simplify: Then he called hastily unto the young man his armorbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and kill me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.


rate difficulty: In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

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


rate difficulty: There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, that are gone down with the slain — ashamed of the terror which they caused through their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and bear their confusion with them that go down to the pit.

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


rate difficulty: Take no bag for your journey and do not take two coats or shoes or a stick: for the workman has a right to his food.

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


rate difficulty: The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for ourGod!

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


simplify: The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

The man who has mercy will be rewarded, but the cruel man is the cause of trouble to himself.


simplify: And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, and said:   “Get up, take the child and his mother, and seek refuge in Egypt; and stay there until I tell you to return, for Herod is about to search for the child, to put him to death.”


simplify: And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

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


simplify: and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink-offerings unto other gods.

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

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


rate difficulty: knowing that Christ, having been raised up out of the dead, doth no more die, death over him hath no more lordship;

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


rate difficulty: Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

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


simplify: Though thou mount on high as the eagle, and though thy nest be set among the stars, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.

Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.


simplify: And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:


rate difficulty: And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me if perchance thy father answer thee roughly?

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


simplify: And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


rate difficulty: He says to them, Moses, because of your hard hearts, let you put away your wives: but it has not been so from the first.


simplify: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:


simplify: She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.


simplify: But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.

Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

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


rate difficulty: I am glad Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have come, for they have made up for your absence;

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


rate difficulty: And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.

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


rate difficulty: If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;

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


simplify: So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

So Obadiah went to Ahab and gave him the news; and Ahab went to see Elijah.


simplify: And the servant told Isaac all things that he had done.

Then the servant gave Isaac the story of all he had done.


rate difficulty: Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

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


rate difficulty: If someone is causing divisions among you, after warning them once or twice, have nothing more to say to them.

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


simplify: And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

And the house of God was full of smoke from the glory of God, and from his power, and no one was able to go into the house of God, till the seven punishments of the seven angels were ended.


simplify: And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:

And the men did so; they took two cows, yoking them to the cart and shutting up their young ones in their living-place:


rate difficulty: But today and tomorrow and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be that a prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

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


simplify: But when the people of the land shall come before the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.

But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him.


simplify: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.


simplify: It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord;

And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,


rate difficulty: If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and her children will I kill with death; and all the assemblies shall know that I am he that searches [the] reins and [the] hearts; and I will give to you each according to your works.


rate difficulty: And the seventy turned back with joy, saying, `Sir, and the demons are being subjected to us in thy name;'

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


rate difficulty: AndGod called the dry [land] Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas. AndGod saw that it was good.


rate difficulty: came up behind and touched the tassel of his cloak. Instantly the hemorrhage ceased.

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


rate difficulty: Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.

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


simplify: And another messenger did come forth out of the sanctuary that <FI>is<Fi> in the heaven, having--he also--a sharp sickle,

Then another angel came out of the Temple in heaven; he, also, had a sharp sickle.


rate difficulty: But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one and a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.

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


simplify: That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying,

Moses said to the Levites who were responsible for taking up the ark of the Lord's agreement,


rate difficulty: Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.

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


rate difficulty: And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;

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


rate difficulty: and in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the scall be not spread, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the appearance of the scall be not deeper than the skin,

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


simplify: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

And you are to have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.


simplify: And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: “Can one blind person guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?


simplify: and crying out with a loud voice, he saith, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the Most High God? I adjure thee by God, torment me not.

And crying out with a loud voice he said, What have I to do with you, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God's name, do not be cruel to me.


simplify: for the children being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,

Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,


rate difficulty: and having taken leave of them, he went away to the mountain to pray.

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


simplify: Do they not err that devise evil? But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Will not the designers of evil come into error? But mercy and good faith are for the designers of good.


simplify: And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.

And you will take your oath, By the living Lord, in good faith and wisdom and righteousness; and the nations will make use of you as a blessing, and in you will they take a pride.


rate difficulty: `And if the priest see it, and lo, there is no white hair in it, and it is not lower than the skin, and is become weak, then hath the priest shut him up seven days;

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


simplify: and when they came in, they went up to the upper room, where were abiding both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James, of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zelotes, and Judas, of James;

When they reached Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room, where they were staying. There were there Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.


simplify: It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

And in the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.


simplify: And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.

And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.


rate difficulty: And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens,

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


rate difficulty: And give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel: Thus shall ye say unto your masters:

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


rate difficulty: But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, that will he do.

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


rate difficulty: His left hand <FI>is<Fi> under my head, And his right doth embrace me.

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


simplify: But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

God, from whom all help comes, and who called you, by your union with Christ, into his eternal glory, will, when you have suffered for a little while, himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.


simplify: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;


simplify: And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.

And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.


simplify: And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.

Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.


simplify: And he took up his parable, and said,  Balaam the son of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith;

And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:


rate difficulty: And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Or again, what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?


simplify: But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;

But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;


rate difficulty: And he that brought the tidings answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

‘Who has ever comprehended the mind of the Lord? Who has ever become his counsellor?


simplify: And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? am not I better to thee than ten sons?

Then her husband Elkanah said to her, Hannah, why are you weeping? and why are you taking no food? why is your heart troubled? am I not more to you than ten sons?


rate difficulty: And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

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


simplify: Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them.

to Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas, and our friends with them;


rate difficulty: and it hath been to thee for a sign on thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, so that the law of Jehovah is in thy mouth, for by a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out from Egypt;

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


simplify: 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.

And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.


simplify: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: shouldest not thou also have had mercy on thy fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on thee?

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


simplify: Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and let your voice come to it; for their evil-doing has come up before me.


simplify: And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.


simplify: Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for God blessed him.

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him.


rate difficulty: “Are you, then, the Son of God?” they all asked. “It is true,”answered Jesus, “I am.”

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


rate difficulty: So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

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


simplify: And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

And they came out of the prison and went to the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers they gave them comfort and went away.


simplify: And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.


simplify: And she fastened it with the pin, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awaked out of his sleep, and went away with the pin of the beam, and with the web.

So while he was sleeping she got the seven twists of his hair worked into her cloth and fixed with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. Then awaking from his sleep, he got up quickly, pulling up cloth and machine together.


rate difficulty: Benaiah, Bedeiah, Chelluh,

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


simplify: But Joab and Abishai pursued after Abner: and the sun went down when they were come to the hill of Ammah, that lieth before Giah by the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

But Joab and Abishai went after Abner: and the sun went down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is to the east of the road through the waste land of Geba.


simplify: But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, compelled him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

But he would not, saying, I have no desire for food. But his servants, together with the woman, made him take food, and he gave way to them. So he got up from the earth, and took his seat on the bed.


rate difficulty: For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

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


simplify: And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.


simplify: For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.

For I have no one but him to send — no one of kindred spirit who would take the same genuine interest in your welfare.


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

Sixty-two thousand, seven hundred of the tribe of Dan were numbered.


simplify: His legs areaspillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.


rate difficulty: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

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


simplify: And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

Then in the hearing of all the meeting of Israel, Moses said the words of this song, to the end.


simplify: Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.


rate difficulty: How much more if the people had well eaten to-day of the spoil of its enemies which it hath found, for now, the smiting hath not been great among the Philistines.'

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


simplify: But Solomon built him a house.

But Solomon was the builder of his house.


simplify: And she said unto him, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the land of the South, 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.


rate difficulty: And Johanan was the father of Azariah, (he was priest in the house which Solomon put up in Jerusalem:)

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


simplify: All they that were numbered in the camp of Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They shall go hindmost with their standards.

The number of all the armies in the tents of Dan was a hundred and fifty-seven thousand, six hundred. They will go forward last, by their flags.


simplify: And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou son of David.

And when Jesus went on from there, two blind men came after him, crying out, Have mercy on us, you Son of David.


simplify: And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

And while he did so, some seeds were dropped by the wayside, and the birds came and took them for food:


simplify: I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

I solemnly charge you, in the sight of God and of Christ Jesus, who will one day judge the living and the dead — I charge you by his appearing and by his kingdom: —


simplify: For not through law <FI>is<Fi> the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, of his being heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith;

For the promise that he should inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his descendants through law, but through the righteousness due to faith.


rate difficulty: And I have said unto you, Ye shall possess their land, and I will give it unto you for a possession; a land flowing with milk and honey: I am Jehovah yourGod, who have separated you from the peoples.

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


simplify: This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

That is not the wisdom which comes from above; no, it is earthly, animal, devilish.


simplify: At that time when David saw that the Lord had answered him in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.

At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace-offerings unto Jehovah shall bring his oblation unto Jehovah out of the sacrifice of his peace-offerings:

Say to the children of Israel: He who makes a peace-offering to the Lord, is to give an offering to the Lord out of his peace-offering:


simplify: and over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:

Ezri, the son of Chelub, had authority over the field-workers and farmers;


simplify: For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.


simplify: In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

In the four angles there were spaces walled in, forty cubits long and thirty wide; the four were of the same size.


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

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 understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

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


rate difficulty: And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.

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


simplify: Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Jesus looked at the man, and his heart went out to him, and he said: “There is still one thing wanting in you; go and sell all that you have, and give to the poor, and you will heave wealth in heaven; then come and follow me.”


rate difficulty: When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

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


rate difficulty: For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

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


rate difficulty: So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;

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


simplify: And he said, Wherefore doth my lord pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in my hand?

And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?


rate difficulty: He that overcomes, he shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life, and will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

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


simplify: One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

The first Woe has passed; and still there are two Woes to follow!


rate difficulty: As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me as quickly as possible at Nicopolis, for I have arranged to spend the winter there.

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


rate difficulty: He that receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man's reward.

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


simplify: And David was the youngest; and the three eldest followed Saul.

And David was the youngest: and the three oldest were with Saul's army.


rate difficulty: And coming to the second he said likewise; and he answering said, I [go], sir, and went not.


simplify: Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.


simplify: And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.

They began to laugh at him; but he sent them all out, and then, with the child’s father and mother and his companions, went into the room where she was lying.


rate difficulty: However, Paul shook the creature off into the fire and took no harm.


rate difficulty: And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.

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


simplify: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

But I say to you that you must not resist those who wrong you; but, if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to them also.


simplify: Shall a man make unto himself gods, which yet are no gods?

Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?


rate difficulty: And Nathan saith unto the king, `All that <FI>is<Fi> in thine heart--go, do, for Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with thee.'

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


simplify: (for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);

(For Joab and all Israel were there six months till every male in Edom had been cut off;)


simplify: Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.

For this reason I say to you, The kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing the fruits of it.


rate difficulty: Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.

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


simplify: and go, say to his disciples, and Peter, that he doth go before you to Galilee; there ye shall see him, as he said to you.'

But go, and say to his disciples and to Peter ‘He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you.’”


rate difficulty: And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

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


simplify: Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms; and I will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against your bands with which you go after souls, and I will violently take them off their arms; and I will let loose the souls, even the souls whom you go after freely.


simplify: And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? And he said, Nay.

And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.


rate difficulty: This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

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


simplify: Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:


rate difficulty: And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

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


rate difficulty: As a bird wandering from her nest, So <FI>is<Fi> a man wandering from his place.

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


rate difficulty: And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.


simplify: then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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


simplify: Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.


rate difficulty: So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.

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


simplify: Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:

Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places;


rate difficulty: and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities and their hamlets.


simplify: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,


simplify: Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;


simplify: And it came to pass, after they were departed, that they came up out of the well, and went and told king David; and they said unto David, Arise ye, and pass quickly over the water; for thus hath Ahithophel counselled against you.

Then after the servants had gone away, they came up out of the water-hole and went to give King David the news; and they said, Get up and go quickly over the water, for such and such are Ahithophel's designs against you.


rate difficulty: Yea, I attended unto you, and, behold, there was none of you that convinced Job, or that answered his words:

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


simplify: I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit and the Bride say, Come; and he who is hearing--let him say, Come; and he who is thirsting--let him come; and he who is willing--let him take the water of life freely.

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


simplify: For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.


simplify: because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.


simplify: Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?


rate difficulty: The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent.

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


simplify: And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

And as the property for the town you are to have a part five thousand wide and twenty-five thousand long, by the side of the offering of the holy part of the land: this is to be for all the children of Israel.


simplify: Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

The tax-gatherers and the outcasts were all drawing near to Jesus to listen to him;


simplify: I will hiss for them, and gather them; for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased.

With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.


rate difficulty: Whosoever there is among you of all his people, hisGod be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah theGod of Israel — he isGod — which is at Jerusalem.

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


simplify: But if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.


rate difficulty: For it was on behalf of the name that they left their homes, and refused to take anything from the Gentiles.

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


simplify: Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.


simplify: But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

But, if they do not listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that ‘on the evidence of two or three witnesses, every word may be put beyond dispute.’


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

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


rate difficulty: When they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return, lest my father leave off caring for the asses, and be anxious for us.

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


simplify: And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.


simplify: and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

and, following his usual custom, Paul joined them, and for three Sabbaths addressed them, drawing his arguments from the scriptures.


rate difficulty: And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.

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


simplify: And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

And the spice and the oil for the light, and the holy oil and the sweet perfumes.


simplify: Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage already: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

But our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen, and our children as their children: and now we are giving our sons and daughters into the hands of others, to be their servants, and some of our daughters are servants even now: and we have no power to put a stop to it; for other men have our fields and our vine-gardens.


rate difficulty: And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.

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


rate difficulty: Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

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


simplify: The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:

The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;


simplify: And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;


simplify: Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.

Therefore pray to the owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest.”


simplify: And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

And we were, in the ship, two hundred and seventy-six persons.


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.


rate difficulty: And David said, I will shew kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

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


simplify: And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

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


rate difficulty: And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury.

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


rate difficulty: Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables.


rate difficulty: and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

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


simplify: For each tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.

For every tree is judged by its fruit. Men do not get figs from thorns, or grapes from blackberry plants.


simplify: I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is ‘defiling in itself.’ A thing is ‘defiling’ only to the person who holds it to be so.


rate difficulty: He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.


simplify: And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.


rate difficulty: None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

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


simplify: And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.


simplify: And ten young men that bare Joab’s armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

And ten young men, servants of Joab, came round Absalom and put an end to him.


rate difficulty: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

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


simplify: But Judah shall abide for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.


rate difficulty: And ye shall make images of your hemorrhoids, and images of your mice that destroy the land, and give glory to theGod of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off yourgods, and from off your land.

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


rate difficulty: Then Micaiah gave them an account of all the words which had come to his ears when Baruch was reading the book to the people.

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


simplify: Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.


simplify: And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.


simplify: Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:


simplify: having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the day of Jesus Christ.


simplify: And straightway the Spirit driveth him forth into the wilderness.

And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.


simplify: And the rest of the people he delivered into the hand of Abishai his brother, that he might put them in array against the children of Ammon.

And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon, with Abishai, his brother, at their head.


rate difficulty: Babylon's men of war have kept back from the fight, waiting in their strong places; their strength has given way, they have become like women: her houses have been put on fire, her locks are broken.

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


simplify: And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan.


simplify: These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of Judah as they were numbered, seventy-six thousand, five hundred.


simplify: There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.


rate difficulty: Is the Lord quickly made angry? are these his doings? do not his words do good to his people Israel?


simplify: And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

And David took from him one thousand, seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen: and David had the leg-muscles of the horses cut, only keeping enough of them for a hundred war-carriages.


rate difficulty: And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to him, one by one, `Is it I?' and another, `Is it I?'

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


simplify: For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.


simplify: And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house;


simplify: Neither give place to the devil.


simplify: And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.

And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by the Urim and Thummim.


simplify: It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

It is the glory of God to keep a thing secret: but the glory of kings is to have it searched out.


simplify: And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?

But Jephthah said to the responsible men of Gilead, Did you not, in your hate for me, send me away from my father's house? Why do you come to me now when you are in trouble?


simplify: And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, What askest thou me concerning goodness? one is good. But if thou wouldest enter into life, keep the commandments.

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


rate difficulty: He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: But now that you have found God — or, rather, have been found by him — how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

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


rate difficulty: he has been clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood; and the name by which he is called is ‘The Word of God.’


simplify: And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt put it under the ledge of the altar beneath, and the net shall be to the very middle of the altar.

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


simplify: Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

But if we are dead with Christ, we have faith that we will be living with him;


rate difficulty: and all the men of his city have stoned him with stones, and he hath died, and thou hast put away the evil out of thy midst, and all Israel do hear and fear.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

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


rate difficulty: So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?


simplify: Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.


simplify: What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? Ministers through whom ye believed; and each as the Lord gave to him.

What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.


simplify: And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?


rate difficulty: (For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)

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


simplify: Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?


rate difficulty: And for sixty years old and over, for a male the value will be fifteen shekels, and for a female, ten.

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


simplify: And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that he did for Israel.

And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.


simplify: And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.

And all the chiefs and the men of war and all the sons of King David put themselves under the authority of Solomon the king.


simplify: And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took each of them his censer, and put fire therein, and laid incense thereon, and offered strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.


simplify: And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.


simplify: He that is soon angry will deal foolishly; And a man of wicked devices is hated.

He who is quickly angry will do what is foolish, but the man of good sense will have quiet.


simplify: (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to them, `Verily I say to you, If ye may have faith, and may not doubt, not only this of the fig-tree shall ye do, but even if to this mount ye may say, Be lifted up and be cast into the sea, it shall come to pass;

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


simplify: for we are not able to do anything against the truth, but for the truth;

We have no power at all against the truth, but we have power in the service of the truth.


simplify: and this I say by way of concurrence--not of command,

I say this, however, as a concession, not as a command.


simplify: If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.


simplify: and last of all died also the woman:


rate difficulty: And Saul was very wroth, and that saying was evil in his sight; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, but to me they have ascribed the thousands; and [what] is there more for him but the kingdom?

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


rate difficulty: So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the Lord delivered them into his hands.

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


rate difficulty: Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the loins.


rate difficulty: and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

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


simplify: `And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;

When the Son of Man has come in his glory and all the angels with him, then he ‘will take his seat on his throne of glory’;


rate difficulty: And there were women watching from a distance: among them were Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome,

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


rate difficulty: but, for those who are thought worthy to attain to that other world and the resurrection from the dead, there is no marrying or being married,


simplify: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

May blessing and peace be yours in ever increasing measure, as you advance in the knowledge of God and of Jesus, our Lord.


simplify: And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us.


rate difficulty: So not one of us, I or my brothers or my servants or the watchmen who were with me, took off his clothing, everyone went armed to the water.

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


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

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


rate difficulty: And He saith, `Come not near hither: cast thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place on which thou art standing is holy ground.'

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


simplify: For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

For God has given all alike over to disobedience, that to all alike he may show mercy.


simplify: So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath–jearim.

So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.


rate difficulty: Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.


simplify: So Paul departed from among them.


simplify: And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king; to whom also he bare witness and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after my heart, who shall do all my will.

And having put him on one side, he made David their king, to whom he gave witness, saying, I have taken David, the son of Jesse, a man dear to my heart, who will do all my pleasure.


simplify: but in the most of them God was not well pleased, for they were strewn in the wilderness,

Yet with most of them God was displeased; for they were ‘struck down in the desert.’


simplify: and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

About three Jesus called out loudly: “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani” — that is to say, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’


simplify: For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.


rate difficulty: In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim was his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.


rate difficulty: for I say unto you, that many prophets and kings desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses.


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

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


rate difficulty: The Ammonites gave offerings to Uzziah: and news of him went out as far as the limit of Egypt; for he became very great in power.

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


rate difficulty: All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.


simplify: And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

And some of the rulers of Asia, being his friends, sent to him, requesting him seriously not to put himself in danger by going into the theatre.


simplify: They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.

Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.


rate difficulty: And having taken a loaf, when he had given thanks, he broke [it], and gave [it] to them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jael Heber’s wife took a tent-pin, and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the pin into his temples, and it pierced through into the ground; for he was in a deep sleep; so he swooned and died.

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


simplify: Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.

For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel.


rate difficulty: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

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


simplify: The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.


simplify: And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door.


simplify: Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Bring everything to the test; cling to what is good;


rate difficulty: And he came out, and went, as his way was, to the Mountain of Olives, and the disciples went with him.

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


rate difficulty: And behold, one came to him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

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


rate difficulty: Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.

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


simplify: And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.


rate difficulty: And they came to Capernaum; and on the Sabbath he went into the Synagogue and gave teaching.


simplify: Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And He saith, `Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.'

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


rate difficulty: And Israel said, Why were you so cruel to me as to say to him that you had a brother?


rate difficulty: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the Lord, saying,


simplify: And there was great joy in that city.

and many who were paralyzed or lame were cured, so that there was great rejoicing throughout that city.


rate difficulty: And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.


simplify: And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian playing with Isaac.


rate difficulty: And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

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


rate difficulty: that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)


rate difficulty: Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

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


simplify: Therefore said he, Take it up to thee. And he put out his hand, and took it.

Then he said, Take it up. So he put out his hand and took it.


rate difficulty: A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

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


simplify: For who hath despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; these are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.

For who has had a poor opinion of the day of small things? for they will be glad when they see the weighted measuring-line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Then he said in answer to me, These seven lights are the eyes of the Lord which go quickly up and down through all the earth.


rate difficulty: So that, looking on these ornaments, you may keep in mind the orders of the Lord and do them; and not be guided by the desires of your hearts and eyes, through which you have been untrue to me:

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


rate difficulty: Take no interest from him, in money or in goods, but have the fear of your God before you, and let your brother make a living among you.

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


rate difficulty: Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

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


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

Then Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold given by the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, and took it into the Tent of meeting, to be a sign in memory of the children of Israel before the Lord.


simplify: for a certain one, Demetrius by name, a worker in silver, making silver sanctuaries of Artemis, was bringing to the artificers gain not a little,

A silversmith named Demetrius, who made silver models of the shrine of Artemis, and so gave a great deal of work to the artisans,


simplify: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; But the tent of the upright shall flourish.

The house of the sinner will be overturned, but the tent of the upright man will do well.


rate difficulty: (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

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


rate difficulty: “Now, Lord, you will let your servant go, According to your word, in peace,

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


rate difficulty: Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.


simplify: Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.


simplify: But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

You should, however, speak of such subjects as properly have a place in sound Christian teaching.


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

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


simplify: And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father’s house twenty and two captains.

And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that, when Jehu was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah, that ministered to Ahaziah, he slew them.

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


simplify: Also Jonathan David’s uncle was a counsellor, a wise man, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king’s sons:

Now Jonathan, David's father's brother, expert in discussion, and a man of good sense, was a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni, had the care of the king's sons;


simplify: And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

After the baptism of Jesus, and just as he came up from the water, the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove and resting on him,


rate difficulty: And the children of Harim: Eliezer, Jishijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Simeon,

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


simplify: Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

About this I three times entreated the Lord, praying that it might leave me.


simplify: Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

And they had no regret for putting men to death, or for their use of secret arts, or for the evil desires of the flesh, or for taking the property of others.


rate difficulty: If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.


rate difficulty: He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.

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


rate difficulty: They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

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


simplify: Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

So Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath, the daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had.


simplify: Let no man therefore despise him: but conduct him forth in peace, that he may come unto me: for I look for him with the brethren.

See then that he has the honour which is right. But send him on his way in peace, so that he may come to me: for I am looking for him with the brothers.


simplify: And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.

And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.


simplify: And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

And will make you level with the earth, and your children with you; and there will not be one stone resting on another in you, because you did not see that it was your day of mercy.


simplify: Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And he said to her, If they should bind me fast with new ropes, with which no work has been done, then should I be weak, and be as another man.

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


simplify: Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

Then if any man says to you, See, here is the Christ, or, Here; do not put faith in him;


simplify: I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.


simplify: Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.


rate difficulty: and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

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


simplify: And Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you unto Jehovah.

Then Samuel said, Let all Israel come to Mizpah and I will make prayer to the Lord for you.


rate difficulty: And David saith on that day, `Any one smiting the Jebusite, (let him go up by the watercourse), and the lame and the blind--the hated of David's soul,' --because the blind and lame say, `He doth not come into the house.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And not even so did their witness agree together.

And even so their witness was not in agreement.


rate difficulty: But I say to you that anyone who looks at a woman and desires her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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


rate difficulty: And there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many, and we must procure corn that we may eat and live.

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


rate difficulty: And they gave him one. And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it? And they said to him, Caesar's.

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


simplify: And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

And he made the holy oil and the perfume of sweet spices for burning, after the art of the perfume-maker.


simplify: And they told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And his heart fainted, for he believed them not.

And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.


simplify: This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

This is the offering you are to give: a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and a sixth of an ephah out of a homer of barley;


rate difficulty: Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua said to the people, Hallow yourselves; for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders in your midst.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come and let us go into Jerusalem because of the army of the Chaldeans, and because of the army of Syria; and we dwell at Jerusalem.


simplify: And he will himself show you a large upper room furnished and ready: and there make ready for us.

And he will take you up himself to a great room with a table and seats: there make ready for us.


rate difficulty: For, lo, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith Jehovah; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.

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


simplify: and ye yourselves know that to my necessities, and to those who were with me, minister did these hands;

You, yourselves, know that these hands of mine provided not only for my own wants, but for my companions also.


simplify: and he who is delivering him up had given a token to them, saying, `Whomsoever I shall kiss, he it is, lay hold on him, and lead him away safely,'

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. “The man whom I kiss,” he had said, “will be the one; arrest him and take him away safely.”


simplify: But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.


rate difficulty: Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

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


simplify: And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

And from the men of war who went out let there be offered to the Lord one out of every five hundred, from the persons, and from the oxen and asses and sheep:


simplify: And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother’s name was Joktan.

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his days a division was made of the earth; and his brother's name was Joktan.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.

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


simplify: And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, trying him:

And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,


rate difficulty: and he layeth a charge upon them, saying, `Thus do ye do in the fear of Jehovah, in faithfulness, and with a perfect heart,

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


simplify: And oft-times it hath cast him both into the fire and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.

And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.


simplify: And I will write on the tables the words that were on the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

And I will put on the stones the words which were on the first stones which were broken by you, and you are to put them into the ark.


simplify: These are they whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: And Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but daughters, and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad <FI>are<Fi> Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

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


rate difficulty: Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the hold.

And David gave Saul his oath. And Saul went back to his house; but David and his men went up to their safe place.


rate difficulty: And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither; thinking, David cannot come in hither.

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


rate difficulty: And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters.

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


simplify: Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Do your best to go in by the narrow door, for I say to you, A number will make the attempt to go in, but will not be able to do so.


simplify: and he fell upon <FI>his<Fi> face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

and threw himself on his face at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done; and this man was a Samaritan.


rate difficulty: for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

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


rate difficulty: And they shall eat up thy harvest and thy bread, they shall eat up thy sons and thy daughters, they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds, they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig-trees; they shall destroy with the sword thy strong cities, wherein thou trustedst.

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


rate difficulty: And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

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


simplify: and they came up against Judah, and brake into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king’s house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was never a son left him, save Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.


rate difficulty: for they have poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; they are worthy.

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


rate difficulty: And David cometh in to Nob, unto Ahimelech the priest, and Ahimelech trembleth at meeting David, and saith to him, `Wherefore <FI>art<Fi> thou thyself alone, and no man with thee?'

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


simplify: Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.


simplify: And Solomon counted out threescore and ten thousand men to bear burdens, and fourscore thousand men that were hewers in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.


rate difficulty: and the great dragon was cast forth--the old serpent, who is called `Devil,' and `the Adversary,' who is leading astray the whole world--he was cast forth to the earth, and his messengers were cast forth with him.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And it was so, that, as oft as the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.


rate difficulty: And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

“If that,” said the disciples, “is the position of a man with regard to his wife, it is better not to marry.”


simplify: and Adaiah, and Beraiah, and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei,

And Adaiah and Beraiah and Shimrath, the sons of Shimei;