rate difficulty: Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

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


rate difficulty: And his men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household; and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron.

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


rate difficulty: But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the sea-eagle,

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will show mine opinion.


simplify: And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.

And when they had gone across, they came to land at Gennesaret.


rate difficulty: When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.

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


rate difficulty: And the heads of the Philistines are wroth against him, and the heads of the Philistines say to him, `Send back the man, and he doth turn back unto his place whither thou hast appointed him, and doth not go down with us into battle, and is not to us for an adversary in battle; and wherewith doth this one reconcile himself unto his lord--is it not with the heads of those men?'

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


simplify: And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.

The stem of his spear was as long as a cloth-worker's rod, and its head was made of six hundred shekels' weight of iron: and one went before him with his body-cover.


simplify: The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

The voice of one crying aloud in the wilderness: “Prepare the road for the Lord, make a straight path for him.”’


simplify: Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the Lord; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.


simplify: The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

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


simplify: and the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the meal-offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean.


simplify: For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:

For it is common knowledge among you that we never made use of smooth-sounding false words, and God is witness that at no time were we secretly desiring profit for ourselves,


rate difficulty: Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

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


rate difficulty: also to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and to all Christ’s people who are with them.

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


simplify: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

His eyes will be dark with wine, and his teeth white with milk.


rate difficulty: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:


simplify: and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he did hunger.

And, after he had fasted for forty days and forty nights, he became hungry.


simplify: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;


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

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


rate difficulty: and in front of the throne is what seemed to be a sea of glass, ‘resembling crystal, while within the space before the throne and around the throne are four Creatures full of eyes’ in front and behind.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel who had come back kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.


rate difficulty: The sacrifice of the wicked <FI>is<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And the prayer of the upright <FI>is<Fi> His delight.

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


rate difficulty: [let] this heap be witness, and the pillar a witness, that neither I pass this heap [to go] to thee, nor thou pass this heap and this pillar [to come] to me, for harm.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.


simplify: So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

So they came and took them, in their coats, outside the tent-circle, as Moses had said.


rate difficulty: And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.


simplify: and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys: Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

You mountains of Israel, give ear to the words of the Lord: this is what the Lord has said to the mountains and the hills, to the waterways and the valleys: See, I, even I, am sending on you a sword for the destruction of your high places.


rate difficulty: The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,

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


rate difficulty: As I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right hand, yet would I pluck thee thence;

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


simplify: And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

Recognizing the charge entrusted to me, James, Peter, and John, who were regarded as pillars of the church, openly acknowledged Barnabas and me as fellow workers, agreeing that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the Jews.


simplify: and if any one is ignorant--let him be ignorant;


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

(Here there is need for the discerning mind.) The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated.


simplify: And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.


rate difficulty: What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness <FI>is<Fi> with God? let it not be!


rate difficulty: and they brought him word that Jesus the Nazarene doth pass by,

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


rate difficulty: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

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


rate difficulty: And as they went out, they besought that these words might be spoken to them the next sabbath.


rate difficulty: At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.

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


simplify: And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Jehovah hath come.

Then Solomon made Pharaoh's daughter come up from the town of David to the house which he had made for her; for he said, I will not have my wife living in the house of David, king of Israel, because those places where the ark of the Lord has come are holy.


simplify: Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.


simplify: But whether we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or whether we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which worketh in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer:

But if we are troubled, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which takes effect through your quiet undergoing of the same troubles which we undergo:


simplify: Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.

You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:


rate difficulty: And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Shemidah were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

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


rate difficulty: Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these.


rate difficulty: and I will be found of you, saith Jehovah. And I will turn your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith Jehovah; and I will bring you again into the place whence I have caused you to be carried away captive.

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


rate difficulty: For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.


rate difficulty: Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.

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


rate difficulty: Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places.

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


simplify: And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.


simplify: And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.


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


rate difficulty: in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

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


simplify: Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

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


rate difficulty: and if ye take this one also from me, and harm befall him, ye will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

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


rate difficulty: And John did answer him, saying, `Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

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


simplify: and thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: set thee an ambush for the city behind it.

And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.


rate difficulty: And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,

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


rate difficulty: Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

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


rate difficulty: And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, taking a certain Mnason of Cyprus, one of the early disciples, in whose house we were to be living.

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


rate difficulty: of Maath, of Mattathias, of Semei, of Joseph, of Juda,


simplify: Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

Of which I became a servant by the purpose of God which was given to me for you, to give effect to the word of God,


rate difficulty: There is none like unto theGod of Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heavens to thy help, And in his majesty, upon the clouds.

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


simplify: and their counsel against <FI>him<Fi> was known to Saul; they were also watching the gates both day and night, that they may kill him,

but it became known to him. They even watched the gates day and night, to kill him;


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his son, became king in his place.


simplify: I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.


simplify: I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.


rate difficulty: Who are glad--unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave.


simplify: In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

In the third month after the children of Israel went out from Egypt, on the same day, they came into the waste land of Sinai.


rate difficulty: And the Angel ofGod said to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Here am I.


simplify: The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

The words of the wise which come quietly to the ear are noted more than the cry of a ruler among the foolish.


simplify: A faithful man shall abound with blessings; But he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be unpunished.

A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.


rate difficulty: And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

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


rate difficulty: And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled

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


simplify: Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth:

Which has come to you; and which in all the world is giving fruit and increase, as it has done in you from the day when it came to your ears and you had true knowledge of the grace of God;


rate difficulty: And the child at the breast will be playing by the hole of the snake, and the older child will put his hand on the bright eye of the poison-snake.


simplify: And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And there will be rivers and streams of water on every tall mountain and on every high hill, in the day when great numbers are put to the sword, when the towers come down.


simplify: and to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the same Spirit;

to another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers;


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Bani: Meshullam, Malluch, and Adaiah, Jashub, and Sheal, Jeremoth.

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


simplify: But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

But the words of scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.


rate difficulty: Bring in all the tithe unto the treasure-house, And there is food in My house; When ye have tried Me, now, with this, Said Jehovah of Hosts, Do not I open to you the windows of heaven? Yea, I have emptied on you a blessing till there is no space.

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


rate difficulty: for already certain did turn aside after the Adversary.

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


rate difficulty: And David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David houghed all the chariot [horses], but reserved of them [for] a hundred chariots.

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


rate difficulty: Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

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


simplify: And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession, in the midst of all Israel:

And what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben; when they went down into the open mouth of the earth, with their families and their tents and every living thing which was theirs, before the eyes of all Israel:


rate difficulty: At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

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


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

So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.


rate difficulty: And he saith, `I have a word unto thee,' and she saith, `Speak.'

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


simplify: his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;

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


simplify: So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver, and a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley;

So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;


simplify: The river Kishon swept them away, That ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, march on with strength.

The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord!


rate difficulty: And the man on whose head the holy oil has been put, and who has been marked out to be a priest in his father's place, will do what is necessary to take away sin, and will put on the linen clothing, even the holy robes:

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


rate difficulty: Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.


rate difficulty: and Azariah begot Helez, and Helez begot Elasah,

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


rate difficulty: Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

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


rate difficulty: And he fought against the king of the children of Ammon, and overcame them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. This the children of Ammon brought again to him also in the second year, and in the third.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thy hand upon him;

And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him;


rate difficulty: And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise.

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


rate difficulty: If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

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


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

While he was saying these things to them, there came a ruler and gave him worship, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and put your hand on her, and she will come back to life.


simplify: The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?

The baptism of John, was it from heaven or of men?


simplify: And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is good for us to do.

And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.


simplify: And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child.

And Jesus questioning the father said, How long has he been like this? And he said, From a child.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might wherewith he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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


simplify: According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.


rate difficulty: For there is no difference of Jew and Greek; for the same Lord of all [is] rich towards all that call upon him.

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


rate difficulty: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

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


rate difficulty: Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.


rate difficulty: And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on the top of a hill.

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


simplify: And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.

And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.


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

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


simplify: And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went out.

And Hamor and his son they put to death with the sword, and they took Dinah from Shechem's house and went away.


simplify: And he commanded them that all should sit down by companies upon the green grass.

And he made them all be seated in groups on the green grass.


simplify: And they laid their hands on him, and took him.

And they put their hands on him, and took him.


simplify: in that day shall he lift up his voice, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: ye shall not make me ruler of the people.

Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.


simplify: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry ‘Abba, Our Father.’


rate difficulty: And unto this people thou dost say, Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am setting before you the way of life, And the way of death!

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


simplify: Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

Igal, the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,


simplify: There is a league between me and thee, between my father and thy father: behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.


rate difficulty: and they that are in flesh cannot pleaseGod.

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


rate difficulty: And Judah took Gazah and its border, and Ashkelon and its border, and Ekron and its border.

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


simplify: And Jesus stood still, and said, Call ye him. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good cheer: rise, he calleth thee.

And Jesus came to a stop and said, Let him come. And crying out to the blind man, they said to him, Be comforted: come, he has sent for you.


simplify: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.


simplify: for of God we are fellow-workmen; God's tillage, God's building ye are.

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s harvest field, God’s building.


simplify: Now Samuel did not yet know Jehovah, neither was the word of Jehovah yet revealed unto him.

Now at that time Samuel had no knowledge of the Lord, and the revelation of the word of the Lord had not come to him.


simplify: And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

And when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was completely given up to the word, preaching to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.


simplify: Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will give birth to a son, and she will give him the name Immanuel.


rate difficulty: and says to them, Go into the village which is over against you, and immediately on entering into it ye will find a colt tied, upon which no [child] of man has ever sat: loose it and lead it [here].

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


rate difficulty: I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen.

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


simplify: And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.


rate difficulty: There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

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


rate difficulty: For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;


simplify: And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.

And the people made an attack on them all together: and the authorities took their clothing off them, and gave orders for them to be whipped.


rate difficulty: The foul spirits, too, whenever they caught sight of him, flung themselves down before him, and screamed out: “You are the Son of God”!

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


rate difficulty: And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.


simplify: Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day, I have sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

From the day when your fathers came out of Egypt till this day, I have sent my servants the prophets to you, getting up early every day and sending them:


rate difficulty: Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,


rate difficulty: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

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


simplify: And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

Jesus at once became aware of the power that had gone out from him, and, turning around in the crowd, he said: “Who touched my clothes?”


rate difficulty: As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

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


simplify: And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.


simplify: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.


rate difficulty: Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies.


simplify: And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became their servants. So the Aramaeans, in fear, gave no more help to the children of Ammon.


rate difficulty: And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.

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


simplify: And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master’s son.

Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.


rate difficulty: and thou hast given the money to Aaron, and to his sons, whereby those over and above are ransomed.'

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


rate difficulty: Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But pleasant wordsarepure.

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


rate difficulty: Forthwith therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God, to hear all things that have been commanded thee of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines; and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

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


simplify: Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

Came to eight thousand, five hundred and eighty.


simplify: Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters.

The feet of your horses were on the sea, on the mass of great waters.


rate difficulty: Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:

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


rate difficulty: And Paul said, John indeed baptised [with] the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him that was coming after him, that is, on Jesus.

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


simplify: Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.


simplify: and he made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

And for these twenty boards, forty silver bases, two bases under every board, to take its tongues.


simplify: because thou sayest--I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

You say ‘I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!


simplify: And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

And they said in answer, He was a man clothed in a coat of hair, with a leather band about his body. Then he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth laborers into his harvest.

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


simplify: And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

And out to the side of Ekron to the north: then it is marked out to Shikkeron and on to Mount Baalah, ending at Jabneel; the end of the line is at the sea.


rate difficulty: For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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


rate difficulty: And now, I pray you, Lady — not as though I were writing a new command for you; no, it is the command which we had from the first — Let us love one another.


simplify: And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.

And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.


rate difficulty: And the people of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the people of Cuth made Nergal, and the people of Hamath made Ashima,

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


rate difficulty: I thank God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius;

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


simplify: And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you?

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?


rate difficulty: and they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning.

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


simplify: in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and round about even unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ;

By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;


rate difficulty: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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


simplify: And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

From Kohath come the Amramites and the Izharites and the Hebronites and the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.


simplify: The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own life.

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.


rate difficulty: If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.


rate difficulty: But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.


simplify: Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.


simplify: They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They cast out their pains.

They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.


rate difficulty: And having said these things, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: knowing that such a one is perverted, and sinneth, being self-condemned.

Clearly he is in error and a sinner, being self-judged.


rate difficulty: And we, having completed the voyage, arrived from Tyre at Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them.

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


rate difficulty: When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.


rate difficulty: When thou goest from me to-day, thou shalt meet two men by Rachel's sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzah; and they will say to thee, The asses are found which thou wentest to seek, and behold, thy father has dismissed the matter of the asses, and is anxious about you, saying, What shall I do for my son?

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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


rate difficulty: See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

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


simplify: And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak.

And the Lord put words in Balaam's mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.


rate difficulty: And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar a portion.

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


simplify: Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

for I know that the time for this ‘tent’ of mine to be put away is soon coming, as our Lord Jesus Christ himself assured me.


rate difficulty: And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

Do not make attempts to get equal with one who has done you wrong, or keep hard feelings against the children of your people, but have love for your neighbour as for yourself: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then Amaziah got all Judah together and put them in order by their families, even all Judah and Benjamin, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds: and he had those of twenty years old and over numbered, and they came to three hundred thousand of the best fighting-men, trained for war and in the use of the spear and the body-cover.

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


simplify: And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

There was at that time in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, a righteous and devout man, who lived in constant expectation of the Consolation of Israel, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.


rate difficulty: Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.

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


simplify: So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

Mark this, my dear friends — Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry;


simplify: And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan.

Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.


simplify: Return, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah; for I am a husband unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

Come back, O children who are turned away, says the Lord; for I am a husband to you, and I will take you, one from a town and two from a family, and will make you come to Zion;


simplify: Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Will a man keep back from God what is right? But you have kept back what is mine. But you say, What have we kept back from you? Tenths and offerings.


simplify: `Whenever, therefore, ye may see the abomination of the desolation, that was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever is reading let him observe)

As soon, then, as you see ‘the Foul Desecration,’ mentioned by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy place,” (the reader must consider what this means)


rate difficulty: and the elders of the assembly shall lay their hands on the head of the bullock before Jehovah; and one shall slaughter the bullock before Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and the kings of Midian they have slain, besides their pierced ones, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian; and Balaam son of Beor, they have slain with the sword.


simplify: And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem.

When we heard that, we and the people of the place began to entreat Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.


simplify: For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

For you will be put to shame because of the trees of your desire, and because of the gardens of your pleasure.


simplify: 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.

Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.


rate difficulty: the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

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


rate difficulty: `Son of man, lo, I am taking from thee the desire of thine eyes by a stroke, and thou dost not mourn, nor weep, nor let thy tear come.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.


rate difficulty: Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

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


simplify: whether, then, I or they, so we preach, and so ye did believe.

Whether, then, it was I or whether it was they, this we proclaim, and this you believed.


simplify: He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

The man who first puts his cause before the judge seems to be in the right; but then his neighbour comes and puts his cause in its true light.


simplify: And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lord will keep me safe from every evil work and will give me salvation in his kingdom in heaven: to whom be glory for ever and ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: and with every living soul which is with you, fowl as well as cattle, and all the animals of the earth with you, of all that has gone out of the ark — every animal of the earth.

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


simplify: Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.


simplify: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.


rate difficulty: And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath.

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


rate difficulty: and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

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


simplify: And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.


rate difficulty: And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

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


rate difficulty: But in all these things we more than conquer through him that has loved us.


simplify: And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.

So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.


simplify: That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.


rate difficulty: for the word certainly cometh to pass that he called by the word of Jehovah concerning the altar which <FI>is<Fi> Beth-El, and concerning all the houses of the high places that <FI>are<Fi> in cities of Samaria.'

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


rate difficulty: while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

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


simplify: And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the name of the star is Wormwood: and a third part of the waters became bitter; and a number of men came to their end because of the waters, for they were made bitter.


simplify: I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

I was angry with my people, I put shame on my heritage, and gave them into your hands: you had no mercy on them; you put a cruel yoke on those who were old;


rate difficulty: Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel–meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

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


simplify: Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

No doubt the story has come to your ears of what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, putting them to the curse: and will you be kept safe from their fate?


simplify: Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.

Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.


rate difficulty: Having therefore been exalted by the right hand ofGod, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear.

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


simplify: Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?


simplify: Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of Jehovah which he loveth, and hath married the daughter of a foreign god.

Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.


rate difficulty: in the rising again, then, of which of them doth she become wife? --for the seven had her as wife.'

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


rate difficulty: Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:


rate difficulty: `Say, I pray thee, to the rebellious house, Have ye not known what these <FI>are<Fi> ? Say, Lo, come hath the king of Babylon to Jerusalem, And he taketh its king, and its princes, And bringeth them to himself to Babylon.

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rate difficulty: Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

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rate difficulty: And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,

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rate difficulty: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

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rate difficulty: If only one of them is sounded, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, are to come to you.

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simplify: But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

But you know what Timothy has proved himself to be, and how, like a child working for his father, he worked hard with me in spreading the good news.


simplify: And, now, I go on to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints;

Just now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem, to take help to Christ’s people there.


rate difficulty: And having all laid hold on Sosthenes the ruler of the synagogue, they beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio troubled himself about none of these things.

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simplify: and I will remain in Ephesus till the Pentecost,

I intend, however, staying at Ephesus until the Festival at the close of the Harvest;


rate difficulty: And Methushelah lived a hundred and eighty-seven years, and begot Lemech.

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

And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public.


rate difficulty: And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

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


simplify: Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

Everyone has always had a good word for Demetrius, and the truth itself speaks for him. Yes, and we also add our good word, and you know that what we say about him is true.


rate difficulty: And God hearkeneth unto Leah, and she conceiveth, and beareth to Jacob a son, a fifth,

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rate difficulty: And he that smiteth any man mortally shall surely be put to death.


rate difficulty: But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.

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simplify: Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

Now those who put down their names were Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,


rate difficulty: And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.


rate difficulty: And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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rate difficulty: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

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simplify: and a certain one said to him, `Sir, are those saved few?' and he said unto them,

“Master,” some one asked, “are there but few in the path of salvation?” And Jesus answered:


simplify: And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:

Shimei the Ramathite was responsible for the vine-gardens; Zabdi the Shiphmite was responsible for the produce of the vine-gardens and for all the stores of wine;


rate difficulty: None among them is weary, none stumbleth; they slumber not, nor sleep; none hath the girdle of his loins loosed, nor the thong of his sandals broken;

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


rate difficulty: Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:

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rate difficulty: And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou to be another? But I am sent to thee with a hard [message].

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


simplify: And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these — sexual immorality, impurity, indecency,


simplify: And he overtook them, and he spake unto them these same words.

So he overtook them and said these words to them.


simplify: Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man to remain single.


rate difficulty: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

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


rate difficulty: The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

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rate difficulty: And Miriam, answering, said, Make a song to the Lord, for he is lifted up in glory; the horse and the horseman he has sent into the sea.

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


simplify: And there went out after him Joab’s men, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.


rate difficulty: And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.


simplify: And Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid unto his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

And Laban gave Zilpah, his servant-girl, to Leah, to be her waiting-woman.


simplify: Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.


rate difficulty: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, shall be upon thee, O inhabitant of Moab, saith the Lord.

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simplify: Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.


rate difficulty: Stay over to-night, and it shall be in the morning, if he will redeem thee, well — let him redeem; but if he like not to redeem thee, then will I redeem thee, [as] Jehovah liveth. Lie down until the morning.

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


rate difficulty: Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.


simplify: For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.

For, to those who have, more will be given; while, from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”


simplify: Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:


simplify: And Jesus said unto him--`To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

“salvation has come to this house today,”answered Jesus, “for even this man is a son of Abraham.


simplify: and we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the good news <FI>is<Fi> through all the assemblies,

We are sending with him one of the Lord's followers whose fame in the service of the good news has spread through all the churches;


simplify: And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels in which were the seven last punishments, came and said to me, Come here, and see the bride, the Lamb's wife.


rate difficulty: The mouth of a foolish man is his destruction, and his lips are a net for his soul.


rate difficulty: But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

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


simplify: and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

while Mary treasured up all that they said, and thought about it often in her thoughts.


simplify: And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.

And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem, said, He has Beelzebub, and, By the ruler of evil spirits he sends evil spirits out of men.


rate difficulty: If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not marry a stranger abroad: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

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


rate difficulty: I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.


simplify: And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, Thus saith the Lord, Even by the young men of the princes of the provinces. Then he said, Who shall order the battle? And he answered, Thou.

And Ahab said, By whom? And he said, The Lord says, By the servants of the chiefs who are over the divisions of the land. Then he said, By whom is the fighting to be started? And he made answer, By you.


simplify: So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

So all those who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their families, all those of twenty years old and over who were able to go to war,


rate difficulty: Dominion and fear are with him; he maketh peace in his high places.

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


simplify: But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Jesus, however, called the little children to him. “Let the little children come to me,”he said, “and do not hinder them; for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of God belongs.


simplify: And go, get thee to them of the captivity, unto the children of thy people, and speak unto them, and tell them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.


simplify: For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

For I had made the decision to have knowledge of nothing among you but only of Jesus Christ on the cross.


rate difficulty: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him, and hurt him not.


simplify: And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command.

And we have faith in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things about which we give you orders.


simplify: Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?


rate difficulty: For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in through the gates of this house kings sitting in the place of David upon his throne, riding in chariots and on horses, — he, and his servants, and his people.

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rate difficulty: The beginning of the word of Jehovah through Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms; for the land is entirely given up to whoredom, away from Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the Levites shall answer, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

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


simplify: And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.

And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up their tents there.


rate difficulty: having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought <FI>him<Fi> , saying, `Are we able to know what <FI>is<Fi> this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

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


simplify: And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this man? or why fasten ye your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him to walk?

And when Peter saw it he said to the people, You men of Israel, why are you so greatly surprised at this man? or why are you looking at us as if by our power or virtue we had given him the use of his legs?


simplify: And he said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.

And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Tyre, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of their delivering up a complete captivity to Edom, And they remembered not the brotherly covenant,

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rate difficulty: and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The great eagle, great-winged, long-pinioned, Full of feathers, that hath diverse colours, Hath come in unto Lebanon, And it taketh the foliage of the cedar,

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


simplify: And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

And the children of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things which were not right, building high places for themselves in all their towns, from the tower of the watchmen to the walled town.


simplify: In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.

And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel.


simplify: I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

I give praise to my God for you at all times, because of the grace of God which has been given to you in Christ Jesus;


simplify: But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said: “My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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rate difficulty: And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.


simplify: which Jehovah commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them. It is their portion for ever throughout their generations.

Which the Lord said the children of Israel were to give them, on the day when he made them his priests. It is their right for ever from generation to generation.


simplify: then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning, if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.

Then anyone who, hearing the sound of the horn, does not take note of it, will himself be responsible for his death, if the sword comes and takes him away.


simplify: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:


rate difficulty: He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

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


rate difficulty: `Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

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rate difficulty: Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

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rate difficulty: But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

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


simplify: And the man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.

Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.


rate difficulty: The children to whom you gave birth in other lands will say in your ears, The place is not wide enough for me: make room for me to have a resting-place.


rate difficulty: and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, `Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;'

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all the children of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the people of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the Lord; this land is given to us for a heritage:

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


simplify: Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

Not that God’s Word has failed. For it is not all who are descended from Israel who are true Israelites;


rate difficulty: And the names of the men are these: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

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


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah: We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

This is what the Lord has said: A voice of shaking fear has come to our ears, of fear and not of peace.


rate difficulty: And the asses of Kish Saul's father were lost; and Kish said to Saul his son, Take, I pray, one of the young men with thee, and arise, go seek the asses.

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


simplify: And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.


rate difficulty: And Jesus asked him saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: for many demons had entered into him.


simplify: Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And Esther was looked on kindly by all who saw her.


rate difficulty: For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

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


simplify: And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.


rate difficulty: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

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


simplify: And they trespassed against the God of their fathers, and played the harlot after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

And they did evil against the God of their fathers, worshipping the gods of the people of the land, whom God had put to destruction before them.


rate difficulty: Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things--their vessels.

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


rate difficulty: And Balak sent yet again princes, more, and more honorable than they.


simplify: From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

From Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba to Dibon;


simplify: And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.

After him was Shammah, the son of Ela the Hararite. And the Philistines came together in Lehi, where there was a bit of land full of seed; and the people went in flight from the Philistines.


simplify: Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead:

Give orders to the children of Israel to put outside the tent-circle every leper, and anyone who has any sort of flow from his body, and anyone who is unclean from the touch of the dead;


rate difficulty: And straightway he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

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


rate difficulty: and I have established his kingdom to the age, if he is strong to do My commands, and My judgments, as at this day.

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


simplify: And they answered them, and said, He is; behold, he is before thee: make haste now, for he is come to-day into the city; for the people have a sacrifice to-day in the high place.

And they said, He is; in fact he is before you: go quickly now, for he has come into the town today, for the people are making an offering in the high place today:


rate difficulty: And when the cloud rose from the tent, then the children of Israel journeyed; and at the place where the cloud stood still, there the children of Israel encamped.


rate difficulty: And as John was fulfilling his course, he said, What suppose ye that I am? I am not he. But behold, there cometh one after me the shoes of whose feet I am not worthy to unloose.

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


simplify: But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord, that we may enquire of the Lord by him? And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.

But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah.


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

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


simplify: And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to their fathers’ houses, for every gate.

And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great.


simplify: And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.


rate difficulty: and the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man as wife, and he hates her;

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


rate difficulty: Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

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


simplify: And the king said, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.

And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.


simplify: For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou also shalt judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee a place of access among these that stand by.

These are the words of the Lord of armies: If you will go in my ways and keep what I have put in your care, then you will be judge over my Temple and have the care of my house, and I will give you the right to come in among those who are there.


simplify: and Moses having seen did wonder at the sight; and he drawing near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord unto him,

When Moses saw it, he was astonished at the vision; but on his going nearer to look at it more closely, the voice of the Lord was heard to say —


simplify: Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.


rate difficulty: At four sides are the gatekeepers, east, west, north, and south.


rate difficulty: And after a little, another having seen him, said, `And thou art of them!' and Peter said, `Man, I am not.'

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


simplify: knowing, brethren beloved of God, your election,

Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;


simplify: Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Fear him not, for into thy hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and thou hast done to him as thou hast done to Sihon king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon.'

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simplify: and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?'

The other guests began to say to one another: “Who is this man who even pardons sins?”


simplify: Amalek dwelleth in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanite dwelleth by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan.

And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.


simplify: And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.

And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, eighteen thousand, listed by name, came to make David king.


simplify: I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.

I will give you teaching about the hand of God; I will not keep secret from you what is in the mind of the Ruler of all.


simplify: For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

But a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having had news of him, came straight away and went down at his feet.


rate difficulty: [If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; and they troubled not the serenity of my countenance.

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


simplify: Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.

and with many an appeal to us for permission, they showed their love, and contributed their share towards the fund for their fellow Christians.


simplify: For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.


simplify: Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;


rate difficulty: in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

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


simplify: Clubs are counted as stubble: He laugheth at the rushing of the javelin.

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.


simplify: And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.


rate difficulty: and Abijam lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in the city of David, and reign doth Asa his son in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: He was a mighty hunter before Jehovah; therefore it is said, As Nimrod, the mighty hunter before Jehovah!


simplify: And this was done thrice: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven.


rate difficulty: Then the sixth angel blew; and I heard a voice proceeding from the corners of the golden altar that stood before God.


rate difficulty: But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.


rate difficulty: But being full of [the] Holy Spirit, having fixed his eyes on heaven, he saw [the] glory ofGod, and Jesus standing at the right hand ofGod,

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


simplify: And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.


rate difficulty: I have knowledge that your living-place is where Satan has his seat: and you are true to my name, and were not turned away from your faith in me, even in the days of Antipas, my true witness, who was put to death among you, where Satan has his place.

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


simplify: Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains, and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place (now his eyes had begun to wax dim, so that he could not see),

And at that time, when Eli was resting in his place, (now his eyes were becoming clouded so that he was not able to see,)


simplify: But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the Lord.

You will come to your end in peace; and such burnings as they made for your fathers, the earlier kings before you, will be made for you; and they will be weeping for you and saying, Ah lord! for I have said the word, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:

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


rate difficulty: And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying,


rate difficulty: So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,


simplify: If the whole body <FI>were<Fi> an eye, where the hearing? if the whole hearing, where the smelling?

If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?


rate difficulty: And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

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