simplify: Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars for sinning, altars have been unto him for sinning.

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.


simplify: For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;


simplify: And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.


rate difficulty: And there was nothing missed by them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil nor anything that they had taken: David brought all back.

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rate difficulty: If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, [lay] the hand upon thy mouth.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that have joined themselves unto Baal-peor.

So Moses said to the judges of Israel, Let everyone put to death those of his men who have had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life.


rate difficulty: These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.

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simplify: For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.


rate difficulty: This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

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simplify: And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram, who were called of the congregation, who strove against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they strove against Jehovah,

And the sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the same Dathan and Abiram who had a place in the meeting of the people, who together with Korah made an outcry against Moses and Aaron and against the Lord:


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the Lord; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.


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

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


simplify: Thou shalt keep the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in from thy threshing-floor and from thy winepress:

You are to keep the feast of tents for seven days after you have got in all your grain and made your wine:


simplify: When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.

And hearing this, the man went to the chief captain and gave him an account of it, saying, What are you about to do? for this man is a Roman.


simplify: But if the ministration of death, written, and engraven on stones, came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look stedfastly upon the face of Moses for the glory of his face; which glory was passing away:

For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:


rate difficulty: And Saul sent to Jesse saying, Let David be with me, for he is pleasing to me.


simplify: And Elisha prayed, and said, Jehovah, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And Jehovah opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

Then Elisha made a prayer to the Lord, saying, Lord, let his eyes be open so that he may see. And the Lord made the young man's eyes open; and he saw that all the mountain was full of horses and carriages of fire round Elisha.


simplify: He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)

He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)


simplify: So I spake unto the people in the morning; and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.

So in the morning I was teaching the people and in the evening death took my wife; and in the morning I did what I had been ordered to do.


rate difficulty: And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

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simplify: for even the Son of Man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

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


rate difficulty: 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.


rate difficulty: For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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


simplify: For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not been turned away in sin from my God.


simplify: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.


rate difficulty: Behold, the people riseth up as a lioness, And as a lion doth he lift himself up: He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, And drink the blood of the slain.

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simplify: The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.


simplify: All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

Every wrong action is sin, and there is sin that is not deadly.


rate difficulty: And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

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


rate difficulty: and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

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


simplify: Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil.

Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.


simplify: And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.

And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.


rate difficulty: And of which of you that is a father shall his son ask a loaf, and he give him a stone? or a fish, and he for a fish give him a serpent?


simplify: And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.


simplify: For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.


simplify: Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.


simplify: As I live, saith the Lord God, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

By my life, says the Lord, truly, because my sheep have been taken away, and my sheep became food for all the beasts of the field, because there was no keeper, and my keepers did not go in search of the sheep, but the keepers took food for themselves and gave my sheep no food;


simplify: Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

The number of his army was fifty-four thousand, four hundred.


simplify: for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

The message of the cross is indeed mere folly to those who are in the path to ruin, but to us who are in the path of salvation it is the power of God.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and honey will be the food of all who are still living in the land.


rate difficulty: because the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall shepherd them, and shall lead them to fountains of waters of life, andGod shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.

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rate difficulty: The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.

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


simplify: honour widows who are really widows;

Show consideration for widows — I mean those who are really widowed.


rate difficulty: as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that we are your glorying, even as ye also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters.

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


simplify: for now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.

For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.


simplify: And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.

And at his words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and his voice came to my ears.


simplify: And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.

all the years of his life were nine hundred and fifty: and he came to his end.


simplify: Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position against him in front and at his back, he took all the best men of Israel, and put them in line against the Aramaeans;


simplify: And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

And Balaam said to the ass, You have made me seem foolish: if only I had a sword in my hand I would put you to death.


rate difficulty: And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.

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simplify: And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms.


rate difficulty: For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith Jehovah.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

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


rate difficulty: Destruction and misery are in their ways:

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


rate difficulty: Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

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


simplify: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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


rate difficulty: Last of all the woman died also.

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


simplify: The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women and children.

And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.


simplify: And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded.

And the bowmen sent their arrows at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.


simplify: Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

Because of the sins which Jeroboam did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath.


simplify: And he went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

So he went down and had talk with the woman; and she was pleasing to Samson.


simplify: When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;

When you get a request to come to a feast, do not take the best seat, for a more important man than you may be coming,


simplify: And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

And my prayer is that you may be increased more and more in knowledge and experience;


rate difficulty: saying unto them, It is written, And my house shall be a house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of robbers.

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


rate difficulty: And he came and was living in a town named Nazareth: so that the word of the prophets might come true, He will be named a Nazarene.

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


simplify: That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.


rate difficulty: Is [God] theGod of Jews only? is he not of [the] nations also? Yea, of nations also:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Happy are the gentle: for the earth will be their heritage.


simplify: that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, saith Jehovah that doeth this.

So that the rest of Edom may be their heritage, and all the nations who have been named by my name, says the Lord, who is doing this.


rate difficulty: Pharaoh's war-carriages and his army he has sent down into the sea: the best of his captains have gone down into the Red Sea.


rate difficulty: Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again?


simplify: that I may not seem as if I would terrify you through the letters,

I say this so that it doesn't seem as if I am trying to overawe you by my letters.


rate difficulty: Give my greeting to Prisca and Aquila, and to the household of Onesiphorus.

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


rate difficulty: to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look on.

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


rate difficulty: The ark of the law, with its rods and its cover;


rate difficulty: For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.


rate difficulty: And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it <FI>is<Fi> all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,

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


simplify: Men do therefore fear him: He regardeth not any that are wise of heart.

For this cause men go in fear of him; he has no respect for any who are wise in heart.


rate difficulty: And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.


rate difficulty: But that [word] of the true proverb has happened to them: [The] dog [has] turned back to his own vomit; and, [The] washed sow to [her] rolling in mud.


rate difficulty: And when Balak heard that Balaam was come, he went out to meet him unto the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

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


simplify: ye are not straitened in us, and ye are straitened in your <FI>own<Fi> bowels,

there is room there for you, yet there is not room, in your love, for us.


simplify: And it came to pass on one of those days, that he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, who were come out of every village of Galilee and Judæa and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.


simplify: And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

Observing that the guests were choosing the best places for themselves, Jesus told them this parable —


simplify: And Jehovah shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.


simplify: Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, And thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.

You do not give water to the tired traveller, and from him who has no food you keep back bread.


rate difficulty: Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

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


rate difficulty: Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!

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


rate difficulty: What father among you, if his son asks him for a fish, will give him a snake instead,

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


rate difficulty: Tassels shalt thou make thee on the four corners of thy clothing, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

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


rate difficulty: for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said,  For we are also his offspring.


rate difficulty: Then Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed through the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the heave-offering of the sanctuary! So the people were restrained from bringing;

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


simplify: whom Jason hath received: and these all act contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

Whom Jason has taken into his house: and they are acting against the orders of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.


simplify: And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.

there are some who are last now who will then be first, and some who are first now who will then be last!”


rate difficulty: But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

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


simplify: And Iphedeiah, and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;

And Iphdeiah and Penuel, the sons of Shashak;


simplify: And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.

He will be a giver of new life to you, and your comforter when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who, in her love for you, is better than seven sons, has given birth to him.


simplify: Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.

To take an illustration, friends, from daily life — No one sets aside even an agreement between two people, when once it has been confirmed, nor do they add conditions to it.


rate difficulty: And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.

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


simplify: And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we serve, and unto his voice will we hearken.

And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.


simplify: The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.


simplify: Let all your things be done with charity.

Let everything you do be done in a loving spirit.


simplify: When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

When these went on, the others went; and when these came to rest, the others came to rest; and when these were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.


simplify: then he shall minister in the name of Jehovah his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, who stand there before Jehovah.

Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.


simplify: And they said, The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for an inheritance by lot to the children of Israel: and my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.

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


simplify: And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!


rate difficulty: And he made a story for them, saying,

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


simplify: With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.


rate difficulty: who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

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


rate difficulty: For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as fowlers stoop down; they set a trap, they catch men.

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


simplify: Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

‘What am I to do,’ the steward asked himself, ‘now that my master is taking the steward’s place away from me? I have not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.


rate difficulty: Then Joab said to the Cushite, Go and give the king word of what you have seen. And the Cushite, making a sign of respect to Joab, went off running.


rate difficulty: (the men of the host have spoiled each for himself);

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be theGod, the rock of my salvation,


simplify: So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.

So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,

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rate difficulty: Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, [that] I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

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


rate difficulty: For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

And when the time came for her to give birth, it was clear that there were two children in her body.


rate difficulty: We have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.

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


simplify: preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, none forbidding him.

Preaching the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ without fear, and no orders were given that he was not to do so.


simplify: She doted upon the Assyrians, governors and rulers, her neighbors, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.


rate difficulty: But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

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simplify: Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.

Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.


simplify: He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.

He who is of low position and has a servant, is better than one who has a high opinion of himself and is in need of bread.


rate difficulty: and prepare yourselves by your fathers' houses, in your divisions, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son;

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


simplify: How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him?


simplify: And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will give them my blessing.


rate difficulty: I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.

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


rate difficulty: I count myself happy, king Agrippa, in having to answer to-day before thee concerning all of which I am accused by the Jews,

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rate difficulty: Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.


simplify: But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.

But my mercy will not be taken away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.


simplify: And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.

And let the peace of Christ be ruling in your hearts, as it was the purpose of God for you to be one body; and give praise to God at all times.


simplify: And that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire.

And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.


simplify: And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.


simplify: This one is he who did come through water and blood--Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,

He it is whose coming was by water and blood — Jesus Christ himself; not by water only, but by water and by blood. And there is the Spirit also to bear testimony, and the Spirit is truth itself.


rate difficulty: And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

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rate difficulty: And David's men said to him, Behold the day of which Jehovah said to thee, Behold, I will give thine enemy into thy hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good to thee. And David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe secretly.

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


rate difficulty: But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

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


simplify: Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.


rate difficulty: And I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud I saw one seated, like a son of man, having on his head a crown of gold, and in his hand a sharp curved blade.

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


simplify: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?


rate difficulty: And having gone across the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra, in Lycia.

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


rate difficulty: Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

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


rate difficulty: The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

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


simplify: I will make mention of the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah, and the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

I will give news of the mercies of the Lord, and his great acts, even all the things the Lord has done for us, in his great grace to the house of Israel; even all he has done for us in his unnumbered mercies.


simplify: So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for nothing like this had been seen in Jerusalem from the time of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.


rate difficulty: And Naaman and Ahijah and Gera; and Iglaam was the father of Uzza and Ahihud.

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


simplify: And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.


simplify: But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, And they shall die without knowledge.

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.


simplify: I will bring it forth, saith the Lord 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 remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.


simplify: and he was there till the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, `Out of Egypt I did call My Son.'

and there he stayed until Herod’s death; in fulfillment of these words of the Lord in the prophet, where he says —  ‘Out of Egypt I called my Son.’


simplify: Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.


rate difficulty: And upon a set day Herod arrayed himself in royal apparel, and sat on the throne, and made an oration unto them.

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


simplify: And I gave Gilead unto Machir.


simplify: And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These things saith the first and the last, who was dead, and lived again:

And to the angel of the church in Smyrna say: These things says the first and the last, who was dead and is living:


rate difficulty: And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

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


simplify: A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to make known to his servants, concerning what must shortly take place, and which he sent and revealed by his angel to his servant John,


rate difficulty: And there entered a reasoning among them, this, Who may be greater of them?

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


rate difficulty: And everything Samuel the prophet and Saul, the son of Kish, and Abner, the son of Ner, and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, had made holy; whatever anyone had given, it was under the care of Shelomoth and his brothers.

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


rate difficulty: Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

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


simplify: And many rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried out the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.

And some of them, turning in protest, gave him an order to be quiet: but he went on crying out all the more, Son of David, have mercy on me.


simplify: But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.

but they were to wear sandals, and not to put on a second coat.


simplify: And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.

And they came near the town to which they were going, and he seemed as if he was going on;


simplify: Because he knew no quietness within him, He shall not save aught of that wherein he delighteth.

There is no peace for him in his wealth, and no salvation for him in those things in which he took delight.


rate difficulty: serpents they shall take up; and if any deadly thing they may drink, it shall not hurt them; on the ailing they shall lay hands, and they shall be well.'


simplify: I saw all the living that walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, that stood up in his stead.

I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.


simplify: And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth.

And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and sent it from his leather band straight at the Philistine, and the stone went deep into his brow, and he went down to the earth, falling on his face.


rate difficulty: But Jesus said unto them, For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses, crying to the Lord, said, Let my prayer come before you, O God, and make her well.


rate difficulty: And they will take it to Assyria and give it to the great king; shame will come on Ephraim, and Israel will be shamed because of its image.


simplify: But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for to this end have I appeared unto thee, to appoint thee a minister and a witness both of the things wherein thou hast seen me, and of the things wherein I will appear unto thee;

But get up on your feet: for I have come to you for this purpose, to make you a servant and a witness of the things in which you have seen me, and of those in which you will see me;


simplify: and I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city. And it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;


rate difficulty: And the ark ofGod was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

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


simplify: That which is, is far off and exceeding deep; who can find it out?

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


rate difficulty: Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

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


simplify: And the cart came into the field of Joshua, a Beth–shemite, and stood there, where there was a great stone: and they clave the wood of the cart, and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the Lord.

And the cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and came to a stop there by a great stone: and cutting up the wood of the cart they made a burned offering of the cows to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.

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


simplify: And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto him, Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause the kingdom of the house of Israel to cease.

And the Lord said to him, Give him the name of Jezreel, for after a little time I will send punishment for the blood of Jezreel on the line of Jehu, and put an end to the kingdom of Israel.


simplify: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

For it was through this that he gave us what we prize as the greatest of his promises, that through them you might participate in the divine nature, now that you have fled from the corruption in the world, resulting from human passions.


rate difficulty: And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

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


rate difficulty: Your land <FI>is<Fi> a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

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


simplify: And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that have been slain upon the earth.

And in her was seen the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.


simplify: Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their garments,

And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.


simplify: As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?

Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?


simplify: Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Is not he the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?


rate difficulty: And he says to me, Write, Blessed [are] they who are called to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb. And he says to me, These are the true words ofGod.

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


simplify: For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

In my heart I take pleasure in the law of God,


simplify: to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called saints; Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and <FI>from<Fi> the Lord Jesus Christ!

May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.


simplify: and the tongue <FI>is<Fi> a fire, the world of the unrighteousness, so the tongue is set in our members, which is spotting our whole body, and is setting on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by the gehenna.

And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of Gehenna.


simplify: Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.


simplify: And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And if liquid from the mouth of the unclean man comes on to him who is clean, then he is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.


simplify: And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?


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

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


rate difficulty: If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

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


rate difficulty: It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

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


simplify: I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.

I have never coveted anyone’s gold or silver or clothing.


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

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


simplify: And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.


simplify: The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

The wrath of a king is like the loud cry of a lion: he who makes him angry does wrong against himself.


rate difficulty: These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Say, I am your sign: like as I have done, so shall it be done unto them: they shall remove and go into captivity.

Say, I am your sign: as I have done, so will it be done to them: they will go away as prisoners.


rate difficulty: And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

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


simplify: And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.


simplify: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.


rate difficulty: And she said unto her young men, Go on before me; behold, I come after you. But she told not her husband Nabal.

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


rate difficulty: But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they rejected mine ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

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


simplify: And he saith unto them, Be not affrighted: Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; he is not here: behold the place where they laid him.

And he said to them, Do not be troubled: you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been put to death on the cross; he has come back from the dead; he is not here: see, the place where they put him!


simplify: and when it became day, he called near his disciples, and having chosen from them twelve, whom also he named apostles,

When day came, he summoned his disciples, and chose twelve of them, whom he also named ‘apostles.’


simplify: But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father planted not, shall be rooted up.

But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.


simplify: Ah! 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.

Let us be! what have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I have knowledge who you are, the Holy One of God.


simplify: And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.

And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.


simplify: and having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,

Afterwards Jesus came down the hill with them and took his stand on a level place. With him were a large crowd of his disciples, and great numbers of people from the whole of Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast district of Tyre and Sidon,


rate difficulty: And wild asses have stood on high places, They have swallowed up wind like dragons, Consumed have been their eyes, for there is no herb.

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


rate difficulty: Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.

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


simplify: for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

Is this, I ask, trying to conciliate people, or God? Am I seeking to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I should not be a servant of Christ.


rate difficulty: For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

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


rate difficulty: He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.


simplify: And the king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once nor twice.

So the king of Israel sent to the place where the man of God had said there was danger, and kept clear of it more than once.


simplify: A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

A thing of wonder and fear has come about in the land;


simplify: And Balak took Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh down upon the desert.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.


rate difficulty: but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, self-willed, they tremble not to rail at dignities:

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


rate difficulty: And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

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


rate difficulty: Yet the possessor I do bring in to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, To Adullam come in doth the honour of Israel.

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


simplify: But they gave that to the workmen, and repaired therewith the house of the Lord.

But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.


rate difficulty: But he went against his authority in sending representatives to Egypt to get from them horses and a great army. Will he do well? will he be safe who does such things? if the agreement is broken will he be safe?

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


rate difficulty: Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

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


rate difficulty: The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Joseph sent and called down to him his father Jacob and all [his] kindred, seventy-five souls.

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


rate difficulty: and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the incense of fragrant drugs; and the curtain for the entrance of the tent;


simplify: I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.


rate difficulty: If I partake with thankfulness, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?


simplify: And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,


rate difficulty: The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.

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


rate difficulty: Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as <FI>in<Fi> the day of Midian.

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


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

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


simplify: there having been, therefore, not a little dissension and disputation to Paul and Barnabas with them, they arranged for Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of them, to go up unto the apostles and elders to Jerusalem about this question,

This gave rise to a serious dispute, and much discussion, between Paul and Barnabas and these people, and it was therefore settled that Paul and Barnabas and others of their number should go up to Jerusalem, to consult the apostles and officers of the church about the matter under discussion.


simplify: for he had healed many; insomuch that as many as had plagues pressed upon him that they might touch him.

For he had made such a great number well that all those who were diseased were falling down before him for the purpose of touching him.


rate difficulty: And let there be no low behaviour, or foolish talk, or words said in sport, which are not right, but in place of them the giving of praise.

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


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

Then he said to Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.


simplify: And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.

The dead body of any of these, falling on anything, will make that thing unclean; if it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or bag, whatever it is, if it is used for any purpose, it will have to be put into water, and will be unclean till evening; after that it will be clean.


simplify: Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.


rate difficulty: But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.

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


simplify: So the lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

And as for the rest of the children of Manasseh, their heritage was given to them by families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, by their families.


simplify: And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

And a mixed people will be living in Ashdod, and I will have the pride of the Philistines cut off.


rate difficulty: I prostrated myself at the feet of him who spoke to worship him, but he said to me — ‘Forbear; I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your brothers and sisters who bear their testimony to Jesus. Worship God. For to bear testimony to Jesus needs the inspiration of the prophets.’


rate difficulty: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

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


simplify: Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.

In giving directions on the next subject, I cannot praise you; because your meetings do more harm than good.


simplify: And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,

And I saw the Lamb break the sixth seal, and then there was a great earthquake. The sun became black, like sackcloth, and the moon, which was at its full, like blood.


rate difficulty: And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

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


rate difficulty: And Ezra the priest riseth, and saith unto them, `Ye--ye have trespassed, and ye settle strange women, to add to the guilt of Israel;

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


simplify: Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

As for ourselves, friends, we, like Isaac, are children born in fulfillment of a promise.


rate difficulty: and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

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


rate difficulty: The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

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


rate difficulty: And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.

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


simplify: Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.


simplify: He hath redeemed my soul from going into the pit, And my life shall behold the light.

He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure.


rate difficulty: For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

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


rate difficulty: this is the Moses who did say to the sons of Israel: A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me, him shall ye hear.

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


simplify: And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, changing his name to Jehoiakim. And Neco took his brother Jehoahaz away to Egypt.


simplify: And out of the ground made Jehovah God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.


rate difficulty: All thy friends consume doth wind, And thy lovers into captivity do go, Surely then thou art ashamed, And hast blushed for all thy wickedness.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Beside their manservants and their maidservants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

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


rate difficulty: and not terrified in anything by those opposing, which to them indeed is a token of destruction, and to you of salvation, and that from God;


simplify: The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;


simplify: And having taken Peter, and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful, and to be very heavy;

Taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to show signs of sadness and deep distress of mind.


simplify: Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city become a desolation?

Give no attention to them; become servants of the king of Babylon and keep yourselves from death: why let this town become a waste?


simplify: And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah.

And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.


rate difficulty: And the border of the sons of Ephraim is by their families; and the border of their inheritance is on the east, Atroth-Addar unto Beth-Horon the upper;

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


simplify: as Sarah was obedient to Abraham, calling him `sir,' of whom ye did become daughters, doing good, and not fearing any terror.

as Sarah did, who obeyed Abraham, and called him master. And you are her true children, as long as you live good lives, and let nothing terrify you.


rate difficulty: And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Jehovah.

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


simplify: The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Prisca salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

The churches of Asia send their love to you. So do Aquila and Prisca, with the church which is in their house.


simplify: he who is unrighteous--let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy--let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous--let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified--let him be sanctified still:

Let the wrong-doer continue to do wrong; the filthy-minded continue to be filthy; the righteous continue to act righteously; and the holy-minded continue to be holy.’


simplify: And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?

And turning to them, he said to them in the form of a story, How is it possible for Satan to put out Satan?


rate difficulty: And when he had said this, he let them see his hands and his feet.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)

Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);


simplify: And the border passed along to the side of Beth–hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south.


rate difficulty: A fool uttereth all his mind; but a wise [man] keepeth it back.

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


simplify: And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

And I will be present among you and will be your God and you will be my people.


rate difficulty: And Jehu saith, `Sanctify a restraint for Baal;' and they proclaim <FI>it<Fi> .

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


simplify: By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.

I have been writing to you briefly by the hand of Silas, our true-hearted friend (for so I regard him), to encourage you, and to bear my testimony that in what I have written is to be found the true love of God. On that take your stand.


rate difficulty: And Nahash the Ammonite saith unto them, `For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye--and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.'

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


rate difficulty: Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.


simplify: When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went.

When they were moving, they went on their four sides without turning; they went after the head in the direction in which it was looking; they went without turning.


rate difficulty: Fool; what thou sowest is not quickened unless it die.


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

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


simplify: in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;


rate difficulty: liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

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


simplify: Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own anxieties. Every day has trouble enough of its own.


simplify: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Remember, God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them down to Tartarus, and consigned them to caverns of darkness, to be kept under guard for judgment.


simplify: And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.

And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tahrea and Ahaz.


simplify: Then said Saul to his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. So Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

Then Saul said to the servant who had the care of his arms, Take your sword and put it through me, before these men without circumcision come and make sport of me. But his servant, full of fear, would not do so. Then Saul took out his sword, falling on it himself.


rate difficulty: There has never been another prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord had knowledge of face to face;

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


rate difficulty: neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.


simplify: `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

Or those eighteen men at Siloam on whom the tower fell, killing them all, do you suppose that they were worse offenders than any other inhabitants of Jerusalem?


simplify: And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.


rate difficulty: Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah doth grant to you, and find ye rest each in the house of her husband;' and she kisseth them, and they lift up their voice and weep.

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


simplify: Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.


rate difficulty: And the children of Amram: Aaron, and Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron: Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

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


simplify: And one out of the multitude said unto him, Teacher, bid my brother divide the inheritance with me.

And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.


simplify: After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

On leaving Athens, Paul next went to Corinth.


rate difficulty: (For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):


rate difficulty: having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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


rate difficulty: And they sent to him their disciples, with the Herodians, saying, Master, we see that you are true, and that you are teaching the true way of God, and have no fear of anyone, because you have no respect for a man's position.

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


simplify: When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

So Jeremiah came into the hole of the prison, under the arches, and was there for a long time.


rate difficulty: Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall dispossess have served theirgods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Benaiah came to the Tent of Jehovah, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.

And Benaiah came to the Tent of the Lord and said to him, The king says, Come out. And he said, No; but let death come to me here. And Benaiah went back to the king and gave him word of the answer which Joab had given.


simplify: And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,

And Moses said to all the meeting of the children of Israel, This is the order which the Lord has given:


simplify: 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.

But see to it, when he goes to rest, that you take note of the place where he is sleeping, and go in there, and, uncovering his feet, take your place by him; and he will say what you are to do.


simplify: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.


simplify: And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.


simplify: Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:

Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:


simplify: How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.


simplify: And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

and they stirred up the people, as well as the councillors and the teachers of the law, and set on Stephen, and arrested him, and brought him before the High Council.


simplify: and those going before were rebuking him, that he might be silent, but he was much more crying out, `Son of David, deal kindly with me.'

Those who were in front kept telling him to be quiet, but he continued to call out the louder: “Son of David, take pity on me!”


simplify: And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods.

And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.


simplify: And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,

At daybreak the National Council met — both the chief priests and the teachers of the law — and took Jesus before their High Council.


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

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


rate difficulty: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, is Jehovah’s passover.

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


rate difficulty: He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

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


simplify: And he cut the ram into its pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

And when the sheep had been cut into parts, the head and the parts and the fat were burned by Moses.


simplify: And this was the reason why he lifted up his hand against the king: Solomon built Millo, and repaired the breach of the city of David his father.

The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;


rate difficulty: These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

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


simplify: and he shall take the cedar-wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:

And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.


rate difficulty: The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.

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


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

And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.


simplify: And the lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.

And the chiefs of the Philistines came together to make a great offering to Dagon their god, and to be glad; for they said, Our god has given into our hands Samson our hater.


simplify: And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

And the covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; there were palm-trees on the uprights, on this side and on that: and there were eight steps going up to it.


simplify: As oft as the trumpetsoundethhe saith, Aha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.


rate difficulty: “You may have a guard,” was Pilate’s reply; “go and make the tomb as secure as you can.”

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


simplify: Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timotheus the brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker,

From Paul, now a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and from Timothy, a fellow follower of the Lord.


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

Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?


simplify: I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand.

And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.


rate difficulty: I also do this to you, and I have appointed over you trouble, the consumption, and the burning fever, consuming eyes, and causing pain of soul; and your seed in vain ye have sowed, and your enemies have eaten it;

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.

And it will come about that the man who gets away safe from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will put to death; and whoever gets away safe from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will put to death.


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

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


simplify: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

But go to the wandering sheep of the house of Israel,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe's knife, and cast it into the fire that was in the pan until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was in the pan.

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


rate difficulty: The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `Fear not, nor be affrighted, take with thee all the people of war, and rise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land,

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


simplify: Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought upon their heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Segub begat Jair, and he hath twenty and three cities in the land of Gilead,

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


simplify: But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

but wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and deceived themselves.


simplify: And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Then Isaac sent for Jacob, and blessing him, said, Do not take a wife from among the women of Canaan;


simplify: And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And let Aaron and his sons make a meal of it, with the bread in the basket, at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And Jehovah smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, judging the people of the land.

And the Lord sent disease on the king and he became a leper, and to the day of his death he was living separately in his private house. And Jotham his son was over his house, judging the people of the land.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant <FI>is<Fi> not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed--

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


simplify: And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

Then let Aaron come into the Tent of meeting and take off the linen clothing which he put on when he went into the holy place, and put them down there;


rate difficulty: And not only so; but Rebecca also having conceived by one, even by our father Isaac—

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


rate difficulty: Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

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


simplify: of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.

Of Arod, the family of the Arodites: of Areli, the family of the Arelites.


simplify: And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.


simplify: Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)

Aristarchus, my brother-prisoner, sends his love to you, and Mark, a relation of Barnabas (about whom you have been given orders: if he comes to you, be kind to him),


simplify: And he made fifty clasps of gold, and coupled the curtains one to another with the clasps: so the tabernacle was one.

And they made fifty hooks of gold, joining the curtains one to another with the hooks; and so the House was made.


simplify: but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

Indeed, we had the presentiment that we must die, so that we might rely, not on ourselves, but on God who raises the dead.


rate difficulty: And Abraham answering said, Truly, I who am only dust, have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord:

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rate difficulty: That the Christ must suffer, and that, by rising from the dead, he was destined to be the first to bring news of light, not only to our nation, but also to the Gentiles.”

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rate difficulty: `And now, send to me a wise man to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and knowing to grave gravings with the wise men who <FI>are<Fi>  with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father prepared;

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.


rate difficulty: Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

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rate difficulty: And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, `Be not angry in the way.'

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simplify: And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray thee, for the word of Jehovah.

Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt declare unto this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? and what is our iniquity? and what is our sin which we have committed against Jehovah ourGod?

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

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simplify: And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.


simplify: And they drew out the staves of the ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day.

The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.


rate difficulty: and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.'

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rate difficulty: When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.

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simplify: for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and wherewith they made Israel to sin, to provoke Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

Because of all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish acts.


simplify: And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

So Pilate summoned the chief priests, and the leading men, and the people,


simplify: And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

And there he came across a certain Jew named Aquila, a man of Pontus by birth, who not long before had come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had given orders that all Jews were to go away from Rome: and he came to them;


rate difficulty: Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider’s web.

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simplify: For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

Because as in those days before the overflowing of the waters, they were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day when Noah went into the ark,


simplify: So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll.

And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.


simplify: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

(Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.


rate difficulty: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

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rate difficulty: And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

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rate difficulty: There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Jehovah made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.

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