simplify: And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.

The crowds that led the way, as well as those that followed behind, kept shouting: “God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God save him from on high!”


simplify: and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the edge of Debir;


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and tell John the things which ye hear and see:

And Jesus, answering, said to them, Go and give news to John of the things which you are seeing and hearing:


rate difficulty: Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

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


simplify: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.


rate difficulty: And having gone forward a little, he fell upon the earth, and was praying, that, if it be possible the hour may pass from him,

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


rate difficulty: Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words, but will arise against the house of the evil-doers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.

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


simplify: And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.

So Joseph got all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian gave up his land in exchange for food, because of their great need; so all the land became Pharaoh's.


simplify: and having heard a multitude going by, he was inquiring what this may be,

Hearing a crowd going by, the man asked what was the matter;


simplify: for men shall be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, evil-speakers, to parents disobedient, unthankful, unkind,

People will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,


rate difficulty: the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

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


simplify: And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.


simplify: Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work; her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.


simplify: Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he become a prey?

Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?


simplify: and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

and said to them: “Scripture says ‘My house will be called a house of prayer’; but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”


rate difficulty: And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;

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


simplify: For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

While Jews ask for miraculous signs, and Greeks study philosophy,


rate difficulty: Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

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


simplify: But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?


rate difficulty: And no one among them was in need; for everyone who had land or houses, exchanging them for money, took the price of them,

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


simplify: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

Then a third angel followed them, crying in a loud voice — ‘Whoever worships the Beast and its image, and receives its brand on his forehead or on his hand,


simplify: Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

Then she said, May I have grace in your eyes, my lord, for you have given me comfort, and you have said kind words to your servant, though I am not like one of your servants.


simplify: And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;

Then I saw at the right hand of him who was ‘seated on the throne a book, with writing inside and out, and sealed’ with seven seals;


simplify: And Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram were an hundred and thirty and seven years.

And Amram took Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she gave birth to Aaron and Moses: and the years of Amram's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.


rate difficulty: and sons of Aaron, the priests, blow with the trumpets; and they have been to you for a statute age-during to your generations.


simplify: And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

Then David got up and went in flight that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish, the king of Gath.


rate difficulty: The eye cannot say to the hand ‘I do not need you,’ nor, again, the head to the feet ‘I do not need you.’

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


rate difficulty: And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

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


simplify: And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of Jehovah: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.

And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.


simplify: And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

They began arguing together; “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say ‘Why then did not you believe him?’


simplify: Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.


simplify: And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.

And let your food be barley cakes, cooking it before their eyes with the waste which comes out of a man.


simplify: And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

A Levite of Cyprian birth, named Joseph, (who had received from the apostles the additional name of ‘Barnabas’ — which means ‘The Consoler,’)


simplify: And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

And he said to him, Master, all these laws I have kept from the time when I was young.


rate difficulty: And thine elder sister <FI>is<Fi> Samaria, she and her daughters, Who is dwelling at thy left hand, And thy younger sister, who is dwelling on thy right hand, <FI>is<Fi> Sodom and her daughters.

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


rate difficulty: See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

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


simplify: And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;

after his rising again, early on the first day of the week, Jesus appeared first of all to Mary of Magdala, from whom he had driven out seven demons.


simplify: And some of them were persuaded, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.


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

So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.


simplify: The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

The time has come, the day is near: let not him who gives a price for goods be glad, or him who gets the price have sorrow:


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.

These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am angry about the fate of Zion, I am angry about her with great wrath.


rate difficulty: And if he have no brethren, ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, in their drawing near before Jehovah, and they die;

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


rate difficulty: And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;

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


simplify: And the Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. And they said, Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore.

And the Philistines, full of fear, said, God has come into their tents. And they said, Trouble is ours! for never before has such a thing been seen.


simplify: And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh:

And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:


simplify: And out of the ground Jehovah God formed every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them: and whatsoever the man called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.


simplify: And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well with thee, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.

And Joab said to Amasa, Is it well, my brother? And with his right hand he took him by the hair of his chin to give him a kiss.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.

The Lord of armies has said: The wide walls of Babylon will be completely uncovered and her high doorways will be burned with fire; so peoples keep on working for nothing, and the weariness of nations comes to an end in the smoke.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it.

The Lord has said, This town will certainly be given into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will take it.


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

For, if we were “beside ourselves,” it was in God’s service! If we are not in our senses, it is in yours!


rate difficulty: Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.


simplify: that Jehovah sent a prophet unto the children of Israel: and he said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;

The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house;


simplify: And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.


simplify: Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.


rate difficulty: At my first defence no man stood with me, but all deserted me. May it not be imputed to them.

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


rate difficulty: for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,

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


rate difficulty: My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart reproacheth [me] not one of my days.

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


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

On another occasion Jesus went in to a synagogue, where there was a man whose hand was withered.


simplify: Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.

And Peter made answer and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will let me, I will make here three tents, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


rate difficulty: And he took the captains of hundreds, and the nobles, and the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought down the king from the house of the Lord: and they came through the high gate into the king’s house, and set the king upon the throne of the kingdom.

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


simplify: that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly <FI>places<Fi> , through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

so that now to the archangels and to all the powers on high should be made known, through the church, the all-embracing wisdom of God,


rate difficulty: and Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who <FI>is<Fi> there,

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


rate difficulty: Then let them take a young bullock, and its meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil; and another young bullock shalt thou take for a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: And the silver of those numbered of the company <FI>is<Fi> a hundred talents, and a thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy shekels, by the shekel of the sanctuary;

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


rate difficulty: And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Jehu the son of Hanani, who is mentioned in the book of the kings of Israel.

Now as for the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, first and last, they are recorded in the words of Jehu, the son of Hanani, which were put in the book of the kings of Israel.


simplify: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Now see, your house is waste, and I say to you, You will not see me again till you say, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

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


rate difficulty: and the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah; and Jehovah strengtheneth Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because that they have done the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

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


simplify: And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.

And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.


rate difficulty: Who will not honor and praise your name, Lord? You alone are holy! All nations will come and worship before you, for your judgments have become manifest.’


simplify: behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

Then the hand of the Lord will put on your cattle in the field, on the horses and the asses and the camels, on the herds and the flocks, a very evil disease.


rate difficulty: and Abraham sojourneth in the land of the Philistines many days.

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


rate difficulty: And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south.

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


rate difficulty: This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat.


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning watch, that Jehovah looked forth upon the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and discomfited the host of the Egyptians.

And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians;


simplify: And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me for ever.

As for what you and I were talking of, the Lord is between you and me for ever.


simplify: And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

And the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes: and he put to death all the rulers of Judah in Riblah.


rate difficulty: I am still this day strong, as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out and to come in.

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


rate difficulty: They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.


rate difficulty: The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.


rate difficulty: And an artificer is not found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, `Lest the Hebrews make sword or spear;'

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


simplify: Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.


simplify: But some one will say, How are the dead raised? and with what manner of body do they come?

But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?


simplify: But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

An angel of the Lord, however, opened the prison doors at night and led them out.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

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


simplify: I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia by birth, but I had my education in this town at the feet of Gamaliel, being trained in the keeping of every detail of the law of our fathers; given up to the cause of God with all my heart, as you are today.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood at the entrance of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.


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

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


rate difficulty: And all the people went their way, to eat and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great rejoicing. For they had understood the words that were declared to them.


rate difficulty: For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands.

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


simplify: and a multitude was sitting about him, and they said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren without do seek thee.'

There was a crowd sitting around Jesus, and some of them said to him: “Look, your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you.”


simplify: And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

And they were wandering in every direction because there was no keeper: and they became food for all the beasts of the field.


simplify: the lord of that servant will arrive in a day when he doth not expect, and in an hour of which he doth not know,

that servant’s master will come on a day when they do not expect him, and at an hour of which they are unaware,


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

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


rate difficulty: Or if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge: then he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

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


rate difficulty: The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.


simplify: And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which Jehovah hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

The same day he gave them a sign, saying, This is the sign which the Lord has given: See, the altar will be broken and the burned waste on it overturned.


rate difficulty: And the wall which went outside by the side of the rooms, in the direction of the outer square in front of the rooms, was fifty cubits long.

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


simplify: And into whatsoever house ye enter, there abide, and thence depart.

And if you go into a house, let that house be your resting-place till you go away.


simplify: Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!


rate difficulty: Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.

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


rate difficulty: The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with dismay, and the hands of the people of the land shall tremble: I will do unto them according to their way, and with their judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.


simplify: `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they do continue with me, and they have not what they may eat;

“My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat;


simplify: And himself is the head of the body--the assembly--who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all <FI>things<Fi> --himself--first,

and he is the head of the church, which is his body. The first-born from the dead, he is to the church the Source of its life, that he, in all things, may stand first.


simplify: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”


simplify: But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Let him be to you as one of your countrymen and have love for him as for yourself; for you were living in a strange land, in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And Herod with his soldiers set him at nought, and mocked him, and arraying him in gorgeous apparel sent him back to Pilate.

And Herod, with the men of his army, put shame on him and made sport of him, and dressing him in shining robes, he sent him back to Pilate.


rate difficulty: And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired of the word ofGod: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

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


simplify: I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

No, I tell you; but, unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.


simplify: And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.

And now, my daughter, have no fear; I will do for you whatever you say: for it is clear to all my townspeople that you are a woman of virtue.


simplify: And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.


simplify: And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.


simplify: And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.

And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.


simplify: All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.


simplify: The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.


rate difficulty: The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.

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


rate difficulty: And David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:

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


rate difficulty: For the underworld is not able to give you praise, death gives you no honour: for those who go down into the underworld there is no hope in your mercy.

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


simplify: Therefore the Lord hath recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eye sight.

Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.


simplify: so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.


rate difficulty: Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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


simplify: What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;


simplify: And he said, Into what then were ye baptized? And they said, Into John’s baptism.

And he said, What sort of baptism did you have? And they said, The baptism of John.


rate difficulty: Then he said to Gehazi, Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thine hand, and go thy way: if thou meet any man, salute him not; and if any salute thee, answer him not again: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

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


rate difficulty: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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rate difficulty: Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.


rate difficulty: I have been through toil and hardship. I have passed many a sleepless night; I have endured hunger and thirst; I have often been without food; I have known cold and nakedness.

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rate difficulty: And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.


simplify: So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.

So you, son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel; and you are to give ear to the word of my mouth and give them news from me of their danger.


rate difficulty: And Elisha spake unto the woman whose son he had revived, saying, `Rise and go, thou and thy household, and sojourn where thou dost sojourn, for Jehovah hath called for a famine, and also, it is coming unto the land seven years.'

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


simplify: And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; these are the families of Simeon.

And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon.


simplify: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

but God chose what the world counts foolish to put its wise to shame, and God chose what the world counts weak to put its strong to shame,


rate difficulty: Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand upon it; from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be [a place] to spread forth nets: their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.


rate difficulty: and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

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


rate difficulty: For years [few] in number shall pass, — and I shall go the way [whence] I shall not return.


simplify: I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.


rate difficulty: And if it be from sixty years old and above, if it be a male, thy valuation shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female ten shekels.


rate difficulty: and he hath thirty sons riding on thirty ass-colts, and they have thirty cities, (they call them Havoth-Jair unto this day), which <FI>are<Fi> in the land of Gilead;

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


rate difficulty: And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to the sojourner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow’s raiment to pledge;

Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:


simplify: And she answered them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Tell ye the man that sent you to me,

And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Say to the man who sent you to me,


simplify: Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the Lord; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the Lord. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word of the Lord.

I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.


rate difficulty: And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets that were in the day that the foundation of the house of Jehovah of hosts was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.


simplify: Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;

That good-for-nothing persons have gone out from among you, turning the people of their town from the right way and saying, Let us go and give worship to other gods, of whom you have no knowledge;


rate difficulty: And they have not turned aside <FI>from<Fi> the command of the king concerning the priests and the Levites, in reference to any matter, and to the treasures.

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


simplify: And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.


simplify: I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

I am all the more ready, therefore, to send him, so that the sight of him may revive your spirits and my own sorrow be lightened.


rate difficulty: And in the same way, the wings of the other, five cubits long, were stretched out, one touching the wall and the other meeting the wing of the first winged one.

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


rate difficulty: If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.

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


rate difficulty: And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:

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


rate difficulty: and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

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rate difficulty: Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?

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


rate difficulty: They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword. The sword hath been given: draw her out, and all her multitudes.

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


rate difficulty: Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that he was going on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears.

And it came about that on the Sabbath day he was going through the grain-fields; and while they were walking, his disciples took the heads of grain.


rate difficulty: Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

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simplify: And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.


rate difficulty: The eye of him that hath seen me shall behold me no [more]: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.

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


simplify: And over the king’s treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and over the treasures in the fields, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the castles, was Jonathan the son of Uzziah:

And Azmaveth, the son of Adiel, was controller of the king's property; Jonathan, the son of Uzziah, had control of all store-houses in country places and in the towns and little towns and strong places;


simplify: And they said, The Lord hath need of him.

And the two disciples answered — “The Master wants it.”


simplify: Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?


rate difficulty: And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

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


rate difficulty: “Have not you read,” replied Jesus, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’

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


simplify: But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.

Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David's wife, to Palti the son of Laish of Gallim.


rate difficulty: for it is written,  He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, to guard thee:

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


rate difficulty: And I did beat them small as the dust of the earth, I trod them as the mire of the streets; I stamped upon them.


rate difficulty: And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying,

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rate difficulty: but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.

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simplify: But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:

To enable you, as well as others, to know all that concerns me and what I am doing, Tychicus, our dear friend and faithful helper in the Master’s cause, will tell you everything.


simplify: And it came to pass the same night, that the word of Jehovah came unto Nathan, saying,

Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,


rate difficulty: Because with side and with shoulder ye thrust away, And with your horns push all the diseased, Till ye have scattered them to the out-place,

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simplify: If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, If thou put away unrighteousness far from thy tents.

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;


rate difficulty: And David got up early in the morning, and, giving the sheep into the care of a keeper, took the things and went as Jesse had said; and he came to the lines where the carts were, when the army was going out to the fight giving their war-cry.

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


simplify: `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: —  “These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds ‘the Key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and shuts and no one opens’: —


rate difficulty: therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave unto you and to your fathers, away from my presence:


simplify: And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

And in that day I will make an agreement for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven and the things which go low on the earth; I will put an end to the bow and the sword and war in all the land, and will make them take their rest in peace.


rate difficulty: For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.


rate difficulty: Thou hast understanding, Even unto the broad places of earth! Declare--if thou hast known it all.

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


rate difficulty: For thus said Jehovah of Hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the rest of the vessels that are left in this city,

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


rate difficulty: Nothing should be done in a factious spirit or from vanity, but each of you should with all humility regard others as better than himself,

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


rate difficulty: For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

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


simplify: I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

I have knowledge of your doings, and of your hard work and long waiting, and that you will not put up with evil men, and have put to the test those who say they are Apostles and are not, and have seen that they are false;


rate difficulty: And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.

And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you.


simplify: And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.

Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran.


simplify: How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.


simplify: As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,

As, then, you took Christ Jesus the Lord, so go on in him,


simplify: And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.


simplify: and we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.

And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.


simplify: But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.


rate difficulty: And for all the high mountains, And for all the exalted heights,

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rate difficulty: And at the right time he sent a servant to the workers to get part of the fruit from the vines; but the workmen gave him blows and sent him away with nothing.


simplify: And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.

As well as more money, with which to get food: we have no idea who put our money in our bags.


simplify: for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,

It was by this that the holy women of old, who rested their hopes on God, adorned themselves; submitting to their husbands,


rate difficulty: How long will I go on seeing the flag and hearing the sound of the war-horn?


rate difficulty: And ye have measured from the outside of the city, the east quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the south quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the west quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the north quarter, two thousand by the cubit; and the city <FI>is<Fi> in the midst; this is to them the suburbs of the cities.

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


simplify: Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

And do not give your bodies to sin as the instruments of wrongdoing, but give yourselves to God, as those who are living from the dead, and your bodies as instruments of righteousness to God.


simplify: Hear ye therefore the word of Jehovah, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.


simplify: And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.


rate difficulty: And all his fugitives, with all his bands, By sword do fall, and those remaining, To every wind they are spread out, And ye have known that I, Jehovah, have spoken.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man who shall do a mighty work in my name, and be able quickly to speak evil of me.

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


simplify: And Elisha said unto him, Take bow and arrows. And he took unto him bow and arrows.

Then Elisha said to him, Take bow and arrows: and he took bow and arrows.


simplify: In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years.


rate difficulty: Before I go whence I shall not return, Evento the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

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


simplify: And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting, lest ye die; for the anointing oil of Jehovah is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.

And do not go out from the door of the Tent of meeting, or death will come to you; for the holy oil of the Lord is on you. And they did as Moses said.


rate difficulty: And Laban said to Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou serve me for nothing? tell me, what shall be thy wages?

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


simplify: Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.


rate difficulty: And with many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear,


rate difficulty: Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth–el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth–el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

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


rate difficulty: O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.


rate difficulty: And Solomon casteth out Abiathar from being priest to Jehovah, to fulfil the word of Jehovah which He spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

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


simplify: And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.

and began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.


simplify: Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laugheth at the time to come.

Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.


rate difficulty: And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

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


rate difficulty: For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.


simplify: And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

And turning to the woman he said to Simon, You see this woman? I came into your house; you did not give me water for my feet: but she has been washing my feet with the drops from her eyes, and drying them with her hair.


rate difficulty: But who is there of you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say unto him, when he is come in from the field, Come straightway and sit down to meat;

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


simplify: For he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars; the land is yet before us, because we have sought Jehovah our God; we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.


simplify: And Jesus perceivingitwithdrew from thence: and many followed him; and he healed them all,

And Jesus, having knowledge of this, went away from there, and a great number went after him; and he made them all well,


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,

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


rate difficulty: [With them shall be] the tribe of Zebulun; and the prince of the sons of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon;

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


rate difficulty: Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;

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


rate difficulty: In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah, king of Judah, Menahem, the son of Gadi, became king over Israel, and was ruling in Samaria for ten years.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.


rate difficulty: —ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;


rate difficulty: when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

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


rate difficulty: So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

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


simplify: And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness; for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the earth, and Jehovah seeth not.

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


rate difficulty: Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.


simplify: And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

So Ahab came into his house bitter and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, I will not give you the heritage of my fathers. And stretching himself on the bed with his face turned away, he would take no food.


rate difficulty: I opened to my beloved, But my beloved withdrew--he passed on, My soul went forth when he spake, I sought him, and found him not. I called him, and he answered me not.

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


simplify: Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed charges for the priests and for the Levites, every one in his work;

So I made them clean from all strange people, and had regular watches fixed for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;


rate difficulty: But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

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simplify: And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.


rate difficulty: And sons of Jehaleleel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria, and Asareel.

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


simplify: Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.

You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.


simplify: and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.

So wherever he went — to villages, or towns, or farms — they would lay their sick in the market-places, begging him to let them touch only the tassel of his cloak; and all who touched were made well.


simplify: Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Have, then, no fear of them: because nothing is covered which will not come to light, or secret which will not be made clear.


simplify: And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him.


simplify: And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

while a person, swearing by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.


rate difficulty: And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;

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rate difficulty: Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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rate difficulty: For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and Iphedeiah, and Penuel, sons of Shashak;


simplify: And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.


simplify: And to the rest I speak--not the Lord--if any brother hath a wife unbelieving, and she is pleased to dwell with him, let him not send her away;

To all others I say — I, not the Master — If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;


rate difficulty: A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

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


simplify: Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.


rate difficulty: And Esau was hated, and I sent destruction on his mountains, and gave his heritage to the beasts of the waste land.

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


simplify: And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present.


simplify: These things also command, that they may be without reproach.

Give orders to this effect, so that no evil may be said of anyone.


simplify: and he hath filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;


rate difficulty: thou shalt certainly furnish him from thy sheep, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of what Jehovah thyGod hath blessed thee with shalt thou give unto him.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tent of the upright shall flourish.


rate difficulty: and Jesus said to his disciples, `Verily I say to you, that hardly shall a rich man enter into the reign of the heavens;


rate difficulty: Thou with a rod smitest him, And his soul from Sheol thou deliverest.

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


simplify: And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad?


simplify: They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together; at the two ends was it joined together.

And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms.


simplify: And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

And letters were sent by the runners into every division of the kingdom ordering the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.


rate difficulty: and went after the man ofGod, and found him sitting under a terebinth; and he said to him, Art thou the man ofGod that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

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


rate difficulty: Look ye on nations, and behold and marvel greatly. For a work He is working in your days, Ye do not believe though it is declared.


rate difficulty: And Esau hateth Jacob, because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau saith in his heart, `The days of mourning <FI>for<Fi> my father draw near, and I slay Jacob my brother.'

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


simplify: And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.


simplify: And Moses went up into the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.


simplify: And the Lord sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword.

And the Lord sent an angel who put to death all the men of war and the chiefs and the captains in the army of the king of Assyria. So he went back to his country in shame. And when he came into the house of his god, his sons, the offspring of his body, put him to death there with the sword.


simplify: for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba--Father.'

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


rate difficulty: Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge army, with very many chariots and horsemen? but when thou didst rely on Jehovah, he delivered them into thy hand.

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


simplify: Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.

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


simplify: And he said, I pray you, my brethren, do not so wickedly.

And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.


simplify: And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us.


simplify: Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,


simplify: Son of man, speak unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Are ye come to enquire of me? As I live, saith the Lord God, I will not be enquired of by you.

Son of man, say to the responsible men of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Have you come to get directions from me? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no directions from me.


simplify: Then the earth shook and trembled; the foundations of heaven moved and shook, because he was wroth.

Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.


simplify: And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.

And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside.


rate difficulty: Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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


simplify: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

Yes, even on the slaves — for they are mine — both men and women, I will in those days pour out my Spirit, And they will become prophets;


rate difficulty: And Moses hearkeneth, and it is good in his eyes.

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


simplify: And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Out of the smoke locusts descended on the earth, and they received the same power as that possessed by scorpions.


simplify: For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.


rate difficulty: And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.

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


simplify: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.


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

And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the people of the land: and they said to David, You will not come in here, but the blind and the feeble-footed will keep you out; for they said, David will not be able to come in here.


rate difficulty: How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

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


simplify: And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!


simplify: And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

One day, when great crowds of people were walking with Jesus, he turned and said to them:


simplify: These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,

These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;


rate difficulty: He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

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simplify: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

Do not you know that we are to try angels — to say nothing of the affairs of this life?


rate difficulty: And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

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


rate difficulty: who hast kept for Thy servant David my father that which Thou spakest to him; yea, Thou speakest with Thy mouth, and with Thy hand hast fulfilled <FI>it<Fi> , as <FI>at<Fi> this day.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by their names.

And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given.


simplify: Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.

let them turn from evil and do good, Let them seek for peace and follow after it;


simplify: and when God was well pleased--having separated me from the womb of my mother, and having called <FI>me<Fi> through His grace--

But when God, who had set me apart even before my birth, and who called me by his love,


simplify: And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon, one portion.

And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.


rate difficulty: The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred forty and eight.

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


rate difficulty: For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.

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


rate difficulty: Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, to wit, the men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

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simplify: But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul inquired ofGod, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou give them into the hand of Israel? But he did not answer him that day.

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


simplify: Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.

Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.


simplify: Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.

Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.


rate difficulty: He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

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


simplify: For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

For in it there is a revelation of the divine righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as scripture says — ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’


rate difficulty: Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and for ever. And all the people said, So be it; and gave praise to the Lord.


simplify: And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.

So, getting into one of the boats, which belonged to Simon, Jesus asked him to push off a little way from the shore, and then sat down and taught the people from the boat.


rate difficulty: Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.


simplify: But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.

But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.


simplify: and as they were eating, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.

And while they were taking food, he said, Truly I say to you that one of you will be false to me.


simplify: When they had not wherewith to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?

When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?


simplify: But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud for joy:

But a number of the priests and Levites and the heads of families, old men who had seen the first house, when the base of this house was put down before their eyes, were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:


simplify: My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.


simplify: Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him very much substance.

And he made towns for himself, and got together much property in flocks and herds: for God had given him great wealth.


simplify: And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.


rate difficulty: Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

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


rate difficulty: fornicators, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers; and if any other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

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


rate difficulty: And he entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes out of the boat.

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


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

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:


simplify: When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:

To the church of God in Corinth, and to all Christ’s people throughout Greece, from Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, who is also a follower.


simplify: When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.


simplify: so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

Therefore, speak and act as people who are to be judged by the ‘law of freedom.’


rate difficulty: Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.

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


simplify: let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it;

let them turn from evil and do good, Let them seek for peace and follow after it;


simplify: And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben–hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

Then the representatives came back again, and said, These are the words of Ben-hadad: I sent to you saying, Give up to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children;


simplify: And Moses told Aaron all the words of Jehovah wherewith he had sent him, and all the signs wherewith he had charged him.

And Moses gave Aaron an account of all the words of the Lord which he had sent him to say, and of all the signs which he had given him orders to do.


rate difficulty: If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.

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


simplify: But every woman praying or prophesying with her head unveiled dishonoreth her head; for it is one and the same thing as if she were shaven.

But every woman who does so with her head unveiled, puts shame on her head: for it is the same as if her hair was cut off.


rate difficulty: So they went quickly, and found Mary and Joseph, and the infant lying in a manger;

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


simplify: Jesus saith to them, `Did ye understand all these?' They say to him, `Yes, sir.'

Have you understood all this?” Jesus asked. “Yes,” they answered.


simplify: They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

They would have nothing to do with the Lord, saying, He will do nothing, and no evil will come to us; we will not see the sword or be short of food:


simplify: and as he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured them:

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


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

But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged.


rate difficulty: And they all took of the food and had enough.

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


rate difficulty: And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.


rate difficulty: And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.

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


simplify: to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.


rate difficulty: Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

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


rate difficulty: He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean; but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.


rate difficulty: And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:

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


simplify: And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;

And God said to him, Because your request is for this thing, and not for long life for yourself or for wealth or for the destruction of your haters, but for wisdom to be a judge of causes;


rate difficulty: Now these are the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his family came with Jacob.


simplify: And on the morrow he took out two shillings, and gave them to the host, and said, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, I, when I come back again, will repay thee.

And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.


simplify: for the Writing saith to Pharaoh--`For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;'

In scripture, again, it is said to Pharaoh — ‘It was for this purpose that I raised you to the throne, to show my power by my dealings with you, and to make my name known throughout the world.’


simplify: And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.


simplify: for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

And Zacharias said to the angel, How may I be certain of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is far on in years.


simplify: Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.


rate difficulty: And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

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


rate difficulty: And to the children of Aaron they gave the city of refuge, Hebron; and Libnah and its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,

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


simplify: then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.


simplify: And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep.


rate difficulty: Then Sanballat sent his servant to me a fifth time with an open letter in his hand;

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


simplify: So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king: and the king kissed Absalom.

So Joab went to the king and said these words to him: and when the king had sent for him, Absalom came, and went down on his face on the earth before the king: and the king gave him a kiss.


rate difficulty: And he brought me to the temple; and he measured the posts, six cubits broad on the one side, and six cubits broad on the other side, the breadth of the tent.


rate difficulty: It is as Isaiah foretold — ‘Had not the Lord of Hosts spared some few of our race to us, we should have become like Sodom and been made to resemble Gomorrah.’

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


rate difficulty: So he went back to Judah, and said, I have not seen her, and the men of the place say that there is no such woman there.

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


simplify: and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange ‘tongues’ as the Spirit prompted their utterances.


rate difficulty: And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Benjamin — [as] a wolf will he tear to pieces; In the morning he will devour the prey, And in the evening he will divide the booty.


simplify: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

“Teacher, in our scriptures Moses decreed that, should a man’s brother die, leaving a widow but no child, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.


rate difficulty: If death comes suddenly to a man at his side, so that he becomes unclean, let his hair be cut off on the day when he is made clean, on the seventh day.


simplify: That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

So that you might have certain knowledge of those things about which you were given teaching.


simplify: But they said, Not during the feast, lest a tumult arise among the people.

But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.


rate difficulty: And after these things, to two of them, as they are going into a field, walking, he was manifested in another form,

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


rate difficulty: and having seen, they made known abroad concerning the saying spoken to them concerning the child.


rate difficulty: Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and, lo, I must die.

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


rate difficulty: I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.


simplify: and having come, immediately, having gone near him, he saith, `Rabbi, Rabbi,' and kissed him.

As soon as Judas came, he went up to Jesus at once, and said: “Rabbi!” and kissed him.


simplify: And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts their God.

And the families of Judah will say in their hearts, The people of Jerusalem have their strength in the Lord of armies, their God.


rate difficulty: And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.


simplify: and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

As for the useless servant, ‘put him out into the darkness’ outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’


rate difficulty: But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord.

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


simplify: A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.

You are to put a window in the ark, a cubit from the roof, and a door in the side of it, and you are to make it with a lower and second and third floors.


simplify: Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.

Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down: