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

And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.


simplify: He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

He is like a man building a house, who went deep and put the base of it on a rock; and when the water came up and the river was driving against that house, it was not moved, because the building was good.


simplify: The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus; for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my chains.


rate difficulty: Be prepared, yea, prepare for thee, Thou and all thine assemblies who are assembled unto thee, And thou hast been to them for a guard.

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simplify: I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.

I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.


simplify: and toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

And to her baby newly come to birth, and to the children of her body; for having no other food, she will make a meal of them secretly, because of her bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.


simplify: This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.


rate difficulty: He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his soul; But he that is careless of his ways shall die.

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simplify: And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;


rate difficulty: A true witness does not say what is false, but a false witness is breathing out deceit.

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


rate difficulty: and all of you that are armed go over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he have dispossessed his enemies from before him,

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


rate difficulty: Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

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


simplify: And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I kept laid up in a napkin:

And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;


simplify: And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.

And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.


rate difficulty: All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

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


rate difficulty: And Peter said to him, `And if all shall be stumbled, yet not I;'


rate difficulty: But when thou makest a feast, bid the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

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simplify: I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, thou hast played the harlot, Israel is defiled.

I have knowledge of Ephraim, and Israel is not secret from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have been false to me, Israel has become unclean.


simplify: who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.


simplify: And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.

And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.


simplify: and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it:

And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.

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


simplify: And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:

To our dear friend and fellow worker Philemon, to our sister Apphia, to our fellow soldier Archippus; and to the church that meets at Philemon’s house;


rate difficulty: behold now, thy servant has found favour in thine eyes, and thou hast magnified thy goodness, which thou hast shewn to me in preserving my soul alive; but I cannot escape to the mountain, lest calamity lay hold on me, that I die.

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


rate difficulty: and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-Hazor,


rate difficulty: And David saith unto Ornan, `Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar to Jehovah; for full silver give it to me, and the plague is restrained from the people.'

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


simplify: And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a roll, and therein was thus written for a record:

And at Achmetha, in the great house of the king in the land of Media, they came across a roll, in which this statement was put on record:


rate difficulty: Even as the gazelle and as the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat thereof: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof alike.

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


simplify: for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

For I have been informed, my friends, by the members of Chloe’s household, that party feeling exists among you.


simplify: Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

(See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)


rate difficulty: so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall.

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


rate difficulty: And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give ye them to eat.

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


simplify: and he said, `He who did the kindness with him,' then Jesus said to him, `Be going on, and thou be doing in like manner.'

“The one that took pity on him,” was the answer; on which Jesus said: “Go and do the same yourself.”


rate difficulty: And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.

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


rate difficulty: and when he saw the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go forth to Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord hath called us to preach good news to them,

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


simplify: After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:


rate difficulty: And David says, Let their table be for a snare, and for a gin, and for a fall-trap, and for a recompense to them:

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


rate difficulty: The children of Bezai, three hundred and twenty-three.

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


simplify: And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to let them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end;


simplify: O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!


rate difficulty: `All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal <FI>Him<Fi> .'

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


rate difficulty: So I take pleasure in being feeble, in unkind words, in needs, in cruel attacks, in troubles, on account of Christ: for when I am feeble, then am I strong.

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


rate difficulty: And behold, there came a man ofGod from Judah, by the word of Jehovah, to Bethel; and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.


rate difficulty: Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, Go back to your father's house and keep yourself as a widow till my son Shelah becomes a man: for he had in his mind the thought that death might come to him as it had come to his brothers. So Tamar went back to her father's house.


rate difficulty: And his soul draweth near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.


rate difficulty: And Othniel son of Kenaz, brother of Caleb, doth capture it, and he giveth to him Achsah his daughter for a wife.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

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


rate difficulty: For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake, loses his life will find it.


rate difficulty: Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,


simplify: Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?


simplify: And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Any man who gets another into his power in order to get a price for him is to be put to death, if you take him in the act.


simplify: I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you.

It is not with the purpose of judging you that I say this: for I have said before that you are in our hearts for life and death together.


simplify: And afterward he was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat; and he upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them that had seen him after he was risen.

And later he was seen by the eleven themselves while they were taking food; and he said sharp words to them because they had no faith and their hearts were hard, and because they had no belief in those who had seen him after he had come back from the dead.


rate difficulty: Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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


rate difficulty: We swallow them as Sheol--alive, And whole--as those going down <FI>to<Fi> the pit,

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


simplify: And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

And when they had made selection of some to be rulers in every church, and had given themselves to prayer and kept themselves from food, they put them into the care of the Lord in whom they had faith.


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Merari; Mahali and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.


simplify: But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.


simplify: and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord appointed me.

And they gave them for the potter's field, as I had word from the Lord.


simplify: They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

They are turned back to the sins of their fathers, who would not give ear to my words; they have gone after other gods and become their servants: the people of Israel and the people of Judah have not kept the agreement which I made with their fathers.


simplify: Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.

Then the woman said, Will the king let his servant say one word more? And he said, Say on.


simplify: For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.


rate difficulty: But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.

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


simplify: For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.

For when I had taken them into the land which I made an oath to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every branching tree and made their offerings there, moving me to wrath by their offerings; and there the sweet smell of their offerings went up and their drink offerings were drained out.


simplify: `And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

Brother will betray brother to death, and the father his child; and children will turn against their parents, and cause them to be put to death;


simplify: Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


simplify: and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

And he it is who gave to the church apostles, prophets, Missionaries, Pastors, and teachers,


simplify: lest, having come suddenly, he may find you sleeping;

otherwise he might come suddenly and find you asleep.


rate difficulty: In those days Jehovah began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

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


rate difficulty: Go down against them tomorrow: see, they are coming up by the slope of Ziz; at the end of the valley, before the waste land of Jeruel, you will come face to face with them.

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


rate difficulty: I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

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


simplify: thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

Do you forbid adultery, and yet commit adultery? Do you loathe idols, and yet plunder temples?


rate difficulty: And much time having now been spent, and navigation being already dangerous, because the fast also was already past, Paul counselled them,

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rate difficulty: And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,

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


simplify: Then Amaziah the priest of Beth–el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.


simplify: and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place.

And then the giver of the feast will come to you and say, Give your place to this man; and you, with shame, will have to take the lowest seat.


rate difficulty: But you must, servant of God, avoid all this. Aim at righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

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


rate difficulty: God did not cast off his people which he foreknew. Or know ye not what the scripture saith of Elijah? how he pleadeth with God against Israel:

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


rate difficulty: For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.

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


rate difficulty: Place on him thy hand, Remember the battle--do not add!

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


rate difficulty: Servants--to their own masters <FI>are<Fi> to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

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


rate difficulty: Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

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


simplify: Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

Then Mordecai sent this answer back to Esther: Do not have the idea that you in the king's house will be safe from the fate of all the Jews.


simplify: And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.


simplify: If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

If a man sees his brother doing a sin which is not bad enough for death, let him make a prayer to God, and God will give life to him whose sin was not bad enough for death. There is a sin whose punishment is death: I do not say that he may make such a request then.


simplify: And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;


simplify: And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.

And having been there for some time, he went through the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, making the disciples strong in the faith.


rate difficulty: And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

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


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: And--fallen have supporters of Egypt, And come down hath the arrogance of her strength, From Migdol to Syene, by sword they fall in her, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.

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


simplify: For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

Who may take food or have pleasure without him?


rate difficulty: And he said, Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.


simplify: For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.


simplify: and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;

But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.


simplify: The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

True, the Son of Man must go, as scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man ‘it would be better never to have been born!’”


rate difficulty: In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.

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


rate difficulty: So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

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


rate difficulty: I had many things to write, but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee:

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


simplify: But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

But to be seated at my right hand or at my left is not for me to give: but it is for those for whom it has been made ready.


rate difficulty: And Ahaz sendeth messengers unto Tiglath-Pileser king of Asshur, saying, `Thy servant and thy son <FI>am<Fi> I; come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Aram, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who are rising up against me.'

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


simplify: And Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried below Beth-el under the oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.


simplify: And David comforted Bath–sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

And David gave comfort to his wife Bath-sheba, and he went in to her and had connection with her: and she had a son to whom she gave the name Solomon. And he was dear to the Lord.


simplify: And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

And Jephthah said to them, I and my people were in danger, and the children of Ammon were very cruel to us, and when I sent for you, you gave me no help against them.


rate difficulty: But what if our wrong-doing makes God’s righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a person.) Heaven forbid!


rate difficulty: Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.

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


simplify: Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.

So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.


rate difficulty: and if it shall bear fruit — but if not, after that thou shalt cut it down.

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


simplify: And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine.

And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.


rate difficulty: At that time, Jesus answering said, I praise thee, Father, Lord of the heaven and of the earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to babes.

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


simplify: For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

For if I give you sorrow, who then will make me glad, but he who is made sad by me?


simplify: On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their hosts: and the prince of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of Shedeur.

On the south side is the flag of the children of Reuben, in the order of their armies, with Elizur, the son of Shedeur, as their chief.


rate difficulty: And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

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


simplify: And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.

They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.


simplify: And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he prophesieth; neither shall they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

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


simplify: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?

Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?


simplify: And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

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


simplify: But of that day or that hour knoweth no one, not even the angels in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

But of that day or that hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father.


simplify: In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying,

In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,


simplify: And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

I will give them up to be a cause of fear and of trouble among all the kingdoms of the earth; to be a name of shame and common talk and a cutting word and a curse in all the places wherever I will send them wandering.


simplify: and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

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simplify: So that, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of the Christ, for your becoming another's, who out of the dead was raised up, that we might bear fruit to God;

And so with you, my friends; as far as the law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.


rate difficulty: and the waters have been going and becoming lacking till the tenth month; in the tenth <FI>month<Fi> , on the first of the month, appeared the heads of the mountains.

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rate difficulty: When Gentiles, who have no law, do instinctively what the law requires, they, though they have no law, are a law to themselves;

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rate difficulty: How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

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simplify: For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

For a great and important door there is open to me, and there are a number of people against me.


rate difficulty: And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for Jehovah theirGod shall visit them, and turn again their captivity.

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rate difficulty: But the other would not, but went and put him in prison until he should pay his debt.

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rate difficulty: and his concubine, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Reumah, she also hath borne Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maachah.

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simplify: Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?

Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?


simplify: Of the priests: Jedaiah the son of Joiarib, Jachin.

Of the priests: Jedaiah, the son of Joiarib, Jachin,


rate difficulty: And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

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rate difficulty: The fifteenth to Jeremoth; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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rate difficulty: So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, were banded together, and went up with all their armies and took up their position before Gibeon and made war against it.

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rate difficulty: When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, that he may live: the same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: And the sonsof Hebron: Jeriahthe chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

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


simplify: And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers.

All who listened to him marveled at his intelligence and his answers.


rate difficulty: And at Solomon's finishing to pray, then the fire hath come down from the heavens, and consumeth the burnt-offering and the sacrifices, and the honour of Jehovah hath filled the house,

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


rate difficulty: Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

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


simplify: He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.


rate difficulty: thou hast served thine enemies, whom Jehovah sendeth against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things; and he hath put a yoke of iron on thy neck, till He hath destroyed thee.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And David gathereth all the people, and goeth to Rabbah, and fighteth against it, and captureth it;

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


simplify: But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

Pray, too, that your flight may not take place in winter, nor on a Sabbath;


simplify: Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. What a person sows that they will reap.


rate difficulty: And when his armour-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise on the sword, and died.

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


rate difficulty: ye--ye come not in unto the land which I have lifted up My hand to cause you to tabernacle in it, except Caleb son of Jephunneh, and Joshua son of Nun.

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simplify: Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;

Therefore imitate God, as his dear children,


rate difficulty: And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.

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


simplify: And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

Five of these curtains are to be joined together, and the other six are to be joined together, the sixth being folded over to make a hanging in front of the tent.


rate difficulty: On my arrival, I will send any persons, whom you may authorize by letter, to carry your gift to Jerusalem;

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simplify: And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the marketplace idle;

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;


rate difficulty: In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

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simplify: And when the multitude saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voice, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they said in a loud voice, in the language of Lycaonia, The gods have come down to us in the form of men.


rate difficulty: This, too, is the reason for your paying taxes; for the officials are God’s officers, devoting themselves to this special work.

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simplify: And not as through one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment came of one unto condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses unto justification.

And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.


rate difficulty: An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever:

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


rate difficulty: These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?


simplify: And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

They were bent on killing him, when it was reported to the officer commanding the garrison, that all Jerusalem was in commotion.


rate difficulty: And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.


rate difficulty: so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.


rate difficulty: Let them come up together till the getting in of the grain; and then I will say to the workers, Take up first the evil plants, and put them together for burning: but put the grain into my store-house.


simplify: There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:


simplify: And Jesus answered him, saying, `It hath been written, that, not on bread only shall man live, but on every saying of God.'

And Jesus answered him: “Scripture says — ‘It is not on bread alone that a person is to live.’”


rate difficulty: And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

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simplify: But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

You, however, friends, are not in darkness, that the daylight should take you by surprise as if you were thieves.


rate difficulty: To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah, the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his rule.

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


simplify: And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

And the Levites are to have a part of the land equal to the limit of the priests', twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide, all of it together to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide.


simplify: Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;


simplify: As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters.

As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.


rate difficulty: But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

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


simplify: And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that come off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, having harps of God.

And I saw a sea which seemed like glass mixed with fire; and those who had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, were in their places by the sea of glass, with God's instruments of music in their hands.


simplify: Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith Jehovah of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.


simplify: Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleaseth you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.

So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.


simplify: So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.


simplify: Salute you doth Lukas, the beloved physician, and Demas;

Luke, our dear doctor, sends you his greeting, and Demas sends his.


simplify: Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?


simplify: Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue Keepeth his soul from troubles.

He who keeps watch over his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.


rate difficulty: Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.

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simplify: And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.

But Leah said to her, Is it a small thing that you have taken my husband from me? and now would you take my son's love-fruits? Then Rachel said, You may have him tonight in exchange for your son's love-fruits.


simplify: behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

See now, how as our reward they have come to send us out of your land which you have given us as our heritage.


rate difficulty: When there is no helping suggestion the people will have a fall, but with a number of wise guides they will be safe.


simplify: And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.

There some people brought to him a paralyzed man on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man: “Courage, child! Your sins are forgiven.”


rate difficulty: Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

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


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> sons of Anah: Dishon, and Aholibamah daughter of Anah.


simplify: That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.


rate difficulty: And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not a male, neither of his kinsmen nor of his friends.

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simplify: Concerning this house which thou art building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute mine ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I establish my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father.

About this house which you are building: if you will keep my laws and give effect to my decisions and be guided by my rules, I will give effect to my word which I gave to David your father.


rate difficulty: What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:


simplify: The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.


simplify: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.


simplify: And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.

And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.


simplify: and if any one may say to you, Why do ye this? say ye that the lord hath need of it, and immediately he will send it hither.'

And, if anyone says to you ‘Why are you doing that?’, say ‘The Master wants it, and will be sure to send it back here at once.’”


simplify: Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.

And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.


rate difficulty: But I let you know, brethren, [as to] the glad tidings which were announced by me, that they are not according to man.

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simplify: and the wisdom was justified from all her children.'

And yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”


simplify: And thou shalt make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty.

And make holy robes for Aaron your brother, so that he may be clothed with glory and honour.


simplify: So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment.

So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.


simplify: And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.


simplify: And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.

And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.


simplify: What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?


rate difficulty: Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

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simplify: And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge,

Yes, and for this reason do your best to supplement your faith by goodness, goodness by knowledge,


simplify: concerning His Son, (who is come of the seed of David according to the flesh,

concerning his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord; who, as to his human nature, was descended from David,


simplify: And the sons of Uzzi: Izrahiah. And the sons of Izrahiah: Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Isshiah, five; all of them chief men.

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs.


simplify: After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:

After he had overcome Sihon, king of the Amorites, ruling in Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, ruling in Ashtaroth, at Edrei:


simplify: The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its sabbaths, while it lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected mine ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.

And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws.


simplify: To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

Come to him, then, as to a living stone, rejected, indeed, by men, but in God’s eyes choice and precious;


simplify: And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they that are bidden to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are true words of God.

And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.


simplify: And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,


simplify: And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.

And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.


rate difficulty: I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

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


rate difficulty: the table, all its utensils, and the shewbread;

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


simplify: Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.


simplify: If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

If then you take me to be your friend and brother, take him in as myself.


rate difficulty: And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

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


rate difficulty: Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

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


simplify: The word of Jehovah that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.

The word of the Lord which came to Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel.


rate difficulty: but the inner life with the imperishable beauty of a quiet and gentle spirit; for this is very precious in God’s sight.

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


simplify: And when he knew it of the centurion, he gave the body to Joseph.

and, on learning from the officer that it was so, he gave the corpse to Joseph.


rate difficulty: And he said, Come after me: and they went away from their father Zebedee, who was in the boat with the servants, and came after him.

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


simplify: For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.

For a great mass of people came after them, crying out, Away with him!


rate difficulty: And they send out to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Teacher, we know that thou art true and teachest the way ofGod in truth, and carest not for any one, for thou regardest not men's person;

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


simplify: and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.'

while on her forehead there was written this mystic name — ‘BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF ALL IDOLATROUS ABOMINATIONS on EARTH.’


rate difficulty: And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide.

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


simplify: And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not.

And I made a request to your disciples to send it out of him, but they were not able to do it.


simplify: And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.


rate difficulty: And, behold, men brought in a bed a man which was taken with a palsy: and they sought means to bring him in, and to lay him before him.


rate difficulty: The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding Shall rest in the assembly of the dead.

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


simplify: Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

Unfaithful people! Do not you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.


simplify: The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

In the sin of the lips is a net which takes the sinner, but the upright man will come out of trouble.


rate difficulty: And the Lord Jehovah giveth help to me, Therefore I have not been ashamed, Therefore I have set my face as a flint, And I know that I am not ashamed.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Do not hinder me, seeing Jehovah has prospered my way: send me away, and I will go to my master.


rate difficulty: And David said to Urijah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet. And Urijah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him presents from the king.

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


simplify: Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

You must, then, my child, find strength in the help which comes from the union with Christ Jesus;


simplify: For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

Indeed he was the one David was referring to when he said —  ‘I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, so that I should not be disquieted.


rate difficulty: And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah

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


rate difficulty: Ye are cursed with the curse; for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

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


simplify: And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;

Then he took a cup, and, after saying the thanksgiving, gave it to them, with the words: “Drink from it, all of you;


simplify: And she said, As Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.


rate difficulty: and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor’s wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,

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


rate difficulty: And now, ourGod, the great, the mighty, and the terribleGod, who keepest covenant and loving-kindness, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the days of the kings of Assyria unto this day.

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


simplify: After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

‘“After this I will return; And I will rebuild the house of David which has fallen — Its ruins I will rebuild, And will set it up once more;


simplify: Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

What man is there who will not have fear before you, O Lord, and give glory to your name? because you only are holy; for all the nations will come and give worship before you; for your righteousness has been made clear.


simplify: Then said Paul, I stand at Cesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.

And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.


simplify: And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain Jehovah’s anointed.

And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.


rate difficulty: Turn aside, turn aside, go out thence, The unclean touch not, go out from her midst, Be ye pure, who are bearing the weapons of Jehovah.


simplify: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

And if those days had not been made short there would have been no salvation for any, but because of the saints those days will be made short.


rate difficulty: Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.


simplify: Then the children of Israel did put away the Baalim and the Ashtaroth, and served Jehovah only.

So the children of Israel gave up the worship of Baal and Astarte, and became worshippers of the Lord only.


rate difficulty: and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let go the living bird into the open field.

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


rate difficulty: And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: who shall render to each according to his works;


simplify: And he asked them, What question ye with them?

And he said, What are you questioning them about?


simplify: and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the hinder part westward.

And five for the boards on the other side of the House, and five for the west side of the House at the back.


simplify: When he was removed out of the highway, all the people went on after Joab, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

When he had been taken off the road, all the people went on after Joab in search of Sheba, the son of Bichri.


simplify: When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country.


rate difficulty: And there are different sorts of servants, but the same Lord.


simplify: Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.


rate difficulty: See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the land.

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


simplify: And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And those who are on the earth are turned from the true way by him through the signs which he was given power to do before the beast; giving orders to those who are on the earth to make an image to the beast, who was wounded by the sword, and came to life.


rate difficulty: In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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


simplify: Judah, and Benjamin, and Shemaiah, and Jeremiah,

Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah,


simplify: And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

And Saul said, Go about among the people and say to them, Let every man come here to me with his ox and his sheep, and put them to death here, and take his meal: do no sin against the Lord by taking the blood with the flesh. So all the people took their oxen with them that night and put them to death there.


rate difficulty: And there are sons to Shobal father of Kirjath-Jearim: Haroeh, half of the Menuhothite;

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


rate difficulty: And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

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


simplify: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as it were a voice of thunder, `Come and behold!'

Then I saw the Lamb break one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four Creatures crying with a voice like thunder — ‘Come.’


rate difficulty: And they all made an attack on Sosthenes, the ruler of the Synagogue, and gave him blows before the judge's seat; but Gallio gave no attention to these things.

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


rate difficulty: For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.

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


simplify: And Arphaxad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.


rate difficulty: But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have taken an oath to the Lord, the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth,

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


simplify: And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.


simplify: Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

Take what belongs to you, and go. I choose to give to this last man the same as to you.


rate difficulty: And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

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


rate difficulty: for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will--these ye may not do;

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


simplify: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;


simplify: this man went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.


simplify: or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then shall he set the woman before Jehovah, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Or for a husband who, in a bitter spirit, has doubts in his heart about his wife; let him take her to the priest, who will put in force this law.


simplify: Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

Do not take only water as your drink, but take a little wine for the good of your stomach, and because you are frequently ill.


rate difficulty: Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

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


rate difficulty: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

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


simplify: Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

Then do not let my blood be drained out on the earth away from the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel has come out to take my life, like one going after birds in the mountains.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when Gideon heareth the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he boweth himself, and turneth back unto the camp of Israel, and saith, `Rise ye, for Jehovah hath given into your hand the camp of Midian.'

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


simplify: And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.

And the sons of Midian: Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.


rate difficulty: And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.

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


simplify: The lambs are for thy clothing, And the goats are the price of the field;

The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:


simplify: And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

And I saw it coloured like electrum, with the look of fire in it and round it, going up from what seemed to be the middle of his body; and going down from what seemed to be the middle of his body I saw what was like fire, and there was a bright light shining round him.


simplify: What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?


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

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


rate difficulty: And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountain of Judah, and from all the mountain of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly, with their cities.

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


rate difficulty: And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.

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


rate difficulty: If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for quietness pacifieth great offences.

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


simplify: Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.


simplify: Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.

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


simplify: And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment.

And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love for one another, even as he said to us.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.


rate difficulty: Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

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


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

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


simplify: Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.


simplify: And when the thousand years may be finished, the Adversary shall be loosed out of his prison,

When the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose from his prison,


simplify: And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.

But he said in answer, You are not to put them to death; have you any right to put to death those whom you have not taken prisoner with your sword and your bow? put bread and water before them, so that they may have food and drink and go to their master.


rate difficulty: And ye therefore, be ye ready, for in the hour in which ye do not think [it], the Son of man comes.

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


rate difficulty: And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

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


simplify: which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,

for the church is Christ’s body, and is filled by him who fills all things everywhere with his presence.


simplify: As Jehovah commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Jehovah commanded Moses.

As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.


rate difficulty: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.


simplify: Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.


simplify: and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;


rate difficulty: Then he called his servant that ministered unto him, and said, Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he said.

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


simplify: But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

God be thanked that, though you were once servants of sin, yet you learned to give hearty obedience to that form of doctrine under which you were placed.


rate difficulty: So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;

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


simplify: So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them.

so that people would carry home to the sick handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his body, and their diseases would leave them and the wicked spirits go out of them.


simplify: He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.


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

And the man had connection with Eve his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to Cain, and said, I have got a man from the Lord.


simplify: Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.

Even so, I say to you, There is joy among the angels of God, when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: And when it took the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell before the Lamb, having each a harp and golden bowls full of incenses, which are the prayers of the saints.

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


rate difficulty: But there shall be no gloom to her that was in anguish. In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time hath he made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

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


simplify: In the seventh year of Jehu began Jehoash to reign; and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.

In the seventh year of Jehu's rule, Jehoash became king; and he was ruling for forty years in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Zibiah of Beer-sheba.


rate difficulty: And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

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


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty and five thousand and six hundred.


simplify: Moreover Jehovah will raise him up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: but what? even now.

And the Lord will put up a king over Israel who will send destruction on the family of Jeroboam in that day;


rate difficulty: for because of this Christ both died and rose again, and lived again, that both of dead and of living he may be Lord.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And the multitudes said, This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.


rate difficulty: and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah;

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


simplify: Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.


simplify: And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;


rate difficulty: Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.


simplify: and Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,

And Nahshon was the father of Salma, and Salma was the father of Boaz,


simplify: When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.


simplify: Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.

You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.


rate difficulty: And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to taskwork; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. And king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:

And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;


simplify: But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

But he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did when he had need of food, and those who were with him?


simplify: And they departed, and went throughout the villages, preaching the gospel, and healing everywhere.

And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.


rate difficulty: And the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren that dwelt in Judæa:

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


simplify: Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living.

Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.


simplify: When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth therein; in his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.


rate difficulty: Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.

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


simplify: They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.

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


rate difficulty: and it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear Jehovah hisGod, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them;

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


rate difficulty: But, when he came to himself, he said ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!

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


simplify: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

But of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, If you take of it or put your hands on it, death will come to you.


rate difficulty: and whenever it may be sown, it cometh up, and doth become greater than any of the herbs, and doth make great branches, so that under its shade the fowls of the heaven are able to rest.'

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


simplify: So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.

So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.


simplify: And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations.

And David's name was honoured in all lands; and the Lord put the fear of him on all nations.


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

And he said, If now I have grace in your eyes, let the Lord go among us, for this is a stiff-necked people, and give us forgiveness for our wrongdoing and our sin, and take us for your heritage.


rate difficulty: Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

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


rate difficulty: And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

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


simplify: Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew


simplify: Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Therefore, have done with all filthiness and whatever wickedness still remains, and in a humble spirit receive that message which has been planted in your hearts and is able to save your souls.


simplify: And if her means suffice not for a lamb, then she shall take two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons; the one for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,


rate difficulty: Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

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


rate difficulty: And they made two rings of gold, and put them upon the two ends of the breastplate, upon the edge thereof, which was toward the side of the ephod inward.

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


rate difficulty: But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.

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


simplify: To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

And give ear to the words of my servants the prophets whom I send to you, getting up early and sending them, though you gave no attention;


rate difficulty: for yet a very little while, and the indignation shall be accomplished, and mine anger, in their destruction.

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


rate difficulty: And David saith unto Michal, `--Before Jehovah, who fixed on me above thy father, and above all his house, to appoint me leader over the people of Jehovah, and over Israel, --yea, I played before Jehovah;

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


rate difficulty: and, now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which <FI>are<Fi> in your midst, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, God of Israel.'

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


simplify: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to draw up a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,

As a number of attempts have been made to put together in order an account of those events which took place among us,


simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.

So now, let my sin have forgiveness, and go back with me to give worship to the Lord.


simplify: And they remembered his words,

And his words came back into their minds,


simplify: They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

They come from a far country, from the farthest part of heaven, even the Lord and the instruments of his wrath, with destruction for all the land.


rate difficulty: But the officers that came found them not in the prison; and they returned, and told,

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


simplify: and it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand,

Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul


simplify: And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

And the meeting, after stoning her with stones, will put an end to her with their swords; they will put her sons and daughters to death and have her house burned up with fire.


simplify: So he died according to the word of Jehovah which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram began to reign in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.

So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.


simplify: Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.

How can you say to your friend ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ while you yourself do not see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the speck in your friend’s.


simplify: Then he brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, andgave himthe testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, Longlive the king.

Then he made the king's son come out, and put the crown on him and the arm-bands, and made him king, and put the holy oil on him; and they all, making sounds of joy with their hands, said, Long life to the king.


simplify: Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.


simplify: The way of him that is laden with guilt is exceeding crooked; But as for the pure, his work is right.

Twisted is the way of him who is full of crime; but as for him whose heart is clean, his work is upright.


rate difficulty: `Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise--So that they are no more a people before them!

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


simplify: Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;


simplify: And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:

And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

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


simplify: For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;