simplify: And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.

A space of land twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide is to be for the Levites, the servants of the house, a property for themselves, for towns for their living-places.


rate difficulty: And Saul said, May God's punishment be on me if death is not your fate, Jonathan.

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


simplify: And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise-hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they make Aaron’s garments to sanctify him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest.


rate difficulty: And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

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


simplify: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.


simplify: because members we are of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones;


rate difficulty: And when he heard the crowd passing, he inquired what this might be.

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


rate difficulty: and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, only, not as the kings of Israel who were before him;

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


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Shew me, I pray Thee, Thine honour;'

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


simplify: and every spirit that confesseth not Jesus is not of God: and this is the spirit of the antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it cometh; and now it is in the world already.

And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare [it] unto thee, wilt thou not certainly put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, thou wilt not hearken unto me.

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


simplify: And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.


rate difficulty: and with difficulty coasting along it we came unto a certain place called Fair Havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

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


simplify: It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.

His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.


rate difficulty: for Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: `Jair son of Manasseh hath taken all the region of Argob, unto the border of Geshuri, and Maachathi, and calleth them by his own name, Bashan-Havoth-Jair, unto this day.

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


rate difficulty: Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:


simplify: Where there is no counsel, purposes are disappointed; But in the multitude of counsellors they are established.

Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.


simplify: While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.


simplify: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.


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

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


rate difficulty: The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.


rate difficulty: And let some heads of grain be pulled out of what has been corded up, and dropped for her to take, and let no sharp word be said to her.

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


simplify: And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.

And he sent for one of the servants, questioning him about what it might be.


simplify: For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat cometh, but its leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

For he will be like a tree planted by the waters, pushing out its roots by the stream; he will have no fear when the heat comes, but his leaf will be green; in a dry year he will have no care, and will go on giving fruit.


rate difficulty: Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

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


simplify: Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east.

And he took me to the doorway looking to the east:


simplify: Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Therefore, comfort one another with what I have told you.


rate difficulty: I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me.

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


simplify: As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:


simplify: Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; what is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?

Then they said to him, Now make clear to us what is your work, and where you come from? what is your country, and who are your people?


rate difficulty: These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.

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


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

To Timothy, my dear child, from Paul who, by the will of God, is an apostle of Christ Jesus, charged to proclaim the life that comes from union with Christ Jesus. May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.


simplify: For a Topheth is prepared of old; yea, for the king it is made ready; he hath made it deep and large; the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.


rate difficulty: It is I that have made the earth, and created man upon it; it is I, my hands, that have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

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


rate difficulty: These are the words of the covenant that Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant that he made with them in Horeb.

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


rate difficulty: And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.


simplify: And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:

And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;


simplify: and on the morrow Paul and his company having gone forth, we came to Caesarea, and having entered into the house of Philip the evangelist--who is of the seven--we remained with him,

The next day we left, and reached Caesarea, where we went to the house of Philip, the missionary, who was one of ‘the Seven,’ and stayed with him.


simplify: And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?

While they were untying the foal, the owners asked them — “Why are you untying the foal?”


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


simplify: Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:


rate difficulty: A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

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


simplify: I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.


rate difficulty: And if the bright place keeps the same size and gets no greater on the skin, but is less bright, it is the effect of the burn, and the priest will say that he is clean: it is the mark of the burn.

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


simplify: And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.


simplify: For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;


simplify: And, behold, Jehovah stood above it, and said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.


simplify: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions.


rate difficulty: and the pillars of the court round about, and their bases, and their pegs, and their cords.

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


simplify: Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?


rate difficulty: “I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that this very night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times!”

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


simplify: covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:

The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:


rate difficulty: But if ye do not hearken to us, to be circumcised, then will we take our daughter and go away.

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


simplify: Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, We beseech thee, O Lord, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O Lord, hast done as it pleased thee.

So, crying to the Lord, they said, Give ear to our prayer, O Lord, give ear, and do not let destruction overtake us because of this man's life; do not put on us the sin of taking life without cause: for you, O Lord, have done what seemed good to you.


simplify: Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the fulfilment of every vision.

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: I have made this saying come to an end, and it will no longer be used as a common saying in Israel; but say to them, The days are near, and the effect of every vision.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Go, tell that fox, Behold, I cast out demons and accomplish cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third [day] I am perfected;

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


simplify: And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

And the first went, and let what was in his vessel come down on the earth; and it became an evil poisoning wound on the men who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image.


simplify: and heal the ailing in it, and say to them, The reign of God hath come nigh to you.

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


rate difficulty: `If thine outcast is in the extremity of the heavens, thence doth Jehovah thy God gather thee, and thence He doth take thee;

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


simplify: according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, so that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love.


simplify: Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

Then Samuel gave the people the laws of the kingdom, writing them in a book which he put in a safe place before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.


rate difficulty: Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him.

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


simplify: And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents.

It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents.


rate difficulty: But Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

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


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

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


simplify: And out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kirjathaim with her suburbs.

And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts.


simplify: Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, Than he that is perverse inhisways, though he be rich.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.


simplify: But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;

But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;


simplify: All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.

All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.


simplify: Then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

They took their men and went out to make war on Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and they came face to face with him by the great waters in Gibeon.


simplify: and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

But those who preach are speaking to their fellow men and women words that will build up faith, and give them comfort and encouragement.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.

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


simplify: Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

And Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah: she was the mother of Onam.


simplify: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, lord, have we not in thy name prophesied? and in thy name cast out demons? and in thy name done many mighty things?

On ‘that day’ many will say to me ‘Master, Master, was not it in your name that we taught, and in your name that we drove out demons, and in your name that we did many miracles?’


simplify: Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as Jehovah liveth: lie down until the morning.

Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.


rate difficulty: And he goeth and taketh Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceiveth and beareth to him a son;

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


rate difficulty: And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;

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


rate difficulty: “What are you arguing about with them?”Jesus asked.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the goings out of the city. On the north side, four thousand and five hundred [cubits] by measure.


simplify: And David said, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. And Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.


rate difficulty: He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.

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


simplify: And after him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.

And after him, Abdon, the son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, was judge of Israel.


simplify: And the sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezer, and Dishan.

And the sons of Seir: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah and Dishon and Ezer and Dishan.


simplify: Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: in the time of their punishment they will be made low, says the Lord.


simplify: And they were saying among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the tomb?

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


simplify: And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.

Prompted by her mother, the girl said ‘Give me here, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist.’


simplify: My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:


rate difficulty: And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

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


rate difficulty: And they went up, and encamped in Kiriath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan, unto this day; behold, it is behind Kiriath-jearim.

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


simplify: And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

But he repeatedly warned them not to make him known.


simplify: And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that Jehovah thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.


simplify: And he said unto all, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.


rate difficulty: If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;


rate difficulty: And he said, Take the arrows. And he took [them]. And he said to the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

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


simplify: Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth.

Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.


simplify: `The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, For he has consecrated me to bring good news to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty,


rate difficulty: He permitteth me not to refresh my spirit, But filleth me with bitter things.

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


simplify: And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water;


rate difficulty: And he is to put it to death on the north side of the altar before the Lord: and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.

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


simplify: And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai, and Ahimoth.

And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.


simplify: And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.

And again they said, Praise to the Lord. And her smoke went up for ever and ever.


simplify: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:

And the traders of the earth are weeping and crying over her, because no man has any more desire for their goods,


simplify: The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,

The traders in these things, by which their wealth was increased, will be watching far off for fear of her punishment, weeping and crying;


simplify: And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the broad place at the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

And he put war chiefs over the people, and sent for them all to come together to him in the wide place at the doorway into the town, and to give them heart he said to them,


rate difficulty: For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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


rate difficulty: He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

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


rate difficulty: According to their abundance so they sinned against Me, Their honour into shame I change.

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


simplify: And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels, Go ye, and pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God into the earth.

And a great voice out of the house of God came to my ears, saying to the seven angels, Go, and let that which is in the seven vessels of the wrath of God come down on the earth.


rate difficulty: they saw not one another, neither rose any from his place, for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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


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

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


simplify: For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

For I myself, though absent in body, have been present with you in spirit, and in the name of our Lord Jesus I have already passed judgment, just as if I had been present, on the man who has acted in this way.


rate difficulty: It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.


simplify: Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.

Then the moon will be veiled, and the sun put to shame; for the Lord of armies will be ruling in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before his judges he will let his glory be seen.


simplify: But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and the wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.


simplify: And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,


simplify: And the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

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rate difficulty: Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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


simplify: And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg:

And Eber was thirty-four years old when he became the father of Peleg:


rate difficulty: Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall ‘theology,’

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


simplify: And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.


simplify: and the son of the Israelitish woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him unto Moses. And his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

And the son of the Israelite woman said evil against the holy Name, with curses; and they took him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.


simplify: And he said, Oh, Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

And he said, O Lord, send, if you will, by the hand of anyone whom it seems good to you to send.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them--they have made to themselves a molten thing!

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


rate difficulty: And when you are on the point of attacking, let the priest come forward and say to the people,

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


simplify: Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

love never fails. But, whether it be the gift of preaching, it will be done with; whether it be the gift of ‘tongues,’ it will cease; whether it be knowledge, it, too, will be done with.


rate difficulty: Therefore are they before the throne ofGod, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

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


simplify: Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth–el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.


rate difficulty: And six boards for the back of the House on the west,

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


rate difficulty: And there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.


rate difficulty: Howbeit Jehovah, the God of Israel, chose me out of all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be prince; and in the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he took pleasure in me to make me king over all Israel;

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


rate difficulty: `And if her husband doth certainly break them in the day of his hearing, none of the outgoing of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, is established--her husband hath broken them--and Jehovah is propitious to her.

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


rate difficulty: the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;


simplify: If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is true whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.

If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.


simplify: One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


rate difficulty: Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.


simplify: and thou shalt present the Levites before Jehovah. And the children of Israel shall lay their hands upon the Levites:

And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them:


simplify: Of a truth I know that it is so: But how can man be just with God?

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?


simplify: And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

And his son said to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes: I am no longer good enough to be named your son.


simplify: and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

In those days people ‘will seek Death and will not find it’; They will long to die, but Death flees from them.


simplify: And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;


rate difficulty: She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.


rate difficulty: And, as the seven days were about to be fully ended, the Jews from Asia having beheld him in the temple, were stirring up all the multitude, and they laid hands upon him,

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


rate difficulty: I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

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


simplify: your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;

And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:


simplify: I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.


simplify: Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?

Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?


simplify: For they have refreshed my spirit and yours: therefore acknowledge ye them that are such.

For they gave comfort to my spirit and to yours: for which cause give respect to such people.


rate difficulty: And I will make the land desolate, because they have committed a trespass, saith the Lord God.

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


simplify: The smithmakethan axe, and worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with his strong arm: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth; he drinketh no water, and is faint.

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


rate difficulty: The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

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


rate difficulty: Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.

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


simplify: Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,


rate difficulty: Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

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


simplify: and I say to you, that I may not drink henceforth on this produce of the vine, till that day when I may drink it with you new in the reign of my Father.'

I tell you that I will never, after this, drink of this juice of the grape, until that day when I will drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”


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

And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them:


simplify: all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.

All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.


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

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


rate difficulty: These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Joseb-Bassebeth, Tachkemonite the chief of the captains: he was Adino the Eznite; he [fought] against eight hundred, slain [by him] at one time.

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


rate difficulty: And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.

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


rate difficulty: And, lo, a woman to meet him--(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,


rate difficulty: He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, to the war against Hazael the king of Syria at Ramoth-Gilead; and the Syrians wounded Joram.


simplify: And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.


simplify: Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.


simplify: And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

And he said, Give ear, O Judah, and you people of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat: the Lord says to you, Have no fear and do not be troubled on account of this great army; for the fight is not yours but God's.


rate difficulty: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.


simplify: and the stars of the heaven fell to the earth--as a fig-tree doth cast her winter figs, by a great wind being shaken--

‘The stars of the heavens fell’ to the earth, as when a fig-tree, shaken by a strong wind, drops its unripe fruit.


simplify: John to the seven assemblies that <FI>are<Fi> in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,

From John, to the seven churches which are in Roman Asia. Blessing and peace be yours from him who is, and who was, and who will be, and from the seven spirits that are before his throne,


simplify: For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

For the time will come when your attackers will put a wall round you, and come all round you and keep you in on every side,


rate difficulty: It is planted a natural body; it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

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


simplify: And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.

And a number of those who had faith came and made a public statement of their sins and all their acts.


simplify: And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, We never saw it on this fashion.

And he got up, and straight away took up the bed and went out before them all, so that they were all full of wonder, and gave glory to God, saying, We have never seen anything like this.


rate difficulty: On the second day hath Nethaneel son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, brought near.

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


simplify: Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king’s sons are dead; for Amnon only is dead.

So now, let not my lord the king take this thing to heart, with the idea that all the king's sons are dead: for only Amnon is dead.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,

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


simplify: And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.


simplify: If he come in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he be married, then his wife shall go out with him.

If he comes to you by himself, let him go away by himself: if he is married, let his wife go away with him.


rate difficulty: And a certain woman cast an upper millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and brake his skull.

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


rate difficulty: But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.


simplify: The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.


simplify: Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.


rate difficulty: And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Jehovah had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes. And the land rested from war.


simplify: And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

And this is what the horses and their riders appeared to be like in my vision: — They had breastplates of fire, blood-red and sulphurous, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, while out of their mouths issue fire, and smoke, and sulphur.


simplify: And they waited for me as for the rain; And they opened their mouth wideasfor the latter rain.

They were waiting for me as for the rain, opening their mouths wide as for the spring rains.


simplify: For if they that are of the law are heirs, faith is made void, and the promise is made of none effect:

For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

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


rate difficulty: And Azor had Zadok; and Zadok had Achim; and Achim had Eliud;

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


simplify: And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.


simplify: I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.


simplify: And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.

Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.


rate difficulty: the leg of the heave-offering, and breast of the wave-offering, besides fire-offerings of the fat, they do bring in to wave a wave-offering before Jehovah, and it hath been to thee, and to thy sons with thee, by a statute age-during, as Jehovah hath commanded.'

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


rate difficulty: Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Jithran, and Beera.


rate difficulty: What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which <FI>is<Fi> to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

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


simplify: and certain of those standing there said to them, `What do ye--loosing the colt?'

Some of the bystanders said to them: “What are you doing, untying the foal?”


simplify: And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,

And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before God,


rate difficulty: The priests, the Levites, that is, all the tribe of Levi, will have no part or heritage with Israel: their food and their heritage will be the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

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


simplify: How then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be?


rate difficulty: `And the priest who is anointed hath taken of the blood of the bullock, and hath brought it in unto the tent of meeting,

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


rate difficulty: And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, Therefore we have returned to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be head over all of us the inhabitants of Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: Then Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:

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


rate difficulty: Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

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


rate difficulty: Judge not, that ye may not be judged;

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


rate difficulty: And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,

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


rate difficulty: Ephraim hath provoked most bitterly, And his blood on himself he leaveth, And his reproach turn back to him doth his Lord!

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


simplify: and having risen, they put him forth without the city, and brought him unto the brow of the hill on which their city had been built--to cast him down headlong,

Starting up, they drove Jesus out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town stood, intending to hurl him down.


rate difficulty: And Mizpah, for he said, May the Lord keep watch on us when we are unable to see one another's doings.


simplify: For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

It is true that I am not with you in person, but I am with you in spirit, and am glad to see the good order and the unbroken front resulting from your faith in Christ.


simplify: And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.

And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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


simplify: That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Let righteousness be your guide, so that you may have life, and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `The heart of Pharaoh hath been hard, he hath refused to send the people away;

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


simplify: And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

Then you are to make its seven vessels for the lights, putting them in their place so that they give light in front of it.


rate difficulty: And he said to her, If they only put round me new thick cords which have never been used, then I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

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


simplify: And righteous men, they shall judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and with the judgment of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

And upright men will be her judges, judging her as false wives and women who take lives are judged; because she has been untrue to me and blood is on her hands.


rate difficulty: And I weighed into their hand six hundred and fifty talents of silver; and silver vessels a hundred talents, [and] of gold a hundred talents;


rate difficulty: That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

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


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

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


simplify: And immediately he constrained his disciples to go into the boat, and to go before to the other side, unto Bethsaida, till he may let the multitude away,

Immediately afterwards Jesus made his disciples get into the boat, and cross over in advance, in the direction of Bethsaida, while he himself was dismissing the crowd.


simplify: They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.


simplify: And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;

And if the priest sees that the mark is not increased in the clothing or in any part of the material or in the leather,


simplify: truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.

His master, I tell you, will put him in charge of the whole of his property.


simplify: And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and Jehovah overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.


rate difficulty: And Ahab slept with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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


simplify: And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)


rate difficulty: And ye shall take no ransom for him that is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

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


simplify: And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.


rate difficulty: And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.

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


simplify: And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;


simplify: and again, Isaiah saith, `There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations--upon him shall nations hope;'

Again, Isaiah says — ‘There will be a Scion of the house of Jesse, One who is to arise to rule the Gentiles; on him will the Gentiles rest their hopes.’


simplify: having a good conscience; that, wherein ye are spoken against, they may be put to shame who revile your good manner of life in Christ.

Being conscious that you have done no wrong; so that those who say evil things about your good way of life as Christians may be put to shame.


simplify: `Afterward to another he said, And thou, how much dost thou owe? and he said, A hundred cors of wheat; and he saith to him, Take thy bill, and write eighty.

And you, the steward said to the next, ‘how much do you owe?’ ‘Seventy quarters of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Here is your agreement,’ the steward said; ‘make it fifty-six.’


simplify: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.


simplify: And he said, Come in, thou blessed of Jehovah; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.

And he said to him, Come in, you on whom is the blessing of the Lord; why are you waiting outside? for I have made the house ready for you, and a place for the camels.


simplify: Beware lest thou forget Jehovah thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:


simplify: a day of the trumpet and alarm, against the fortified cities, and against the high battlements.

A day of sounding the horn and the war-cry against the walled towns and the high towers.


rate difficulty: And he measured the porch of the gate within, one reed.

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


simplify: And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

And Samuel said, How is it possible for me to go? If Saul gets news of it he will put me to death. And the Lord said, Take a young cow with you and say, I have come to make an offering to the Lord.


simplify: Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

Have no fear because of them: for I am with you, to keep you safe, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak to them, saying, Between the two evenings ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah yourGod.

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


simplify: And Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.

And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.


simplify: And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.


simplify: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.


simplify: Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

for ‘he will give to everyone what their actions deserve.’


simplify: And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.


simplify: and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, 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.


simplify: And, behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Jehovah, the God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

And now God is with us at our head, and his priests with their loud horns sounding against you. O children of Israel, do not make war on the Lord, the God of your fathers, for it will not go well for you.


rate difficulty: For, if thou do not let my people go, behold, I will send dog-flies upon thee, and upon thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the houses of the Egyptians shall be full of dog-flies, and also the ground on which they are.

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


simplify: and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry,

But you should exclude the younger widows from the list; for, when they grow restive under the yoke of the Christ, they want to marry,


rate difficulty: Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

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


simplify: And when he had said this, and had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all; and he brake it, and began to eat.

And when he had said this and had taken bread, he gave praise to God before them all, and took a meal of the broken bread.


rate difficulty: And he sent for one of the servants, questioning him about what it might be.

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


simplify: The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

The night is almost gone; the day is near. Therefore let us have done with the deeds of darkness, and arm ourselves with the weapons of light.


rate difficulty: And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling! for it must needs be that the occasions come; but woe to that man through whom the occasion cometh!

A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.


simplify: and thirty thousand and five hundred asses,

And thirty thousand, five hundred asses,


simplify: and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.

So Peter and John went on, and found everything just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover.


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

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


rate difficulty: That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.

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


simplify: And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

And now he has put shame on her, saying that she is not a virgin; but here is the sign that she is a virgin. Then they are to put her clothing before the responsible men of the town.


simplify: And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

And when dawn was near, Paul gave them all orders to take food, saying, This is the fourteenth day you have been waiting and taking no food.


simplify: And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty:

And when you make him free, do not let him go away with nothing in his hands:


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

And hearing these things, we and those who were living in that place made request to him not to go to Jerusalem.


simplify: Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

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


simplify: Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,


rate difficulty: But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

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


rate difficulty: And I proclaim not unto thee any more the shame of the nations, And the reproach of peoples thou bearest no more, And thy nations stumble not any more, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

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


simplify: and the mitre of fine linen, and the goodly head-tires of fine linen, and the linen breeches of fine twined linen,

And the twisted head-dress for Aaron, and beautiful head-dresses of linen, and linen trousers,


simplify: for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

For in God’s sight this world’s wisdom is folly. Scripture tells of —  ‘One who catches the wise in their own craftiness,’


simplify: And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.

And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.


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

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


simplify: All these are the beginning of sorrows.

But all these things are the first of the troubles.


rate difficulty: One law shall be for him that is home-born and for the sojourner that sojourneth among you.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto Jehoshaphat, `Dost thou go with me to battle <FI>to<Fi> Ramoth-Gilead?' and Jehoshaphat saith unto the king of Israel, `As I am, so thou; as my people, so thy people; as my horses, so thy horses.'

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


simplify: But now the Lord my God hath given me rest on every side, so that there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent.

But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.


rate difficulty: For, if their being cast aside has meant the reconciliation of the world, what will their reception mean, but life from the dead?

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


rate difficulty: For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.

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


simplify: `And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

I tell you that for every careless thing that people say, they must answer on the ‘day of judgment.’


rate difficulty: Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

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


rate difficulty: Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

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


simplify: And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

“You incarnation of deceit and all fraud! You son of the devil! You opponent of all that is good! Will you never cease to divert ‘the straight paths of the Lord’? Listen!


rate difficulty: But Israel, pursuing after a law of righteousness, has not attained to [that] law.

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


rate difficulty: But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from us: for they shall not depart.

The Lord has said, Have no false hopes, saying to yourselves, The Chaldaeans will go away from us: for they will not go away.


rate difficulty: And the king said to Joab and the captains of the army, who were with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, and have all the people numbered, so that I may be certain of the number of the people.

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


rate difficulty: I have waited for thy salvation, O Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And remembered Me have your escaped among nations, Whither they have been taken captive, Because I have been broken with their heart that is going a-whoring, That hath turned aside from off Me, And with their eyes they are going a-whoring after their idols, And they have been loathsome in their own faces, For the evils that they have done--all their abominations.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless certain of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Also, thou son of man, the children of thy people still are talking against thee by the walls and in the doors of the houses, and speak one to another, every one to his brother, saying, Come, I pray you, and hear what is the word that cometh forth from the Lord.

And as for you, son of man, the children of your people are talking together about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, saying to one another, Come now, give ear to the word which comes from the Lord.


simplify: And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.


simplify: for such our Lord Jesus Christ do not serve, but their own belly; and through the good word and fair speech they deceive the hearts of the harmless,

For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.


simplify: Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

‘Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.’ ‘The venom of snakes lies behind their lips,’


simplify: And his parents were going yearly to Jerusalem, at the feast of the passover,

Every year the child’s parents used to go to Jerusalem at the Passover Festival.


rate difficulty: You are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: This word has to do with the ruler in Jerusalem and all the children of Israel in it.

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


simplify: In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.


rate difficulty: whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;

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


rate difficulty: one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him.

And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


simplify: And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


rate difficulty: And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.


simplify: Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

The heritage of Simeon was taken out of Judah's stretch of land, for Judah's part was more than they had need of, so the heritage of the children of Simeon was inside their heritage.


rate difficulty: And it came about that when he got near Jericho, a certain blind man was seated by the side of the road, making requests for money from those who went by.

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


simplify: And the fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria; they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.

The strong tower has gone from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus: the rest of Aram will come to destruction, and be made like the glory of the children of Israel, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And Jezebel his wife came to him, and said to him, Why is thy spirit sullen, and thou eatest no bread?

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


simplify: and Herod said, `John I did behead, but who is this concerning whom I hear such things?' and he was seeking to see him.

But Herod himself said: “John I beheaded; but who is this of whom I hear such things?” And he endeavored to see him.


simplify: And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech got the support of a number of uncontrolled and good-for-nothing persons.


simplify: Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.

In the past when Saul was king over us, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in: and the Lord said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel and their ruler.


simplify: And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.


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

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


rate difficulty: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

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


rate difficulty: receiving the end of your faith, [the] salvation of [your] souls.

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


simplify: The tongue of the wise uttereth knowledge aright; But the mouth of fools poureth out folly.

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.


simplify: The sons of Shem: Elam, and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.

These are the sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.


simplify: And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.

And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

‘It will come about in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity; Your sons and your daughters will become prophets, Your young men will see visions, And your old men dream dreams;


simplify: Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.


rate difficulty: Every raven, and birds of that sort;

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


rate difficulty: And they took him, and cast him forth out of the vineyard, and killed him.


simplify: There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;


simplify: Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.


simplify: And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.


simplify: The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spake to me: One that ruleth over men righteously, That ruleth in the fear of God,

The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,


rate difficulty: And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.

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


rate difficulty: And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.


simplify: and they spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.

Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.


simplify: Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and ordered them according to their fathers’ houses, under captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, even all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and upward, and found them three hundred thousand chosen men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

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


rate difficulty: And let him who is instructed in the word share with him who is instructing--in all good things.

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


rate difficulty: Then the chief priests brought a number of charges against him.


simplify: but Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother, he called not.

But he did not send for Nathan the prophet and Benaiah and the other men of war and Solomon his brother.


simplify: Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.


rate difficulty: If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

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


rate difficulty: So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom: and they fetched a compass of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle that followed them.

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


simplify: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

To those who, by perseverance in doing good, aim at glory, honor, and all that is imperishable, he will give immortal life;


simplify: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels.


simplify: And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

and, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the exercise of his power.


simplify: Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

Knotting his ass's cord to the vine, and his young ass to the best vine; washing his robe in wine, and his clothing in the blood of grapes:


simplify: How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?


simplify: And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.


simplify: And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.


simplify: But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

And when the evil man, turning away from his evil-doing, does what is ordered and right, he will get life by it.


simplify: And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.


simplify: And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.

And of Naphtali, a thousand captains with thirty-seven thousand spearmen.


simplify: And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

that of the Spirit, the water, and the blood — and these three are at one.


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

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


rate difficulty: Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Berothite, the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

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


simplify: behold, I will utterly sweep away Baasha and his house; and I will make thy house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Truly, I will see that Baasha and all his family are completely brushed away; I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat.


rate difficulty: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them.

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


rate difficulty: for your walking worthily of God, who is calling you to His own reign and glory.


rate difficulty: Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?


simplify: If then ye are not able to do even that which is least, why are ye anxious concerning the rest?

If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?


simplify: And the governor having read <FI>it<Fi> , and inquired of what province he is, and understood that <FI>he is<Fi> from Cilicia;

As soon as Felix had read the letter, he enquired to what province Paul belonged, and, learning that he came from Cilicia, he said:


simplify: And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.

And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.


rate difficulty: And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

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


rate difficulty: but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give, but for those for whom it is prepared.


simplify: And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, ... And he sent representatives to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying,


simplify: The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

The Lord will not let the upright be in need of food, but he puts far from him the desire of the evil-doers.


rate difficulty: And also--truly, I have erred, With me doth my error remain.

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


simplify: But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.


simplify: The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.


rate difficulty: after he hath been sold, there is a right of redemption to him; one of his brethren doth redeem him,


simplify: And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

And he said to them, It is in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer, but you are making it a hole of thieves.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Jehovah would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

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


simplify: Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges:

Of these, twenty-four thousand were to be overseers of the work of the house of the Lord, and six thousand were judges and men of authority;


rate difficulty: And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

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


simplify: And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.


simplify: For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

They are all pursuing their own aims and not those of Christ Jesus.


simplify: And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.


rate difficulty: For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

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


simplify: Last of all the woman died also.


simplify: Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

But the Lord had delight in your fathers and love for them, marking out for himself their seed after them, even you, from all peoples, as at this day.


rate difficulty: I composed the first discourse, O Theophilus, concerning all things which Jesus began both to do and to teach,

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


simplify: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

But they will have to answer for their conduct to him who is ready to judge both the living and the dead.


rate difficulty: The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]; but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].

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


simplify: But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.


rate difficulty: And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

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


rate difficulty: And all the wise men, who are doing all the work of the sanctuary, come each from his work which they are doing,

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


rate difficulty: Then Jeroboam made the town of Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim a strong place, and was living there; and from there he went out and did the same to Penuel.