simplify: And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

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


simplify: And they shall know that I am Jehovah: I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord: not for nothing did I say that I would do this evil to them.


rate difficulty: But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

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simplify: for yourselves have known how it behoveth <FI>you<Fi> to imitate us, because we did not act disorderly among you;

For you know well that you ought to follow our example. When we were with you, our life was not ill-ordered,


rate difficulty: Then shall the trees of the wood sing for joy before Jehovah; For he cometh to judge the earth.

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simplify: And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Have thou this glory over me: against what time shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, that the frogs be destroyed from thee and thy houses, and remain in the river only?

And Moses said, I will let you have the honour of saying when I am to make prayer for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs may be sent away from you and your houses, and be only in the Nile.


rate difficulty: Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

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rate difficulty: and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.

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simplify: And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?


simplify: And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for Jehovah must be exceeding magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.


rate difficulty: If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

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simplify: and it became known to all those dwelling in Jerusalem, insomuch that that place is called, in their proper dialect, Aceldama, that is, field of blood,

This became known to everyone living in Jerusalem, so that the field came to be called, in their language, ‘Akeldama,’ which means the ‘Field of Blood.’)


rate difficulty: One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.


simplify: Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!


simplify: And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,

And when they came near to Jerusalem, to Beth-phage and Bethany, at the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,


simplify: And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.


simplify: And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father’s house.

And the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and, attacking thirty men there, took their clothing from them, and gave it to the men who had given the answer to his hard question. Then, full of wrath, he went back to his father's house.


simplify: And he said unto them, This is that which Jehovah hath spoken, To-morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto Jehovah: bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will boil; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.


rate difficulty: Saying, There was a judge in a certain town, who had no fear of God or respect for man:

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


simplify: It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.

I must boast! It is unprofitable; but I will pass to visions and revelations given by the Lord.


simplify: And when the devil was cast out, the dumb spake: and the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was never so seen in Israel.

and, as soon as the demon had been driven out, the dumb man spoke. The people were astonished at this, and exclaimed: “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!”


rate difficulty: if his lord give to him a wife, and she hath borne to him sons or daughters--the wife and her children are her lord's, and he goeth out by himself.

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


simplify: Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.


simplify: Now therefore stand still and see this great thing, which Jehovah will do before your eyes.

Now keep where you are and see this great thing which the Lord will do before your eyes.


rate difficulty: And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.

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


simplify: And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.


simplify: to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

To this you were called by the good news which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before Jehovah: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel with him, even all the congregation.

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


rate difficulty: You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken;


rate difficulty: then--the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power--

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


simplify: If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then behold them that are sick with famine! yea, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they know not.

If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.


simplify: The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.


rate difficulty: And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;

“You are doubtless aware that it is forbidden for a Jew to be intimate with a foreigner, or even to enter his house; and yet God has shown me that I ought not to call anyone ‘defiled’ or ‘unclean.’


simplify: Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

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


simplify: For if thou wast cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and wast grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree; how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For if you were cut out of a field olive-tree, and against the natural use were united to a good olive-tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be united again with the olive-tree which was theirs?


rate difficulty: And Jesus having called a little child to [him], set it in their midst,

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simplify: But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity.

It was a matter of great joy to me, as one in union with the Lord, that at length your interest in me had revived. The interest indeed you had, but not the opportunity.


simplify: But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.

But they were silent; for on the way they had been arguing with one another which was the greatest.


rate difficulty: Now between the passes by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistines' garrison there was a sharp rock on the one side and a sharp rock on the other side; and the name of the one [was] Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

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


simplify: And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;


rate difficulty: And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us — that you have a right to be proud of us, as we will be proud of you, on the day of our Lord Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: When the wicked cometh, then cometh also contempt, and with ignominy reproach.

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


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

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


simplify: And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

Then the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around; and the people went to see what had happened.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

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


rate difficulty: Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

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rate difficulty: But the present heaven and the present earth have been kept for destruction by fire, which is waiting for them on the day of the judging and destruction of evil men.


rate difficulty: And he said to him,God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, and not apprise me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

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


simplify: and Azariah begat Helez, and Helez begat Eleasah,

And Azariah was the father of Helez, and Helez was the father of Eleasah,


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Bani; Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

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


rate difficulty: Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.

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


rate difficulty: Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and righteously and unblamably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:

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rate difficulty: and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee,

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simplify: And so it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not Jehovah: therefore Jehovah sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

Now when first they were living there they did not give worship to the Lord. So the Lord sent lions among them, causing the death of some of them.


rate difficulty: and Peter said, `Man, I have not known what thou sayest;' and presently, while he is speaking, a cock crew.


simplify: Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:


simplify: for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'

It is easier, indeed, for a camel to get through a needle’s eye than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God!”


rate difficulty: God do so to Abner, and more also, if, as Jehovah hath sworn to David, I do not even so to him;

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


rate difficulty: For the Son of Man is to come in his Father’s glory, with his angels, and then he ‘will give to everyone what his actions deserve.’

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


rate difficulty: Do your utmost to come to me soon;

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


rate difficulty: He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

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


simplify: And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

And another said, I have been married, and so I am not able to come.


simplify: And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:

There they produced witnesses who gave false evidence.  “This man,” they said, “is incessantly saying things against this Holy place and the law;


rate difficulty: And he said to the judges, Take heed what ye do; for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah, who will be with you in the matter of judgment.

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


rate difficulty: Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord Jehovah! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?


simplify: And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.


rate difficulty: and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints fallen asleep arose,

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


rate difficulty: both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'

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


rate difficulty: Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.

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simplify: Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

And more than this, he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and had him put in chains to take him away to Babylon.


simplify: And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.


simplify: But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

while the married man is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please his wife;


simplify: meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.


rate difficulty: And the man said unto Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I fled to-day out of the army. And he said, How went the matter, my son?

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


rate difficulty: You are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if the Spirit of God is in you. But if any man has not the Spirit of Christ he is not one of his.


simplify: And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

From Miletus, however, he sent to Ephesus and invited the officers of the church to meet him;


rate difficulty: And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.


simplify: Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.


rate difficulty: There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you.


simplify: For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

I do not propose to pay you a visit in passing now, for I hope to stay with you for some time, if the Lord permits.


rate difficulty: This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

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


simplify: And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.

Then the king of Israel went back to his house, bitter and angry, and came to Samaria.


simplify: But Jesus hearing it, answered him, Fear not: only believe, and she shall be made whole.

But Jesus at these words said to him, Have no fear, only have faith, and she will be made well.


simplify: But Aaron and his sons offered upon the altar of the burnt offering, and on the altar of incense, and were appointed for all the work of the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

But Aaron and his sons made offerings on the altar of burned offering, and on the altar of perfume, for all the work of the most holy place, and to take away the sin of Israel, doing everything ordered by Moses, the servant of God.


simplify: And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obeisance, he put forth his hand, and took him, and kissed him.

And if any man came near to give him honour, he took him by the hand and gave him a kiss.


simplify: An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.

A good-for-nothing man is a designer of evil, and in his lips there is a burning fire.


rate difficulty: And taking prisoner a young man of the people of Succoth, he got from him, in answer to his questions, a list of the chiefs of Succoth and the responsible men, seventy-seven men.

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simplify: and He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a footstep, and did promise to give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him--he having no child.

God did not at that time give him any part of it, not even a foot of ground. But he promised to ‘give him possession of it and his descendants after him, though at that time he had no child.


rate difficulty: And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.

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simplify: And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.


rate difficulty: and their present, and their libations, for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, in their number, according to the ordinance;

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


simplify: Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.


rate difficulty: But the words of scripture represent the whole world as being in bondage to sin, so that the promised blessing, dependent, as it is, on faith in Jesus Christ, may be given to those who have faith in him.

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simplify: but thy servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before Jehovah to battle, as my lord saith.

But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.


simplify: and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, `To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, <FI>is<Fi> the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might--to the ages of the ages!'

And I heard every created thing in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that is in them crying —  ‘To him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb be ascribed all blessing, and honor, and praise, and dominion for ever and ever.’


rate difficulty: And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him.

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


simplify: For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.

For I was full of fear because of the wrath of the Lord which was burning against you, with your destruction in view. But again the Lord's ear was open to my prayer.


simplify: And he sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God: and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.

He gave himself to searching after God in the days of Zechariah, who made men wise in the fear of God; and as long as he was true to the Lord, God made things go well for him.


rate difficulty: But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

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


simplify: And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:

And the captain of the armed men took Seraiah, the chief priest, and Zephaniah, the second priest, and the three door-keepers;


simplify: then all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.

Then all the Jews came back from all the places to which they had gone in flight, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, and got in a great store of wine and summer fruit.


simplify: And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.


rate difficulty: And Zacharias said unto the messenger, `Whereby shall I know this? for I am aged, and my wife is advanced in her days?'

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


simplify: And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.

And your children will be wanderers in the waste land for forty years, undergoing punishment for your false ways, till your bodies become dust in the waste land.


simplify: The first shall say to Zion, Behold, behold them: and I will give to Jerusalem one that bringeth good tidings.

I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the good news to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: All these <FI>are<Fi> men of war, keeping rank--with a perfect heart they have come to Hebron, to cause David to reign over all Israel, and also all the rest of Israel <FI>are<Fi> of one heart, to cause David to reign,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people.


simplify: And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.


simplify: And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?

On seeing this, Peter said to the people: “People of Israel, why are you surprised at this? And why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk?


simplify: For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.


simplify: For it is written,  Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband.

For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.


simplify: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

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


rate difficulty: AndGod said to him in a dream, I also knew that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart, and I, too, have withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore have I not suffered thee to touch her.

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


rate difficulty: A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word in its season, how good is it!

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simplify: For whosoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.


simplify: Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.


rate difficulty: The person who welcomes a prophet, because they are a prophet, will receive a prophet’s reward; and anyone who welcomes a good person, because they are a good person, will receive a good person’s reward.

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simplify: And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel.

So Israel had relations with the women of Moab in honour of the Baal of Peor: and the Lord was moved to wrath against Israel.


rate difficulty: Behold, my servant shall deal wisely, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.

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rate difficulty: wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.

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


simplify: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will speak with me, and what I shall answer concerning my complaint.

I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.


rate difficulty: Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:

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


rate difficulty: Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.


simplify: or a charmer, or a consulter with a familiar spirit, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.


simplify: Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?


simplify: And with these sayings scarce restrained they the multitudes from doing sacrifice unto them.

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.


simplify: Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Preaching to Jews and to Greeks the need for a turning of the heart to God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.

And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.


rate difficulty: All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:

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simplify: Now Elisabeth’s time was fulfilled that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.

Now it was time for Elisabeth to give birth, and she had a son.


rate difficulty: They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

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simplify: Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,


rate difficulty: And they have not thirsted in waste places, He hath caused them to go on, Waters from a rock he hath caused to flow to them, Yea, he cleaveth a rock, and flow do waters.

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rate difficulty: But the poor man had only one little she-lamb, which he had got and taken care of: from its birth it had been with him like one of his children; his meat was its food, and from his cup it took its drink, resting in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.


rate difficulty: and all the same spiritual food did eat,

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rate difficulty: As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

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


rate difficulty: And he burnt on it fragrant incense; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

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rate difficulty: And I spoke unto them of the captivity all the things that Jehovah had shewn me.

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rate difficulty: Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

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rate difficulty: And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.


simplify: And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? knew ye not that I must be in my Father’s house?

And he said to them, Why were you looking for me? was it not clear to you that my right place was in my Father's house?


simplify: They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.


rate difficulty: So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.


simplify: I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.


simplify: and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

And we know that God’s judgment falls unerringly on those who do them.


simplify: in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it (for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it); lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.

Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.


simplify: Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

And you will be overcome with wine, you will become feeble; you will be looking for a safe place from those who are fighting against you.


rate difficulty: And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased;


rate difficulty: not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will ofGod from [the] soul,

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rate difficulty: And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

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simplify: To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;


simplify: Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroyboth young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.


rate difficulty: Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,

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


rate difficulty: Ezer the head, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,


rate difficulty: Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.


rate difficulty: And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.


simplify: It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.


simplify: and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to taskwork.

Ahishar was controller of the king's house; Adoniram, the son of Abda, was overseer of the forced work.


rate difficulty: and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;

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simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.


simplify: And the Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire.

And the Chaldaeans will come back again and make war against this town and they will take it and put it on fire.


simplify: And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.

And he said, My face will be veiled from them, I will see what their end will be: for they are an uncontrolled generation, children in whom is no faith.


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


simplify: then hear thou from heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Then give ear from heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.


simplify: And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy,

And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.


rate difficulty: Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and [one] determined, upon the whole land.

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rate difficulty: The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

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simplify: While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.

Before he had finished speaking, some one came from the house of the synagogue leader and said: “Your daughter is dead! Do not trouble the teacher further.”


simplify: And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

And the poor man's head is bent, and the great man goes down on his face, and the eyes of pride are put to shame:


rate difficulty: And it will be over Aaron's brow, so that Aaron will be responsible for any error in all the holy offerings made by the children of Israel; it will be on his brow at all times, so that their offerings may be pleasing to the Lord.

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simplify: Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto the men, and we will disclose ourselves unto them.

Then Jonathan said, Now we will go over to these men and let them see us.


simplify: And he said unto him, We are passing from Beth-lehem-judah unto the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from thence am I, and I went to Beth-lehem-judah: and I am now going to the house of Jehovah; and there is no man that taketh me into his house.

And he said to him, We are on our way from Beth-lehem-judah to the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim: I came from there and went to Beth-lehem-judah: now I am on my way back to my house, but no man will take me into his house.


simplify: And his brethren by Eliezer; Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

And his brothers: of Eliezer, Rehabiah his son, and Jeshaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomoth his son.


simplify: Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:

But, when his accusers came forward, they brought no charge of wrong-doing such as I had expected;


rate difficulty: And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

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simplify: When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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rate difficulty: And the heads of Succoth say, `Is the hand of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thy hand, that we give to thy host bread?'

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


simplify: And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

Then he said ‘The God of our ancestors has appointed you to learn his will, and to see the righteous one, and to hear words from his lips;


simplify: Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.


simplify: The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,


rate difficulty: In thine uncleanness <FI>is<Fi> wickedness, Because I have cleansed thee, And thou hast not been cleansed, From thine uncleanness thou art not cleansed again, Till I have caused My fury to rest on thee.

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


rate difficulty: And say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, seated on the seat of David, you and your servants and your people who come in by these doors.

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rate difficulty: To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

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simplify: And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.

And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.


rate difficulty: The face of the intelligent <FI>is<Fi> to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool--at the end of the earth.


simplify: Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his father.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king; he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as David his father did.


rate difficulty: And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.

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simplify: Then said he unto Zebah and Zalmunna, What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor? And they answered, As thou art, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king.

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, Where are the men whom you put to death at Tabor? And they gave answer, As you are, so were they; every one of them was like a king's son.


simplify: Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.


rate difficulty: wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth, and honor, such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee; neither shall there any after thee have the like.

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simplify: And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.

And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.


simplify: And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.

And if he comes across it, truly I say to you, he has more joy over it than over the ninety-nine which have not gone out of the way.


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

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simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.


simplify: Ye therefore shall keep my statutes and mine ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the home-born, nor the stranger that sojourneth among you

So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:


simplify: And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

When he went out about five, he found some others standing there, and said to them ‘Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?’


rate difficulty: The commencement of wisdom <FI>is<Fi> the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones <FI>is<Fi> understanding.

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simplify: But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me, even from my mother’s womb, and called me through his grace,

But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,


simplify: The stones thereof are the place of sapphires, And it hath dust of gold.

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.


rate difficulty: And Abraham begetteth Isaac. Sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

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simplify: Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.


rate difficulty: Their tents and their flocks they will take; they will take away for themselves their curtains and all their vessels and their camels: they will give a cry to them, Fear on every side.

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rate difficulty: And Herod the king heard [of him] (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among [the] dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.

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rate difficulty: `And, whatever it be, <FI>said he,<Fi> let me run.' And he saith to him, `Run;' and Ahimaaz runneth the way of the circuit, and passeth by the Cushite.

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, see, I am taking away the desire of your eyes by disease: but let there be no sorrow or weeping or drops running from your eyes.


simplify: Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.

Let your hearts be open to us: we have done no man wrong, no man has been damaged by us, we have made no profit out of any man,


simplify: And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.

And it was clear to Saul that the Lord was with David; and he was loved by all Israel.


rate difficulty: And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying,

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


simplify: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

You will be cursed in the town and cursed in the field.


simplify: And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

Give this message to Archippus — ‘Take care to discharge to the best of your ability the office to which you were appointed in the Master’s cause.’


rate difficulty: The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way?


simplify: And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.

And when he came to the house he did not let any man go in with him, but only Peter and John and James, and the father of the girl and her mother.


rate difficulty: And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.


rate difficulty: And I command your judges at that time, saying, Hearkening between your brethren--then ye have judged righteousness between a man, and his brother, and his sojourner;


rate difficulty: And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

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


rate difficulty: Inside the ark you are to put the record which I will give you.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief fathers of families of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel:

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.


simplify: And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

And all the people took the gold rings from their ears and gave them to Aaron.


simplify: To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend; Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.


simplify: But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water; and he cried, and said, Alas, my master! for it was borrowed.

But one of them, while cutting a board, let the head of his axe go into the water; and he gave a cry, and said, This is a bad business, my master, for it is another's.


rate difficulty: Is not this [it] in which my lord drinks, and in which indeed he divines? Ye have done evil [in] what ye have done.


rate difficulty: The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.


rate difficulty: And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and be his help against his attackers.


rate difficulty: And the house that I will build is great; for great is ourGod above allgods.


rate difficulty: And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.

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simplify: And he brought the tribe of Benjamin near by their families; and the family of the Matrites was taken; and Saul the son of Kish was taken: but when they sought him, he could not be found.

Then he made the tribe of Benjamin come near by families, and the family of the Matrites was taken: and from them, Saul, the son of Kish, was taken: but when they went in search of him he was nowhere to be seen.


simplify: And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

And he will put a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and they will be burned by him: and he will make Egypt clean as a keeper of sheep makes clean his clothing; and he will go out from there in peace.


rate difficulty: and out of the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs, and Mahanaim and its suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: David also commanded all the princes of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

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


simplify: Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell in?

Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?


simplify: But as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and entered into the city: and on the morrow he went forth with Barnabas to Derbe.

But when the disciples came round him, he got up and went into the town: and the day after he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.


simplify: The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to them, Let no man leave [any] of it until the morning.


rate difficulty: And I will put an end in Moab, says the Lord, to him who is making offerings in the high place and burning perfumes to his gods.

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rate difficulty: These three were the sons of Noah: and of these was the whole earth overspread.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, who maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;


simplify: not that in respect of want I say <FI>it<Fi> , for I did learn in the things in which I am--to be content;

Do not think that I am saying this under the pressure of want. For I, however I am placed, have learned to be independent of circumstances.


simplify: To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:


rate difficulty: `And he added to send another servant, and they that one also having beaten and dishonoured, did send away empty;


rate difficulty: No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

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


rate difficulty: Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,

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


rate difficulty: Let peoples serve thee, And races bow down to thee. Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother's sons bow down to thee. Cursed be they that curse thee, And blessed be they that bless thee.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Wherefore I testify unto you this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

And so I say to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men.


rate difficulty: No one shall approach to any that is his near relation, to uncover his nakedness: I am Jehovah.


simplify: There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Even Babylon <FI>is<Fi> to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

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


simplify: And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.


simplify: and the God of our fathers did raise up Jesus, whom ye slew, having hanged upon a tree;

The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, whom you put to death by hanging him on a cross.


simplify: And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

and the demons begged Jesus not to order them away into the bottomless pit.


simplify: And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

‘Leave it this one year more, Sir,’ the man answered, ‘until I have dug around it and manured it.


rate difficulty: but the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-Jearim, when David prepared for it, for he stretched out for it a tent in Jerusalem;

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


rate difficulty: Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

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


rate difficulty: Lift up round about thine eyes and see, All of them have been gathered, they have come to thee, Thy sons from afar do come, And thy daughters on the side are supported.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and saying, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance, we lamented to you, and ye did not smite the breast.

‘We have played the flute for you, but you have not danced; We have wailed, but you have not mourned.’


simplify: When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt return to Jehovah thy God, and hearken unto his voice:

When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned again to the Lord your God, and give ear to his voice:


simplify: then, indeed, were the assemblies established in the faith, and were abounding in number every day;

So the churches grew stronger in the faith, and increased in numbers from day to day.


rate difficulty: I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.

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


simplify: And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.


simplify: Then spake Haggai the Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

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


rate difficulty: And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.


simplify: But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!

But the king, covering his face, gave a great cry, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!


simplify: And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s bondmen, both we, and he also in whose hand the cup is found.

And Judah said, What are we to say to my lord? how may we put ourselves right in his eyes? God has made clear the sin of your servants: now we are in your hands, we and the man in whose bag your cup was seen.


simplify: And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

One of the Presidents of the synagogue, whose name was Jaeirus, came and, as soon as he saw Jesus, threw himself at his feet with repeated entreaties.


simplify: but I will come quickly unto you, if the Lord may will, and I will know not the word of those puffed up, but the power;

But come to you I will, and that soon, if it please the Lord; and then I will find out, not what words these people use who are so puffed up, but what power they possess;


rate difficulty: Hast thou since thy days commanded the morning? hast thou caused the dawn to know its place,

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


simplify: Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of Jehovah which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. And he said in his heart, There will be peace and quiet in my days.


simplify: Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

Yet there are some few among you at Sardis who did not soil their robes; they will walk with me, robed in white, for they are worthy.


rate difficulty: For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.


simplify: A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

A brother wounded is like a strong town, and violent acts are like a locked tower.


rate difficulty: Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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


simplify: And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

And it will come about, in the last days, says God, that I will send out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams:


simplify: But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

But, my loved ones, keep in mind this one thing, that with the Lord one day is the same as a thousand years, and a thousand years are no more than one day.


rate difficulty: Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.

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


rate difficulty: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.


simplify: for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women — women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,


rate difficulty: that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

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


rate difficulty: The wages of sin are death, but the gift of God is eternal life, through union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.

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


simplify: For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her.

For Herod himself had sent men out to take John and put him in prison, because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had taken for himself.


rate difficulty: And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and handmaids; and they shall take them captive whose captives they were, and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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


simplify: What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

What is your desire? is my coming to be with punishment, or is it to be in love and a gentle spirit?


simplify: according as also ye did acknowledge us in part, that your glory we are, even as also ye <FI>are<Fi> ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus;

And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us — that you have a right to be proud of us, as we will be proud of you, on the day of our Lord Jesus.


simplify: Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their work.


rate difficulty: And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.

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


rate difficulty: on this side the Jordan, in the valley opposite to Beth-Peor, in the land of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote when they came out of Egypt;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob him: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.


simplify: And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.

And he, answering, said, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbour as for yourself.


simplify: And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

And I will give you into the hands of those desiring your death, and into the hands of those whom you are fearing, even into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of the Chaldaeans.


simplify: And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt.


simplify: Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

For fear that I may take away her robe from her, making her uncovered as in the day of her birth; making her like a waste place and a dry land, causing her death through need of water.


rate difficulty: If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

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


simplify: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: His generation who shall declare? For his life is taken from the earth.

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.


rate difficulty: Ye know that when ye were Gentiles ye were led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever ye might be led.

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


rate difficulty: And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

And when my glory goes by, I will put you in a hole in the rock, covering you with my hand till I have gone past:


simplify: And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

And they gave an account of the things which had taken place on the way, and how, when he gave them bread, they had knowledge of him.


simplify: Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.


rate difficulty: That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice:

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


rate difficulty: he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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


rate difficulty: Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them (whereas it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them),

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


simplify: Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

But even she has been taken away, she has gone away as a prisoner: even her young children are smashed to bits at the top of all the streets: the fate of her honoured men is put to the decision of chance, and all her great men are put in chains.


rate difficulty: In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

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


simplify: And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers.

And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.


rate difficulty: But if, in any man's opinion, he is not doing what is right for his virgin, if she is past her best years, and there is need for it, let him do what seems right to him; it is no sin; let them be married.

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


rate difficulty: And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

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


rate difficulty: For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of the Gadites according to their fathers' houses, have received, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;


simplify: And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.

Now when they were taking out the money which had come into the Lord's house, Hilkiah the priest came across the book of the law of the Lord, which he had given by the mouth of Moses.


rate difficulty: And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

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


simplify: And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.

And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.


simplify: A third part shalt thou burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled; and thou shalt take a third part, and smite with the sword round about it; and a third part thou shalt scatter to the wind, and I will draw out a sword after them.

You are to have a third part burned with fire inside the town, when the days of the attack are ended; and a third part you are to take and give blows with the sword round about it; and give a third part for the wind to take away, and let loose a sword after them.


simplify: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

Then his master is to take him to the gods of the house, and at the door, or at its framework, he is to make a hole in his ear with a sharp-pointed instrument; and he will be his servant for ever.


rate difficulty: And there was a certain man in Caesarea, by name Cornelius, a centurion from a band called Italian,

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


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

But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,


rate difficulty: In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not--an affirmation of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

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


rate difficulty: The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

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


simplify: because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men;

For God’s will is this — that you should silence the ignorance of foolish people by doing what is right.


simplify: And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

And the grace of our Lord was very great, with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

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


simplify: And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;


simplify: If any man speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and that in turn; and let one interpret:

If any man makes use of a tongue, let it not be more than two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let someone give the sense:


simplify: When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

Having in mind your true faith, which first was in your mother's mother Lois, and in your mother Eunice, and, I am certain, is now in you.


simplify: Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.


rate difficulty: Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

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


simplify: And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;

And Zerubbabel had Abiud; and Abiud had Eliakim; and Eliakim had Azor;


simplify: So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.


rate difficulty: Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

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


rate difficulty: The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

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


rate difficulty: So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.


simplify: Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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


simplify: This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;


rate difficulty: But Peter, rising up, ran to the sepulchre, and stooping down he sees the linen clothes lying there alone, and went away home, wondering at what had happened.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto her,  Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels: And the one people shall be stronger than the other people; And the elder shall serve the younger.

And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.


simplify: Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what Jehovah will speak unto me more.

So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge what more the Lord has to say to me.


simplify: In those days the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them,

About that time, when there was again a great crowd of people who had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him, and said:


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when Moses finisheth to write the words of this law on a book till their completion,

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


rate difficulty: And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.


rate difficulty: And king Solomon was greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.


simplify: Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:

If you are the Christ, say so. But he said, If I say so you will not have belief;


simplify: So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.


rate difficulty: And go a-whoring doth Aholah under Me, And she doteth on her lovers, On the neighbouring Assyrians,

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


simplify: And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.


rate difficulty: And sons of Judah, and sons of Jerusalem, Ye have sold to the sons of Javan, To put them far off from their border.

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


rate difficulty: and in every city and city targets and spears, and strengtheneth them very greatly; and he hath Judah and Benjamin.

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


simplify: Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.


rate difficulty: They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.

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


simplify: for in hope we were saved, and hope beheld is not hope; for what any one doth behold, why also doth he hope for <FI>it<Fi> ?

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


simplify: For I am with thee, saith the Lord, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in his acting as priest, in the order of his course before God,

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


simplify: and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Jehovah your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.

And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.


simplify: And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

And the ass saw me, turning to one side from me three times: if she had not gone to one side, I would certainly have put you to death and kept her safe.


simplify: Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field; for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth its fruit, the fig-tree and the vine do yield their strength.

Have no fear, you beasts of the field, for the grass-lands of the waste are becoming green, for the trees are producing fruit, the fig-tree and the vine give out their strength.


simplify: And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, `Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?

When the Recorder had succeeded in quieting the crowd, he said: “People of Ephesus, who is there, I ask you, who needs to be told that this city of Ephesus is the Warden of the Temple of the great Artemis, and of the statue which fell down from Zeus?


rate difficulty: It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.

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rate difficulty: And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

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


simplify: And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.

And he went up into the mountain, and sent for those whom it was his pleasure to have with him: and they went to him.


simplify: For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel enquired of the Lord, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

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simplify: `For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and ye say, He hath a demon;

For now that John the Baptist has come, not eating bread or drinking wine, you are saying ‘He has a demon in him’;


rate difficulty: Then, raising his eyes and looking at his disciples, Jesus said:  “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: in the third year of his reign, he hath made a banquet to all his heads and his servants; of the force of Persia and Media, the chiefs and heads of the provinces <FI>are<Fi> before him,

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


simplify: And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

And he said to me, You are my servant, Israel, in whom my glory will be seen;


rate difficulty: After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.

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


simplify: But thanks be to God, that, whereas ye were servants of sin, ye became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto ye were delivered;

But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;


rate difficulty: And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

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rate difficulty: And as to his sons, and the greatness of the burdens [laid] upon him, and the building of the house ofGod, behold, they are written in the treatise of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: Then they began questioning one another which of them it could be who was going to do this.


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come.


simplify: whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have against me —


simplify: and a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave:

And a clean person is to take hyssop and put it in the water, shaking it over the tent, and all the vessels, and the people who were there, and over him by whom the bone, or the body of one who has been put to death with the sword, or the body of one who has come to his end by a natural death, or the resting-place was touched.