rate difficulty: For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.

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


simplify: And God spake unto Noah, saying,


rate difficulty: and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.

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


simplify: and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee;

And go out to the valley of the son of Hinnom, by the way into the door of broken pots, and there say in a loud voice the words which I will give you;


rate difficulty: He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.

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


rate difficulty: And when they came to Nachon's threshing-floor, Uzzah reached after the ark ofGod, and took hold of it; for the oxen had stumbled.


simplify: and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.

and all whose names ‘were not found written in the book of life’ were hurled into the lake of fire.


rate difficulty: The generations of the sons of Issachar were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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


simplify: And they answered and said unto Jesus, We cannot tell. And Jesus answering saith unto them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.

So their answer to Jesus was — “We do not know.”   “Then I,”replied Jesus, “refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things.”


simplify: And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.


rate difficulty: O My mountain in the field--thy strength, All thy treasures--for a prey I give, Thy high places for sin in all thy borders.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:

This is what the Lord has said: Further, I will take the highest top of the cedar and put it in the earth; cutting off from the highest of his young branches a soft one, I will have it planted on a high and great mountain;


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

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


simplify: And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah’s house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.

And he took me into the inner square of the Lord's house, and at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the covered way and the altar, there were about twenty-five men with their backs turned to the Temple of the Lord and their faces turned to the east; and they were worshipping the sun, turning to the east.


rate difficulty: and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty ones, and Solomon his brother, he hath not called.

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


simplify: Jehovah will smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, whereof thou canst not be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the crown of thy head.

The Lord will send a skin disease, attacking your knees and your legs, bursting out from your feet to the top of your head, so that nothing will make you well.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.


rate difficulty: Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,


simplify: but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

But if I am long in coming, this will make clear to you what behaviour is right for men in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of what is true.


simplify: And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

It is the Lord who goes before you; he will be with you, he will not take away his help from you or give you up: so have no fear.


simplify: And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.


rate difficulty: I do not set aside the grace ofGod; for if righteousness [is] by law, then Christ has died for nothing.

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


rate difficulty: And till evening they gave themselves to sorrow and weeping, and took no food, weeping for Saul and for Jonathan, his son, and for the people of the Lord and for the men of Israel; because they had come to their end by the sword.

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


simplify: And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

As they were shouting, tearing off their clothes, and throwing dust in the air,


rate difficulty: And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

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


rate difficulty: Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

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


simplify: The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.


simplify: and the whole city was filled with confusion, they rushed also with one accord into the theatre, having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, Paul's fellow-travellers.

The commotion spread through the whole city, and the people rushed together into the amphitheater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, two Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.


rate difficulty: And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

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


simplify: And he said unto the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

And he said to the woman, By your faith you have salvation; go in peace.


simplify: He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

And he said to them in answer, To you is given the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.


simplify: Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it done unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was healed from that hour.

Then Jesus, answering, said to her, O woman, great is your faith: let your desire be done. And her daughter was made well from that hour.


rate difficulty: And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon–parez.

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


simplify: Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

Paul and Barnabas, however, remained in Antioch, where they taught and, with the help of many others, told the good news of the Lord’s message.


simplify: And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.

And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.


rate difficulty: Vedan and Javan go about with thy remnants, They have given shining iron, cassia, and cane, In thy merchandise it hath been.

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


rate difficulty: They were armed with bows, and were able to send stones, and arrows from the bow, with right hand or left: they were Saul's brothers, of Benjamin.


simplify: And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer: and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.

And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town.


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

Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.


rate difficulty: And she laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto them, `Do not delay me, seeing Jehovah hath prospered my way; send me away, and I go to my lord;'

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


simplify: But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

But I say to you that anyone who looks at a woman and desires her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.


rate difficulty: Pharaoh had been angry with his servants, and had put me in prison in the house of the captain of the army, together with the chief bread-maker;

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


simplify: And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.


rate difficulty: But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

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


simplify: Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim, one portion.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and glittering with gold ornaments, precious stones, and pearls. In her hand she held a gold cup, full of idolatrous abominations, and the unclean fruits of her licentiousness;


rate difficulty: And the couriers stood by the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, toward the altar and the house.

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


rate difficulty: All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.


rate difficulty: And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

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


simplify: And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.

And if your brother becomes poor and is not able to make a living, then you are to keep him with you, helping him as you would a man from another country who is living among you.


rate difficulty: And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

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


simplify: But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God, which have separated you from other people.

But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.


rate difficulty: And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, Dost thou know that Jehovah will take away thy master from over thy head to-day? And he said, I also know it: be silent!

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


simplify: And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.

And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.


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


simplify: We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love each other. The person who does not love remains in a state of death.


simplify: And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?

“What, do even you understand nothing yet?” Jesus exclaimed.


rate difficulty: And he took me to the Temple, and took the measure of the uprights, six cubits wide on one side and six cubits wide on the other.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name;


rate difficulty: And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who <FI>are<Fi> in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

For he has knowledge of the way I take; after I have been tested I will come out like gold.


simplify: And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

The master answered ‘Out of your own mouth I judge you, you worthless servant. You knew that I am a stern man, that I take what I have not planted, and reap what I have not sown?


rate difficulty: Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou shalt be a burden unto me:

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


simplify: And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!'

Since our gifts differ in accordance with the particular charge entrusted to us, if our gift is to preach, let our preaching correspond to our faith;


simplify: And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, according to their hosts.

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.


rate difficulty: Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

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


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and five hundred.

The number of his army was forty-one thousand, five hundred;


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, they to whom it pertained not to drink of the cup shall assuredly drink; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink.

For the Lord has said, Those for whom the cup was not made ready will certainly be forced to take of it; and are you to go without punishment? you will not be without punishment, but will certainly be forced to take from the cup.


rate difficulty: Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

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


simplify: And they did all eat, and were filled.

And they all took of the food and had enough.


rate difficulty: And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

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


simplify: A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

He will not let a crushed stem be quite broken, and he will not let a feebly burning light be put out: he will go on sending out the true word to the peoples.


simplify: I think myself happy, king Agrippa, that I am to make my defence before thee this day touching all the things whereof I am accused by the Jews:

In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:


rate difficulty: Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.

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


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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over; that thou mayest go in unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised thee.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Did I reveal myself unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in bondage to Pharaoh’s house?

And a man of God came to Eli and said to him, The Lord says, Did I let myself be seen by your father's people when they were in Egypt, servants in Pharaoh's house?


simplify: I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.

I know your persecution and your poverty — yet you are rich! I know, too, the slander that comes from those who declare that they are God's people, though they are not, but are a Congregation of Satan.


simplify: And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which Jehovah putteth in my mouth?

And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth?


rate difficulty: And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Return unto me, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

And it came about that he was seated at meat in his house, and a number of tax-farmers and sinners were at table with Jesus and his disciples: for there were a great number of them, and they came after him.


rate difficulty: And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

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


rate difficulty: Then Joab came to the king, and said, What hast thou done? behold, Abner came unto thee; why is it that thou hast sent him away, and he is quite gone?

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.

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


simplify: And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.


simplify: And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:

There were six steps up to it, and a foot-rest of gold fixed to it, and arms on the two sides of the seat, with two lions at the side of the arms.


simplify: He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord.

So he went in, and shutting the door on the two of them, made prayer to the Lord.


simplify: And John did answer him, saying, `Teacher, we saw a certain one in thy name casting out demons, who doth not follow us, and we forbade him, because he doth not follow us.'

“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons by using your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he did not follow us.”


simplify: And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.

And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.


simplify: For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.


simplify: Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, for their families, the cities and their villages.

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


simplify: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day.


simplify: Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?

Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?


rate difficulty: And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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


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

And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.


rate difficulty: But, if our lives are lived in the light, as God himself is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.

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


rate difficulty: Be careful about nothing; but in everything, by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known toGod;

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


rate difficulty: And the Gibeonites say to him, `We have no silver and gold by Saul and by his house, and we have no man to put to death in Israel;' and he saith, `What ye are saying I do to you.'

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


simplify: And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.


simplify: with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,


simplify: And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.

I let myself be seen by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God, the Ruler of all; but they had no knowledge of my name Yahweh.


simplify: And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?

Then the Lord gave the ass the power of talking, and opening her mouth she said to Balaam, What have I done to you that you have given me blows these three times?


simplify: For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto Jehovah our God.

For there will be a day when those who get in the grapes on the hills of Ephraim will be crying, Up! let us go up to Zion to the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron dress it from evening to morning before Jehovah continually: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations.

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


simplify: And the seven messengers who are having the seven trumpets did prepare themselves that they may sound;

Then the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow their blasts.


simplify: And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.

Then the Lord sent a wind, driving little birds from the sea, so that they came down on the tents, and all round the tent-circle, about a day's journey on this side and on that, in masses about two cubits high over the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: Hoshea, Hananiah, Hashub,


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he mightily oppressed the children of Israel twenty years.

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


rate difficulty: Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.


rate difficulty: To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

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


rate difficulty: for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of mount Zion they that escape: the zeal of Jehovah of hosts shall do this.

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


rate difficulty: To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

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


simplify: And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.

And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him.


simplify: but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, `Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them;

But Jesus called the ten to him, and said: “Those who are regarded as ruling among the Gentiles lord it over them, as you know, and their great men oppress them.


simplify: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

These are the things because of which the wrath of God comes,


rate difficulty: And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.


simplify: A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.


simplify: And Achish said, Against whom have ye made a raid to-day? And David said, Against the South of Judah, and against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.

And every time Achish said, Where have you been fighting today? David said, Against the South of Judah and the South of the Jerahmeelites and the South of the Kenites.


rate difficulty: Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.

And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.


rate difficulty: Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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


simplify: And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me.

And Saul said, The Lord's blessing will be yours, for you have had pity on me.


simplify: And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

So there are to be eight boards, with their sixteen silver bases, two bases under every board.


simplify: And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?


rate difficulty: And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins.

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


simplify: And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:

And the priest will take the cooked leg of the sheep and one unleavened cake and one thin cake out of the basket, and put them on the hands of the separate one after his hair has been cut,


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,

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


simplify: because it is the time of the beginning of the judgment from the house of God, and if first from us, what the end of those disobedient to the good news of God?

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the house of God; and, if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who reject God’s good news?


simplify: And there were also others--two evil-doers--with him, to be put to death;

There were two others also, criminals, led out to be executed with Jesus.


simplify: Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?


simplify: Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judah and his brethren;

The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;


simplify: Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.


simplify: And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

No more will the music of harpers, or minstrels, or flute players, or trumpeters be heard in you, no more will any worker, skilled in any art, be found in you; no more will the sound of a mill be heard in you;


simplify: And their wealth shall become a spoil, and their houses a desolation: yea, they shall build houses, but shall not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but shall not drink the wine thereof.

And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.


rate difficulty: Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

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


rate difficulty: And the lads who have grown up with him, speak with him, saying, `Thus dost thou say to the people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make light <FI>somewhat<Fi> of our yoke; thus dost thou say unto them, My little finger is thicker than the loins of my father;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

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


simplify: Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Cesar? unto Cesar shalt thou go.

Festus, after conferring with his Council, answered: “You have appealed to the Emperor; to the Emperor you will go.”


rate difficulty: Remember the word which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God giveth you rest, and will give you this land.

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


simplify: Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who insult you.


simplify: And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, `So! ye were not able one hour to watch with me!

Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep. “What!” he said to Peter, “could none of you watch with me for one hour?


simplify: He said, Bring them hither to me.


simplify: I think myself happy, king Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews:

In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:


rate difficulty: For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

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


simplify: And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

And when the woman saw that she was not able to keep it secret, she came, shaking with fear, and falling down before him she made clear before all the people the reason for her touching him, and how she was made well straight away.


simplify: And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.

And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark;


simplify: But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col–hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass in the morning, that David writeth a letter unto Joab, and sendeth by the hand of Uriah;

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


simplify: howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me as chief might Jesus Christ show forth all his longsuffering, for an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life.

But for this reason I was given mercy, so that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might make clear all his mercy, as an example to those who in the future would have faith in him to eternal life.


rate difficulty: For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

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


simplify: And their dead bodies lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.

And their dead bodies will be in the open street of the great town, which in the spirit is named Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was put to death on the cross.


rate difficulty: King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.

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


simplify: The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,

This word Jeremiah gave out to all the people of Judah and to those living in Jerusalem, saying,


rate difficulty: And I, John, am he who is seeing these things and hearing, and when I heard and beheld, I fell down to bow before the feet of the messenger who is shewing me these things;

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


simplify: So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah clave unto their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

So all the men of Israel, turning away from David, went after Sheba, the son of Bichri: but the men of Judah were true to their king, going with him from Jordan as far as Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And the youth cometh unto the place of the arrow which Jonathan hath shot, and Jonathan calleth after the youth, and saith, `Is not the arrow beyond thee?'

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.

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


rate difficulty: through the tender mercy of our God, Whereby the Dawn will break on us from heaven,

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


simplify: And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thy handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.


rate difficulty: And under their hand was an army-host of three hundred and seven thousand five hundred, that made war with mighty power to help the king against the enemy.

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


simplify: and lo, appear to them did Moses and Elijah, talking together with him.

All at once Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Jesus.


rate difficulty: And he heareth concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, `He hath come out to fight with thee;' and he heareth, and sendeth messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,


simplify: Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? Or hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?


simplify: A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.

A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.


simplify: and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before Jehovah, before the veil of the sanctuary.

And the priest is to put his finger in the blood, shaking drops of it before the Lord seven times, in front of the veil of the holy place.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


simplify: And the officers that were over the thousands of the host, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses;

Then the men in authority over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and captains of hundreds, came to Moses,


simplify: For I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.


rate difficulty: And when the fourteenth night came--we being borne up and down in the Adria--toward the middle of the night the sailors were supposing that some country drew nigh to them;


rate difficulty: And he who does not take his cross and come after me is not good enough for me.

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


simplify: O give thanks unto Jehovah, call upon his name; Make known his doings among the peoples.

O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath brought it, and done according as he spake: because ye have sinned against Jehovah, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.

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


simplify: `And whoever may not receive you nor hear your words, coming forth from that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet,

If no one welcomes you, or listens to what you say, as you leave that house or that town, shake off its dust from your feet.


simplify: And Moses said before the Lord, Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

And Moses said to the Lord, My lips are unclean; how is it possible that Pharaoh will give me a hearing?


rate difficulty: and he maketh staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold,

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


simplify: Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;


simplify: Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind.

One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days shall ten men take hold, out of all languages of the nations, shall even take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you; for we have heard [that]God is with you.

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


simplify: And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.

And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when their heart <FI>is<Fi> glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.

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


simplify: And into whatsoever house ye shall enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

And whenever you go into a house, first say, Peace be to this house.


simplify: But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:

But these men have been very good to us; they did us no wrong and nothing of ours was touched while we were with them in the fields:


simplify: And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

And at the sound of their weeping the agreement which God had made with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob came to his mind.


simplify: And they did so, and made them all sit down.

This they did, and got all the people seated.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.

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


rate difficulty: But if there is no coming back from the dead, then Christ has not come back from the dead:

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


simplify: And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us?


simplify: Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?


simplify: And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

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


rate difficulty: And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

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


simplify: But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.


rate difficulty: But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And the king saith--`to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.

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


rate difficulty: and afterwards hath his brother come out, and his hand is taking hold on Esau's heel, and one calleth his name Jacob; and Isaac <FI>is<Fi> a son of sixty years in her bearing them.

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


rate difficulty: And when they came to the camp of Israel, the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites, so that they fled before them; and they went forward into the land smiting the Moabites.

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


simplify: Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:

Then I made the rulers of Judah come up on the wall, and I put in position two great bands of them who gave praise, walking in ordered lines; one went to the right on the wall, in the direction of the doorway where the waste was put;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country;

This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will be the saviour of my people from the east country, and from the west country;


simplify: And Jehovah said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;

And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,


simplify: And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.

And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them.


rate difficulty: and David goeth up and his men, and they push unto the Geshurite, and the Gerizite, and the Amalekite, (for they are inhabitants of the land from of old), as thou comest in to Shur and unto the land of Egypt,

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet odour to Jehovah: one young bullock, one ram, seven yearling lambs without blemish;

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


simplify: For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah.

For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord.


simplify: The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?


simplify: And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

At this I wept long, because no one could be found who was worthy to open the book or look within it.


rate difficulty: And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:

Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.


simplify: And Peter said, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even unto all?

And Peter said to him, Lord, are these words said to us only, or to all men?


simplify: So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.

So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.


rate difficulty: Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, O Aholibah, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up thy lovers against thee, From whom thy soul hath been alienated, And have brought them in against thee from round about.

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


simplify: Faithful is the saying, and concerning these things I desire that thou affirm confidently, to the end that they who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men:

This is a true saying; and it is my desire that you may give certain witness about these things, so that those who have had faith in God may give attention to good works. These things are good and of profit to men;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.


rate difficulty: And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers--as a city besieged.

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


rate difficulty: Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

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


simplify: When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; And the hope of iniquity perisheth.

At the death of an upright man his hope does not come to an end, but the hope of the evil-doer comes to destruction.


simplify: Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.


simplify: and Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.

And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes and crushing them into Pharaoh's cup, gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.


rate difficulty: And of Jesus Christ, the birth was thus: For his mother Mary having been betrothed to Joseph, before their coming together she was found to have conceived from the Holy Spirit,

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


rate difficulty: The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

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


simplify: Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.


rate difficulty: And the chief captain came to him and said, Give me an answer, are you a Roman? And he said, Yes.

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


simplify: And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

And, awaking from his wine, Noah saw what his youngest son had done to him, and he said,


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


simplify: And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

And the land of Judah will become a cause of great fear to Egypt; whenever its name comes to mind, Egypt will be in fear before the Lord of armies because of his purpose against it.


simplify: And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.

You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.


simplify: For ye shall not go out in haste, neither shall ye go by flight: for Jehovah will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

For you will not go out suddenly, and you will not go in flight: for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will come after you to keep you.


simplify: afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Then passion conceives and gives birth to sin, and sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth death.


simplify: then let him reckon the years of the sale thereof, and restore the overplus unto the man to whom he sold it; and he shall return unto his possession.

Then let him take into account the years from the time when he gave it up, and make up the loss for the rest of the years to him who took it, and so get back his property.


rate difficulty: And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth?


rate difficulty: And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and [of] the leaven of Herod.

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


simplify: And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias:

And two men, Moses and Elijah, were talking with him;


rate difficulty: Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.

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


rate difficulty: If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith Jehovah, return unto me; and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be a wanderer;

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


simplify: On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that ministered in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,


rate difficulty: Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.

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


rate difficulty: and there was great joy in that city.


simplify: Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who shall not regard silver, and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.


simplify: I will surely consume them, saith the Lord: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.

I will put an end to them completely, says the Lord: there are no grapes on the vine and no figs on the fig-tree, and the leaf is dry.


simplify: Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

And have I now come up to send destruction on this place without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.


simplify: He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.


simplify: When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Hearing this, Jesus said: “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill. I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.”


simplify: who in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,

In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.


simplify: Furthermore Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:

And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan into the good land which the Lord is giving you for your heritage:


rate difficulty: and the multitudes who were going before, and who were following, were crying, saying, `Hosanna to the Son of David, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.'

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


simplify: Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.


rate difficulty: And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah. And she ceased to bear.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

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


simplify: For behold, when the voice of thy salutation came into mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

For, truly, when the sound of your voice came to my ears, the baby in my body made a sudden move for joy.


rate difficulty: And Gideon son of Joash turneth back from the battle, at the going up of the sun,

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


simplify: Return to thine own house, and shew how great things God hath done unto thee. And he went his way, and published throughout the whole city how great things Jesus had done unto him.

“Go back to your home,”he said, “and relate the story of all that God has done for you.” So the man went through the whole town and proclaimed, as he went, all that Jesus had done for him.


simplify: whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

By the reading of which you will be clear about my knowledge of the secret of Christ;


simplify: And if thine eye may cause thee to stumble, cast it out; it is better for thee one-eyed to enter into the reign of God, than having two eyes, to be cast to the gehenna of the fire--

If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter the kingdom of God with only one eye, than to have both eyes and be thrown into Gehenna,


simplify: And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

And of Joseph he said, Let the blessing of the Lord be on his land; for the good things of heaven on high, and the deep waters flowing under the earth,


rate difficulty: To Christ’s people at Colossae — the followers who are faithful to him: May God, our Father, bless you and give you peace.


simplify: And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.

And the angel said to me, Why were you surprised? I will make clear to you the secret of the woman, and of the beast on which she is seated, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.


rate difficulty: How is the gold become dim, Changed the best--the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places.


simplify: Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and became a stumblingblock of iniquity unto the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord Jehovah, and they shall bear their iniquity.

Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.


rate difficulty: So they, being sent on their way by the church, went through Phoenicia and Samaria, giving news of the salvation of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the brothers.

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


rate difficulty: And Simon Peter having seen, fell down at the knees of Jesus, saying, `Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, O lord;'

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


rate difficulty: For, from the rising of the sun to its going in, Great <FI>is<Fi> My name among nations, And in every place perfume is brought nigh to My name, and a pure present, For great <FI>is<Fi> My name among nations, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

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


simplify: O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

How unhappy am I! who will make me free from the body of this death?


simplify: They shall have like portions to eat, besides that which cometh of the sale of his patrimony.

His food will be the same as theirs, in addition to what has come to him as the price of his property.


simplify: And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.


rate difficulty: Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.

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


simplify: Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.

Now this is the point of the story: The seed is the word of God.


simplify: Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.


simplify: And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.

And he said, If with all your heart you will give attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in his eyes, giving ear to his orders and keeping his laws, I will not put on you any of the diseases which I put on the Egyptians: for I am the Lord your life-giver.


rate difficulty: The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

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


rate difficulty: In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And David taketh the head of the Philistine, and bringeth it in to Jerusalem, and his weapons he hath put in his own tent.

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


rate difficulty: and have cast theirgods into the fire; for they were nogods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.


simplify: And he said, Now also let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my bondman; and ye shall be blameless.

And he said, Let it be as you say: he in whose bag it is seen will become my servant; and you will not be responsible.


simplify: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Anyone who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and anyone who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.


simplify: and all these blessings shall come upon thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God.

And all these blessings will come on you and overtake you, if your ears are open to the voice of the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And they answered Jesus and say, We know not. And Jesus saith unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore will I give thanks to thee, Jehovah, among the nations, And will sing psalms to thy name.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.


rate difficulty: And a portion of the king, from his substance, <FI>is<Fi> for burnt-offerings, for burnt-offerings of the morning, and of the evening, and the burnt-offerings of sabbaths, and of new moons, and of appointed seasons, as it is written in the law of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the king trembleth, and goeth up on the upper chamber of the gate, and weepeth, and thus he hath said in his going, `My son! Absalom my son; my son Absalom; oh that I had died for thee, Absalom, my son, my son.'

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


simplify: I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city, at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as ye all are this day:

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


rate difficulty: Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with [that of] their sacrifices.

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


simplify: yet the things without life giving sound--whether pipe or harp--if a difference in the sounds they may not give, how shall be known that which is piped or that which is harped?

Even with inanimate things, such as a flute or a harp, though they produce sounds, yet unless the notes are quite distinct, how can the tune played on the flute or the harp be recognized?


rate difficulty: A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones.


rate difficulty: The sixteenth to Hananiah; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Appaim: Ishi. And sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith, `These <FI>are<Fi> the two sons of the oil, who are standing by the Lord of the whole earth.'

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


simplify: But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves.

But we took for ourselves all the cattle and the stored wealth of the towns.


simplify: And she arose, and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thine handmaid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

And she got up, and going down on her face to the earth, said, See, I am ready to be a servant-girl, washing the feet of the servants of my lord.


rate difficulty: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:


simplify: And he answering said to them, `One of the twelve who is dipping with me in the dish;

“It is one of you Twelve,”said Jesus, “the one who is dipping his bread beside me into the dish.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Therefore behold, I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt deserts of wasteness and desolation, from Migdol to Syene, even unto the border of Ethiopia.

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


simplify: Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

Even now my witness is in heaven, and the supporter of my cause is on high.


simplify: let all things be done decently and in order.

Let everything be done in a proper and orderly manner.


simplify: Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.

Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on him there among his brothers: and from that day the spirit of the Lord came on David with power. So Samuel went back to Ramah.


rate difficulty: But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says,God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.


rate difficulty: Judah, thee shall thy brethren praise: Thy hand shall be on the neck of thine enemies; Thy father’s sons shall bow down before thee.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.


rate difficulty: Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.


simplify: And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.


simplify: who is father of us all (according as it hath been written--`A father of many nations I have set thee,') before Him whom he did believe--God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.

as scripture says — ‘I have made you the Father of many nations.’) And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did.


rate difficulty: but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

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


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


simplify: also we--we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

we are proclaiming Christ crucified! — to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,


simplify: At their presence the peoples are in anguish; all faces are waxed pale.

At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.


simplify: In that day shall their strong cities be as the forsaken places in the wood and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it shall be a desolation.

In that day your towns will be like the waste places of the Hivites and the Amorites which the children of Israel took for a heritage, and they will come to destruction.


simplify: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;


simplify: And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.

And their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for an ox, and the third part of a hin for a male sheep, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burned offering for every month through all the months of the year.


rate difficulty: But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.


simplify: For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?


rate difficulty: And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.

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


rate difficulty: and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day third.

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


rate difficulty: and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'

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


rate difficulty: Act as free people, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

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


rate difficulty: I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

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


rate difficulty: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.


simplify: In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.


rate difficulty: making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?

After Jesus had come into the Temple Courts, the chief priests and the councillors of the Nation came up to him as he was teaching, and said: “What authority have you to do these things? Who gave you this authority?”


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, Every one who calleth in the name of Jehovah is delivered, For in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there is an escape, As Jehovah hath said, And among the remnants whom Jehovah is calling!

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


simplify: All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.

All the time he is separate he may not come near any dead body.


simplify: And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

These he gave to his servants, every herd by itself, and he said to his servants, Go on before me, and let there be a space between one herd and another.


simplify: But she answered and saith unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the children’s crumbs.

But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.


rate difficulty: If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

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


simplify: And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.


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

And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.


rate difficulty: After the Exile to Babylon — Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel of Zerubbabel,

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


simplify: And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.

And for its drink offering take the fourth part of a hin for one lamb: in the holy place let the wine be drained out for a drink offering for the Lord.


rate difficulty: So the priests made an agreement to take no more money from the people, and not to make good what was damaged in the house.

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


simplify: Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let him who was a thief be so no longer, but let him do good work with his hands, so that he may have something to give to him who is in need.


simplify: A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.

A sound of the cry of the keepers of sheep, and the bitter crying of the chiefs of the flock! for the Lord has made waste their green fields.


rate difficulty: Incline thine ear, Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the livingGod.

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


rate difficulty: and the fourth <FI>is<Fi> Adonijah son of Haggith, and the fifth <FI>is<Fi> Shephatiah son of Abital,


simplify: And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.

And when the people of Ashdod got up early on the morning after, they saw that Dagon had come down to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon up and put him in his place again.


simplify: And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias.

And some of those who were near, hearing it, said, See, he is crying to Elijah.


simplify: They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.


simplify: Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:


simplify: being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;


simplify: And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

And, still fighting the storm with all our strength, the day after they made a start at getting the goods out of the ship;


simplify: I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.

I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning.


rate difficulty: So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

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


rate difficulty: So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

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


simplify: for I delivered to you first, what also I did receive, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Writings,

For at the very beginning of my teaching I gave you the account which I had myself received — that Christ died for our sins (as the scriptures had foretold),


simplify: And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.


simplify: and all flesh shall know that I, Jehovah, have drawn forth my sword out of its sheath; it shall not return any more.

And all flesh will see that I the Lord have taken my sword out of its cover: and it will never go back.


simplify: And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

So the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and took you out of the power of those who were fighting against you on every side, and made you safe.


simplify: And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which still have been given no kingdom; but they are given authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.


rate difficulty: And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman.

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


rate difficulty: And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

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


rate difficulty: For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

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


simplify: And Joseph sent, and called to him Jacob his father, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.


simplify: He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

He has cedars cut down for himself, he takes an oak and lets it get strong among the trees of the wood; he has an ash-tree planted, and the rain gives it growth.


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

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


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Shecaniah, the son of Jahaziel; and with him three hundred males.


simplify: And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

And, if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It would be best for you to lose one part of your body, and not to have the whole of it go down to Gehenna.


simplify: And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.


rate difficulty: But again I ask ‘Did not the people of Israel understand? First there is Moses, who says — ‘I, the Lord, will stir you to rivalry with a nation which is no nation; Against an undiscerning nation I will arouse your anger.’


simplify: And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.


rate difficulty: Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:


simplify: Then they suborned men, who said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

Then they got men to say, He has said evil against Moses and against God, in our hearing.


rate difficulty: for ye are passing over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you; and ye have possessed it, and dwelt in it,

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


rate difficulty: Joshua the son of Nun, who standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: strengthen him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

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


simplify: And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

When he drew near, on seeing the city, he wept over it, and said:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses in Midian, Go, return to Egypt; for all the men are dead who sought thy life.

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


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

Then, after forty days, through the open window of the ark which he had made,


rate difficulty: So Moses the servant of Jehovah died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: `Then if any one may say to you, Lo, here <FI>is<Fi> the Christ! or here! ye may not believe;

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.

“Why do you call me good?”answered Jesus. “No one is good but God.


simplify: And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

And word came to David, saying, Ahithophel is among those who are joined to Absalom. And David said, O Lord, let the wisdom of Ahithophel be made foolish.


rate difficulty: and next to him Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand;


rate difficulty: And Jehu destroyeth Baal out of Israel,

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


simplify: And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.

The men replied: “Our captain, Cornelius, a pious man who reverences God and is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, has been instructed by a holy angel to send for you to his house, and to listen to what you have to say.”


rate difficulty: By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

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


simplify: And the king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.


rate difficulty: For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

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