simplify: and she called his name Joseph, saying, Jehovah add to me another son.

And she gave him the name Joseph, saying, May the Lord give me another son.


simplify: and the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him,

The foul spirit threw the man into a fit, and with a loud cry came out from him.


rate difficulty: Now therefore, mysons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.

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


rate difficulty: And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

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


rate difficulty: And if the man like not to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband’s brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto me.

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


rate difficulty: Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus still made no reply whatever; at which Pilate was astonished.

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


simplify: And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.

Bending over her, he rebuked the fever; the fever left her, and she immediately got up and began to take care of them.


simplify: but its inwards and its legs shall he wash with water. And the priest shall burn the whole on the altar, for a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

But its inside parts and its legs are to be washed with water, and it will all be burned on the altar by the priest for a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: and he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne.

The Lamb came forward; and he has taken the book from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.


simplify: and whoever may will among you to be first, let him be your servant;

No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to take the first place among you, must be your slave;


simplify: But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.


rate difficulty: And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.

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


rate difficulty: Only these <FI>are<Fi> tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

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


rate difficulty: And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

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


rate difficulty: But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

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


simplify: And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,


simplify: And his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

And his ears became open, and the band of his tongue was made loose, and his words became clear.


simplify: They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

The foolish ones took their lamps, but took no oil with them;


rate difficulty: And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

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


rate difficulty: `And these <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of the city on the north side, five hundred, and four thousand measures.

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against the whole of Egypt;

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


simplify: And Moses said unto the congregation, This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done.

And Moses said to the people, This is what the Lord has given orders to be done.


simplify: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:

The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.


rate difficulty: for even as in Adam all die, so also in the Christ all shall be made alive,


simplify: Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Then will the upright be shining as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him give ear.


simplify: Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.

Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.


simplify: Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.

Then Saul went down to the waste land of Ziph, taking with him three thousand of the best men of Israel, to make search for David in the waste land of Ziph.


simplify: Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: [but] he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

No one who rejects the Son has found the Father; the person who acknowledges the Son has found the Father also.


simplify: Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,

And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,


rate difficulty: four tables <FI>are<Fi> on this side, and four tables on that side, at the side of the gate, eight tables on which they slaughter.

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


rate difficulty: For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?

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


rate difficulty: And he saw that rest was good and the land was pleasing; so he let them put weights on his back and became a servant.

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


simplify: But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go.


simplify: (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

(For my father made war for you, and put his life in danger, and made you free from the hands of Midian;


rate difficulty: They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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


simplify: Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.

And Peter, protesting, said to him, Be it far from you, Lord; it is impossible that this will come about.


rate difficulty: And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Jehovah repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.


simplify: Behold, I am standing by the fountain of water; and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water:

See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou shalt do.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: At that time Jehovah said unto me, Hew for thyself two tables of stone like the first, and come up unto me into the mountain, and make thee an ark of wood;

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


simplify: Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

Now when John had news in prison of the works of the Christ, he sent his disciples


simplify: We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, for that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth;

It is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, because of the great increase of your faith, and the wealth of your love for one another;


simplify: Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.


simplify: And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. And the days were not expired;

And when his servants said these words to David, he was well pleased to be the son-in-law of the king. And the days were still not past.


simplify: And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

As they were on their way out, they came upon a man from Cyrene of the name of Simon; and they compelled him to go with them to carry the cross.


simplify: and to these he said, Go ye--also ye--to the vineyard, and whatever may be righteous I will give you;

‘You also may go into my vineyard,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you what is fair.’


rate difficulty: And when a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and do what is wrong, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die; because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous acts which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

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


simplify: Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.


rate difficulty: Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

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


simplify: Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. May the Lord be with you all.


rate difficulty: Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

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


simplify: one glory of sun, and another glory of moon, and another glory of stars, for star from star doth differ in glory.

There is a beauty of the sun, and a beauty of the moon, and a beauty of the stars; for even star differs from star in beauty.


simplify: But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

But, quite the opposite, when they saw that I had been made responsible for preaching the good news to those without circumcision, even as Peter had been for those of the circumcision


rate difficulty: And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he that has the seven Spirits ofGod, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

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


simplify: `The greater shall serve the less;'

that ‘the elder would be a servant to the younger.’


simplify: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:


rate difficulty: The Nile will be full of frogs, and they will come up into your house and into your bedrooms and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your bread-basins.

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


simplify: Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.


simplify: And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls — it will scatter him as dust.”


rate difficulty: Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and wouldest thou deceive with thy lips?

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


simplify: but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

But as scripture says — ‘They to whom he had never been proclaimed will see; and they who have never heard will understand!’


rate difficulty: A God near <FI>am<Fi> I--an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?


simplify: Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.

But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.


simplify: Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar.

From Issachar, Nethanel, the son of Zuar;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord God.

This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Now Simon’s wife’s mother lay sick of a fever; and straightway they tell him of her:

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


simplify: Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.

Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.


simplify: And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

And some of the oil he put on Aaron's head, to make him holy.


simplify: Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:


simplify: And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

Meanwhile an angel of the Lord had said to Philip: “Set out on a journey southwards, along the road that runs down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (It is now deserted).


simplify: But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

Now the spirit of the Lord had gone from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord was troubling him.


simplify: Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.

For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.


simplify: It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them, which told these things unto the apostles.

Now they were Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary, the mother of James: and the other women with them said these things to the Apostles.


simplify: And many other things spake they against him, reviling him.

And they said a number of other evil things against him.


rate difficulty: it may be my father doth feel me, and I have been in his eyes as a deceiver, and have brought upon me disesteem, and not a blessing;'

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


rate difficulty: a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs:

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


rate difficulty: So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

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


rate difficulty: They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

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


simplify: Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.

“You know that in two days time the Festival of the Passover will be here; and that the Son of Man is to be given up to be crucified.”


simplify: And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

But all things are of God, who has made us at peace with himself through Christ, and has given to us the work of making peace;


rate difficulty: And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you.


simplify: And one ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let be; let us see whether Elijah cometh to take him down.

And one of them went quickly and, getting a sponge full of bitter wine, put it on a rod, and gave it to him for drink, saying, Let be; let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.


rate difficulty: For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.

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


rate difficulty: I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.

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


rate difficulty: And the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

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


simplify: And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,

I turned to see what voice it was that spoke to me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamps,


rate difficulty: The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

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


rate difficulty: And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

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


rate difficulty: Let us rejoice and be exceeding glad, and let us give the glory unto him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.


simplify: And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

And Gideon, the son of Joash, came to his end when he was very old, and his body was put in the resting-place of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.


simplify: chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

The chief of Kenaz, the chief of Teman, the chief of Mibzar,


simplify: And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;


rate difficulty: This was the word of the Lord which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.

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


simplify: And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.

So he went back to him where he was waiting by his burned offering with all the chiefs of Moab.


rate difficulty: Now David was seated between the two town doors; and the watchman went up to the roof of the doorways, on the wall, and, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running by himself.

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


rate difficulty: And he said,  Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And he came from the ten thousands of holy ones: At his right hand was a fiery law for them.

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


rate difficulty: And they went out, and fled from the sepulchre. And trembling and excessive amazement possessed them, and they said nothing to any one, for they were afraid.

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


simplify: Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:


rate difficulty: Now gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops; he hath laid siege against us: they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.

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


rate difficulty: Then he brought me through the passage which was at the side of the gate, into the holy cells which were for the priests, which looked toward the north; and behold, a place was there at the end westward.


simplify: and now we have ceased from the law, that being dead in which we were held, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of letter.

But now we are set free from the law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.


rate difficulty: So that they possess the remnant of Edom, And all the nations on whom My name is called, An affirmation of Jehovah--doer of this.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt, even Jacob and all his sons: Reuben, Jacob's oldest son;

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


simplify: And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:


rate difficulty: And I will put her on the coals so that she may be heated and her brass burned, so that what is unclean in her may become soft and her waste be completely taken away.

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


rate difficulty: Vex the Midianites, and smite them;


simplify: And call ye on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Jehovah; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.

And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said.


rate difficulty: Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.


rate difficulty: If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

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


rate difficulty: I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

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


simplify: And levy a tribute unto Jehovah of the men of war that went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the oxen, and of the asses, and of the flocks:

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


rate difficulty: Wives, be subject to [your] husbands, as is fitting in [the] Lord.


simplify: In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.


simplify: And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself, and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed, and get in the grain, and make vine-gardens, and take of their fruit.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> those numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, by the command of Jehovah, by the hand of Moses.

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


simplify: But Peter followed him afar off unto the high priest’s palace, and went in, and sat with the servants, to see the end.

But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.


simplify: And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

And the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me as a man out of his sleep.


rate difficulty: Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.

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


rate difficulty: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation,


rate difficulty: Now when he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the people, he entered into Capernaum.

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


simplify: Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.

In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.


simplify: The posts went forth in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.


rate difficulty: And the Lord saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

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rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

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


rate difficulty: Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

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


simplify: For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,


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

There were about four thousand people. Then Jesus dismissed them.


rate difficulty: And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:

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simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,


simplify: And Stephen, full of grace and power, wrought great wonders and signs among the people.

And Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.


simplify: And the multitude charged them that they might be silent, and they cried out the more, saying, `Deal kindly with us sir--Son of David.'

The crowd told them to be quiet; but the men only called out the louder: “Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!”


simplify: Moreover Jehovah said, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet;

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:


rate difficulty: `For Benjamin--Abidan son of Gideoni.

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


rate difficulty: Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

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


simplify: Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.


simplify: one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.

The great water-vessel with the twelve oxen under it.


simplify: and being present with you, and having been in want, I was chargeable to no one, for my lack did the brethren supply--having come from Macedonia--and in everything burdenless to you I did keep myself, and will keep.

And, when I was with you in need, I did not become a burden to any of you; for our friends, on coming from Macedonia, supplied my needs. I kept myself, and will keep myself from being an expense to you in any way.


rate difficulty: And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the Lord against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

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


simplify: The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;


rate difficulty: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

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


simplify: And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

And his sisters, are they not all with us? from where, then, has he all these things?


simplify: Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.


simplify: Those that be near, and those that be far from thee, shall mock thee, which art infamous and much vexed.

Those who are near and those who are far from you will make sport of you; your name is unclean, you are full of sounds of fear.


rate difficulty: If a man dieth--doth he revive? All days of my warfare I wait, till my change come.


simplify: And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?

And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood?


rate difficulty: But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Romans, and have cast us into prison; and do they now cast us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and bring us out.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

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


rate difficulty: And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?

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


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.


simplify: For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:


simplify: Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,


rate difficulty: Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The Lord is righteous.

Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.


rate difficulty: And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, at Heshbon, and in all its dependent villages.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh's army had come out from Egypt: and the Chaldaeans, who were attacking Jerusalem, hearing news of them, went away from Jerusalem.)

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


simplify: And Pilate answering, again said to them, `What, then, will ye <FI>that<Fi> I shall do to him whom ye call king of the Jews?'

Pilate, however, spoke to them again: “What should I do then with the man whom you call the ‘king of the Jews’?”


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

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


simplify: He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.


simplify: He that deviseth to do evil, Men shall call him a mischief-maker.

He whose purposes are bad will be named a man of evil designs.


simplify: And when they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.

And the Philistines did not take their images with them in their flight; and at David's orders they were burned with fire.


simplify: Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and all the mingled people, and Chub, and the men of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

Ethiopia and Put and Lud and all the mixed people and Libya and the children of the land of the Cherethites will all be put to death with them by the sword.


rate difficulty: Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble Islikea broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.

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


simplify: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah — ‘He took our infirmities on himself, and bore the burden of our diseases.’


simplify: And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his house, having believed in God.

And he took them into his house and gave them food, and he was full of joy, having faith in God with all his family.


simplify: Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?

I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.


simplify: And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

And in answer to their request, he let that man go free who had been in prison for acting against the government and causing death, and Jesus he gave up to their pleasure.


simplify: Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.


simplify: And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Cesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.

After staying among them some eight or ten days, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he took his seat on the Bench, and ordered Paul to be brought before him.


simplify: Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

And you, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the upright man will not make him safe in the day when he does wrong; and the evil-doing of the evil man will not be the cause of his fall in the day when he is turned from his evil-doing; and the upright man will not have life because of his righteousness in the day when he does evil.


simplify: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

Whom we are preaching; guiding and teaching every man in all wisdom, so that every man may be complete in Christ;


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

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


simplify: And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.

And Moses sent for all Israel, and said to them, Give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I give you today, and give attention to them so that you may keep and do them.


simplify: And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,

And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,


rate difficulty: The number of his army was forty-five thousand, six hundred and fifty.

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


rate difficulty: God from Teman doth come, The Holy One from mount Paran. Pause! Covered the heavens hath His majesty, And His praise hath filled the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord.


simplify: For from many of those that had unclean spirits, they came out, crying with a loud voice: and many that were palsied, and that were lame, were healed.

For unclean spirits came out from those who had them, crying with a loud voice; and a number of those who were ill and broken in body were made well.


rate difficulty: that the land vomit not you out also, when ye defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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


simplify: Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;

If then I go back to your servant, my father, without the boy, because his life and the boy's life are one,


simplify: And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

And laid them at the apostles’ feet; and then everyone received a share in proportion to his wants.


rate difficulty: Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.


simplify: Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, then we approach God with confidence,


simplify: and he shall look on the plague; and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow streaks, greenish or reddish, and the appearance thereof be lower than the wall;

And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;


simplify: And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.


rate difficulty: I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses; I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: A voice is heard upon the bare heights, the weeping and the supplications of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.

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


rate difficulty: and behold, thou shalt conceive in the womb and bear a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;


simplify: Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.

But your mind is troubled by the number of your guides: let them now come forward for your salvation: the measurers of the heavens, the watchers of the stars, and those who are able to say from month to month what things are coming on you.


rate difficulty: But, when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who were converts from Judaism began to attack him,


simplify: and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> with you all!

May the Lord, from whom all peace comes, himself give you his peace at all times and in all ways. May he be with you all.


simplify: The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

The daughter of Egypt will be put to shame; she will be given up into the hands of the people of the north.


rate difficulty: On that day there was read in the book of Moses, in the ears of the people, and it hath been found written in it that an Ammonite and Moabite doth not come into the assembly of God--unto the age,

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


rate difficulty: `Three times thou dost keep a feast to Me in a year;

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


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.


rate difficulty: And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one mouth: let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

And she said to her master's wife, If only my lord would go to the prophet in Samaria, he would make him well.


rate difficulty: and it came to pass, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bare a son; and she called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and all these thy servants have come down unto me, and bowed themselves to me, saying, Go out, thou and all the people who <FI>are<Fi> at thy feet; and afterwards I do go out;' --and he goeth out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

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


simplify: But when the disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

But when the disciples saw it they were angry, saying, To what purpose is this waste?


rate difficulty: and for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five yearling lambs. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


rate difficulty: This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every oblation of theirs, even every meal-offering of theirs, and every sin-offering of theirs, and every trespass-offering of theirs, which they shall render unto me, shall be most holy for thee and for thy sons.

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


rate difficulty: Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

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


simplify: And Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out exceedingly, Crucify him.

And Pilate said to them, Why, what evil has he done? But their cry was the louder, To the cross!


simplify: yea, thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Jehovah, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem:

For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about the rest of the vessels in the house of the Lord and in the house of the king of Judah and at Jerusalem:


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


simplify: Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:


simplify: For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves;

For I give them witness, that as they were able, and even more than they were able, they gave from the impulse of their hearts,


simplify: Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

So he sent against them the king of the Chaldaeans, who put their young men to death with the sword in the house of their holy place, and had no pity for any, young man or virgin, old man or white-haired: God gave them all into his hands.


rate difficulty: And he said, If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests; howl, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of myGod: for the oblation and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of yourGod.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

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


simplify: And they gave heed to him, because that of long time he had amazed them with his sorceries.

And they gave attention to him, because for a long time his wonder-working powers had kept them under his control.


rate difficulty: To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

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


rate difficulty: And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

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


simplify: So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

But now, because you are lukewarm, neither hot not cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.


simplify: because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,

For it pleased the Father that in him the divine nature in all its fulness should live,


simplify: In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall ye invite every man his neighbor under the vine and under the fig-tree.

In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.


rate difficulty: the <FI>son<Fi> of Melea, the <FI>son<Fi> of Mainan, the <FI>son<Fi> of Mattatha, the <FI>son<Fi> of Nathan,

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


rate difficulty: and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

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


rate difficulty: And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,

Now it came about that while the people came pushing to be near him, and to have knowledge of the word of God, he was by a wide stretch of water named Gennesaret;


simplify: Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

For the future, find strength in your union with the Lord, and in the power which comes from his might.


rate difficulty: Be not manyof youteachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

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


rate difficulty: Swear now therefore to me by Jehovah, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.

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


rate difficulty: And with the sandal-wood the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody; never before had such been seen in the land of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And the young men of Absalom do to Amnon as Absalom commanded, and rise do all the sons of the king, and they ride, each on his mule, and flee.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.

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


rate difficulty: and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

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


simplify: the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.

The blind see; those who were not able to, are walking; lepers are made clean; those who were without hearing, now have their ears open; the dead come to life again, and the poor have the good news given to them.


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

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


rate difficulty: And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.


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


rate difficulty: That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

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


simplify: And he cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?


simplify: thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.


simplify: And these are the sons of Oholibamah, Esau’s wife: chief Jeush, chief Jalam, chief Korah: these are the chiefs that came of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.

And these are the sons of Esau's wife Oholibamah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah: these were the chiefs who came from Esau's wife Oholibamah, daughter of Anah.


simplify: And Jesus saith to him, `See, thou mayest tell no one, but go, thyself shew to the priest, and bring the gift that Moses commanded for a testimony to them.'

and then Jesus said to him: “Be careful not to say a word to anyone, but go and show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure.”


rate difficulty: Do ye not know that we shall judge angels? and not then matters of this life?

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


simplify: But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

But there was a certain man named Simon, who in the past had been a wonder-worker and a cause of surprise to the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was a great man:


rate difficulty: When he had begun to do so, one of them was brought to him who owed him ten thousand bags of gold;

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rate difficulty: But I have written to you the more boldly, [brethren,] in part, as putting you in mind, because of the grace given to me byGod,


rate difficulty: Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.

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rate difficulty: Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the Lord is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

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simplify: Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: Servants, obey in all things them that are your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord:

Servants, in all things do the orders of your natural masters; not only when their eyes are on you, as pleasers of men, but with all your heart, fearing the Lord:


simplify: Then said I, Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.

Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.


simplify: So he measured the house, an hundred cubits long; and the separate place, and the building, with the walls thereof, an hundred cubits long;

And he took the measure of the house; it was a hundred cubits long; and the separate place and the building with its walls was a hundred cubits long;


simplify: and there are seven kings, the five did fall, and the one is, the other did not yet come, and when he may come, it behoveth him to remain a little time;

They are also seven kings; of whom five have fallen and one remains, while one is not yet come. When he comes, he must stay for a little while.


simplify: Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Do we, then, use this faith to abolish law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish law.


simplify: And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.


simplify: and the Holy Spirit descended in a bodily form, as a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.


simplify: But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

Then Peter, surrounded by the eleven other apostles, stood up, and, raising his voice, addressed the crowd. “People of Judea,” he began, “and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let me tell you what this means. Mark well my words.


simplify: I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.


rate difficulty: That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

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rate difficulty: and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:


rate difficulty: Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

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


rate difficulty: The man got up and went to his home.


simplify: and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

Rewarding his haters to their face with destruction; he will have no mercy on his hater, but will give him open punishment.


simplify: And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

When he had tried every kind of temptation, the devil left Jesus, until another opportunity.


rate difficulty: And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by.


rate difficulty: And when they came to the nations whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when it was said of them, These are the people of Jehovah, and they are gone forth out of his land.

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


simplify: Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good person’s fervent prayer.


rate difficulty: The king of Madon, one; The king of Hazor, one;

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simplify: But if a priest buy any soul, the purchase of his money, he shall eat of it; and such as are born in his house, they shall eat of his bread.

But any person for whom the priest has given money, to make him his, may take of it with him; and those who come to birth in his house may take of his bread.


simplify: Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.'

I tell you, some of those who are standing here will not know death until they have seen the Son of Man coming into his kingdom.”


rate difficulty: And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

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


rate difficulty: and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

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rate difficulty: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

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simplify: And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.

And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.


simplify: And the Egyptians pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

But the Egyptians went after them, all the horses and carriages of Pharaoh, and his horsemen, and his army, and overtook them in their tents by the sea, by Pihahiroth, before Baal-zephon.


simplify: Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.


rate difficulty: They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.


simplify: And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, that they should be Jehovah’s people; between the king also and the people.

And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and the king and the people, that they would be the Lord's people; and in the same way between the king and the people.


simplify: Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,

Do not, then, allow anyone to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.


rate difficulty: But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and saith unto him, Art thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

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


simplify: Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

And therefore I, ever since I heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which prevails among you, and of your confidence in all Christ’s people,


simplify: Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Beth–aven, after thee, O Benjamin.

Let the horn be sounded in Gibeah and in Ramah; give a loud cry in Beth-aven, They are after you, O Benjamin.


rate difficulty: Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

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


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


rate difficulty: Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be worthy of death.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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


rate difficulty: and to have power to heal the sicknesses, and to cast out the demons.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ask ye now among the nations, who hath heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.


rate difficulty: And they said to him, Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from thy servants to do such a thing!


simplify: All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.

The size of the offering all together is to be twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand: you are to make the holy offering a square, together with the property of the town.


simplify: And wheresoever he entered, into villages, or into cities, or into the country, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

And wherever he went, into small towns, or great towns, or into the country, they took those who were ill into the market-places, requesting him that they might put their hands even on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.


simplify: And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken: for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid:

And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with you in all this? And the woman in answer said, By the life of your soul, my lord the king, it is not possible for anyone to go to the right hand or to the left from anything said by the king: your servant Joab gave me orders, and put all these words in my mouth:


simplify: And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;

To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: —  “These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, but is restored to life: —


simplify: And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.

And I will be the judge, said God, of that nation which made them servants: and after that, they will come out and give me worship in this place.


simplify: But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

But, when the officers got there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported that,


rate difficulty: Then Jesus said to them: “Even you will all fall away from me tonight. Scripture says — ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’


simplify: Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.

Let your voice be loud in song, O heavens; and be glad, O earth; make sounds of joy, O mountains, for the Lord has given comfort to his people, and will have mercy on his crushed ones.


simplify: And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish.

And the lords of the Philistines went on with their hundreds and their thousands, and David and his men came after with Achish.


rate difficulty: Let your conversation always be kindly, but not bland, season it, as it were, with salt; be aware in each case of the answer you should be giving.


rate difficulty: Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

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simplify: And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

And they said to him, Master, when will these things be? and what sign will there be when these events are to take place?


rate difficulty: And now, O Jehovah, thou <FI>art<Fi> our Father, We <FI>are<Fi> the clay, and Thou our Framer, And the work of Thy hand--all of us.

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simplify: But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

So, when the blades of corn shot up, and came into ear, the weeds made their appearance also.


rate difficulty: And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people.

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


simplify: And by faith in his name hath his name made this man strong, whom ye behold and know: yea, the faith which is through him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and have knowledge of: yes, the faith which is through him has made him well, before you all.


rate difficulty: And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them; and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

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


rate difficulty: But Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David, took up arms against his lord.

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simplify: And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.

And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David.


rate difficulty: Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

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simplify: And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.

And three of the thirty went down at the start of the grain-cutting, and they came to David at the strong place of Adullam; and the band of Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.


simplify: according to all that thou desiredst of Jehovah thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of Jehovah my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.


simplify: Then shalt thou send abroad the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month; in the day of atonement shall ye send abroad the trumpet throughout all your land.

Then let the loud horn be sounded far and wide on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of taking away sin let the horn be sounded through all your land.


simplify: These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron.


simplify: What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

What profit has the worker in the work which he does?


rate difficulty: And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven fromGod, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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rate difficulty: So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

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


rate difficulty: And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

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


simplify: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Anyone who listens to you is listening to me, and anyone who rejects you is rejecting me; while the person who rejects me is rejecting him who sent me as his messenger.”


rate difficulty: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

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simplify: But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: And it came to pass that, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate betwixt the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.


simplify: if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

If we confess our sins, God may be trusted, in his righteousness, to forgive us our sins and purify us from all wickedness.


simplify: But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.

on which Jesus said: “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relations, and in his own home.”


rate difficulty: To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

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simplify: Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.

For the effecting of which our twelve tribes have been working and waiting night and day with all their hearts. And in connection with this hope I am attacked by the Jews, O king!


rate difficulty: Words of Amos--who hath been among herdsmen of Tekoa--that he hath seen concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking;

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


rate difficulty: I feed My flock, and cause them to lie down, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.

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


simplify: having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the <FI>son<Fi> of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,


simplify: And I give thanks to him who enabled me--Christ Jesus our Lord--that he did reckon me stedfast, having put <FI>me<Fi> to the ministration,

I am thankful to Christ Jesus, our Lord, who has been my strength, for showing that he thought me worthy of trust by appointing me to his ministry,


simplify: If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.

If others share in this right over you, do not we even more? Still we did not avail ourselves of this right. No, we endure anything rather than impede the progress of the good news of the Christ.


simplify: And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

And seeing that he was not there, they went back to Jerusalem, to make search for him.


simplify: And they journeyed from Tahath, and encamped in Terah.

And they went on from Tahath, and put up their tents in Terah.


simplify: and Kenan lived after he begat Mahalalel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Mahalalel, Kenan went on living for eight hundred and forty years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.


rate difficulty: `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, This <FI>is<Fi> the beast which ye do eat out of all the beasts which <FI>are<Fi> on the earth:

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


simplify: As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

“As for these things that you are looking at, a time is coming when not one stone will be left on another here, which will not be thrown down.”


simplify: And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.

And the third took her; and in the same way, all the seven, without having any children, came to their end.


simplify: saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this [man] in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

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


simplify: and as John was fulfilling the course, he said, Whom me do ye suppose to be? I am not <FI>he<Fi> , but, lo, he doth come after me, of whom I am not worthy to loose the sandal of <FI>his<Fi> feet.

As John was drawing towards the end of his career, he said what do you suppose that I am? I am not the Christ. But there is “one coming” after me, whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.’


rate difficulty: If thou canst, answer me; array [thy words] before me: take thy stand.

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


simplify: Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.


rate difficulty: Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

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


simplify: Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Make then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.


simplify: And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the Lord smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.

And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.


simplify: that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

so that he might himself bring the church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless.


rate difficulty: and having descended with them, he stood on a level place, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

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simplify: but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.


simplify: And the priests could not enter into the house of the Lord, because the glory of the Lord had filled the Lord’s house.

And the priests were not able to go into the house of the Lord, for the Lord's house was full of the glory of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Alas for the day! for the day of Jehovah is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come.


simplify: All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.


simplify: And all who heard, did wonder concerning the things spoken by the shepherds unto them;

All who heard the shepherds were astonished at their story,


rate difficulty: And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

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


simplify: He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.


rate difficulty: the face of a man was toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side: [so] was it made upon all the house round about.

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


simplify: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

So that they may see from the east and from the west that there is no God but me: I am the Lord, and there is no other.


rate difficulty: A true witness is the saviour of lives; but he who says false things is a cause of deceit.

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


simplify: And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon

At that time we took their land from the two kings of the Amorites on the far side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;


simplify: And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:

Then David made this song of grief for Saul and Jonathan, his son:


simplify: The meek also shall increase their joy in the Lord, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: and Jokmeam with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs,

And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts,


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


rate difficulty: And he said, Well, I will make a covenant with thee; only I require one thing of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

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


simplify: And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.

“Master,” they exclaimed, “look, here are two swords!”   “Enough!”said Jesus.


rate difficulty: And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.

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


rate difficulty: I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies.


rate difficulty: but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order.


rate difficulty: For the horse of Pharaoh hath gone in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Jehovah turneth back on them the waters of the sea, and the sons of Israel have gone on dry land in the midst of the sea.

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


rate difficulty: And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.

And went into the house of Zacharias and took Elisabeth in her arms.


simplify: And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.

And again he said with an oath, I have no knowledge of the man.


rate difficulty: For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

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


rate difficulty: the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books--especially the parchments.

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


rate difficulty: and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill <FI>him<Fi> ,

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


rate difficulty: The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to life, And satisfied he remaineth--he is not charged with evil.

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


rate difficulty: both Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya which adjoin Cyrene, and the Romans sojourning [here], both Jews and proselytes,

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


simplify: when He may come to be glorified in his saints, and to be wondered at in all those believing--because our testimony was believed among you--in that day;

when he comes to be honor ed in his people,’ and to be revered in all who have learned to believe in him (for you also believed our testimony) — as he will be on ‘that day.’


simplify: And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.

The power of the Lord was with them, so that a great number who had learned to believe came over to the Lord’s side.


rate difficulty: So Solomon built the house, and finished it.


simplify: But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you.

But if I by the Spirit of God send out evil spirits, then is the kingdom of God come on you.


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


simplify: When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

And your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, will go back to their first condition, and Samaria and her daughters will go back to their first condition, and you and your daughters will go back to your first condition.


rate difficulty: These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. — And Kohath begot Amram.

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


rate difficulty: But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.


simplify: For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.


simplify: And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,

And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,


rate difficulty: What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

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


simplify: And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty men of valor, men trained for war, that could handle shield and spear; whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as the roes upon the mountains:

And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;


simplify: Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.