simplify: For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.

They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.


simplify: And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;

And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:


rate difficulty: And Absalom dwelleth in Jerusalem two years of days, and the face of the king he hath not seen;

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rate difficulty: only they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do.

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


simplify: Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the Lord had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the Lord’s house; and said to all the people,

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,


simplify: And mocking him also were the soldiers, coming near and offering vinegar to him,

The soldiers, too, came up in mockery, bringing him common wine,


simplify: And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

And the middle rod is to go through the rings of all the boards from end to end.


simplify: And God said unto Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.

And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.


simplify: And I will call for a sword against him unto all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.


rate difficulty: At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them!

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


rate difficulty: And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

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rate difficulty: Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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simplify: And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.


simplify: Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities.

Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.


simplify: Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

We have been waiting for you, O Lord; the desire of our soul is for the memory of your name.


simplify: for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the standard that you use will be used for you.


rate difficulty: And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan;


simplify: But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

So Absalom went in flight and came to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur, where he was for three years.


simplify: And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.

And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.


simplify: This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.

And that will be my salvation, for an evil-doer would not come before him,


simplify: So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur, and was there three years.

And the king was sorrowing for his son all the time.


simplify: Let it rest on the head of Joab, and on all his father’s house; and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth on the sword, or that lacketh bread.

May it come on the head of Joab and all his father's family: among the men of Joab's family may there ever be some who are diseased or lepers, or who do the work of women, or are put to the sword, or are wasted from need of food!


simplify: And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.


rate difficulty: “If I only touch his cloak,” she said to herself, “I will get well.”


rate difficulty: For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.


simplify: Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who among all thy servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and is taken into thy council, and is honorable in thy house?

Then Ahimelech answering said to the king, Who among all your servants is so true to you as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and is a captain of your armed men, and has a place of honour in your house?


rate difficulty: And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

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simplify: And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.

And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.


rate difficulty: The children of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.

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simplify: And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

When Paul reached the steps, he was actually being carried by the soldiers, owing to the violence of the mob;


rate difficulty: And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom Jehovah, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

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


simplify: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.


rate difficulty: The twenty-third to Mahazioth; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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


simplify: And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren;

And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;


rate difficulty: So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you.

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


rate difficulty: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

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


rate difficulty: There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died without children.

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


simplify: Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother’s eye.

How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.


simplify: And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:


rate difficulty: With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:


simplify: So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall.

Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:


rate difficulty: Who make a move to go down into Egypt, without authority from me; who are looking to the strength of Pharaoh for help, and whose hope is in the shade of Egypt.

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


simplify: And when he cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death; and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

And he will come and overcome the land of Egypt; those who are for death will be put to death, those who are to be prisoners will be made prisoners, and those who are for the sword will be given to the sword.


rate difficulty: For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also shall be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

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simplify: Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thy heart, dost thou go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


simplify: Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

And the first came before him, saying, Lord, your pound has made ten pounds.


rate difficulty: And when Solomon had ended praying, the fire came down from the heavens and consumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Jehovah filled the house.


simplify: And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them:

And while these words were on his lips, the earth under them was parted in two;


simplify: And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt unto the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.


simplify: Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

That is why I speak to them in parables, because, though they have eyes, they do not see, and though they have ears, they do not hear or understand.


rate difficulty: and many of those who had practised the curious arts, having brought the books together, were burning <FI>them<Fi> before all; and they reckoned together the prices of them, and found <FI>it<Fi> five myriads of silverlings;

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


simplify: Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, Jehovah laid this burden upon him:

Then Jehu said to Bidkar, his captain, Take him up, and put him in the field of Naboth the Jezreelite: for is not that day in your memory when you and I together on our horses were going after Ahab, his father, and the Lord put this fate on him, saying:


simplify: And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian character, and set forth in the Syrian tongue.

And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.


simplify: Now these are they that came to David to Ziklag, while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish: and they were among the mighty men, helpers of the war.

Now these are the men who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still shut up, because of Saul, the son of Kish; they were among the strong men, his helpers in war.


rate difficulty: And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,


simplify: Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.  Unto the Galatians written from Rome.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.


simplify: Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?


rate difficulty: as to you--your carcases do fall in this wilderness,


rate difficulty: God gives it the body that he pleases — to each seed its special body.


rate difficulty: So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

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simplify: in meekness instructing those opposing--if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

They should instruct their opponents in a gentle spirit; for, possibly, God may give those opponents a repentance that will lead to a fuller knowledge of truth,


simplify: Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.


rate difficulty: Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.

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


rate difficulty: And Joab saith, `Jehovah doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them to my lord for servants? why doth my lord seek this? why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?'

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


simplify: The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.


simplify: And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do.


rate difficulty: And he falleth on the neck of Benjamin his brother, and weepeth, and Benjamin hath wept on his neck;

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


rate difficulty: beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day that he was received up from us, of these must one become a witness with us of his resurrection.

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


rate difficulty: For he healed many, so that they beset him that they might touch him, as many as had plagues.

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


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; have no fear of him. So he got up and went down with him to the king.


rate difficulty: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.

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


simplify: either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before thy foes, while the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.


simplify: And from the forefront of the gate at the entrance unto the forefront of the inner porch of the gate were fifty cubits.

And from before the opening of the doorway to before the inner covered way of the doorway was fifty cubits.


rate difficulty: And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers unto Asher, and unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.

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


rate difficulty: And Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what thou mightest be bound. And he said to her, If thou shouldest weave the seven locks of my head with the web.

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


simplify: And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them.

And when the winged ones went, the wheels went by their side: and when their wings were lifted to take them up from the earth, the wheels were not turned from their side.


rate difficulty: This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:

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


simplify: When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

“Why are you troubling the woman?” Jesus said, when he noticed it. “For this is a beautiful deed that she has done to me.


rate difficulty: And daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh son of Joseph, draw near--and these <FI>are<Fi> the names of his daughters, Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah--

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had: Jashobeam, the son of Hachmoni, the chief of the captains; he brandished his spear against three hundred, slain [by him] at one time.

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


rate difficulty: the person who cometh against it--hath even been unclean till the evening, and doth not eat of the holy things, but hath bathed his flesh with water,

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


simplify: And if he sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.


simplify: All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.

All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...


simplify: and he who did look into the perfect law--that of liberty, and did continue there, this one--not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work--this one shall be happy in his doing.

but the person who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice — that person will be blessed in what they do.


simplify: But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honor thy father, in that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father, by sending comforters to you? is it not clear that these men have only come to go through the land and to make secret observation of it so that they may overcome it?


simplify: And straightway he entered into the boat with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

And he got into the boat with his disciples straight away, and came into the country of Dalmanutha.


simplify: as to wise men I speak--judge ye what I say:

I speak to you as man of discernment; form your own judgment about what I am saying.


rate difficulty: Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

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


rate difficulty: And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.


simplify: And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

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


simplify: Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings of Jehovah, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spake unto him.

Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him.


simplify: Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and told the tidings in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voices, and wept.

So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.


simplify: And a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years,

And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years,


rate difficulty: For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we told you of the coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eye-witnesses of his majesty.

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


rate difficulty: And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

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


simplify: they sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus: Unto Darius the king, all peace.

They sent him a letter saying, To Darius the king, all peace:


simplify: Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan.


rate difficulty: Moreover, Jehovah thyGod will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and they that hide themselves from thee, are destroyed.

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


simplify: who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.”


rate difficulty: And the house of Joseph sent to search out Bethel; now the name of the city before was Luz.

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


rate difficulty: And Bath-sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

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


simplify: These things command and teach.

Let these be your orders and your teaching.


rate difficulty: And Joshua writeth these words in the Book of the Law of God, and taketh a great stone, and raiseth it up there under the oak which <FI>is<Fi> in the sanctuary of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: These sought their registeramongthose that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

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


simplify: And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

And when these days are ended, turning on your right side, you are to take on yourself the sin of the children of Judah: forty days, a day for a year, I have had it fixed for you.


simplify: In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in fighting order against Gibeah as before.

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simplify: And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.


simplify: Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

And the supports for the lights with their lights, to be burning in the regular way in front of the inmost room, of the best gold;


rate difficulty: And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, Behold, let thy handmaid be a bondwoman to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.

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


rate difficulty: For the future let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.


rate difficulty: And he gave attention to them, hoping to get something from them.


simplify: Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.


rate difficulty: And they said to him, `We are able;' and Jesus said to them, `Of the cup indeed that I drink of, ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with, ye shall be baptized;

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


rate difficulty: And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: But the word of Jehovah came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build a house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.


simplify: With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.

If it comes to light that any of your servants has done this, let him be put to death, and we will be your lord's servants.


rate difficulty: And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

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


rate difficulty: And they <FI>are<Fi> Thy servants, and Thy people, whom Thou hast ransomed by Thy great power, and by Thy strong hand.

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


simplify: If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.

If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.


rate difficulty: Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

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


simplify: And every day, in the temple and at home, they ceased not to teach and to preach Jesus as the Christ.

And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.


simplify: Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king: for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile; return to thine own place.

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.


simplify: A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.


simplify: for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,

But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.


rate difficulty: On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,

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


simplify: and there was given to it to give a spirit to the image of the beast, that also the image of the beast may speak, and <FI>that<Fi> it may cause as many as shall not bow before the image of the beast, that they may be killed.

It was permitted to breathe life into the image of the Beast, so that the image of the Beast might speak; and it was also permitted to cause all who refused to worship the image of the Beast to be put to death.


simplify: Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.

My host Gaius, who extends his hospitality to the whole church, sends you his greeting; and Erastus, the city treasurer, and Quartus, our dear friend, add theirs.


simplify: These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names in their towns and their tent-circles; twelve chiefs with their peoples.


simplify: And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

And Leah was with child, and gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Reuben: for she said, The Lord has seen my sorrow; now my husband will have love for me.


simplify: Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.


rate difficulty: and Moses hath not been able to go in unto the tent of meeting, for the cloud hath tabernacled on it, and the honour of Jehovah hath filled the tabernacle.

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


simplify: Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.


simplify: And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the guard being with them.

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


rate difficulty: And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:

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


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the Lord.

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


simplify: And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Syria–maachah, and out of Zobah.

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver as payment for war-carriages and horsemen from Mesopotamia and Aram-maacah and Zobah.


simplify: And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;

He took with him Peter, James, and John; and began to show signs of great dismay and deep distress of mind.


simplify: I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head;

Rather — ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him to drink. By doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.’


rate difficulty: `And it hath been, in your passing over the Jordan, ye raise up these stones which I am commanding you to-day, in mount Ebal, and thou hast plaistered them with plaister,

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


simplify: But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


simplify: Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.


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

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


simplify: Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

And he said to him, Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.


simplify: And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.


simplify: Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justly, that seeketh truth; and I will pardon her.

Go quickly through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and get knowledge, and make a search in her wide places if there is a man, if there is one in her who is upright, who keeps faith; and she will have my forgiveness.


rate difficulty: Therefore, comfort one another with what I have told you.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am casting thee from off the face of the ground; this year thou diest, for apostasy thou hast spoken concerning Jehovah.'

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


simplify: Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by injustice; that useth his neighbor’s service without wages, and giveth him not his hire;

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;


rate difficulty: and she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,

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


simplify: Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

Offering every day what had been ordered by Moses, on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and at the regular feasts three times a year, that is at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents.


simplify: And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:

And when they take you before the Synagogues and the authorities and the rulers, take no thought about what answers you will give, or what you will say:


rate difficulty: Even so would he have allured thee out of the jaws of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and the supply of thy table [would be] full of fatness.

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


rate difficulty: And he causeth me to go to the gate, the gate that is looking eastward.

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


simplify: And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,


simplify: Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.

Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water.


simplify: He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy:

He may take of the bread of God, the holy and the most holy;


simplify: And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Drink ye, and be drunken, and spew, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.


simplify: Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

Therefore, my dear friends, shun the worship of idols.


rate difficulty: and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Salma; Beth–lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.

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


rate difficulty: and also, the Pre-eminence of Israel doth not lie nor repent, for He <FI>is<Fi> not a man to be penitent.'

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


rate difficulty: and go forth unto him doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who <FI>is<Fi> over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer.

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


rate difficulty: After the congregation had dispersed, many of the Jews, and of the converts who joined in their worship, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue to rely on the loving kindness of God.

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


simplify: I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

“I was in the town of Jaffa,” he said, “and was praying; and, while in a trance, I saw a vision. There was something like a great sail descending, let down by its four corners out of the heavens; and it came right down to me.


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

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


simplify: Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

And he took me back, and I saw at the edge of the river a very great number of trees on this side and on that.


simplify: And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end.


simplify: And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.


rate difficulty: And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems, having a name written which no one knows but himself;

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


simplify: And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.


simplify: For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus, the Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles —


simplify: I will bear the indignation of Jehovah, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;


simplify: Then ye shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit upon my throne; for he shall be king in my stead; and I have appointed him to be prince over Israel and over Judah.

Then come up after him and he will come in and take his place on the seat of my kingdom; for he is to be king in my place, and I have given orders that he is to be ruler over Israel and over Judah.


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

And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.


simplify: Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.


rate difficulty: If any believing man or woman have widows, let them impart relief to them, and let not the assembly be charged, that it may impart relief to those [that are] widows indeed.

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


simplify: Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.


simplify: The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you.

The hands of Zerubbabel have put the base of this house in place, and his hands will make it complete; and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.


simplify: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.


rate difficulty: Have I sinned, what do I unto thee, thou Observer of men? Why hast thou set me as an object of assault for thee, so that I am become a burden to myself?

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


simplify: And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

Jesus answered: “Can the groom’s friends mourn as long as the groom is with them? But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then.


simplify: And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.


simplify: They shall roar together like lions: they shall yell as lions’ whelps.

They will be crying out together like lions, their voices will be like the voices of young lions.


simplify: But to them that rebukehim shall be delight, And a good blessing shall come upon them.

But those who say sharp words to him will have delight, and a blessing of good will come on them.


simplify: And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone into him.


simplify: And Jehovah’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of Jehovah, was consumed.

Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.


simplify: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

For the outcome of life in the light may be seen in every form of goodness, righteousness, and sincerity —


rate difficulty: Sons of Asher by their families: of Jimna <FI>is<Fi> the family of the Jimnite; of Jesui the family of the Jesuite; of Beriah the family of the Beriite.

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


simplify: There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand among all the sons that she hath brought up.

She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.


simplify: and if not so--he being yet a long way off--having sent an embassy, he doth ask the things for peace.

And if he cannot, then, while the other is still at a distance, he sends envoys and asks for terms of peace.


simplify: rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward <FI>is<Fi> great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

Then indeed you may be glad and dance for joy, for be sure that your reward in heaven will be great; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.


simplify: And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

And Ezra the priest put the law before the meeting of the people, before the men and women and all those who were able to take it in, on the first day of the seventh month.


rate difficulty: And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in [their] set trust, to make distributions to their brethren by [their] divisions, to the great as to the small,

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


simplify: and he entering into a certain village, there met him ten leprous men, who stood afar off,

As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.


rate difficulty: The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

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


simplify: I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the Lord?

Your purpose is the destruction of a mother-town in Israel: why would you put an end to the heritage of the Lord?


rate difficulty: If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

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


simplify: The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines, before Pharaoh's attack on Gaza.


simplify: Asa roaring lion, and a ranging bear, So isa wicked ruler over a poor people.

Like a loud-voiced lion and a wandering bear, is an evil ruler over a poor people.


simplify: And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword: and his face was like the sun shining in its strength.


rate difficulty: Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

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


rate difficulty: “Where will it be, Master?” asked the disciples. “Where there is a body,”said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.

The Lord says, Let your way of life be upright, and let your behaviour be rightly ordered: for my salvation is near, and my righteousness will quickly be seen.


rate difficulty: Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

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


rate difficulty: And known have the nations that I Jehovah am sanctifying Israel, In My sanctuary being in their midst--to the age!'

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


simplify: The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:


rate difficulty: Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast like a young lion among the nations, and thou wast as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth in thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

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


simplify: Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,

The soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took charge of Paul and conducted him by night to Antipatris;


rate difficulty: but the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I [am] the first, and I [am] the last, and beside me there is noGod.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron shall go into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the sanctuary, and shall leave them there;

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles:

Saying, See, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be given up to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will give an order for his death, and will give him up to the Gentiles:


simplify: And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of Jehovah, that were valiant men:

And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;


rate difficulty: And they say, `A possession of an escaped party <FI>is<Fi> to Benjamin, and a tribe is not blotted out from Israel;

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


rate difficulty: But in the fourth year all the fruit thereof shall be holy to praise the Lord withal.

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


rate difficulty: Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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


rate difficulty: Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

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


simplify: And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.


simplify: Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.


simplify: Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.


rate difficulty: For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

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


simplify: At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A hot wind from the bare heights in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to winnow, nor to cleanse;

At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A burning wind from the open hilltops in the waste land is blowing on the daughter of my people, not for separating or cleaning the grain;


rate difficulty: Peter and John, having borne their testimony and delivered the Lord’s message, returned to Jerusalem, telling the good news, as they went, in many Samaritan villages.

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


simplify: The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:


simplify: And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

But the disciples did not understand the meaning of this; it had been concealed from them so that they did not see it, and they were afraid to question him as to what he meant.


simplify: and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two,

And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.


simplify: Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

Then Jesus left the crowd, and went into the house. Presently his disciples came to him, and said: “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”


simplify: Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

Babylon has been a gold cup in the hand of the Lord, which has made all the earth overcome with wine: the nations have taken of her wine, and for this cause the nations have gone off their heads.


simplify: But he denied, saying, I know not, neither understand I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch; and the cock crew.

But he said, I have no knowledge of him, or of what you are saying: and he went out into the doorway; and there came the cry of a cock.


simplify: While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

While he was still talking to the people, his mother and his brothers came, desiring to have talk with him.


simplify: For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

For there were some who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are a great number: let us get grain, so that we may have food for our needs.


rate difficulty: when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


simplify: And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.


simplify: Now them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

Now to such we give orders and make request in the Lord Jesus, that, working quietly, they get their living.


rate difficulty: Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?


rate difficulty: A foolish man's lips are a cause of fighting, and his mouth makes him open to blows.

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


simplify: Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

Esau's wives were women of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,


simplify: But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

They, however, shook the dust off their feet in protest,


rate difficulty: There is gold, and a multitude of rubies: but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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


rate difficulty: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall do that which I please, and it shall accomplish that for which I send it.

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


rate difficulty: The person who eats meat must not despise the person who abstains from it; nor must the person who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received them.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in his reclining (at meat) with them, having taken the bread, he blessed, and having broken, he was giving to them,

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


simplify: By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

By this we know that we love God’s children — when we love God and carry out his commands.


simplify: And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

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


simplify: Then he measured the breadth from the forefront of the lower gate unto the forefront of the inner court without, an hundred cubits eastward and northward.

Then he took the measure of the square across, from before the lower doorway inside to before the inner doorway outside, one hundred cubits. And he took me in the direction of the north,


rate difficulty: And he went on his journeys from the South even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Ai,

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


simplify: But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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


rate difficulty: And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loveth him.

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


rate difficulty: Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Gideon, `By the three hundred men who are lapping I save you, and have given Midian into thy hand, and all the people go, each to his place.'

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


simplify: And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.

And when it was day, they had no knowledge of the land, but they saw an inlet of the sea with a floor of sand, and they had the idea of driving the ship up on to it if possible.


rate difficulty: For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.

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


simplify: In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud; and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.


simplify: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For all have sinned, and all fall short of God’s glorious ideal,


simplify: And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the Tent, then after that the children of Israel journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel encamped.

And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents.


simplify: But he said, As Jehovah liveth, before whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take it; but he refused.

But he said, By the life of the Lord whose servant I am, I will take nothing from you. And he did his best to make him take it but he would not.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt love then Jehovah thyGod, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments continually.

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


rate difficulty: But very early on the first day of the week they went to the tomb, taking with them the spices that they had prepared.

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


simplify: A widow--let her not be enrolled under sixty years of age, having been a wife of one husband,

A widow, when her name is added to the list, should not be less than sixty years old; she should have been a faithful wife,


rate difficulty: And the priests consented to receive no money of the people, and that they should only repair the breaches of the house.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses saith unto Aaron, `Say unto all the company of the sons of Israel, Come ye near before Jehovah, for He hath heard your murmurings;'

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


rate difficulty: But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more.

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


rate difficulty: And standing over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her; and forthwith standing up she served them.

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


rate difficulty: And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

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


simplify: Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;

Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:


simplify: And all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.


rate difficulty: For my people hath forgotten me: they burn incense to vanity; and they have caused them to stumble in their ways, the ancient paths, to walk in by-paths of a way not cast up;

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.


rate difficulty: And a fighter came out from the tents of the Philistines, named Goliath of Gath; he was more than six cubits tall.

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


simplify: And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.


rate difficulty: And your sons, even your offspring, will they take away to be unsexed servants in the house of the king of Babylon.


rate difficulty: The chiefs of Zoan have become foolish, the chiefs of Noph are tricked, the heads of her tribes are the cause of Egypt's wandering out of the way.

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


simplify: and when he was cast out, Pharaoh’s daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

And when he was put out, Pharaoh's daughter took him and kept him as her son.


rate difficulty: And the angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I announce to you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all the people;

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


simplify: Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

(Now this man, with the reward of his evil-doing, got for himself a field, and falling head first, came to a sudden and violent end there.


simplify: The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent unto Darius the king;

This is a copy of the letter which Tattenai, the ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and his friends the Apharsachites, living across the river, sent to Darius the king:


simplify: Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:

Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.


simplify: For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

It was not possible to keep it at that time, because not enough priests had made themselves holy, and the people had not come together in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters--guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.

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


simplify: And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your daily tasks.

Then the responsible men of the children of Israel saw that they were purposing evil when they said, The number of bricks which you have to make every day will be no less than before.


simplify: And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.


simplify: Now therefore, what do I here, saith Jehovah, seeing that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them do howl, saith Jehovah, and my name continually all the day is blasphemed.

Now then, what have I here? says the Lord, for my people are taken away without cause; they are made waste and give cries of sorrow, says the Lord, and all the day the nations put shame on my name.


rate difficulty: — seeing many things, and thou observest not? With opened ears, he heareth not.

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


simplify: Then the Lord said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.


simplify: They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.

From us, it is true, they went out, but they had never belonged to us; for, if they had belonged to us, they would have remained among us. They left us that it might be made clear that they do not, any of them, belong to us.


simplify: And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.


simplify: But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;


rate difficulty: sons of Lebanah, sons of Hagaba, sons of Shalmai,

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


simplify: He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.

He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.


simplify: And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.

Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.


simplify: and he shall take away its crop with the filth thereof, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, in the place of the ashes:

And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put:


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Ishijah, Malchiah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

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


simplify: Yet thou saidst, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.


rate difficulty: And gone up her palaces have thorns, Nettle and bramble <FI>are<Fi> in her fortresses, And it hath been a habitation of dragons, A court for daughters of an ostrich.

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


rate difficulty: Sigh therefore, thou son of man; with the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness shalt thou sigh before their eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.

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


simplify: And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.


rate difficulty: Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.

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


simplify: And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.


simplify: For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:

For he will be given up to the Gentiles, and will be made sport of and put to shame:


rate difficulty: whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

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


rate difficulty: And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,

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


simplify: Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.


simplify: Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?

And the chief took him by the hand and, going on one side, said to him privately, What is it you have to say to me?


simplify: The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.

And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.


rate difficulty: Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.


rate difficulty: And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

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


simplify: The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred twenty and one.

The men of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.


rate difficulty: Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father’s sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.

I will not do it in your life-time, because of your father David, but I will take it from your son.


simplify: And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the boy became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.

And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.


rate difficulty: And his brethren, of Eliezer: Rehabiah his son, and Isaiah his son, and Joram his son, and Zichri his son, and Shelomith his son.

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


rate difficulty: By slothfulness is the wall brought low, And by idleness of the hands doth the house drop.

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


rate difficulty: And lo, the man clothed with linen, at whose loins <FI>is<Fi> the inkhorn, is bringing back word, saying, `I have done as Thou hast commanded me.'

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


rate difficulty: Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.


rate difficulty: My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.


simplify: For there were many in the assembly that had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto Jehovah.

For there were still a number of the people there who had not made themselves holy: so the Levites had to put Passover lambs to death for those who were not clean, to make them holy to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Moses took half the blood, and put [it] in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

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


simplify: And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.

And these were those who had the ordering of the music and songs, heads of families of the Levites, who were living in the rooms, and were free from other work, for their work went on day and night.


rate difficulty: And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:


simplify: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.


rate difficulty: and after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those giving their heart to seek Jehovah, God of Israel, have come in to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Jehovah, God of their father.

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


rate difficulty: if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

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


simplify: I protest by that glorying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.


rate difficulty: And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered--in the beginning.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?


rate difficulty: Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.


simplify: Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.

But you will have a son who will be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from wars on every side. His name will be Solomon, and in his time I will give Israel peace and quiet;


simplify: And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.


rate difficulty: Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and that are secure in the mountain of Samaria, the renowned of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come.

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


simplify: But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

But, whatever town you go to visit, if the people do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say


rate difficulty: Ye know that when ye were [of the] nations [ye were] led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.

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


simplify: And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?


simplify: And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.

And Moses and Elijah came before their eyes, talking with him.


simplify: And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.

and his clothes became of a more dazzling white than any bleacher in the world could make them.


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

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


simplify: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.


rate difficulty: For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.

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


rate difficulty: and Noah <FI>is<Fi> a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.

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


simplify: but seeing the wind vehement, he was afraid, and having begun to sink, he cried out, saying, `Sir, save me.'

but, when he felt the wind, he was frightened, and, beginning to sink, cried out: “Master! Save me!”


rate difficulty: Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.

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


simplify: I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.

I, even I, am he who takes away your sins; and I will no longer keep your evil doings in mind.


simplify: And it came to pass, at the return of the year, at the time when kings go outto battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem.

Now in the spring, at the time when kings go out to war, David sent Joab and his servants and all Israel with him; and they made waste the land of the children of Ammon, and took up their position before Rabbah, shutting it in. But David was still at Jerusalem.


simplify: When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am Jehovah.

When I make Egypt an unpeopled waste, cutting off from the land all the things in it; when I send punishment on all those living in it, then it will be clear to them that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'


simplify: The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing; But the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.


rate difficulty: Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

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


simplify: Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.


rate difficulty: Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

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


simplify: And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.

And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.


rate difficulty: And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:

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


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

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


simplify: This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;

These are the laws for the burned offering, the meal offering, and the offering for wrongdoing; and for the making of priests, and for the giving of peace-offerings;


simplify: For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.


rate difficulty: And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to-day also, and to-morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.


rate difficulty: Speak thus--an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.

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


simplify: And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

Everyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act on it may be compared to a foolish person, who built their house on the sand.


rate difficulty: saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and strength, to ourGod, to the ages of ages. Amen.


simplify: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

but, if you worship rank, you commit a sin, and stand convicted by that same law of being offenders against it.


simplify: And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

Then his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit, and, speaking under inspiration, said:


simplify: And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him


rate difficulty: Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.

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


simplify: And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

And he made the seven vessels for the lights, and all the necessary instruments for it, of gold.


simplify: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.