simplify: And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people.


simplify: Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

You, my children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such people as these, because he who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.


simplify: And thou shalt return and obey the voice of Jehovah, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

And you will again give ear to the voice of the Lord, and do all his orders which I have given you today.


simplify: (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it will be, when she cometh in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.

And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.


rate difficulty: so that he <FI>is<Fi> an hireling, that I may fear and do so, and I had sinned, and it had been to them for an evil name that they may reproach me.

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


rate difficulty: And I will send them wandering among the nations, among people strange to them and to their fathers: and I will send the sword after them till I have put an end to them.

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


rate difficulty: But do ye take heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

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


simplify: And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint:

And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;


rate difficulty: Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: and the ship being caught, and not being able to bear up against the wind, having given <FI>her<Fi> up, we were borne on,

The ship was caught by it and was unable to keep her head to the wind, so we had to give way and let her drive before it.


simplify: And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and said unto him, Zacchæus, make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house.

And when Jesus came to the place, looking up, he said to him, Zacchaeus, be quick and come down, for I am coming to your house today.


rate difficulty: And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house.


rate difficulty: You, yourselves, know that these hands of mine provided not only for my own wants, but for my companions also.

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


simplify: and how shall they preach, except they be sent? even as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of good things!

And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.


rate difficulty: And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

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


rate difficulty: And Bath-Sheba cometh in unto king Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah, and the king riseth to meet her, and boweth himself to her, and sitteth on his throne, and placeth a throne for the mother of the king, and she sitteth at his right hand.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And by the stream there cometh up on its edge, on this side and on that side, every <FI>kind of<Fi> fruit-tree whose leaf fadeth not, and not consumed is its fruit, according to its months it yieldeth first-fruits, because its waters from the sanctuary are coming forth; and its fruits hath been for food, and its leaf for medicine.

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


rate difficulty: And the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Jehovah filled the tabernacle.

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


rate difficulty: The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.

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


simplify: Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.


rate difficulty: For the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who erred not in the erring of the sons of Israel, as the Levites erred,

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


rate difficulty: Men of the other Nebo: fifty and two.

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


rate difficulty: These are the chiefs that came of the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, my soul [would] not [turn] toward this people. Send [them] out of my sight, and let them go forth.


simplify: So Hanamel mine uncle’s son came to me in the court of the guard according to the word of Jehovah, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the land of Benjamin; for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of Jehovah.

So Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, came to me, as the Lord had said, to the place of the armed watchmen, and said to me, Give the price and get my property which is in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: for you have the nearest relation's right to the heritage; so get it for yourself. Then it was clear to me that this was the word of the Lord.


simplify: And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.

And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.


simplify: And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

I will make the purpose of Judah and Jerusalem come to nothing in this place; I will have them put to the sword by their haters, and by the hands of those who have designs on their life; and their dead bodies I will give to be food for the birds of heaven and the beasts of the earth.


simplify: And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

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


simplify: Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.


simplify: And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi–lehem. And these are ancient things.

And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and went back to Beth-lehem. And the records are very old.


rate difficulty: And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over ‘the Stumbling-block.’


simplify: and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria, sailing to Italy, did put us into it,

There the Roman officer found an Alexandrian ship on her way to Italy, and put us on board of her.


rate difficulty: And the king commanded Hilkijah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah a servant of the king, saying,

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


simplify: And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.


rate difficulty: It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites into the hands of the children of Israel that Joshua said to the Lord, before the eyes of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon; and you, O moon, in the valley of Aijalon.

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


simplify: All the instruments of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

All the instruments for the work of the House, and all its nails, and the nails of the open space are to be of brass.


simplify: So the young man, even the young man the prophet, went to Ramoth–gilead.

So the young prophet went to Ramoth-gilead.


simplify: and by certain, that Elijah did appear, and by others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;

Some again said that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the old prophets had risen again.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

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


rate difficulty: But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee?

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


rate difficulty: They that forsake the law praise the wicked; but such as keep the law contend with them.


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

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


rate difficulty: `And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,


simplify: And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.

And they came to him with one who had no power of hearing and had trouble in talking; and they made a request to him to put his hands on him.


simplify: And David said unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered, That the people are fled from the battle, and many of the people also are fallen and dead; and Saul and Jonathan his son are dead also.

And David said to him, How did things go? Give me the news. And in answer he said, The people have gone in flight from the fight, and a great number of them are dead; and Saul and his son Jonathan are dead.


rate difficulty: And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a winged one, and the second was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.


rate difficulty: Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

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


rate difficulty: Thus shall it be done for one bullock, or for one ram, or for a lamb, or a kid.

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


simplify: And Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord, when they offered strange fire before the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest’s office in the sight of Aaron their father.

And Nadab and Abihu were put to death before the Lord when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar did the work of priests before Aaron their father.


rate difficulty: And one of them went quickly and, getting a sponge full of bitter wine, put it on a rod, and gave it to him for drink, saying, Let be; let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.


rate difficulty: But he said, Woman, it is not true; I have no knowledge of him.


rate difficulty: The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

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


rate difficulty: And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.

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


rate difficulty: And I will not let the shaming of the nations come to your ears, and no longer will you be looked down on by the peoples, says the Lord.

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


simplify: And the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Deal gently for my sake with the young man, even with Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.

And the king gave orders to Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Because of me, be gentle to the young man Absalom. And this order about Absalom was given in the hearing of all the people.


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After the glory, hath he sent me unto the nations that made you a spoil; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

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


simplify: Therefore he poured upon him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.

For this reason he let loose on him the heat of his wrath, and his strength was like a flame; and it put fire round about him, but he did not see it; he was burned, but did not take it to heart.


simplify: I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go apart with harlots, and they sacrifice with the prostitutes; and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.

I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.


simplify: Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.


simplify: What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.


simplify: As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

Of which the high priest will be a witness, and all the rulers, from whom I had letters to the brothers; and I went into Damascus, to take those who were there as prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.


simplify: And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to each ram of the two rams,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for every one of the thirteen oxen, two tenth parts for every male sheep,


simplify: Do therefore this that we say to thee: We have four men which have a vow on them;

We have four men here, who have of their own accord put themselves under a vow.


simplify: And when ye see a south wind blowing, ye say, There will be a scorching heat; and it cometh to pass.

And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is.


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


simplify: And the sons of Shemida were Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

And the sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.


rate difficulty: of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah: of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel:

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


simplify: Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.


simplify: But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the Lord, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.

But he and his servants and the people of the land did not give ear to the words of the Lord which he said by Jeremiah the prophet.


simplify: While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.

While he was saying these things to them, there came a ruler and gave him worship, saying, My daughter is even now dead; but come and put your hand on her, and she will come back to life.


rate difficulty: But a lad saw them, and told Absalom. Then they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man at Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.

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


rate difficulty: For thus said the Lord Jehovah: I have dealt with thee as thou hast done, In that thou hast despised an oath--to break covenant.

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


simplify: And her father hear her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father shall hold his peace at her: then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.


simplify: The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain.


simplify: For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

especially for kings and all who are in high positions, in order that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in a deeply religious and reverent spirit.


simplify: the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens,

Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,


simplify: And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that there they may nourish her a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

And the woman went in flight to the waste land, where she has a place made ready by God, so that there they may give her food a thousand, two hundred and sixty days.


simplify: In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.


simplify: And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn it, a perpetual incense before Jehovah throughout your generations.

And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever.


rate difficulty: And Joseph cometh into the house, and they bring to him the present which <FI>is<Fi> in their hand, into the house, and bow themselves to him, to the earth;

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


simplify: And behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.

And some of the scribes said among themselves, This man has no respect for God.


rate difficulty: An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.

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


simplify: that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

So that there might be no division in the body; but all the parts might have the same care for one another.


simplify: And I will grant you mercy, that he may have mercy upon you, and cause you to return to your own land.

And I will have mercy on you, so that he may have mercy on you and let you go back to your land.


rate difficulty: Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed--me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted--me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time <FI>with<Fi> destruction destroy them.

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


simplify: When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,


simplify: How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.


rate difficulty: This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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


simplify: Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.


simplify: At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.

At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.


simplify: `Happy the mourning--because they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the mourners,  for they will be comforted.


rate difficulty: Against an elder receive not an accusation, except at the mouth of two or three witnesses.

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


simplify: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,


simplify: And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said Jehovah unto me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

And I went in to my wife, and she became with child, and gave birth to a son. Then the Lord said to me, Give him the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz,


rate difficulty: Moreover the prince shall not take of the people’s inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.

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


rate difficulty: So they went, and made safe the place where his body was, putting a stamp on the stone, and the watchmen were with them.

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


rate difficulty: Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.


rate difficulty: And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?

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


simplify: And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judea to Cesarea, and there abode.

And Herod, when he sent for him, and he was not there, after questioning the watchmen, gave orders that they were to be put to death. Then he went down from Judaea to Caesarea for a time.


rate difficulty: And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, `Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

Then he went down seven times into the waters of Jordan, as the man of God had said; and his flesh became like the flesh of a little child again, and he was clean.


rate difficulty: And they make--all the assembly of the captives of the captivity--booths, and they sit in booths; for the sons of Israel had not done, from the days of Jeshua son of Nun, so unto that day, and there is very great joy.

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


simplify: Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them.

The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus told them to meet him;


rate difficulty: Abiezer the Anathothite, Mebunnai the Hushathite,

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


rate difficulty: Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

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


simplify: So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?


rate difficulty: Eleazar begot Phinehas; Phinehas begot Abishua,


rate difficulty: And if the burden of Jehovah ye say, Therefore thus said Jehovah: Because of your saying this word, The burden of Jehovah, And I do send unto you, saying, Ye do not say, The burden of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land; and they shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which Jehovah thy God hath given thee.

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


rate difficulty: My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,

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


simplify: And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung.

And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.


simplify: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

You have shown me the path to life, You will fill me with gladness in your presence.’


rate difficulty: And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?

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


simplify: which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

Which of the two sons did as his father wished?” “The second,” they said. “I tell you,” added Jesus, “that tax-gatherers and prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God before you.


rate difficulty: and the two ends of the two wreathen [cords] they fastened to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, on the front thereof.

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


simplify: And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:

And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;


rate difficulty: He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.

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


rate difficulty: and if from a son of five years even unto a son of twenty years--then hath thy valuation been of the male twenty shekels, and for the female, ten shekels;

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


rate difficulty: Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

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


simplify: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;


simplify: And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.


simplify: and Jesus having heard, answered him, saying, `Be not afraid, only believe, and she shall be saved.'

But Jesus, hearing this, spoke to the leader: “Do not be afraid; only have faith, and she will yet be delivered.”


simplify: And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.


simplify: But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.


rate difficulty: “This is my covenant-blood,”he said, “which is poured out on behalf of many.

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


simplify: Therefore thou shalt say unto them, When ye have heaved the best thereof from it, then it shall be counted unto the Levites as the increase of the threshingfloor, and as the increase of the winepress.

Say to them, then, When the best of it is lifted up on high, it is to be put to the account of the Levites as the increase of the grain-floor and of the place where the grapes are crushed.


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

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


simplify: For the king had ships that went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram; once every three years came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

For the king had Tarshish-ships sailing with the servants of Huram: once every three years the Tarshish-ships came back with gold and silver, ivory and monkeys and peacocks.


rate difficulty: `Every firstling that is born in thy herd and in thy flock--the male thou dost sanctify to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not work with the firstling of thine ox, nor shear the firstling of thy flock;

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


simplify: treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during.

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


rate difficulty: A woman of worth is a crown to her husband; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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


rate difficulty: If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Jesus had made an end of commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.

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


simplify: Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.

This is my reason for writing as I am now doing, while I am away from you, so that, when I am with you, I may not act harshly in the exercise of the authority which the Lord gave me — and gave me for building up and not for pulling down.


rate difficulty: So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;


rate difficulty: And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.


rate difficulty: `He who is hearing you, doth hear me; and he who is putting you away, doth put me away; and he who is putting me away, doth put away Him who sent me.'

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


simplify: And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.

And another came, saying, Your pound has made five pounds.


rate difficulty: And Jacob said to Joseph, The AlmightyGod appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

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


simplify: And as he sat on the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And while he was seated on the Mountain of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, Make clear to us, when will these things be? and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world?


rate difficulty: three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the candlestick:

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


simplify: When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.

For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law of the Lord,

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and the good he did, in keeping with what is recorded in the law of the Lord,


simplify: And if we died with Christ, we believe that we also shall live with him,

And our belief is, that, as we have shared Christ’s death, we will also share his life.


simplify: Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

Keep yourselves far from any false business; never let the upright or him who has done no wrong be put to death: for I will make the evil-doer responsible for his sin.


simplify: And all the congregation made a covenant with the king in the house of God. And he said unto them, Behold, the king’s son shall reign, as the Lord hath said of the sons of David.

And all the people made an agreement with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Truly, the king's son will be king, as the Lord has said about the sons of David.


simplify: And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.

And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.


simplify: And the man of God said, Where fell it? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.

And the man of God said, Where did it go in? and when he saw the place where it had gone into the water, cutting a stick, he put it into the water, and the iron came up to the top of the water.


rate difficulty: The sons of Benjamin, after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;


rate difficulty: and men worshiped the Dragon, because he had given his dominion to the Beast; while, as they worshiped the Beast, they said — ‘Who can compare with the Beast? And who can fight with it?’

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


simplify: And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.

And Moses at his death was a hundred and twenty years old: his eye had not become clouded, or his natural force become feeble.


simplify: And he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

And he was teaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.


rate difficulty: And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

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


rate difficulty: As the work of the pomegranate <FI>is<Fi> thy temple behind thy veil.

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


simplify: And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.

When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:


simplify: I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.

I know where you live, where the throne of Satan stands. And yet you hold to my name, and you did not disown my faith even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death among you where Satan dwells.


rate difficulty: of Joses, of Eliezer, of Joreim, of Matthat, of Levi,


simplify: And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.


rate difficulty: And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.


rate difficulty: And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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


rate difficulty: and she saith unto her mistress, `O that my lord <FI>were<Fi> before the prophet who <FI>is<Fi> in Samaria; then he doth recover him from his leprosy.'

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


rate difficulty: And Isaiah said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

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


rate difficulty: And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The Lord thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.

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


simplify: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, Andforsake us so long time?

Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?


rate difficulty: For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.

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


simplify: For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a demon.

For John came, taking no food or drink, and they say, He has an evil spirit.


rate difficulty: And the border of Og king of Bashan (of the remnant of the Rephaim), who is dwelling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,


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

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


rate difficulty: Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

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


rate difficulty: then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

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


rate difficulty: and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a great voice, saying, `Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?' that is, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'


simplify: And they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.

And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.


simplify: But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt-offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.


rate difficulty: for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he straightway spake with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.

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


simplify: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

not one who understands, not one who is searching for God!


rate difficulty: And David saith, `Do the possessors of Keilah shut me up, and my men, into the hand of Saul?' And Jehovah saith, `They shut <FI>thee<Fi> up.'

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


simplify: So Hazael king of Syria died; and Ben–hadad his son reigned in his stead.

Then Hazael, king of Aram, came to his end; and Ben-hadad his son became king in his place.


simplify: And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.

And he gave them special orders that they were not to say anything of this; and he said that some food was to be given to her.


rate difficulty: Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you,

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


simplify: And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

He carried me away in a trance to a great high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the Holy City, descending out of heaven from God, filled with the glory of God.


simplify: Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.

You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.


simplify: And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

Then the fourth angel blew; and a third of the sun and a third of the moon and a third of the stars were blasted, so that a third of them was eclipsed, and for a third part of the day there was no light, and at night it was the same.


simplify: and they besought him that they might only touch the border of his garment: and as many as touched were made whole.

With the request that they might only put their hands on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.


rate difficulty: Moab is broken; her cry has gone out to Zoar.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah thyGod will put all these curses on thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, who have persecuted thee.

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


simplify: Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

For the fair houses will have no man living in them; the town which was full of noise will become a waste; the hill and the watchtower will be unpeopled for ever, a joy for the asses of the woods, a place of food for the flocks;


simplify: Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For what could a person give that is of equal value with their life?


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada the prince of Aaron, and with him were three thousand seven hundred;

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


rate difficulty: And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?

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


simplify: And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:

They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:


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.

And whoever will not take you in, or give ear to your words, when you go out from that house or that town, put off its dust from your feet.


simplify: And he placed the breastplate upon him: and in the breastplate he put the Urim and the Thummim.

And he put the priest's bag on him, and in the bag he put the Urim and Thummim.


simplify: And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.

And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.


rate difficulty: besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

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


rate difficulty: And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.

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


simplify: He entereth into peace; they rest in their beds, each one that walketh in his uprightness.

They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.


simplify: And Jehovah repented of the evil which he said he would do unto his people.

So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.


rate difficulty: “I will put one question to you,”said Jesus. “Answer me that, and then I will tell you what authority I have to act as I do.


simplify: And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,

And that very hour they got up and went back to Jerusalem, where the eleven and the others had come together.


rate difficulty: Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.


simplify: A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall perish.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.


simplify: and he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the mountain before Jehovah, and they fell all seven together. And they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.

And he gave them up to the Gibeonites, and they put them to death, hanging them on the mountain before the Lord; all seven came to their end together in the first days of the grain-cutting, at the start of the cutting of the barley.


simplify: And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.


simplify: And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and drew near unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.


rate difficulty: And they put the Passover lambs to death, the blood being drained out by the priests when it was given to them, and the Levites did the skinning.

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


simplify: Again, a second time, having gone away, he prayed, saying, `My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me except I drink it, Thy will be done;'

Again, a second time, he went away, and prayed. “My Father,” he said, “if I cannot be spared this cup, but must drink it, your will be done!”


rate difficulty: Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

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


rate difficulty: And as he drew near, already at the descent of the mount of Olives, all the multitude of the disciples began, rejoicing, to praiseGod with a loud voice for all the works of power which they had seen,

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


rate difficulty: And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to hallow the sabbath day. Remember this also for me, myGod, and spare me according to thy great loving-kindness!

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


simplify: And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying,

And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,


rate difficulty: And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.

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


rate difficulty: Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth.

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


rate difficulty: For by the last words of David was this [done], — the numbering of the sons of Levi from twenty years old and upward.

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


rate difficulty: Glory in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and having taken the hand of the blind man, he led him forth without the village, and having spit on his eyes, having put <FI>his<Fi> hands on him, he was questioning him if he doth behold anything:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: He came to see us, and, taking Paul’s girdle, and binding his own feet and hands with it, said: “This is what the Holy Spirit says — ‘The man to whom this girdle belongs will be bound like this by the religious authorities in Jerusalem, and they will give him up to the Gentiles’.”

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


simplify: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.


simplify: On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Ulam are men mighty in valour, treading bow, and multiplying sons and son's sons, a hundred and fifty. All these <FI>are<Fi> of the sons of Benjamin.

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


simplify: And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.

And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.


rate difficulty: according to all that we hearkened unto Moses <FI>in<Fi> , so we hearken unto thee; surely Jehovah thy God is with thee as He hath been with Moses.

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


rate difficulty: Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

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


simplify: and I say to you, Make to yourselves friends out of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye may fail, they may receive you to the age-during tabernacles.

And I say to you ‘Win friends for yourselves with your dishonest money,’ so that, when it comes to an end, there may be a welcome for you into the Eternal Home.


simplify: For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.


simplify: Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that Jehovah hath avenged him of his enemies.

Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said, Let me go and give the king news of how the Lord has done right in his cause against those who took up arms against him.


simplify: By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.

By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,


rate difficulty: And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:


simplify: they having become aware, did flee to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and to the region round about,

the apostles heard of it, and took refuge in Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and in the district around,


simplify: and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is that hath fought for you.

You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.


rate difficulty: And his lord was very angry, and put him in the hands of those who would give him punishment till he made payment of all the debt.


rate difficulty: So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.


rate difficulty: Is there any number of his armies? And upon whom doth not his light arise?

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


simplify: And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: The workman made it, it is no god; the ox of Samaria will be broken into bits.

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


rate difficulty: And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

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


rate difficulty: For as the lightning shines which lightens from [one end] under heaven to [the other end] under heaven, thus shall the Son of man be in his day.

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


simplify: And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

And Jesus went out of the Temple, and on the way his disciples came to him, pointing out the buildings of the Temple.


rate difficulty: When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;


rate difficulty: Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

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


simplify: Andthere will begoats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, And maintenance for thy maidens.

There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.


simplify: Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king’s mowings.

This is what the Lord God let me see: and I saw that, when the growth of the late grass was starting, he made locusts; it was the late growth after the king's cutting was done.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And the devil said to him, If thou be Son ofGod, speak to this stone, that it become bread.

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


rate difficulty: Have you taken note of what these people have said, The two families, which the Lord took for himself, he has given up? This they say, looking down on my people as being, in their eyes, no longer a nation.

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


simplify: And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the food into the chamber, that I may eat from thy hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother.

Then Amnon said to Tamar, Take the food and come into my bedroom, so that I may take it from your hand. So Tamar took the cakes she had made and went with them into her brother Amnon's bedroom.


simplify: And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that were with him, and moved him to go up with him to Ramoth-gilead.

And after some years he went down to Samaria to see Ahab. And Ahab made a feast for him and the people who were with him, putting to death great numbers of sheep and oxen; and he got Jehoshaphat to go with him to Ramoth-gilead.


rate difficulty: Therefore the well was named Beer-lahai-roi: behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

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


simplify: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.


simplify: And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.

And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.


simplify: And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,


simplify: and having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,

After greeting them, Paul related in detail all that God had done among the Gentiles through his efforts;


rate difficulty: Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

“Foxes have holes,”he replied, “and wild birds their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”


simplify: Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Be kind to one another with a brother's love, putting others before yourselves in honour;


simplify: And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

With outstretched wings five cubits wide; the distance from the edge of one wing to the edge of the other was ten cubits.


simplify: Only on this condition will we consent unto you: if ye will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

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


simplify: Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

To all Christ’s people at Philippi, with the presiding officers and assistants, from Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: and Masseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer, and the singers sound, and Jezrahiah the inspector;

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


simplify: For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.


rate difficulty: And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.


simplify: But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land; so that ye obey not the voice of Jehovah your God,

But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,


simplify: And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

And I said, Lord, they themselves have knowledge that I went through the Synagogues putting in prison and whipping all those who had faith in you:


rate difficulty: then will Jehovah dispossess all these nations from before you, and ye shall take possession of nations greater and mightier than yourselves.

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


simplify: Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

So now put every male child to death, and every woman who has had sex relations with a man.


rate difficulty: They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.

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


simplify: Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.


rate difficulty: Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah, the son of Adaiah,

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


rate difficulty: that they should teach what is right, so as to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,

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


rate difficulty: And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

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


rate difficulty: let the service be heavy on the men, and let them work at it, and not be dazzled by lying words.'

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


simplify: Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.

He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.


rate difficulty: I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,


rate difficulty: And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:

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


rate difficulty: But I appeal to you, my friends, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united — of one mind and of one opinion.

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


simplify: And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

and she gave birth to her first child, a son. And because there was no room for them in the inn, she swathed him around and laid him in a manger.


rate difficulty: but he who knew [it] not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few. And to every one to whom much has been given, much shall be required from him; and to whom [men] have committed much, they will ask from him the more.


rate difficulty: Your gold and silver are rusted; and the rust on them will be evidence against you, and will eat into your flesh. It was fire, so to speak, that you stored up for yourselves in these last days.


simplify: And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.

And Aaron, lifting up his hands to the people, gave them a blessing; and he came down from offering the sin-offering, and the burned offering, and the peace-offerings.


simplify: For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a settled provision for the singers, as every day required.

For there was an order from the king about them and a regular amount for the music-makers, for their needs day by day.


simplify: And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.

In the inmost room he made two winged beings of olive-wood, ten cubits high;


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

Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.


rate difficulty: And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Beth–shemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.

And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.


simplify: Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.

And Edom will become a cause of wonder: everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and make sounds of fear at all her punishments.


simplify: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with bruised grain, Yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.


simplify: And I John am he that heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel that showed me these things.

And I, John, am he who saw these things and to whose ears they came. And when I had seen and given ear, I went down on my face to give worship at the feet of the angel who made these things clear to me.


simplify: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: The destruction of the poor is their poverty.

The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.


rate difficulty: A healed tongue <FI>is<Fi> a tree of life, And perverseness in it--a breach in the spirit.

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


rate difficulty: Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.

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


rate difficulty: And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;

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


rate difficulty: And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;


simplify: And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.

And they went away and gave news of it to the rest; and they had no belief in what was said.


rate difficulty: for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.

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


simplify: And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

And word of this was given to David; and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam and put his forces in position against them. And when David's forces were in position against the Aramaeans, the fight was started.


rate difficulty: Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

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


simplify: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

And with the stones he made an altar to the name of the Lord; and he made a deep drain all round the altar, great enough to take two measures of seed.


simplify: for not in word is the reign of God, but in power?

for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.


simplify: The servant therefore fell down, and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

The servant threw himself down on the ground before him and said ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’


simplify: In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil — No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the person who does not love others.


simplify: (Who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him, and ministered unto him;) and many other women which came up with him unto Jerusalem.

all of whom used to accompany Jesus when he was in Galilee, and attend on him — besides many other women who had come up with him to Jerusalem.


simplify: Timotheus my workfellow, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kinsmen, salute you.

Timothy, who is working with me, sends his love to you, so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my relations.


simplify: And the king said, Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.

And the king said, Make search and see whose son this young man is.


rate difficulty: And Eli calleth Samuel, and saith, `Samuel, my son;' and he saith, `Here <FI>am<Fi> I.'

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will put out their hands and take a grip of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, We will go with you, for it has come to our ears that God is with you.


simplify: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;


simplify: Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.


rate difficulty: They have gone completely astray as regards the truth; they say that a resurrection has already taken place, and so upset some people’s faith.

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


rate difficulty: And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, asGod had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in.

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


simplify: But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you.


simplify: And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy upon them; and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Jehovah their God, and I will hear them.

And I will make the children of Judah strong, and I will be the saviour of the children of Joseph, and I will make them come back again, for I have had mercy on them: they will be as if I had not given them up: for I am the Lord their God and I will give them an answer.


simplify: And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of man among thy sons shalt thou redeem.

And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.


rate difficulty: and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them;

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


rate difficulty: and all who heard it kept it in mind, asking one another — “What can this child be destined to become?” For the Power of the Lord was with him.

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


rate difficulty: For if the order which was for a time had its glory, much more will the eternal order have its glory.

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


rate difficulty: Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:


rate difficulty: And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.


simplify: And the first of all the first-fruits of every thing, and every oblation of everything, of all your oblations, shall be for the priest: ye shall also give unto the priests the first of your dough, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.


rate difficulty: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

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


simplify: And it shall be, when ye have seized upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye do: see, I have commanded you.

And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.


simplify: And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.

And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: yea, I ask thee also, true yokefellow, assist them, who have contended along with me in the glad tidings, with Clement also, and my other fellow-labourers, whose names [are] in [the] book of life.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

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


simplify: They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

They take their rest at night without clothing, and have no cover in the cold.


simplify: And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.


rate difficulty: And awaking for him is Jehovah of Hosts, A scourge like the smiting of Midian at the rock Oreb, And his rod <FI>is<Fi> over the sea, And he hath lifted it in the way of Egypt.

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


simplify: Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Let the same spirit of sympathy animate you all, not a spirit of pride; enjoy the company of ordinary people. Do not think too highly of yourselves.


rate difficulty: Now after Pharaoh had let the people go, God did not take them through the land of the Philistines, though that was near: for God said, If the people see war, they may have a change of heart and go back to Egypt.


rate difficulty: and when--a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;

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


rate difficulty: Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out, for they had war-carriages of iron.

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


rate difficulty: Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

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


rate difficulty: All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.


simplify: Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away over the brook of the willows.

For this cause they will take away their wealth, and the stores they have got together, over the stream of the water-plants.


simplify: And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

And the man who was between the mountains, answering me, said, These are those whom the Lord has sent to go up and down through the earth.


rate difficulty: A wise man is strong; Yea, a man of knowledge increaseth might.

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


simplify: No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

No lion will be there, or any cruel beast; they will not be seen there; but those for whom the Lord has given a price,


simplify: But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.


rate difficulty: And the fat of the sin-offering shall he burn upon the altar.


simplify: So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.


simplify: for as a snare it shall come on all those dwelling on the face of all the land,

For come it will on all who are living upon the face of the whole earth.


rate difficulty: And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

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


rate difficulty: And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto Korah, Hear now, ye sons of Levi:

And Moses said to Korah, Give ear now, you sons of Levi:


simplify: Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

Give to her as she gave, even an increased reward for her works; in the cup which was mixed by her, let there be mixed as much again for herself.


rate difficulty: And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had made preparation for them.


simplify: And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?

And one of the scribes came, and hearing their argument together, and seeing that he had given them a good answer, put the question to him, Which law is the first of all?


simplify: If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:


simplify: Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

To those to whom, through the justice of our God and Savior Jesus Christ, there has been granted faith equally privileged with our own, from Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.


rate difficulty: In those days there is no king in Israel, and in those days the tribe of the Danite is seeking for itself an inheritance to inhabit, for <FI>that<Fi> hath not fallen to it unto that day in the midst of the tribes of Israel by inheritance.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the sojourner shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.


simplify: And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight of the Lord?

And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord?


rate difficulty: For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He that taketh the wise in their craftiness:

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simplify: And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

Now in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,


simplify: This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judges; For I should have denied the God that is above.

That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.


rate difficulty: and over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

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simplify: And he said unto him, Well done, thou good servant: because thou wast found faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.

And he said to him, You have done well, O good servant: because you have done well in a small thing you will have authority over ten towns.


simplify: And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?


rate difficulty: Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

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


rate difficulty: Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

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rate difficulty: Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep.

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


rate difficulty: This is the word of the Lord God: This design will not come about or be effected.

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rate difficulty: And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

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


rate difficulty: And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;

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


rate difficulty: The servant threw himself down on the ground before him and said ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of Jehovah shall be delivered; for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those that escape, as Jehovah hath said, and among the remnant those whom Jehovah doth call.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.


rate difficulty: And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

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


simplify: Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

He canceled the bond which stood against us — the bond that consisted of ordinances — and which was directly hostile to us! He has taken it out of our way by nailing it to the cross!


simplify: Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.

Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.


rate difficulty: for the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; Otherwise some day they might perceive with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn — and I might heal them.’

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


rate difficulty: Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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


rate difficulty: And when this was done, the rest also that had diseases in the island came, and were cured:


rate difficulty: A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

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


simplify: Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.


simplify: I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him; I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.


rate difficulty: The children of Gibeon, ninety-five.

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


simplify: And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here anything to eat?

And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?


simplify: For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

How can we thank God enough for all the happiness that you are giving us in the sight of our God?


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,