rate difficulty: In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

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


rate difficulty: — The first of the first-fruits of thy land shalt thou bring into the house of Jehovah thyGod. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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


rate difficulty: In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

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


simplify: And the people were waiting for Zacharias, and they marvelled while he tarried in the temple.

And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time.


simplify: Neither can they prove to thee the things whereof they now accuse me.

And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now.


simplify: And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

They led the ass and the foal back, and, when they had put their cloaks on them, he seated himself on them.


rate difficulty: Our Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. ...

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


simplify: Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

He makes sport of the men of pride, but he gives grace to the gentle-hearted.


rate difficulty: And I saw three foul spirits, like frogs, come from the mouth of the Dragon and from the mouth of the Beast and from the mouth of the false prophet.

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


simplify: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.


rate difficulty: But, if there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then even Christ has not been raised;

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


rate difficulty: And the Ashdodites rise early on the morrow, and lo, Dagon is fallen on its face to the earth, before the ark of Jehovah; and they take Dagon, and put it back to its place.

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


rate difficulty: And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.


rate difficulty: When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel: but he trespassed through Baal, and he died.

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


rate difficulty: And the two men, the base fellows, came in and sat before him: and the base fellows bare witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did curse God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him to death with stones.


rate difficulty: And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came forth to withstand thee, for the way [thou walkest in] is for ruin before me.

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


simplify: The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,

The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of Shage the Hararite,


simplify: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

For I was in need of food, and you gave it to me: I was in need of drink, and you gave it to me: I was wandering, and you took me in;


rate difficulty: For he with great force convinced the Jews publicly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon buildeth the house and completeth it;

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


simplify: And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

And David said to himself, Some day death will come to me by the hand of Saul: the only thing for me to do is to get away into the land of the Philistines; then Saul will give up hope of taking me in any part of the land of Israel: and so I may be able to get away from him.


simplify: pious, and fearing God with all his house, doing also many kind acts to the people, and beseeching God always,

A religious man and one who reverenced God, with all his household. He was liberal in his charities to the people, and prayed to God constantly.


simplify: And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.


simplify: And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.


simplify: Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

From far away he saw the Lord: my love for you is an eternal love: so with mercy I have made you come with me.


rate difficulty: Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

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


simplify: And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?'

“Who is my mother? And who are my brothers?”


simplify: On the fifth day Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, prince of the children of Simeon:

On the fifth day Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief of the children of Simeon:


simplify: And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of Jehovah? let it come now.

See, they say to me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.


simplify: And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.

Then, closing the book and returning it to the attendant, he sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him,


simplify: Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.


simplify: These are the set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah, a burnt-offering, and a meal-offering, a sacrifice, and drink-offerings, each on its own day;

These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;


simplify: And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

And Samuel said to Saul, You have done a foolish thing: you have not kept the rules which the Lord your God gave you; it was the purpose of the Lord to make your authority over Israel safe for ever.


rate difficulty: This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them, as Jehovah had spoken.

But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.


simplify: Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah.


simplify: And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.


simplify: Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.


simplify: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.


simplify: Abraham our father--was not he declared righteous out of works, having brought up Isaac his son upon the altar?

Look at our ancestor, Abraham. Was not it the result of his actions that he was pronounced righteous after he had offered his son, Isaac, on the altar?


simplify: Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

Make melody, O daughter of Zion; give a loud cry, O Israel; be glad and let your heart be full of joy, O daughter of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

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


rate difficulty: And there is no work to Egypt, That head or tail, branch or reed, may do.


rate difficulty: Who <FI>is<Fi> this--he hath said, and it is, <FI>And<Fi> the Lord hath not commanded <FI>it<Fi> ?

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

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


rate difficulty: For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

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


simplify: And the seers shall be put to shame, and the diviners confounded; yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

And the seers will be shamed, and the readers of the future will be at a loss, all of them covering their lips; for there is no answer from God.


rate difficulty: because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

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


rate difficulty: and the building of its wall was jasper, and the city <FI>is<Fi> pure gold--like to pure glass;

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


rate difficulty: and Hashabiah, and with him Isaiah of the sons of Merari, his brethren and their sons, twenty;

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


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

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


simplify: And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,

And we are giving you the good news of the undertaking made to the fathers,


simplify: and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,


rate difficulty: and he prayeth unto Jehovah, and he saith, `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, is not this my word while I was in mine own land--therefore I was beforehand to flee to Tarshish--that I have known that Thou <FI>art<Fi> a God, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and repenting of evil?

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


simplify: And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.

Meanwhile Jesus was brought before the Roman Governor. “Are you the king of the Jews?” asked the Governor. “It is true,” answered Jesus.


simplify: as it is written, He that gathered much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack.

As it says in the Writings, He who had taken up much had nothing over and he who had little had enough.


simplify: Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.


rate difficulty: And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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


simplify: There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.


simplify: For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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


rate difficulty: and having brought them up to the praetors, said, These men utterly trouble our city, being Jews,

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


simplify: The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; But Jehovah trieth the hearts.

The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.


rate difficulty: and the priest shall look, after that the plague is washed; and, behold, if the plague have not changed its color, and the plague be not spread, it is unclean; thou shalt burn it in the fire: it is a fret, whether the bareness be within or without.

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


simplify: And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress, and they went to the fight.


simplify: And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said,

Then Gideon said to God, If you are going to give Israel salvation by my hand, as you have said,


rate difficulty: For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

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


simplify: O Jehovah, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things, even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.

O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.


simplify: And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.


simplify: And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.

Then Jacob said, You have seen what I have done for you, and how your cattle have done well under my care.


simplify: And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity,

And there was one, Anna, a woman prophet, the daughter of Phanuel, of the family of Asher (she was very old, and after seven years of married life


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

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


simplify: They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.


simplify: And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:


rate difficulty: For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.

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


rate difficulty: But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.

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


rate difficulty: And Caleb saith, `He who smiteth Kirjath-Sephar, and hath captured it--I have given to him Achsah my daughter for a wife.'

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


simplify: Likewise all the men of Israel that had hid themselves in the hill-country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.

And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.


rate difficulty: The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.


simplify: Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

Over him were the winged ones: every one had six wings; two for covering his face, two for covering his feed, and two for flight.


simplify: And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

Now when those who had been hired about five o’clock went up, they received two silver coins each.


simplify: Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone;

At last our desire to have news of you was so strong that, while we ourselves were waiting at Athens,


simplify: When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.


simplify: The foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knoweth nothing.

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.


simplify: in regard to which ye are able, reading <FI>it<Fi> , to understand my knowledge in the secret of the Christ,

And, by reading what I have written, you will be able to judge how far I understand this hidden purpose of God in Christ.


rate difficulty: Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.


simplify: (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)

When they heard that he was speaking to them in Hebrew, they were still more quiet; and Paul went on:


simplify: All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

All these things Jesus said to the people in the form of stories; and without a story he said nothing to them:


simplify: They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel thither.

So they sent for all the lords of the Philistines to come together there, and said, What are we to do with the ark of the God of Israel? And their answer was, Let the ark of the God of Israel be taken away to Gath. So they took the ark of the God of Israel away.


rate difficulty: And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.

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


simplify: For every man shall bear his own burden.


simplify: And they went out of the prison, and entered into the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them, and departed.

And they came out of the prison and went to the house of Lydia: and when they had seen the brothers they gave them comfort and went away.


rate difficulty: And Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the Son of David?

While Jesus was teaching in the Temple Courts, he asked: “How is it that the teachers of the law say that the Christ is to be David’s son?


simplify: and to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed; He doth not say, `And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, `And to thy seed,' which is Christ;

Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, ‘and to his offspring.’ It was not said ‘to his offsprings,’ as if many persons were meant, but the words were ‘to your offspring,’ showing that one person was meant — and that was Christ.


simplify: And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.

And the fire-trays and the basins; the gold of the gold vessels and the silver of the silver vessels, were all taken away by the captain of the armed men.


rate difficulty: For this reason also the wisdom ofGod has said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and of these shall they kill and drive out by persecution,

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


simplify: that ye may receive her in the Lord, as doth become saints, and may assist her in whatever matter she may have need of you--for she also became a leader of many, and of myself.

and I ask you to give her a Christian welcome — one worthy of Christ’s people — and to aid her in any matter in which she may need your assistance. She has proved herself a staunch friend and protector and to many others.


simplify: And he saith to me, `Write: Happy <FI>are<Fi> they who to the supper of the marriage of the Lamb have been called;' and he saith to me, `These <FI>are<Fi> the true words of God;'

Then a voice said to me ‘Write — “Blessed are those who have been summoned to the marriage feast of the Lamb.”’ And the voice said — ‘These words of God are true.’


simplify: So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.

Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.


simplify: And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.

So the woman, running quickly, gave her husband the news, saying, I have seen the man who came to me the other day.


simplify: When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:


rate difficulty: For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

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


simplify: Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he by whom the blind are turned out of the way. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.


simplify: When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.


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

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


rate difficulty: Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

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


rate difficulty: let no man therefore despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come unto me: for I expect him with the brethren.

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


simplify: Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the Lord thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.


rate difficulty: But the Levite, he shall perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations. And among the children of Israel shall they possess no inheritance;

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.

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


rate difficulty: God did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up on behalf of us all; will he not, then, with him, freely give us all things?

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


simplify: And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not.

And some were in agreement with what he said, but some had doubts.


simplify: And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:

So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.


simplify: And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth–dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah–el toward the north side of Beth–emek, and Neiel, and goeth 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 evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

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


simplify: Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;


rate difficulty: Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and supplicate Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil that he had pronounced against them? And we should be doing a great evil against our souls.


simplify: He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.


simplify: `And when they may lead you, delivering up, be not anxious beforehand what ye may speak, nor premeditate, but whatever may be given to you in that hour, that speak ye, for it is not ye who are speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Whenever they betray you and hand you over for trial, do not be anxious beforehand as to what you will say, but say whatever is given you at the moment; for it will not be you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.


simplify: For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;

For in the fire of my wrath I have said, Truly, in that day there will be a great shaking in the land of Israel;


simplify: As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.


simplify: and thou shalt make of it incense, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.


simplify: But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.


simplify: I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.


rate difficulty: Praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, as he gave them his word to do; every word of all his oath, which he gave by the hand of Moses his servant, has come true.


rate difficulty: and her father saith, I certainly said, that thou didst certainly hate her, and I give her to thy companion; is not her sister--the young one--better than she? Let her be, I pray thee, to thee, instead of her.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. WhatGod will do he has made known to Pharaoh.


simplify: Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.


simplify: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.


rate difficulty: and to him that would go to law with thee and take thy body coat, leave him thy cloak also.

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


simplify: And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of Jehovah, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaketh right.

So by the direction of the Lord, Moses gave orders to the children of Israel, saying, What the tribe of the sons of Joseph have said is right.


simplify: He will not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

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


simplify: Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

and striving to maintain in the bond of peace the unity given by the Spirit.


simplify: And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death; but when Uriah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt.

And when his words came to the ears of Jehoiakim the king and all his men of war and his captains, the king would have put him to death; but Uriah, hearing of it, was full of fear and went in flight into Egypt:


simplify: And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).


simplify: And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and he that sat thereon had a bow; and there was given unto him a crown: and he came forth conquering, and to conquer.

And I saw a white horse, and he who was seated on it had a bow; and there was given to him a crown: and he went out with power to overcome.


simplify: And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

And he sent men before: and they came to a small town of Samaria to make ready for him.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings--the sons also of Israel;

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


simplify: And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.

And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.


rate difficulty: and in her blood of prophets and of saints was found, and of all those who have been slain on the earth.'

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal-zephon: over against it shall ye encamp by the sea.

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


rate difficulty: He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

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


rate difficulty: And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged;

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


simplify: The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.

Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.


simplify: and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: And Moses doth--Eleazar the priest also--as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

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


simplify: Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

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


rate difficulty: And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.


simplify: He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.


rate difficulty: And they will take other stones and put them in place of those stones, and he will take other paste and put it on the walls of the house.

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


rate difficulty: And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,

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


simplify: And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

And all the people took note of it and were pleased: like everything the king did, it was pleasing to the people.


simplify: and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.


simplify: For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.

Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;


simplify: And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:


simplify: And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and Jehovah his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly.

And Solomon, the son of David, made himself strong in his kingdom, and the Lord his God was with him, and made him very great.


rate difficulty: And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.

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


rate difficulty: And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, with a loud voice glorifying God;

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


rate difficulty: Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.


simplify: So they gat them up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little ones.

So on every side they went away from the tent of Korah Dathan, and Abiram: and Dathan and Abiram came out to the door of their tents, with their wives and their sons and their little ones.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the first month, in the second year, in the first of the month, the tabernacle hath been raised up;

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


rate difficulty: and unto the elders he hath said, `Abide ye for us in this <FI>place<Fi> , until that we turn back unto you, and lo, Aaron and Hur <FI>are<Fi> with you--he who hath matters doth come nigh unto them.'

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Jehovah this day, who hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.

And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.


simplify: And he shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, upon the offerings of Jehovah made by fire: it is a sin-offering.

And let him come to the priest with it, and the priest will take some of it in his hand, to be burned on the altar as a sign, among the offerings of the Lord made by fire: it is a sin-offering.


simplify: And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:

And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:


rate difficulty: The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.


rate difficulty: on hearing this, we felt encouraged about you, friends, in the midst of all our difficulties and troubles, by your faith.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

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


rate difficulty: And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.


rate difficulty: `Go ye in through the strait gate, because wide <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and broad the way that is leading to the destruction, and many are those going in through it;

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


rate difficulty: And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.


rate difficulty: And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.

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


simplify: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


simplify: Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.

Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.


rate difficulty: On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

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


rate difficulty: and Jonathan strippeth himself of the upper robe which <FI>is<Fi> upon him, and giveth it to David, and his long robe, even unto his sword, and unto his bow, and unto his girdle.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and having passed by Mysia, they came down to Troas.

Passing through Mysia, they went down to Troas;


rate difficulty: And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel.


simplify: And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,


rate difficulty: And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon — now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin,

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


simplify: These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

These two things have come on you; who will be weeping for you? wasting and destruction; death from need of food, and from the sword; how may you be comforted?


simplify: For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown;

For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:


simplify: For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet.

For his rule will go on till he has put all those who are against him under his feet.


rate difficulty: And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.

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


simplify: And when the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who hath slain many of us.

And when the people saw him, they gave praise to their god; for they said, Our god has given into our hands the one who was fighting against us, who made our country waste, and who put great numbers of us to death.


rate difficulty: Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, that thou wouldest keep me secret until thine anger be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me, —

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

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


rate difficulty: And Job again took up his parable, and said,

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


rate difficulty: The first woe has passed. Behold, there come yet two woes after these things.

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


rate difficulty: And Jephthah sendeth messengers unto the king of the Bene-Ammon, saying, `What--to me and to thee, that thou hast come in unto me, to fight in my land.'

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


simplify: he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

Who puts himself against all authority, lifting himself up over all which is named God or is given worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, putting himself forward as God.


rate difficulty: And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will put the seat of his kingdom on these stones which have been put in a safe place here by you; and his tent will be stretched over them.

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


simplify: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that were wanting, and appoint elders in every city, as I gave thee charge;

I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;


rate difficulty: and, after crossing the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: a man who compoundeth <FI>any<Fi> like it, or who putteth of it on a stranger--hath even been cut off from his people.'

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


simplify: Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.


rate difficulty: And that very hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds, and he himself and everyone belonging to him were baptized without delay.


simplify: And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

After three days and a half ‘the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up on their feet,’ and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.


simplify: And the hand of Jehovah was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

And the hand of the Lord was on me there; and he said, Get up and go out into the valley and there I will have talk with you.


simplify: And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.

And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.


rate difficulty: And the young man who is set over the reapers answereth and saith, `A young woman--Moabitess--she <FI>is<Fi> , who came back with Naomi from the fields of Moab,

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


rate difficulty: Overthrow the wicked, and they are no [more]; but the house of the righteous shall stand.


simplify: At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.


simplify: But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.


simplify: and Joanna the wife of Chuzas Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered unto them of their substance.

And Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's chief house-servant, and Susanna and a number of others, who gave him of their wealth for his needs.


rate difficulty: And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, How is it that we could not cast it out?

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


rate difficulty: And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

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


simplify: When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; But when they perish, the righteous increase.

When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.


simplify: And thou shalt make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.

And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass


simplify: The Lord Jehovah hath sworn by himself, saith Jehovah, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces; therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.

The Lord God has taken an oath by himself, says the Lord, the God of armies: the pride of Jacob is disgusting to me, and I have hate for his great houses: so I will give up the town with everything in it.


rate difficulty: Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear Jehovah: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two children to be bondmen.

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


simplify: He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;

He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;


rate difficulty: For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And Judah seeth her, and reckoneth her for a harlot, for she hath covered her face,

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


rate difficulty: As the sin-offering, so is the trespass-offering; [there shall] be one law for them: it shall be the priest's who maketh atonement therewith.

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


simplify: And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.

Presently they reached the leader’s house, where Jesus saw a scene of confusion — people weeping and wailing incessantly.


simplify: But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

(But Rehoboam was still king over those of the children of Israel who were living in the towns of Judah.)


simplify: He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

Anyone who welcomes you is welcoming me; and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming him who sent me as his messenger.


rate difficulty: And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

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


rate difficulty: As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah was with Judah; and he took possession of the hill-country, for he did not dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

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


simplify: Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

So you are to do to all the towns far away, which are not the towns of these nations.


rate difficulty: to keep the commandments of Jehovah, and his statutes, which I command thee this day, for thy good?

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


simplify: Now in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Now in all Israel there was no one so greatly to be praised for his beautiful form as Absalom: from his feet to the crown of his head he was completely beautiful.


rate difficulty: and his garments became glittering, white exceedingly, as snow, so as a fuller upon the earth is not able to whiten <FI>them<Fi> .


simplify: For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee.

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your saviour; I have given Egypt as a price for you, Ethiopia and Seba for you.


simplify: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Or do you think lightly of his abundant kindness, patience, and forbearance, not realizing that his kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?


rate difficulty: because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

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


simplify: in all might being made mighty according to the power of His glory, to all endurance and long-suffering with joy.

you will be made strong at all points with a strength worthy of the power manifested in his glory — strong to endure with patience, and even with gladness, whatever may happen to you;


rate difficulty: Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

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


simplify: For that nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.


simplify: Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:


simplify: And she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.


rate difficulty: Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

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


rate difficulty: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

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


rate difficulty: Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.

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


simplify: and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, `Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done?

When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue; and the people, as they listened, were deeply impressed. “Where did he get this?” they said, “and what is this wisdom that has been given him? And these miracles which he is doing?


rate difficulty: Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.


simplify: And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, and brought them into the temple of Babylon, those did Cyrus the king take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered unto one, whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor;

And the gold and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took from the Temple which was in Jerusalem, and put into the house of his god in Babylon, these Cyrus the king took from the house of his god in Babylon, and gave to one named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made ruler;


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

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


simplify: and they brought in the oblations and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully. And over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second;

And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him.


simplify: having also a wall great and high, having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written thereon, which are <FI>those<Fi> of the twelve tribes of the sons of Israel,

It had a great high wall, in which were twelve gates; and at these gates there were twelve angels, and there were names inscribed on the gates, the names of the twelve tribes of the Israelites.


simplify: And the prince of the fathers’ house of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

The chief of the Gershonites is Eliasaph, the son of Lael.


simplify: But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

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


rate difficulty: And when Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

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


rate difficulty: And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou kill with the sword, and wilt dash in pieces their children, and rip up their women with child.

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


rate difficulty: And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

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


simplify: And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

Then at the sound of footsteps in the tops of the trees, go forward quickly, for the Lord has gone out before you to overcome the army of the Philistines.


rate difficulty: Round about terrified him have terrors, And they have scattered him--at his feet.

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


simplify: But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

So the Philistines took him and put out his eyes; then they took him down to Gaza, and, chaining him with bands of brass, put him to work crushing grain in the prison-house.


simplify: The men of Nineve shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

The men of Nineveh will come up in the day of judging and give their decision against this generation: for they were turned away from their sins at the preaching of Jonah; but now something greater than Jonah is here.


rate difficulty: Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

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


rate difficulty: And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.

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


rate difficulty: And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba:) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

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


simplify: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.


rate difficulty: if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge, he shall bring his offering, a buck of the goats, a male without blemish.

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


simplify: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.


simplify: But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

But the angel said to him: “Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, whom you will call by the name John.


rate difficulty: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

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


rate difficulty: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

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


simplify: If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall let his beast loose, and it feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.


rate difficulty: and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

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


simplify: And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.

So every man took his vessel and they put fire in them, with spices, and came to the door of the Tent of meeting with Moses and Aaron.


simplify: Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.

What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.


simplify: And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.


simplify: And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

You, however, are not earthly but spiritual, since the Spirit of God lives within you. Unless a person has the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ;


simplify: If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty;

If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all;


rate difficulty: And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.

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


rate difficulty: He has seen no evil in Jacob or wrongdoing in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the glad cry of a king is among them.

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


rate difficulty: And lo, one coming up said to him, Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have life eternal?

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


simplify: For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me.

And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy.


rate difficulty: He runneth against him, with [outstretched] neck, with the thick bosses of his bucklers;

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


simplify: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.


simplify: `Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who is having ears to hear--let him hear.

Then will the righteous shine, like the sun, in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears hear.


simplify: But he passing through the midst of them went his way,

But he passed through the middle of the crowd and went on his way.


rate difficulty: and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up,

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


simplify: And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.


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

Tell slaves to respect their owner's authority in all circumstances, and to try their best to please them.


simplify: And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.


simplify: I, even I, am Jehovah; and besides me there is no saviour.

I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.


simplify: And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of Jehovah came unto the prophet that brought him back;

But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;


rate difficulty: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

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


simplify: And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and killed him.

And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.


rate difficulty: And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan.

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


simplify: Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.

For this reason tongues are for a sign, not to those who have faith, but to those who have not: but the prophet's word is for those who have faith, and not for the rest who have not.


simplify: and certain of the Pharisees said to them, `Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'

“Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?” asked some of the Pharisees.


simplify: I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and 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: And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.


simplify: And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.


simplify: Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Then have no fear; you are of more value than a flock of sparrows.


rate difficulty: As they were unable to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them, do you think, will love him the more?”

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


simplify: After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

After a long time you will get your orders: in the last years you will come into the land which has been given back from the sword, which has been got together out of a great number of peoples, on the mountains of Israel which have ever been a waste: but it has been taken out from the peoples and they will be living, all of them, without fear of danger.


simplify: And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.

And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.


simplify: And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

And saying, The time has come, and the kingdom of God is near: let your hearts be turned from sin and have faith in the good news.


simplify: and he did not suffer that any might bear a vessel through the temple,

and would not allow anyone to carry anything across the Temple Courts.


simplify: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Unhappy are you, Chorazin! Unhappy are you, Beth-saida! For if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have been turned from their sins in days gone by, clothing themselves in haircloth and putting dust on their heads.


rate difficulty: And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, bad-looking and lean-fleshed, and stood by the kine on the bank of the river.

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


simplify: He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.


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

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


simplify: The beasts of the field shall honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen,

The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:


rate difficulty: And he took the calf that they had made, and burned [it] with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed [it] on the water, and made the children of Israel drink [it].

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


rate difficulty: But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: And of it he shall present one out of the whole offering as a heave-offering to Jehovah; to the priest that sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offering, to him it shall belong.

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


simplify: and the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou the priest valuest it, so shall it be.

And let the priest put a value on it, if it is good or bad; whatever value the priest puts on it, so will it be.


simplify: And afterward they asked for a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for the space of forty years.

Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.


rate difficulty: Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.

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


rate difficulty: And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

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


simplify: Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.


rate difficulty: The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me; And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.


rate difficulty: Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk ye in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

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


simplify: the commands thou hast known: Thou mayest not commit adultery, Thou mayest do no murder, Thou mayest not steal, Thou mayest not bear false witness, Thou mayest not defraud, Honour thy father and mother.'

You know the commandments — ‘Do not kill. Do not commit adultery. Do not steal. Do not say what is false about others. Do not cheat. Honor your father and your mother.’”


rate difficulty: It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

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


rate difficulty: And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand; and they came unto Balaam, and spake unto him the words of Balak.

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


simplify: So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.


simplify: In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.


simplify: I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

I charge you solemnly, before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels, to carry out these directions, unswayed by prejudice, never acting with partiality.


simplify: who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.


rate difficulty: And they first took their journey according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

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


rate difficulty: apart from the continual burnt-offering and its present ye prepare <FI>them<Fi> (perfect ones they are for you) and their libations.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And as Peter doubted in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold also the men who were sent by Cornelius, having sought out the house of Simon, stood at the gate,

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


simplify: Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Not one newly taken into the church, for fear that, through his high opinion of himself, he may come into the same sin as the Evil One.


simplify: and we toil, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;


rate difficulty: For the saying which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth–el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.

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


simplify: I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

I made them come after me with the cords of a man, with the bands of love; I was to them as one who took the yoke from off their mouths, putting meat before them.


simplify: even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),


simplify: Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, saying,


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when ye approach unto the battle, that the priest shall draw near and speak unto the people,

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


rate difficulty: And the man calleth his wife's name Eve: for she hath been mother of all living.

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


simplify: And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and threeyearsreigned he in Jerusalem.

For forty years he was ruling as king over Israel, seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And these were the sons of the father of Etam: Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash; and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

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


simplify: I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

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


simplify: And I subscribed the deed, and sealed it, and called witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.


simplify: And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skilful workman.

Hammering the gold into thin plates and cutting it into wires to be worked into the blue and the purple and the red and the linen by the designer.


rate difficulty: And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth, and all that <FI>is<Fi> in them, For, from the north come to it do the spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.


simplify: And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down themselves to him to the earth.

And when Joseph came in, they gave him the things which they had for him, and went down to the earth before him.


simplify: And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.

And running to Eli he said, Here am I, for you said my name. And Eli said, I did not say your name; go to your rest again. So he went back to his bed.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Jehu, and all he did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


simplify: Let him take his rod away from me, And let not his terror make me afraid:

Let him take away his rod from me and not send his fear on me:


simplify: When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

When you meet together, as I understand, it is not possible to eat the Lord’s Supper;


simplify: And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren, Let me find favor in your eyes, and what ye shall say unto me I will give.

And Shechem said to her father and her brothers, If you will give ear to my request, whatever you say I will give to you.


rate difficulty: And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees.

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


simplify: And king David said to Ornan, Nay; but I will verily buy it for the full price: for I will not take that which is thine for the Lord, nor offer burnt offerings without cost.

And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.


simplify: And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

And when the ark of the agreement of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and playing; and to her mind he seemed foolish.


rate difficulty: And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

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


simplify: And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

In the Tent of meeting, the Gershonites are to have the care of the House, and the Tent with its cover, and the veil for the door of the Tent of meeting,


simplify: and having known <FI>it<Fi> from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

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


simplify: And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

And God gave ear to her and she became with child, and gave Jacob a fifth son.


simplify: Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?

Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?


simplify: Then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains; and let them that are in the midst of her depart out; and let not them that are in the country enter therein.

Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains; and those who are in the middle of the town go out; and let not those who are in the country come in.


rate difficulty: But one of the Pharisees begged him that he would eat with him. And entering into the house of the Pharisee he took his place at table;

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


rate difficulty: A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

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


rate difficulty: Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

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


rate difficulty: And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.


simplify: And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to decline ten steps: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten steps.

And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.


rate difficulty: And Uzziah hath a force, making war, going forth to the host, by troops, in the number of their reckoning by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Masseiah the officer, by the hand of Hananiah <FI>one<Fi> of the heads of the king.

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


rate difficulty: And David arose, and fled that day from before Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.


rate difficulty: And stumbled hath pride, And he hath fallen, and hath no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it hath devoured all round about him.

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


rate difficulty: And the curse if you do not give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, but let yourselves be turned from the way which I have put before you this day, and go after other gods which are not yours.

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


rate difficulty: For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.

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


simplify: And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.

And Jehu sent out through all Israel; and all the servants of Baal came, not one kept away. And they came into the house of Baal, so that it was full from end to end.


simplify: Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

The prophet Jeremiah said, So be it: may the Lord do so: may the Lord give effect to the words which you have said, and let the vessels of the Lord's house, and all the people who have been taken away, come back from Babylon to this place.


rate difficulty: Next, another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer in his hand; and a great quantity of incense was given to him, to mingle with the prayers of all Christ’s people on the golden altar before the throne.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence which they shall show thee from that place which Jehovah shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee:

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


simplify: And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself.

And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base.


simplify: As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river’s side, as the trees of lign aloes which the Lord hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.