rate difficulty: But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.

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rate difficulty: For narrow the gate and straitened the way that leads to life, and they are few who find it.

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simplify: If thy brother be waxed poor, and sell some of his possession, then shall his kinsman that is next unto him come, and shall redeem that which his brother hath sold.

If your brother becomes poor, and has to give up some of his land for money, his nearest relation may come and get back that which his brother has given up.


simplify: And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

in his hand he held a little book open. He set his right foot on the sea, and his left on the land;


simplify: And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.


simplify: One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.


rate difficulty: And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.

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simplify: He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

He whose testimony this is says — ‘Assuredly I will come quickly.’‘Amen, come, Lord Jesus.’


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not eat any abominable thing;

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


simplify: They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.

“Grant us this,” they answered, “to sit, one on your right, and the other on your left, when you come in glory.”


simplify: And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the Lord.

And their camels will be taken from them by force, and their great herds will come into the hands of their attackers: those who have the ends of their hair cut I will send in flight to all the winds; and I will send their fate on them from every side, says the Lord.


simplify: But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

If anyone has no care for his family and those in his house, he is false to the faith, and is worse than one who has no faith.


rate difficulty: And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.


simplify: For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, have I taken them unto me.

For they have been given to me from among the children of Israel; in place of every mother's first son, the first to come to birth in Israel, I have taken them for myself.


rate difficulty: And straight away the angel of the Lord sent a disease on him, because he did not give the glory to God: and his flesh was wasted away by worms, and so he came to his end.

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simplify: take heed, then, lest the light that <FI>is<Fi> in thee be darkness;

Take care, therefore, that the inner light is not darkness.


simplify: And Bath-sheba bowed, and did obeisance unto the king. And the king said, What wouldest thou?

And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?


simplify: The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

the fifth a sardonyx; the sixth a carnelian; the seventh a chrysolite; the eighth a beryl; the ninth a topaz; the tenth a chrysoprase; the eleventh a hyacinth; and the twelfth an amethyst.


rate difficulty: Afterwards Barnabas left for Tarsus to look for Saul;

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rate difficulty: a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

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simplify: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s harvest field, God’s building.


rate difficulty: And he took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.


simplify: And I make known to you, brethren, the good news that I proclaimed to you, which also ye did receive, in which also ye have stood,

Next, friends, I would like to remind you of the good news which I told you, and which you received — the good news on which you have taken your stand,


simplify: Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Manasseh was making a meal of Ephraim, and Ephraim of Manasseh; and together they were attacking Judah. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


rate difficulty: Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

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rate difficulty: And these officers have sustained king Solomon and every one drawing near unto the table of king Solomon, each <FI>in<Fi> his month; they let nothing be lacking.

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rate difficulty: Only fear the Lord, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

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


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

And there were about four thousand people: and he sent them away.


simplify: to be mindful of the sayings said before by the holy prophets, and of the command of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour,

I want you to recall what was foretold by the holy prophets, as well as the command of our Lord and Savior given to you through your apostles.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;

This is what the Lord has said: Because Moab and Seir are saying, See, the people of Judah are like all the nations;


rate difficulty: To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

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


simplify: The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

The cup of blessing which we take, does it not give us a part in the blood of Christ? and is not the broken bread a taking part in the body of Christ?


simplify: Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.


rate difficulty: Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:


rate difficulty: In the year of jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land belongeth.

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


simplify: Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth;

Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;


simplify: If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”


simplify: Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces with her children.

So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.


simplify: Save thyself, and come down from the cross.

Keep yourself from death, and come down from the cross.


simplify: And thou shalt write Aaron’s name upon the rod of Levi: for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers.

And let Aaron's name be placed on the rod of Levi: for there is to be one rod for the head of every family.


rate difficulty: And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

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


simplify: And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.


simplify: From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:


simplify: Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

and at the same time pray for us, so that God may give us an opening for our message, so that we may speak of the truths hidden in the Christ — the truths for which I am in chains!


simplify: for oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.

Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.


simplify: And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

And a third angel came after them, saying with a loud voice, If any man gives worship to the beast and his image, and has his mark on his brow or on his hand,


simplify: For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

Circumcision has its value, if you are obeying the law. But, if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is no better than uncircumcision.


rate difficulty: and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter,

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simplify: And he made for the altar a grating of network of brass, under the ledge round it beneath, reaching halfway up.

And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;


simplify: For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh

For though we may be living in the flesh, we are not fighting after the way of the flesh


rate difficulty: And it shall be, in the place where it was said to them, Ye [are] not my people, there shall they be called Sons of [the] livingGod.

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


simplify: the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,


simplify: And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice.

“I tell you,”answered Jesus, “that you yourself today — yes, this very night — before the cock crows twice, will disown me three times.”


simplify: And, behold, Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said unto the reapers, Jehovah be with you. And they answered him, Jehovah bless thee.

And Boaz came from Beth-lehem, and said to the grain-cutters, The Lord be with you. And they made answer, The Lord give you his blessing.


rate difficulty: And come in have the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city, and they have set this city on fire, and have burned it, and the houses on whose roofs they made perfume to Baal, and poured out libations to other gods, so as to provoke Me to anger.

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


simplify: To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

To the latter we are a stench which arises from death and tells of death; to the former a fragrance which arises from life and tells of life. But who is equal to such a task?


simplify: The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

May the Lord's punishment be on Jonathan, if it is my father's pleasure to do you evil and I do not give you word of it and send you away so that you may go in peace: and may the Lord be with you, as he has been with my father.


simplify: When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis: for I have determined there to winter.

As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me as quickly as possible at Nicopolis, for I have arranged to spend the winter there.


simplify: By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who among them considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people to whom the stroke was due?

They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.


rate difficulty: The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.

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


simplify: And he took thereof in his hands, and went on eating, and came to his father and mother, and he gave them, and they did eat: but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion.

And he took the honey in his hand, and went on, tasting it on the way; and when he came to his father and mother he gave some to them; but did not say that he had taken the honey from the body of the lion.


rate difficulty: `And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones;

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


rate difficulty: And if, even after these things, you will not give ear to me, then I will send you punishment seven times more for your sins.

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rate difficulty: And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said, Alas! that the Lord hath called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab!


simplify: These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

These are more wise sayings of Solomon, copied out by the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah.


rate difficulty: Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)

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rate difficulty: And this is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.


rate difficulty: Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work,

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


simplify: Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:

Now I, Paul, myself make request to you by the quiet and gentle behaviour of Christ, I who am poor in spirit when with you, but who say what is in my mind to you without fear when I am away from you:


simplify: Therefore in the resurrection whose wife of them is she? for seven had her to wife.

When they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for all the seven had her.


simplify: What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come.


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me in the host, thou and thy men.

Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.


simplify: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.


simplify: When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.

Catching sight of Jesus, he shrieked out and threw himself down before him, and in a loud voice exclaimed: “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torment me.”


rate difficulty: And to James, the son of Zebedee, and John, the brother of James, he gave the second name of Boanerges, which is, Sons of thunder:

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


rate difficulty: for you who, through faith, are being guarded by the power of God, awaiting a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last days.


simplify: And they shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Jehovah: and thou shalt be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.

And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.


rate difficulty: ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

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


simplify: Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

Go up, you horses; go rushing on, you carriages of war; go out, you men of war: Cush and Put, gripping the body-cover, and the Ludim, with bent bows.


rate difficulty: But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

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


rate difficulty: and now also, the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree therefore not bearing good fruit is hewn down, and to fire is cast.

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


rate difficulty: The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

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


simplify: And at the setting of the sun, all, as many as had any ailing with manifold sicknesses, brought them unto him, and he on each one of them <FI>his<Fi> hands having put, did heal them.

At sunset, all who had friends suffering from various diseases took them to Jesus; and he placed his hands on everyone of them and cured them.


simplify: And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.


simplify: And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.

And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.


simplify: And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

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


simplify: Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?

Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?


rate difficulty: Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.

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


rate difficulty: Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

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


simplify: And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways will be lifted up.


rate difficulty: for he who is eating and drinking unworthily, judgment to himself he doth eat and drink--not discerning the body of the Lord.

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


simplify: Yea, thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the Lord, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Achish, You will see now what your servant will do. And Achish said to David, Then I will make you keeper of my head for ever.


simplify: That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.


rate difficulty: not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;


rate difficulty: Then Jesus stopped. “Call him,”he said. So they called the blind man. “Courage!” they exclaimed. “Get up; he is calling you.”


simplify: And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.


rate difficulty: And they are, all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel,

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


simplify: Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.


simplify: And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.

And he went with him; and a great number of people went after him, and came round him.


simplify: Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me.


simplify: So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month.

So death came to Hananiah the prophet the same year, in the seventh month.


simplify: and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.

And death will come to every mother's first male child in all the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power, to the child of the servant-girl crushing the grain; and the first births of all the cattle.


simplify: Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)

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


simplify: For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.

For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.


rate difficulty: But the Lord came to my help and strengthened me, in order that, through me, the proclamation should be made so widely that all the Gentiles should hear it; and I was rescued ‘out of the Lion’s mouth.’

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simplify: The children of Zattu, nine hundred forty and five.

The children of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five.


rate difficulty: Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

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simplify: And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),


rate difficulty: — And ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against Jehovah, we will go up and fight, according to all that Jehovah ourGod hath commanded us. And ye girded on every man his weapons of war, and ye would go presumptuously up the hill.

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


simplify: Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.

Then the priest is to see them: and if the white marks on their skin are not very bright, it is a skin disease which has come out on the skin; he is clean.


simplify: And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.


simplify: And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.


simplify: And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.

And the man went out to the east with the line in his hand, and after measuring a thousand cubits, he made me go through the waters, which came over my feet.


rate difficulty: The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the Rephaim.


simplify: (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,


rate difficulty: There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

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simplify: And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'

The Roman captain, on seeing what had happened, praised God, exclaiming: “This must have been a good man!”


simplify: Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.


simplify: But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

But one of the young men said to Nabal's wife Abigail, David sent men from the waste land to say kind words to our master, and he gave them a rough answer.


rate difficulty: But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

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simplify: Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.


rate difficulty: But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

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


simplify: And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;


simplify: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.


rate difficulty: And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther,

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simplify: How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.


simplify: And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king.

And all the prophets said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well for you, for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.


rate difficulty: recompensing to no one evil for evil: providing things honest before all men:

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


simplify: The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

The upright man is a guide to his neighbour, but the way of evil-doers is a cause of error to them.


rate difficulty: He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.


simplify: And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them.

And Levi made a great feast for him in his house: and a great number of tax-farmers and others were seated at table with them.


simplify: For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

For we all have to come before Christ to be judged; so that every one of us may get his reward for the things done in the body, good or bad.


rate difficulty: Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth.

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simplify: And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

At midday, a darkness came over the whole country, lasting until three in the afternoon.


rate difficulty: And those that died by the plague were twenty and four thousand.


rate difficulty: And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were there.

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


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

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba.


rate difficulty: Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.

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


rate difficulty: And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites.

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rate difficulty: And Jesus came and touched them and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

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rate difficulty: But if the man says he will not take his brother's wife, then let the wife go to the responsible men of the town, and say, My husband's brother will not keep his brother's name living in Israel; he will not do what it is right for a husband's brother to do.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel are humbled at that time, and the sons of Judah are strong, for they have leant on Jehovah, God of their fathers.


rate difficulty: And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.


simplify: And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.

And word was given to Saul that David was at Naioth in Ramah.


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

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.


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


rate difficulty: For the living know that they die, and the dead know not anything, and there is no more to them a reward, for their remembrance hath been forgotten.

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rate difficulty: And the princes said to them, Let them live. And they were hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly; as the princes had said to them.


simplify: And if thine eye causeth thee to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is good for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.


simplify: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.

You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.


simplify: Behold, I am against thee, O thou most proud, saith the Lord God of hosts: for thy day is come, the time that I will visit thee.

See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.


simplify: As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah, to stand before the Chaldeans that shall come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine and summer fruits and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

As for me, I will be living in Mizpah as your representative before the Chaldaeans who come to us: but you are to get in your wine and summer fruits and oil and put them in your vessels, and make living-places for yourselves in the towns which you have taken.


rate difficulty: Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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simplify: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from it man and beast?

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


simplify: And he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all the things that are written through the prophets shall be accomplished unto the Son of man.

And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.


rate difficulty: But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for [the] land of Sodom in judgment-day than for thee.

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.


simplify: The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

And Jacob and his sons came to Joseph in Egypt, and when word of it came to the ears of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, he said to Joseph, Your father and brothers have come to you; all the land of Egypt is before you; let your father and your brothers have the best of the land for their resting-place.


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

And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.


rate difficulty: And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

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


rate difficulty: ‘Who are you, Lord?’ I replied. Then the voice said ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.’

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


simplify: And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and those who were with him got together the Sanhedrin and the representatives of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to get them.


simplify: Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.


simplify: And the whole multitude of the region of the Gadarenes round about asked him to go away from them, because with great fear they were pressed, and he having entered into the boat, did turn back.

Then all the people in the neighborhood of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were terrified. Jesus got into a boat and returned.


simplify: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.


simplify: At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.


rate difficulty: And the man increaseth very exceedingly, and hath many flocks, and maid-servants, and men-servants, and camels, and asses.

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rate difficulty: teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

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


rate difficulty: The Lord do so and much more to Jonathan: but if it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the Lord be with thee, as he hath been with my father.

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


rate difficulty: And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

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rate difficulty: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief rulers.

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


rate difficulty: and Israel saith unto Joseph, `To see thy face I had not thought, and lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.'

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;


simplify: The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

The Lord has said about you, O last of Judah, Go not into Egypt: be certain that I have given witness to you this day.


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

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


rate difficulty: And it was told the house of David saying, Syria is allied with Ephraim. Then his heart and the heart of his people shook, as the trees of the forest are shaken with the wind.

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simplify: And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.

and how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.


rate difficulty: And of Dan he said: --Dan <FI>is<Fi> a lion's whelp; he doth leap from Bashan.

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


simplify: Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.


simplify: as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow until you attain salvation —


simplify: Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

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


rate difficulty: I went out full, and Jehovah hath brought me home again empty; why call ye me Naomi, seeing Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me?

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


rate difficulty: `Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands--the least--and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach <FI>them<Fi> , he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: Who, then, is Paul, and who Apollos, but ministrants through whom ye did believe, and to each as the Lord gave?

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


rate difficulty: But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness.

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


simplify: But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?


simplify: And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies:

And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;


simplify: And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.


rate difficulty: Which are turbid by reason of the ice, in which the snow hideth itself:


rate difficulty: Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.


rate difficulty: Give no occasion to stumbling, whether to Jews, or Greeks, or the assembly ofGod.

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


simplify: And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

and they transformed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal humans, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles.


rate difficulty: And he made the lamps thereof, seven, and the snuffers thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, of pure gold.

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


rate difficulty: Only may the Lord give you wisdom, and knowledge of his orders for Israel, so that you may keep the law of the Lord your God.

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


simplify: And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

And on the limit of Asher, from the east side to the west side: Naphtali, one part.


rate difficulty: and smite all the cities round about Gerar, for a fear of Jehovah hath been upon them, and they spoil all the cities, for abundant spoil hath been in them;

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


simplify: Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

Take note, all of you, and all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you put to death on the cross, whom God gave back from the dead, even through him is this man now before you completely well.


rate difficulty: When I have settled this matter, and have secured to the poor at Jerusalem the enjoyment of these benefits, I will go, by way of you, to Spain.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

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


rate difficulty: When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, [and] the troop of robbers assaileth without.

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


rate difficulty: He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head of the people of a fathers’ house in Midian.

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


simplify: ye also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed upon us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.


simplify: giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;


simplify: And make ye marriages with us; give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.


simplify: And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.

And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.


rate difficulty: Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God.

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


simplify: because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.

Because they did not give the children of Israel bread and water when they came to them, but got Balaam to put a curse on them: though the curse was turned into a blessing by our God.


simplify: For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

When people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married; but they are as angels in heaven.


simplify: And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chief of the Levites, had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God.

And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside business of the house of God;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have not more than five loaves and two fishes, unless we should go and buy food for all this people;

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


simplify: In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.


simplify: The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.


simplify: For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

For all things are from him, through him, and for him. And to him be all glory for ever and ever! Amen.


simplify: And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household in Tirzah:

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.


simplify: But Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go.


rate difficulty: And all the company of the sons of Israel go out from the presence of Moses,


simplify: And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Jehovah, which David the king had made to give thanks unto Jehovah (for his lovingkindness endureth for ever), when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.

And the priests were in their places, and the Levites with their instruments of music for the Lord's song, which David the king had made for the praise of the Lord whose mercy is unchanging for ever, when David gave praise by their hand; and the priests were sounding horns before them; and all Israel were on their feet.


simplify: And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.

Meanwhile the chief priest and the whole of the High Council were trying to get such evidence against Jesus as would warrant his being put to death, but they could not find any;


rate difficulty: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the land lament, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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


simplify: But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

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


simplify: And now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.


rate difficulty: But there were certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts,

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


simplify: Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

Make strong the feeble hands, give support to the shaking knees.


rate difficulty: Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

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


simplify: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

when I was a stranger, you did not take me to your homes; when I was naked, you did not clothe me; and, when I was ill and in prison, you did not visit me.’


simplify: Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.


simplify: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

That is why God places them under the influence of a delusion, to cause them to believe a lie;


simplify: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them.

Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.


rate difficulty: Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

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


rate difficulty: For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

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


simplify: and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.


rate difficulty: and Asa the king hath taken all Judah, and they bear away the stones of Ramah, and its wood, that Baasha hath built, and he buildeth with them Geba and Mizpah.

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


simplify: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: Surely the mountains bring him forth food, Where all the beasts of the field do play.

He takes the produce of the mountains, where all the beasts of the field are at play.


simplify: Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?


rate difficulty: Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.

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


rate difficulty: And Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, have come in to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him,

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


simplify: And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

And I said to you, Let my son go, so that he may give me worship; and you did not let him go: so now I will put the first of your sons to death.


simplify: And the whole company of them rose up, and brought him before Pilate.

And they all went and took him before Pilate.


simplify: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

If one of you is deficient in wisdom, let them ask wisdom from the God who gives freely to everyone without reproaches, and it will be given to them.


rate difficulty: and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees.

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


rate difficulty: The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.


simplify: And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

And Moses said, It is not right to do so; for we make our offerings of that to which the Egyptians give worship; and if we do so before their eyes, certainly we will be stoned.


simplify: For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.

For I gave certain witness to your fathers on the day when I took them up out of the land of Egypt, and even to this day, getting up early and witnessing and saying, Give ear to my voice.


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and may also believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto Jehovah.

And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.


rate difficulty: And a woman who had a flux of blood since twelve years, who, having spent all her living on physicians, could not be cured by any one,

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


simplify: but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

And, remembering how you excel in everything — in faith, in teaching, in knowledge, in unfailing earnestness, and in the affection that we have awakened in you — I ask you to excel also in this expression of your love.


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

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


simplify: They of the house of Togarmah traded for thy wares with horses and war-horses and mules.

The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.


rate difficulty: And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.

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


simplify: And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.

All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.


simplify: In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

But now he has reconciled you to himself by the sacrifice of Christ’s earthly body in death — it has pleased God that you should stand in his presence holy, pure, and blameless,


simplify: Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the midst of thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments on thee; and the whole remnant of thee will I scatter unto all the winds.

For this cause fathers will take their sons for food among you, and sons will make a meal of their fathers; and I will be judge among you, and all the rest of you I will send away to every wind.


rate difficulty: Shallum, Amariah, Joseph.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth,

And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,


rate difficulty: Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

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


rate difficulty: And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer unto Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

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


simplify: How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.


simplify: Then said I, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, I know not how to speak; for I am a child.

Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.


rate difficulty: and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken;

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


rate difficulty: and the priest hath taken of the log of oil, and hath poured on the left palm of the priest,

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


simplify: If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.


simplify: Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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


simplify: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.

To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.


rate difficulty: And in the descending of the dew on the camp by night, the manna descendeth upon it.

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


simplify: And I entreat you, brethren, ye have known the household of Stephanas, that it is the first-fruit of Achaia, and to the ministration to the saints they did set themselves--

I have another request to make of you, friends. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ’s people.


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

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


simplify: But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

But Jesus took him by the hand, lifting him up; and he got up.


rate difficulty: And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.

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


simplify: Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Then Paul and Barnabas spoke out fearlessly, and said:   “It was necessary that the message of God should be told to you first; but, since you reject it and reckon yourselves not worthy of the eternal life — we turn to the Gentiles!


rate difficulty: So Jehu put to death all the rest of the seed of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his relations and his near friends and his priests, till there were no more of them.

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


rate difficulty: Truly I say to you, Wherever this good news goes out in all the world, what this woman has done will be talked of in memory of her.

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


simplify: Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

Then the king got up and took his seat near the town-door. And word was given to all the people that the king was in the public place: and all the people came before the king. Now all the men of Israel had gone back in flight to their tents.


simplify: And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

Going on a little further, he threw himself on the ground, and began to pray that, if it were possible, he might be spared that hour.


simplify: But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:

But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:


simplify: God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!


simplify: So they sat down, and did eat and drink, both of them together: and the damsel’s father said unto the man, Be pleased, I pray thee, to tarry all night, and let thy heart be merry.

So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.


simplify: And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.

And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.


simplify: And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Jesus ordered the people to take their seats on the grass; and, taking the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and said the blessing, and, after he had broken the loaves, gave them to his disciples; and they gave them to the crowds.


rate difficulty: And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.

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


simplify: Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.


simplify: Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.

Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.


rate difficulty: Of the bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, And of the bands, And of the perfume boxes, and the amulets,

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


simplify: And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:

And give them the power of driving out evil spirits:


simplify: And I will give grass in thy fields for thy cattle, and thou shalt eat and be full.

And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.


rate difficulty: For the pressing of milk bringeth forth butter, and the pressing of the nose bringeth forth blood; and the pressing of anger bringeth forth strife.

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


simplify: And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.

And the men said to her, We will only be responsible for this oath which you have made us take,


rate difficulty: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

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


simplify: And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.

Seven times he put oil on the altar and on all its vessels, and on the washing-basin and its base, to make them holy.


simplify: And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.


rate difficulty: Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? Art not thou HE, Jehovah, ourGod? And we wait upon thee; for thou hast made all these things.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

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


simplify: Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.

Being certain that the Lord will give you the reward of the heritage: for you are the servants of the Lord Christ.


simplify: Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.


simplify: Thus shall Ezekiel be unto you a sign; according to all that he hath done shall ye do: when this cometh, then shall ye know that I am the Lord Jehovah.

And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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


simplify: And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I get honour over Pharaoh and his war-carriages and his horsemen.


simplify: For though I made you sorry with my epistle, I do not regret it: though I did regret it (for I see that that epistle made you sorry, though but for a season),

For though my letter gave you pain, I have no regret for it now, though I had before; for I see that the letter gave you pain, but only for a time.


rate difficulty: So all Israel was listed by their families; and, truly, they are recorded in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away as prisoners to Babylon because of their sin.

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


simplify: For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.


simplify: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:


simplify: So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.

So the Levites and all Judah did as Jehoiada the priest had given them orders: every one took with him his men, those who were to come in and those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada had not sent away the divisions.


simplify: The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

The topaz of Ethiopia is not equal to it, and it may not be valued with the best gold.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

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


rate difficulty: And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

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


rate difficulty: And Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, made bold, and [with him] Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, the sons of Reuben;

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


simplify: These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

These were heads of families of the Levites in their generations, chief men; they were living at Jerusalem.


simplify: and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

He was not led by want of faith to doubt God’s promise.


rate difficulty: And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, all manner of wrought jewels.

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


rate difficulty: The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

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


rate difficulty: Grievous correction is for him that forsaketh the path; he that hateth reproof shall die.

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


simplify: Salute Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints that are with them.

Give my love to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.


simplify: And they answered, that they knew not whence <FI>it was<Fi> ,

So they answered that they did not know its origin.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Take these deeds, this deed of the purchase which is sealed, and this deed which is open, and put them in an earthen vessel; that they may continue many days.

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take these papers, the witness of this business, the one which is rolled up and stamped, and the one which is open; and put them in a vessel of earth so that they may be kept for a long time.


simplify: And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

And they put up the high places of the Baal in the valley of the son of Hinnom, making their sons and their daughters go through the fire to Molech; which I did not give them orders to do, and it never came into my mind that they would do this disgusting thing, causing Judah to be turned out of the way.


rate difficulty: Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

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


simplify: Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

Do not then ask anxiously ‘What can we get to eat?’ or ‘What can we get to drink?’ or ‘What can we get to wear?’


rate difficulty: The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

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


rate difficulty: And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

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


simplify: and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common,

All who became believers in Christ held everything for the common use;


rate difficulty: And Abner and his men have gone through the plain all that night, and pass over the Jordan, and go on <FI>through<Fi> all Bithron, and come in to Mahanaim.

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


rate difficulty: that thou mayest remember, and be ashamed, and no more open thy mouth because of thy confusion, when I forgive thee all that thou hast done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And I will not have mercy upon her children; for they are the children of whoredoms.


rate difficulty: And God gave ear to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came to the woman again when she was seated in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.


rate difficulty: By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

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


simplify: And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.

And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.


simplify: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.


simplify: For a full end, and that determined, will the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, make in the midst of all the earth.

For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to make destruction complete in all the land.


simplify: And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt say, Because of the tidings, for it cometh; and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.


simplify: according as it hath been written--`There is none righteous, not even one;

As scripture says —  ‘There is not even one who is righteous,


rate difficulty: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.


simplify: And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

And Saul sent his men to see David, saying, Do not come back without him, take him in his bed, so that I may put him to death.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.


rate difficulty: storing up for themselves what in the future will prove to be a good foundation, so that they may gain the only true life.

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


simplify: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

Happy are those servants whom, on his return, the Master will find watching. I tell you that he will make himself ready, and have them take their places at the table, and will come and serve them.


rate difficulty: and say unto Moses, `Speak thou with us, and we hear, and let not God speak with us, lest we die.'

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


rate difficulty: The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.


simplify: and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;

And you do honour to the man in fair clothing and say, Come here and take this good place; and you say to the poor man, Take up your position there, or be seated at my feet;


rate difficulty: And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah yourGod.

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


simplify: After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.

After whom has the king of Israel come out? for whom are you searching? for a dead dog, an insect.


rate difficulty: And our adversaries say, `They do not know, nor see, till that we come in to their midst, and have slain them, and caused the work to cease.'

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


rate difficulty: These sought their genealogical register, but they were not found; therefore were they, as polluted, removed from the priesthood.

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


simplify: This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and for a scall,

This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases;


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh saith to him, `Go from me, take heed to thyself, add not to see my face, for in the day thou seest my face thou diest;'

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


rate difficulty: But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.


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

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


simplify: Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thy hand.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;


rate difficulty: In that day shall messengers go forth from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid; and there shall be anguish upon them, as in the day of Egypt; for, lo, it cometh.

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


simplify: this one doth lodge with a certain Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea; this one shall speak to thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

He is lodging with a tanner named Simon, who has a house near the sea.”


simplify: Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

Gold and glass are not equal to it in price, and it may not be exchanged for jewels of the best gold.


rate difficulty: And the border went down to the end of the mountain that is before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim on the north, and went down the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel;


rate difficulty: Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, And stand not in the place of great men:

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


rate difficulty: But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.

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


simplify: Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.


rate difficulty: `And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,


simplify: And he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom put he garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And Jehovah gave victory to David whithersoever he went.

And he put armed forces in Edom; all through Edom he had armed forces stationed, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.


rate difficulty: And they turn back from spying the land at the end of forty days.

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


simplify: And the ass saw the angel of Jehovah, and she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam’s foot against the wall: and he smote her again.

And the ass saw the angel of the Lord, and went near the wall, crushing Balaam's foot against the wall; and he gave her more blows.


simplify: That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.


simplify: Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,


simplify: Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so carry out the law of the Christ.


rate difficulty: But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.


rate difficulty: And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant which he had made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he had testified unto them; and they followed vanity and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Jehovah had charged them that they should not do like them.

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