sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.

So he sent and made him come in. Now he had red hair and beautiful eyes and pleasing looks. And the Lord said, Come, put the oil on him, for this is he.


simplify: and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,


simplify: Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.

Let all the children of Levi be numbered by their families and their fathers' houses; let every male of a month old and over be numbered.


simplify: And Jehovah came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

Then the Lord came and said as before, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel made answer, Say on, Lord; for the ears of your servant are open.


rate difficulty: And no curse shall be any more; and the throne ofGod and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him,


rate difficulty: And shall notGod at all avenge his elect, who cry to him day and night, and he bears long as to them?

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


rate difficulty: — shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?

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


simplify: And the first came before him, saying, Lord, thy pound hath made ten pounds more.

And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds.


rate difficulty: And Jacob cometh in from the field at evening; and Leah goeth to meet him, and saith, `Unto me dost thou come in, for hiring I have hired thee with my son's love-apples;' and he lieth with her during that night.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and <FI>there is<Fi> a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;'

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


simplify: And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.


simplify: Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.


rate difficulty: Keep then all the commandment which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and enter in and possess the land, whither ye pass over to possess it;

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


simplify: They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.


simplify: And Moses said, Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more.

And Moses said, You say truly; I will not see your face again.


simplify: Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!


rate difficulty: Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

I tell you that people will be forgiven everything — their sins, and all the slanders that they utter;


rate difficulty: In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

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


simplify: A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.


rate difficulty: and Aaron and his sons have washed at it their hands and their feet,

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


rate difficulty: And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band.

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


simplify: Thy people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.


simplify: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!


simplify: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,


simplify: For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?


rate difficulty: For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

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


simplify: And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.

For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;


simplify: Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven.

To everyone, then, who gives witness to me before men, I will give witness before my Father in heaven.


rate difficulty: And the princes of the Philistines went forth; and it came to pass, whenever they went forth, that David succeeded better than all the servants of Saul; and his name was much esteemed.


rate difficulty: So these young men of the princes of the provinces came out of the city, and the army which followed them.

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


simplify: Therefore Saul said unto Jehovah, the God of Israel, Show the right. And Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot; but the people escaped.

Then Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, Why have you not given me an answer today? If the sin is in me or in Jonathan my son, O Lord God of Israel, give Urim, and if it is in your people Israel, give Thummim. And by the decision of the Lord, Saul and Jonathan were marked out, and the people went free.


simplify: Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth–el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth–el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

And they said, See, every year there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh, which is to the north of Beth-el, on the east side of the highway which goes up from Beth-el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.


rate difficulty: This perfume could have been sold for more than a year's wages, and the money given to the poor.”

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel heareth all the words of the people, and speaketh them in the ears of Jehovah;

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


simplify: And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

And Philip, running up to him, saw that he was reading Isaiah the prophet, and said to him, Is the sense of what you are reading clear to you?


simplify: Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I.

Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I!


rate difficulty: And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

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


simplify: and the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify him; and he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.


rate difficulty: in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is Jehovah’s passover.

And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.


simplify: And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing?


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


rate difficulty: And I have caused man to walk over you, --My people Israel, And they possess thee, and thou hast been to them for an inheritance, And thou dost add no more to bereave them.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And when you get there, go in search of Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi; and go in and make him get up from among his brothers, and take him to an inner room.


rate difficulty: Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.

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


simplify: Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,


rate difficulty: But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

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


simplify: And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

But how have I this honor, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?


rate difficulty: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.

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


simplify: And whatsoever is first ripe in the land, which they shall bring unto the Lord, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house shall eat of it.

The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.


rate difficulty: And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.


simplify: but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars and his ways, are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.


rate difficulty: and thou hast kept the commands of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to fear Him.

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


rate difficulty: And the skin of the bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his inwards, and his dung,

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


rate difficulty: I will also break in pieces with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces captains and rulers.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba; and they called him to David. And the king said to him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant!

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


rate difficulty: From the breath of God is frost given, And the breadth of waters is straitened,

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


simplify: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.


rate difficulty: One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

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


simplify: As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.

As for the form of their faces, they had the face of a man, and the four of them had the face of a lion on the right side, and the four of them had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four of them had the face of an eagle.


rate difficulty: Go [therefore] and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit;

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


simplify: But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.


rate difficulty: For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

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


simplify: Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.


rate difficulty: and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,

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


simplify: Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the ordinance.

And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.


rate difficulty: For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

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


simplify: Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.


rate difficulty: and now, be not grieved, nor let it be displeasing in your eyes that ye sold me hither, for to preserve life hath God sent me before you.

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


simplify: For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

For your life on earth is done, and you have a secret life with Christ in God.


rate difficulty: saying, `Declare to us, O Christ, who he is that struck thee?'

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


rate difficulty: And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah, and thy children shall come again to their own border.

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


simplify: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face: for this cause there will be no forgiveness for their sin.


rate difficulty: For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.

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


simplify: And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually.

And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord.


rate difficulty: For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

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


rate difficulty: Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

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


rate difficulty: and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the numbered of the Levites, after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

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


simplify: and when did we see thee infirm, or in prison, and we came unto thee?

When did we see you ill, or in prison, and come to you?’


simplify: And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

And the king gave them a rough answer. So King Rehoboam gave no attention to the suggestion of the old men,


simplify: and the statutes and the ordinances, and the law and the commandment, which he wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods:

And the rules and the orders and the law which he put in writing for you, you are to keep and do for ever; you are to have no other gods.