simplify: Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

Then Joab came to the king, and said, What have you done? when Abner came to you why did you send him away and let him go?


rate difficulty: The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.

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


simplify: and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and blood did come forth out of the wine-press--unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.

The ‘grapes were trodden in the press’ outside the city; and blood came out of the press, rising as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of two hundred miles.


simplify: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.


rate difficulty: And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

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


simplify: And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria.

From there he went to Mount Carmel, and came back from there to Samaria.


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

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


rate difficulty: And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin where with he made Israel to sin.

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


simplify: For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

For even if you had ten thousand teachers in Christ, you have not more than one father: for in Christ Jesus I have given birth to you through the good news.


rate difficulty: Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

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


rate difficulty: Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

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


simplify: Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

And therefore it is that they are before the throne of God, and are serving him day and night in his Temple; and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.


rate difficulty: but the rest said, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come--about to save him.'

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


simplify: And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

Gabriel came into her presence and greeted her, saying: “You have been shown great favor - the Lord is with you..”


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

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


simplify: I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.


rate difficulty: And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

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


rate difficulty: And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast deceived me, and hast carried away my daughters as captives of war?

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


rate difficulty: besides the cakes, fermented bread he doth bring near <FI>with<Fi> his offering, besides the sacrifice of thank-offering of his peace-offerings;

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


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

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


simplify: Wherefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye polluted after the manner of your fathers? and commit ye whoredom after their abominations?

For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?


simplify: But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.


rate difficulty: and all the work of his strength, and his might, and the explanation of the greatness of Mordecai with which the king made him great, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of Media and Persia?

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


rate difficulty: Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?

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


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

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


simplify: Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, until they dishonored their own bodies;


rate difficulty: and say to Archippus, `See to the ministration that thou didst receive in the Lord, that thou mayest fulfil it.'

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


rate difficulty: for Titus has responded to my appeals and, in his great earnestness, is starting to go to you of his own accord.

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


simplify: And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not go down before him and give him honour, Haman was full of wrath.


simplify: And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.


simplify: O earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

O earth, earth, earth, give ear to the word of the Lord!


simplify: And they went up by the South, and came unto Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

They went up into the South and came to Hebron; and Ahiman and Sheshai and Talmai, the children of Anak, were living there. (Now the building of Hebron took place seven years before that of Zoan in Egypt.)


rate difficulty: Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

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


simplify: that hath withdrawn his hand from the poor, that hath not received interest nor increase, hath executed mine ordinances, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Who has kept his hand from evil-doing and has not taken interest or great profits, who has done my orders and been guided by my rules: he will certainly not be put to death for the evil-doing of his father; life will certainly be his.


simplify: Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and asketh conditions of peace.

Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.


simplify: and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.


rate difficulty: And Laban gave to her Zilpah, his maidservant, to be maidservant to Leah his daughter.

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


rate difficulty: Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;


rate difficulty: and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Jehovah in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.


simplify: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah —


simplify: Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year.


simplify: And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.

But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.


simplify: Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord’s.

But a man may not give by oath to the Lord the first-fruits of cattle which are offered to the Lord: if it is an ox or a sheep it is the Lord's.


rate difficulty: Speak of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

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


simplify: And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

Straight away I was in the Spirit: and I saw a high seat in heaven, and one was seated on it;


rate difficulty: For he said to him, Come forth, unclean spirit, out of the man.


rate difficulty: Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them,

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


rate difficulty: chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

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


rate difficulty: And on that day, when evening was come, he says to them, Let us go over to the other side:


rate difficulty: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: Every one falling on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

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


rate difficulty: And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.


simplify: And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

And he went again into the Synagogue; and there was a man there whose hand was dead.


simplify: Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?

Be judges yourselves of the question: does it seem right for a woman to take part in prayer unveiled?


rate difficulty: But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, It is not the sound of a shout of victory, neither is it the sound of a shout of defeat: it is the noise of alternate singing I hear.


simplify: And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

And Jacob gave that place the name of Peniel, saying, I have seen God face to face, and still I am living.


rate difficulty: Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we witnessed of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead are not raised.

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


simplify: And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

And in place of the first sons among the children of Israel, I have taken the Levites.


simplify: And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.


rate difficulty: The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?

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


rate difficulty: And the sin of the young men is very great <FI>in<Fi> the presence of Jehovah, for the men have despised the offering of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us also. They do not try to please God, and they are enemies to all humanity,

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


simplify: Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the Lord said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh–barnea.

Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.


simplify: Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

And so again with the younger men — impress on them the need of discretion.


simplify: and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.


simplify: Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia,

And after they had gone through the land of Phrygia and Galatia, the Holy Spirit did not let them take the word into Asia;


rate difficulty: And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus;


simplify: And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;

So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites;


rate difficulty: For this cause, I will let the side of Moab be uncovered, and his towns on every side, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and as far as Kiriathaim.

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


rate difficulty: Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

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


simplify: When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it?


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

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


rate difficulty: And the angel whom I saw stand on the sea and on the earth lifted up his right hand to the heaven,


rate difficulty: because ye shall suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; because ye shall drink out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.

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


simplify: `I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw in a trance a vision, a certain vessel coming down, as a great sheet by four corners being let down out of the heaven, and it came unto me;

“I was in the town of Jaffa,” he said, “and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me.


rate difficulty: And all Midian and Amalek and the children of the east were gathered together, and went over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.


rate difficulty: So Gad came to David, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Choose thee

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


simplify: Jehovah spake with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire

The word of the Lord came to you face to face on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire,


simplify: Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.


simplify: And Jehovah uttereth his voice before his army; for his camp is very great; for he is strong that executeth his word; for the day of Jehovah is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?

And the Lord is thundering before his forces; for very great is his army; for he is strong who gives effect to his word: for the day of the Lord is great and greatly to be feared, and who has strength against it?


simplify: So David rose up early, he and his men, to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.


rate difficulty: And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king.

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


rate difficulty: `for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;'

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


rate difficulty: But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

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


simplify: Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.


simplify: And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.

And they said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are strong, and the birth takes place before we come to them.


rate difficulty: And if she is married to a husband at the time when she is under an oath or an undertaking given without thought;

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


rate difficulty: A city broken down without walls, <FI>Is<Fi> a man without restraint over his spirit!

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


rate difficulty: So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

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


simplify: The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

The Lord, therefore, knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to keep the wicked, who are even now suffering punishment, in readiness for ‘the day of judgment’ —


simplify: And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

The second is this — ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”


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

And there came a scribe and said to him, Master, I will come after you wherever you go.


rate difficulty: She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: And happy is every one that retaineth her.

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


simplify: And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

And the fourth let what was in his vessel come out on the sun; and power was given to it that men might be burned with fire.


rate difficulty: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

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


rate difficulty: And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.


simplify: Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? who is like you, in holy glory, to be praised with fear, doing wonders?


simplify: And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to his tent.

And Judah was overcome before Israel, and they went in flight, every man to his tent.


simplify: then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

Then I will have Israel cut off from the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for myself, I will put away from before my eyes; and Israel will be a public example, and a word of shame among all peoples.


simplify: And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

And I saw, and there came to my ears the sound of a great number of angels round about the high seat and the beasts and the rulers; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in the place of the burnt offering.

And he is to put his hand on the head of the sin-offering and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering.


simplify: And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

And David's two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail, the wife of Nabal of Carmel, had been made prisoners.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, while he was in one of the cities, behold, a man full of leprosy: and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

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


rate difficulty: each silver platterweighinga hundred and thirtyshekels, and each bowl seventy; all the silver of the vessels two thousand and four hundredshekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary;

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


simplify: Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.


simplify: And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet and thy cord, and thy staff that is in thy hand. And he gave them to her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.


rate difficulty: But Moses made prayer to God, saying, Lord, why is your wrath burning against your people whom you took out of the land of Egypt, with great power and with the strength of your hand?

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


rate difficulty: and I appoint unto you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed unto me,

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


rate difficulty: When Jehovah thyGod cutteth off from before thee the nations whither thou goest, to take possession of them, and thou hast dispossessed them, and dwellest in their land,

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


simplify: and he shall bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith Jehovah: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?

And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you?


simplify: But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.


simplify: And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

And he said, Put it down on the earth. And he put it down on the earth and it became a snake; and Moses went running from it.


rate difficulty: The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

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


simplify: And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel;


simplify: Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

and was now on his way home, sitting in his carriage and reading the prophet Isaiah.


rate difficulty: and he hath cut it into its pieces, and its head and its fat, and the priest hath arranged them on the wood, which <FI>is<Fi> on the fire, which <FI>is<Fi> on the altar;

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


simplify: to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles; straightway I conferred not with flesh and blood:

To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,


simplify: Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:

So I will be like a lion to them; as a cruel beast I will keep watch by the road;


simplify: So will I cause my wrath toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

And the heat of my wrath against you will have an end, and my bitter feeling will be turned away from you, and I will be quiet and will be angry no longer.


rate difficulty: And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.


simplify: And he came unto the men of Succoth, and said, Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, concerning whom ye did taunt me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?

So he came to the men of Succoth and said, Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, on account of whom you made sport of me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand, that we are to give bread to your army who are overcome with weariness?


rate difficulty: And they gave them for the potter's field, as I had word from the Lord.

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


simplify: saying, `Away, what--to us and to thee, Jesus, O Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art--the Holy One of God.'

“Stop! What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are — the Holy One of God!”


rate difficulty: And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, that were concubines, to keep the house.


rate difficulty: And David taketh hold on his garments, and rendeth them, and also all the men who <FI>are<Fi> with him,

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


simplify: I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.


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

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


simplify: I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:

I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;


rate difficulty: Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers.

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


simplify: Withdraw thy hand far from me; And let not thy terror make me afraid.

Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.


simplify: And he said, Thus saith Jehovah, Make this valley full of trenches.

And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.


simplify: and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying,

Then one of them, a Student of the law, to test him, asked this question —


rate difficulty: yet even they, when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, did not believe it.


rate difficulty: As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

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


simplify: This is the sum of the things for the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were counted, according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

This is the price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


simplify: and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews’ language, but according to the language of each people.

And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples.


rate difficulty: Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee <FI>with<Fi> men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee--shouting.

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


rate difficulty: Their feet are swift to shed blood:

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the end of twenty years, that Solomon hath built the two houses, the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king.

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


simplify: So they, when they were dismissed, came down to Antioch; and having gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle.

So they, being sent away, came down to Antioch, and having got the people together, they gave them the letter.


simplify: And they were about four thousand: and he sent them away.

And there were about four thousand people: and he sent them away.


simplify: Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, <FI>are<Fi> for your up-building,

Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;


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

So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.


simplify: And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.


simplify: For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.


simplify: Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

Ethiopia was her strength and Egyptians without number; Put and Lubim were her helpers.


simplify: But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

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


simplify: And the son of Paul's sister having heard of the lying in wait, having gone and entered into the castle, told Paul,

However, the son of Paul’s sister, hearing of the plot, went to the Fort, and on being admitted, told Paul about it.


rate difficulty: So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.

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


simplify: About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.


simplify: But as to Israel he saith, All the day long did I spread out my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

But about Israel he says; All the day my hands have been stretched out to a people whose hearts were turned away, and who put themselves against my word.


simplify: Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.


simplify: There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.


simplify: Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself:

Which are dark because of the ice, and the snow falling into them;


simplify: And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?'

They were all utterly amazed and bewildered.   “What does it mean?” they asked one another.


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

But Jesus answered: “I tell you that if they are silent, the stones will call out.”


simplify: And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all.

Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.


rate difficulty: And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

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


simplify: If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food,

If a brother or a sister is without clothing and in need of the day's food,


rate difficulty: Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

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


simplify: And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.


rate difficulty: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.

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


rate difficulty: And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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


rate difficulty: Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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


rate difficulty: And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.

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


rate difficulty: How have the mighty fallen In the midst of the battle! Jonathan! on thy high places wounded!

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


rate difficulty: then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:

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


simplify: And he spake to his disciples, that a little boat should wait on him because of the crowd, lest they should throng him:

And he made a request to his disciples to have a little boat ready for him, so that he might not be crushed by the people;


simplify: the children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred fifty and two.

The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two.


rate difficulty: David also arose afterwards, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king! And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth, and did obeisance.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strangegods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

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


rate difficulty: Summon unto Babylon archers, all treading the bow, Encamp against her round about, Let <FI>her<Fi> have no escape; Recompense to her according to her work, According to all that she did--do to her, For unto Jehovah she hath been proud, Unto the Holy One of Israel.

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


simplify: And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.


rate difficulty: A tower of strength <FI>is<Fi> the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.

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


simplify: And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

And the chiefs of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua, the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to give blessing and praise as ordered by David, the man of God, watch against watch.


simplify: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?


simplify: All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when they of the captivity were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

There were five thousand, four hundred gold and silver vessels. All these were taken back by Sheshbazzar, when those who had been taken prisoner went up from Babylon to Jerusalem.


simplify: So Ebed-melech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence rags and worn-out garments, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.

So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king, to the place where the clothing was kept, and got from there old clothing and bits of old cloth, and let them down by cords into the water-hole where Jeremiah was.


simplify: And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?


simplify: And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

And they were saying among themselves, Who will get the stone rolled away from the door for us?


simplify: And now, Christ hath risen out of the dead--the first-fruits of those sleeping he became,

But, in truth, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are at rest.


simplify: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?


rate difficulty: (for Thy people and Thy inheritance <FI>are<Fi> they, whom Thou didst bring out of Egypt, out of the midst of the furnace of iron) --

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


simplify: That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ,


rate difficulty: For, by the living Lord, the saviour of Israel, even if the sinner is Jonathan, my son, death will certainly be his fate. But not a man among all the people gave him any answer.

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


simplify: In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.

All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.


simplify: And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

So Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the responsible men of Israel went with him.


simplify: And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

And for me, that words may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to make clear without fear the secret of the good news,


rate difficulty: And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto Jehovah.

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


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

They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.


rate difficulty: Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?


simplify: And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac:

Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:


rate difficulty: But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

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


simplify: He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because his separation unto God is upon his head.

He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.


rate difficulty: And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

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


simplify: In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And said, The Lord gave orders to my lord to make distribution of the land as their heritage to the children of Israel: and my lord was ordered by the Lord to give the heritage of Zelophehad, our brother, to his daughters.

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


simplify: Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field and the green plant, like grass on the house-tops.


rate difficulty: For this reason the law is feeble and decisions are not effected: for the upright man is circled round by evil-doers; because of which right is twisted.


simplify: After these things I will return, And I will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen; And I will build again the ruins thereof, And I will set it up:

After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:


simplify: And the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders:

And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:


simplify: And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.

And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.


rate difficulty: Man's spirit is the lamp of Jehovah, searching all the inner parts of the belly.

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


rate difficulty: If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

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


simplify: And this is love, that we should walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, even as ye heard from the beginning, that ye should walk in it.

And love is the keeping of his laws. This is the law which was given to you from the first, so that you might keep it.


rate difficulty: But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

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


rate difficulty: According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.


simplify: The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

The history of Nehemiah, the son of Hacaliah. Now it came about, in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, when I was in Shushan, the king's town,


simplify: And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.

The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.


rate difficulty: and ye shall describe the land into seven portions, and bring [the description] hither to me, and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah ourGod.

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


simplify: Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren,

Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac of Jacob, Jacob of Judah and his brothers,


simplify: And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;


rate difficulty: A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto Jehovah: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;

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


simplify: But as ye abound in everything, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

And that as you are full of every good thing, of faith, of the word, of knowledge, of a ready mind, and of love to us, so you may be full of this grace in the same way.


rate difficulty: Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.


simplify: And he said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a wallet; and he that hath none, let him sell his cloak, and buy a sword.

And he said to them, But now, he who has a money-bag, or a bag for food, let him take it: and he who has not, let him give his coat for money and get a sword.


rate difficulty: And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.


simplify: And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow of the Lord’s deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.

Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them.


simplify: and he said, A hundred baths of oil; and he said to him, Take thy bill, and having sat down write fifty.

‘Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,’ answered the man. ‘Here is your agreement,’ he said; ‘sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.’


simplify: And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

All the people went back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Makkedah in peace: and no one said a word against the children of Israel.


simplify: For other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

For there is no other base for the building but that which has been put down, which is Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: and I take the Levites instead of every first-born among the sons of Israel:


simplify: And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.


simplify: And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, that I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had never before been sad when the king was present.


simplify: yes, indeed, and I count all things to be loss, because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom of the all things I suffered loss, and do count them to be refuse, that Christ I may gain, and be found in him,

More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;


rate difficulty: And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

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


rate difficulty: The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!

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


rate difficulty: He may go in flight from the iron spear, but the arrow from the bow of brass will go through him;

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


simplify: And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

And the Philistine came near every morning and evening for forty days.


simplify: And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them by his servants, sending early and frequently, because he had pity on his people and on his living-place;


rate difficulty: and they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and both were advanced in their days.

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


simplify: Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.

So I entreat you to assure him of your love.


rate difficulty: Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

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


simplify: I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.

It seems that I am to be as one who is a cause of laughing to his neighbour, one who makes his prayer to God and is answered! the upright man who has done no wrong is to be made sport of!


rate difficulty: And there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain, and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into those; and he suffered them.

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


simplify: None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to death.

Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.


simplify: And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.

And when they had been there for some time, they were sent back in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put the two wreathen [cords] of gold in the two rings on the ends of the breastplate;

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


simplify: And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

And when some soldiers on active service asked “And we — what are we to do?” he said: “Never use violence, or exact anything by false accusation; and be content with your pay.”


rate difficulty: And of the children of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

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


simplify: `Our appointed bread give us to-day.

Give us today  the bread that we will need;


simplify: Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord! to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.

Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.


rate difficulty: (That land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim had been living there in earlier times, but they were named Zamzummim by the Ammonites;

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


simplify: And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.

And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.


simplify: The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.


simplify: Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

Even these Cyrus made Mithredath, the keeper of his wealth, get out, and he gave them, after numbering them, to Sheshbazzar, the ruler of Judah.


simplify: Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.


rate difficulty: And of the Levites: Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah (that is, Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.


rate difficulty: The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.


simplify: Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.

Again, after his measuring a thousand, it became a river which it was not possible to go through: for the waters had become deep enough for swimming, a river it was not possible to go through.


simplify: Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

Send out a cry, O door! Make sounds of sorrow, O town! All your land has come to nothing, O Philistia; for there comes a smoke out of the north, and everyone keeps his place in the line.


simplify: The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred twenty and two.

The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred and twenty-two.


simplify: But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

But let your desires be turned to the more important things given by the Spirit. And now I am pointing out to you an even better way.


rate difficulty: And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?

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


rate difficulty: And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph could not control himself before all them that stood by him, and he cried, Put every man out from me! And no man stood with him when Joseph made himself known to his brethren.

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


simplify: And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.


rate difficulty: And in En-rimmon, and in Zorah, and in Jarmuth,


simplify: For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God: or whether we be sober, it is for your cause.

For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.


simplify: Of the tribe of Judahweresealed twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand;

Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand:


rate difficulty: And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

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


rate difficulty: Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

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


simplify: For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.


simplify: And Ebed–melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, Put these bits of old cloth under your arms under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of your causing your iniquity to be remembered, In your transgressions being revealed, For your sins being seen, in all your doings, Because of your being remembered, By the hand ye are caught.

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


rate difficulty: But I counted it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-worker and fellow-soldier, and your messenger and minister to my need;

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


simplify: And he said unto Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou go with me to battle to Ramoth-gilead? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as thou art, my people as thy people, my horses as thy horses.

And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.


rate difficulty: Woe <FI>to<Fi> the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

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


simplify: and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.


simplify: and they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It pertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto Jehovah, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honor from Jehovah God.

And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.


simplify: By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.


simplify: Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.


simplify: Thou shalt fall upon the open field; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord.


simplify: And he will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

And he will put up a flag as a sign to the nations, and he will get together those of Israel who had been sent away, and the wandering ones of Judah, from the four ends of the earth.


rate difficulty: And he maketh an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.

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


simplify: Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?

And they are not across the sea, for you to say, Who will go over the sea for us and give us news of them so that we may do them?


rate difficulty: One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

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


rate difficulty: For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

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


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

And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.


rate difficulty: The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

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


rate difficulty: The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

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


simplify: And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And he has been our guide to this place, and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.


simplify: But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

but the inner life with the imperishable beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit; for this is very precious in God’s sight.


rate difficulty: He shall flee from the iron weapon, And the bow of brass shall strike him through.


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not lend in usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of food, usury of anything which is lent on usury.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.

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


simplify: So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.

So David took the spear and the vessel of water from Saul's head; and they got away without any man seeing them, or being conscious of their coming, or awaking; for they were all sleeping because a deep sleep from the Lord had come on them.


rate difficulty: Therefore will I assign him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because he hath poured out his soul unto death, and was reckoned with the transgressors; and he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

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


rate difficulty: And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

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


rate difficulty: and shall lay his hand on the head of his offering, and slaughter it before the tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

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


simplify: And he wrought evil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.


rate difficulty: And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:


rate difficulty: And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,


rate difficulty: Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

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


rate difficulty: And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.

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


rate difficulty: and the beast that I saw was like to a leopard, and its feet as of a bear, and its mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon did give to it his power, and his throne, and great authority.

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


simplify: The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary; He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.


simplify: And I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

And I will take them out from among the peoples, and get them together from the countries, and will take them into their land; and I will give them food on the mountains of Israel by the water-streams and wherever men are living in the country.


rate difficulty: and when the heads hear that I have spoken with thee, and they have come in unto thee, and have said unto thee, Declare to us, we pray thee, what thou didst speak unto the king, do not hide <FI>it<Fi> from us, and we do not put thee to death, and what the king spake unto thee,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; the line goes on to the right hand, to the people of En-tappuah.

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


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

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.


rate difficulty: Woe to me for my breaking, Grievious hath been my smiting, And I said, Only, this <FI>is<Fi> my sickness, and I bear it.

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


rate difficulty: She openeth her mouth with wisdom; And the law of kindness is on her tongue.

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


simplify: And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the Lord, and in the service of the king.

Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants.


simplify: and he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: and he promised that he would give it to him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.


rate difficulty: And when they had sung a hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.


simplify: There was then no king in Edom: a deputy was king.


rate difficulty: For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds; and strangers shall no more make him their bondman;

For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:


simplify: And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.

And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.


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

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.


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

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


simplify: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.


simplify: And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Ben–hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.


simplify: Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.


simplify: Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shethar–boznai, and their companions, according to that which Darius the king had sent, so they did speedily.

Then Tattenai, the ruler across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and their people, because of the order given by King Darius, did as he had said with all care.


rate difficulty: But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

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


rate difficulty: And I said, After she hath done all these [things], she will return unto me; but she returned not. And her sister Judah, the treacherous, saw [it].

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


rate difficulty: and having put on the new, which is renewed in regard to knowledge, after the image of Him who did create him;

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


simplify: And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

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


rate difficulty: And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

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


simplify: Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

And they are judged because they have been false to their first faith;


simplify: not that which is coming into the mouth doth defile the man, but that which is coming forth from the mouth, this defileth the man.'

It is not what enters a person’s mouth that ‘defiles’ them, but what comes out from their mouth — that does defile them!”


rate difficulty: But Jesus answered: “I tell you that if they are silent, the stones will call out.”

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, to exterminate and destroy [them]; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.

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


rate difficulty: A righteous man hateth lying; But a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.


simplify: But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

‘My friend,’ was his reply to one of them, ‘I am not treating you unfairly. Did not you agree with me for two silver coins?


simplify: For this cause therefore did I entreat you to see and to speak with me: for because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.


simplify: For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock;


simplify: and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

With their forty silver bases, two under every board.


simplify: for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need.

Because even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to me in my need.


simplify: Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?

Tell me, you who want to be still subject to law — Why do not you listen to the law?


simplify: For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

For I say to you, You will not see me from this time till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and he goeth in unto his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth a son, and he calleth his name Beriah, because in evil had been his house, --

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


simplify: Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Therefore let us not sleep as others do. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled.


rate difficulty: And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off and have left him; upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

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


rate difficulty: As a shepherd's searching of his drove, In the day of his being in the midst of his scattered flock, so I do seek My flock, And have delivered them out of all places, Whither they have been scattered, In a day of cloud and thick darkness.

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


rate difficulty: and the messenger of Jehovah doth protest to Joshua, saying:

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


rate difficulty: And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

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


simplify: The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign thou over us.

One day the trees went out to make a king for themselves; and they said to the olive-tree, Be king over us.


simplify: And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who bare the tabernacle, set forward.

Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,


rate difficulty: Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was strained, as he wrestled with him.

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


simplify: Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins.

Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.


rate difficulty: Let your words be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from what is evil.


rate difficulty: This is what the king says: Do not be tricked by Hezekiah, for there is no salvation for you in him.


rate difficulty: And having called near his disciples, he saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that this poor widow hath put in more than all those putting into the treasury;

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


simplify: And when he humbled himself, the wrath of Jehovah turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether: and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.


simplify: There shall not be found with thee any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, one that practiseth augury, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,

Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,


rate difficulty: Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord.

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


simplify: And we--we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

But, friends, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the truth.


simplify: And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

And you are to make curtains of goats' hair for a tent over the House, eleven curtains.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.

The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?


simplify: And on the eighth day he shall bring them for his cleansing unto the priest, unto the door of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah:

And on the eighth day he will take them to the priest, to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, so that he may be made clean.


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

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


simplify: where, having found brethren, we were called upon to remain with them seven days, and thus to Rome we came;

There we found some of the Lord's followers, and were urged to stay a week with them; after which we went on to Rome.


rate difficulty: And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.

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


rate difficulty: And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the fence, and stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

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


simplify: only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever Jehovah our God forbade us.

But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go.


simplify: And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.


rate difficulty: Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

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


rate difficulty: But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;

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


rate difficulty: After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

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


rate difficulty: Hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, that he has given to us of his Spirit.


simplify: O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.


simplify: And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

And he who was seated on the throne said — ‘See, I make all things new!’ And he said — ‘Write this, for these words may be trusted and are true.’


rate difficulty: To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

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


simplify: And Samson called unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.

And Samson, crying out to the Lord, said, O Lord God, do have me now in mind, and do make me strong only this once, O God, so that I may take one last payment from the Philistines for my two eyes.


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Blessed <FI>art<Fi> thou of Jehovah, my daughter; thou hast dealt more kindly at the latter end than at the beginning--not to go after the young men, either poor or rich.

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


rate difficulty: They were already far from the house of Micah, when the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

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


rate difficulty: And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

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


rate difficulty: but thy servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord saith.

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


simplify: To do righteousness and justice  Is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.


rate difficulty: But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: At that time there was no king in Edom;


rate difficulty: If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

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


rate difficulty: So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.

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


rate difficulty: However, for you individually, let each love his wife as if she were himself; and the wife be careful to respect her husband.

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


simplify: And there went over a ferry-boat to bring over the king’s household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he was come over the Jordan.

And kept going across the river to take the people of the king's house over, and to do whatever was desired by the king. And Shimei, the son of Gera, went down on his face in the dust before the king, when he was about to go over Jordan,


rate difficulty: `Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer;


simplify: And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?