simplify: Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:


rate difficulty: And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

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simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

The Lord has said this: Keep your voice from sorrow and your eyes from weeping: for your work will be rewarded, says the Lord; and they will come back from the land of their hater.


simplify: And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, after the order of David king of Israel.

And when the builders put in position the base of the Temple of the Lord, the priests, dressed in their robes, took their places with horns, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with brass instruments, to give praise to the Lord in the way ordered by David, king of Israel.


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

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


simplify: And then immediately the brethren sent forth Paul to go as far as to the sea: and Silas and Timothy abode there still.

So the brothers sent Paul straight away to the sea: but Silas and Timothy kept there still.


simplify: For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.


rate difficulty: and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,

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rate difficulty: And their brethren according to their fathers' houses were Michael, and Meshullam, and Sheba, and Jorai, and Jaachan, and Zia, and Eber, seven.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Of the sons of Shecaniah, of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males a hundred and fifty.

Of the sons of Shecaniah; of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah; and with him were listed a hundred and fifty males.


simplify: And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,


rate difficulty: for for this also to dead men was good news proclaimed, that they may be judged, indeed, according to men in the flesh, and may live according to God in the spirit.

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rate difficulty: and they bring out an evil account of the land which they have spied unto the sons of Israel, saying, `The land into which we passed over to spy it, is a land eating up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in its midst <FI> are<Fi> men of stature;

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


simplify: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; For thy love is better than wine.

Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.


rate difficulty: Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.


simplify: And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it.

You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin.


simplify: And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads, as they said: “Ah! You who would destroy the Temple and build one in three days,


rate difficulty: Lo, the Lord doth dispossess her, And He hath smitten in the sea her force, And she with fire is consumed.

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


simplify: only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof:

Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;


simplify: But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.

But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.


simplify: The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.


simplify: Have ye not read even this scripture:  The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner;

Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:


simplify: So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.


rate difficulty: So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent: and Jehovah spake with Moses.

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


simplify: Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.


simplify: `The good man out of the good treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi> good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart doth bring forth that which <FI>is<Fi>  evil; for out of the abounding of the heart doth his mouth speak.

A good person, from the good stores of their heart, brings out what is good; while a bad person, from their bad stores, brings out what is bad. For what fills someone’s heart will rise to their lips.


simplify: The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.


simplify: And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

Some of those present began to spit at him, and to blindfold his eyes, and strike him, saying, as they did so, “Now play the prophet!” and even the police officers received him with blows.


rate difficulty: And Shimei said to the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king has said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.


rate difficulty: So Philip, starting from this writing, gave him the good news about Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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


rate difficulty: To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

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


simplify: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.


simplify: And the tribe of Gad: and the prince of the children of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.

Then the tribe of Gad, with Eliasaph, son of Reuel, as their chief.


rate difficulty: and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God,


rate difficulty: And, when he has found it, he puts in on his shoulders rejoicing;


simplify: But I will send a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah.

And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.


rate difficulty: Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?

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


simplify: And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.

Now Pharaoh's daughter came down to the Nile to take a bath, while her women were walking by the riverside; and she saw the basket among the river-plants, and sent her servant-girl to get it.


rate difficulty: And if he smite out his man-servant’s tooth, or his maid-servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

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


rate difficulty: for their redeemer is mighty; he will plead their cause against thee.


simplify: And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.


simplify: So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

In the evening the owner of the vineyard said to his steward ‘Call the laborers, and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, and ending with the first.


simplify: And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.


rate difficulty: And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

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


simplify: And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.


simplify: having blotted out the bond written in ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us: and he hath taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;


simplify: And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez–uzza to this day.

And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day.


rate difficulty: Then Joab sent David news of everything which had taken place in the war:


simplify: And he lodged there that night, and took of that which he had with him a present for Esau his brother:

Then he put up his tent there for the night; and from among his goods he took, as an offering for his brother Esau,


rate difficulty: but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb to the day of his death.

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


simplify: And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But thou shalt again see yet other great abominations.

And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.


simplify: and they put the ark of Jehovah upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their tumors.

And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the chest with the gold images.


rate difficulty: So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

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rate difficulty: And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

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


simplify: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Him, when he was given up, by the decision and knowledge of God, you put to death on the cross, by the hands of evil men:


simplify: And Elienai, and Zilthai, and Eliel,


rate difficulty: Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

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


simplify: And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:

Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Makkedah and came to Libnah, and made an attack on it;


simplify: Many waters cannot quench love, Neither can floods drown it: If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, He would utterly be contemned.

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, How long will this people have no respect for me? how long will they be without faith, in the face of all the signs I have done among them?

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


rate difficulty: Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, [as in] the generations of passed ages. Is it not thou that hath hewn Rahab in pieces, [and] pierced the monster?

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


simplify: My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.


simplify: And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before Jehovah, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow:

And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:


simplify: Maachah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Sheber, and Tirhanah.

Maacah, Caleb's servant-wife, was the mother of Sheber and Tirhanah,


simplify: And Jonathan said, Far be it from thee; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?

And Jonathan said, Do not have such a thought: for if I saw that my father was designing evil against you, would I not give you word of it?


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jehoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

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simplify: For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, The good Jehovah pardon every one

For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone


simplify: And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.

And I will send you out in all directions among the nations, and my sword will be uncovered against you, and your land will be without any living thing, and your towns will be made waste.


rate difficulty: And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one unto another, `What would this wish to be?'

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


rate difficulty: but they shall not go in to see the sanctuary even for a moment, lest they die.


rate difficulty: But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.


simplify: And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?

And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?


simplify: And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them,

And the disciples went and did as Jesus had given them orders,


rate difficulty: And Solomon went up thither to the brasen altar before the Lord, which was at the tabernacle of the congregation, and offered a thousand burnt offerings upon it.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary: `Jehovah doth push against thee, O Adversary, Yea, push against thee doth Jehovah, Who is fixing on Jerusalem, Is not this a brand delivered from fire?'

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

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


rate difficulty: And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger, Rachel.


rate difficulty: Or has not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make one vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?

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


simplify: And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

Then David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (which is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the people of the land, were there.


simplify: and we sailed, after the days of the unleavened food, from Philippi, and came unto them to Troas in five days, where we abode seven days.

while we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the Passover, and joined them five days later at Troas, where we stayed for a week.


simplify: Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said unto him, Go in peace. So he arose, and went to Hebron.

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


simplify: Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces which were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

And he sent for Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were still with him, and all the people, from the least to the greatest,


simplify: But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.

But if we say, From men; we are in fear of the people, because all take John to be a prophet.


rate difficulty: And I went unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to them, Ye err, not knowing the scriptures nor the power ofGod.

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


simplify: And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed;


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Ben–hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the power of Hazael, king of Aram, and into the power of Ben-hadad, the son of Hazael, again and again.


rate difficulty: And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:


rate difficulty: And their numbered ones are three and twenty thousand, every male from a son of a month and upwards, for they have not numbered themselves in the midst of the sons of Israel; for an inheritance hath not been given to them in the midst of the sons of Israel.

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


simplify: Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the Lord hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.


simplify: And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

But he went away by himself to a waste place for prayer.


simplify: And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.

And Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. And they were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.


rate difficulty: Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

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


simplify: And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?

Why, too, do we risk our lives every hour?


rate difficulty: And I will break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be destroyed in the midst thereof; and ye shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.


rate difficulty: And the house hath been full of men and of women, and thither <FI>are<Fi> all the princes of the Philistines, and on the roof <FI>are<Fi> about three thousand men and women, who are looking on the playing of Samson.

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


rate difficulty: And, behold, a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

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


simplify: who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.


rate difficulty: And Judah turneth, and lo, against them <FI>is<Fi> the battle, before and behind, and they cry to Jehovah, and the priests are blowing with trumpets,

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


rate difficulty: All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

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


rate difficulty: But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

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


simplify: And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, seal unto it.

And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.


simplify: This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;


simplify: And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.

Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.


rate difficulty: Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.


rate difficulty: And over those sealed <FI>are<Fi> Nehemiah the Tirshatha, son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

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


rate difficulty: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

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


rate difficulty: And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

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


rate difficulty: Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.


rate difficulty: And she called his name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.


simplify: and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, whither he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.


rate difficulty: And Jesus having turned about, and having seen her, said, `Be of good courage, daughter, thy faith hath saved thee,' and the woman was saved from that hour.


simplify: And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.


simplify: And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.

And I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, and if your servant has your approval, send me to Judah, to the town where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, so that I may take in hand the building of it.


simplify: behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape thither (is it not a little one?), and my soul shall live.

This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there (is it not a little one?) so that my life may be safe.


simplify: Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

Therefore, since it is by God’s mercy that we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart.


simplify: All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.


simplify: Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, that, this night, before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me.'

“I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that this very night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times!”


simplify: Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;


simplify: Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:


rate difficulty: But I am very glad in the Lord that your care for me has come to life again; though you did in fact take thought for me, but you were not able to give effect to it.

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rate difficulty: All the sons of Perez that dwelt at Jerusalem were four hundred threescore and eight valiant men.


simplify: Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of his holy words.

About the prophets. My heart is broken in me, all my bones are shaking; I am like a man full of strong drink, like a man overcome by wine; because of the Lord, and because of his holy words.


simplify: But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

But when the fourteenth day came, while we were going here and there in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the sailors had an idea that they were getting near land;


simplify: And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

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rate difficulty: Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

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simplify: And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

And he had faith in the Lord, and it was put to his account as righteousness.


simplify: Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Give ear to the argument of my mouth, and take note of the words of my lips.


rate difficulty: while they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found anyone inside.

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simplify: And after these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

And after these days we got ready and went up to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Be not ye therefore like them, for your Father knows of what things ye have need before ye beg [anything] of him.

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rate difficulty: And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heardthat, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

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


simplify: I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.


simplify: And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.

And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.


rate difficulty: And Hamor, father of Shechem, goeth out unto Jacob to speak with him;

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


rate difficulty: But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

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


simplify: Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.


rate difficulty: What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.


simplify: And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.

So he placed his hands on them, and then went on his way.


simplify: because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them;

And therefore it is that they are before the throne of God, and are serving him day and night in his Temple; and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.


rate difficulty: And they persevered in the teaching and fellowship of the apostles, in breaking of bread and prayers.

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simplify: All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said to me: Make for yourself bands and yokes and put them on your neck;

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


simplify: Then he measured the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side-chamber, four cubits, round about the house on every side.

Then he took the measure of the wall of the house, which was six cubits; and of the side-rooms round the house, which were four cubits wide.


rate difficulty: For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;


rate difficulty: And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah;

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


simplify: Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:

Reuben, the first son of Israel: the sons of Reuben by their families: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:


rate difficulty: For a little while did Thy holy people possess, Our adversaries have trodden down Thy sanctuary.

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


rate difficulty: Now Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

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simplify: And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.

Presently they came to a garden known as Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples “Sit down here while I pray.”


rate difficulty: And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

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


simplify: And the priest shall see the raw flesh, and pronounce him to be unclean: for the raw flesh is unclean: it is a leprosy.

And when the priest sees the diseased flesh he will say that he is unclean; the diseased flesh is unclean, he is a leper.


simplify: What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:


simplify: According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me.


rate difficulty: but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

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


rate difficulty: And a way of peace they did not know.

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


rate difficulty: Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

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


rate difficulty: Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

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rate difficulty: Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,


simplify: For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you captive, if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.

You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.


rate difficulty: and two men--sons of worthlessness--come in, and sit over-against him, and the men of worthlessness testify of him, even Naboth, before the people, saying, `Naboth blessed God and Melech;' and they take him out to the outside of the city, and stone him with stones, and he dieth;

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


rate difficulty: And after these things he went out, and saw Levi, a tax-farmer, seated at the place where taxes were taken, and said to him, Come after me.

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


simplify: And when they had appointed him a day, they came to him into his lodging in great number; to whom he expounded the matter, testifying the kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.

And when a day had been fixed, they came to his house in great numbers; and he gave them teaching, giving witness to the kingdom of God, and having discussions with them about Jesus, from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning till evening.


simplify: So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him; and Ahab went to meet Elijah.

So Obadiah went to Ahab and gave him the news; and Ahab went to see Elijah.


simplify: and all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.

And all the meeting of the children of Israel, as well as those from other lands living among them, will have forgiveness; for it was an error on the part of the people.


simplify: And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.


simplify: The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.


simplify: And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

Yes, my children, maintain your union with Christ, so that, whenever he appears, our confidence may not fail us, and we may not be ashamed to meet him at his coming.


rate difficulty: And these are sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

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rate difficulty: But they mocked at the messengers ofGod, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.

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


rate difficulty: And he strengtheneth the bulwarks, and putteth in them leaders, and treasures of food, and oil, and wine,

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


simplify: And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:


rate difficulty: the secret that hath been hid from the ages and from the generations, but now was manifested to his saints,

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


simplify: But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.


rate difficulty: And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, And the star of the god Rephan, The figures which ye made to worship them: And I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: In that day is Israel third, After Egypt, and after Asshur, A blessing in the heart of the earth.

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


simplify: For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.

For the Lord says, You were given for nothing, and you will be made free without price.


simplify: Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.


simplify: But unto the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Jehovah, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: As touching the words which thou hast heard,

But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Because you have given ear to my words,


rate difficulty: But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

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


simplify: Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker:

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


simplify: Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.

“We gave you strict orders,” he said, “not to teach in this name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man.”


simplify: They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.


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

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rate difficulty: I will not drive them out from before thee in one year: lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

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


rate difficulty: Now, my son, the Lord be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of the Lord thy God, as he hath said of thee.

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


simplify: for the Writing saith, `Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,'

As the passage of scripture says — ‘No one who believes in him will have any cause for shame.’


simplify: That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

Guard by the help of the Holy Spirit, who is within us, the glorious trust that has been committed to you.


simplify: If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;


simplify: All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.


simplify: And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.

And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of Jordan, to Sihon, king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan, at Ashtaroth.


rate difficulty: And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.

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rate difficulty: Go up to Gilead, and fetch balm, O virgin-daughter of Egypt! In vain shalt thou multiply remedies: there is no healing for thee.

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


rate difficulty: `But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,

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


simplify: Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! WhenI should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: To all others I say — I, not the Master — If a follower of the Lord is married to a woman, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with him, he should not divorce her;

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


rate difficulty: Who is speaking to the sun, and it riseth not, And the stars He sealeth up.

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


simplify: But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.

But, if we say ‘human,’ the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”


simplify: Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but after, his mouth will be full of sand.


rate difficulty: thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

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


simplify: Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.


simplify: the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; desirable young men, governors and rulers all of them, princes and men of renown, all of them riding upon horses.

The Babylonians and all the Chaldaeans, Pekod and Shoa and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: young men to be desired, captains and rulers all of them, and chiefs, her neighbours, all of them on horseback.


rate difficulty: And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover.

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


rate difficulty: And when the children of my people speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not declare unto us what thou meanest by these?

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying,

On the twenty-fourth day of the eleventh month, the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,


simplify: And having taken a cup, having given thanks, he said, `Take this and divide to yourselves,

Then, on receiving a cup, after saying the thanksgiving, he said:


rate difficulty: and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah--A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising <FI>is<Fi> this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bring forth.

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


rate difficulty: And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the ear-rings of his spoil.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

And the Lord said, My spirit will not be in man for ever, for he is only flesh; so the days of his life will be a hundred and twenty years.


simplify: I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

I will let it be overturned, overturned, overturned: this will not be again till he comes whose right it is; and I will give it to him.


rate difficulty: He hath stood, and He measureth earth, He hath seen, and He shaketh off nations, And scatter themselves do mountains of antiquity, Bowed have the hills of old, The ways of old <FI>are<Fi> His.

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rate difficulty: Even as the gazelle and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them: the unclean and the clean alike may eat of them.


rate difficulty: After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

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


simplify: And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Happy are thy men, happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and that hear thy wisdom.

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


simplify: And Mary said, Behold, the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

And Mary said: I am the servant of the Lord; may it be to me as you say. And the angel went away.


simplify: The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.


rate difficulty: They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; — that they may be ashamed.

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


rate difficulty: And this story about him went through all Judaea and the places round about.


rate difficulty: And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul; and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him to himself.


simplify: Now the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,


simplify: And from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.

A great number, hearing of all that he was doing, came to him from Judea, from Jerusalem, from Edom, from beyond the Jordan, and from the country around Tyre and Sidon.


simplify: And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.

And the measuring-line will go out in front of it as far as the hill Gareb, going round to Goah.


rate difficulty: and he with whom stones are found hath given to the treasury of the house of Jehovah, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

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


simplify: Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.


simplify: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

Dear friends, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is that, when it is revealed, we will be like Christ; because we will see him as he is.


simplify: And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.

And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.


simplify: For Jehovah giveth wisdom; Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding:

For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:


simplify: And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

“It is what comes out from a person,”he added, “that defiles them,


rate difficulty: Now therefore do ye with the council make a representation to the chiliarch so that he may bring him down to you, as about to determine more precisely what concerns him, and we, before he draws near, are ready to kill him.

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


simplify: But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.


simplify: And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Jehovah.

And when David had come to an end of making the burned offerings and peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord.


simplify: Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.


simplify: But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; then they that are Christ’s, at his coming.

But every man in his right order: Christ the first-fruits; then those who are Christ's at his coming.


simplify: And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And at the sounding of the third angel, there went down from heaven a great star, burning like a flame, and it came on a third part of the rivers, and on the fountains of water.


simplify: And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: with the loss of his first-born shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.


simplify: He said therefore, Unto what is the kingdom of God like? and whereunto shall I liken it?

Then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? what comparison may I make of it?


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first.

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


rate difficulty: And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

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


rate difficulty: 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:

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


simplify: But king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If it be your minds, then let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel.

But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.


rate difficulty: Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.

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


rate difficulty: We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: The cauldrons also and the shovels and the knives and the cups, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, they took away.

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


rate difficulty: If he present a sheep for his offering, then shall he present it before Jehovah,


rate difficulty: `Then ye have done to him as he devised to do to his brother, and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst,

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


rate difficulty: And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred silver-pieces that were taken from thee, and about which thou didst curse and speak of in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah!

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


simplify: And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.

Seeing them laboring at the oars — for the wind was against them — about three hours after midnight Jesus came towards them, walking on the water, intending to join them.


rate difficulty: Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?

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


simplify: In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

In blows, in prisons, in attacks, in hard work, in watchings, in going without food;


rate difficulty: And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

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


simplify: Then the earth shook and trembled,  The foundations of heaven quaked  And were shaken, because he was wroth.

Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.


rate difficulty: And she did not know that I had given her the corn and the new wine and the oil, and had multiplied to her the silver and gold, which they employed for Baal.

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


simplify: And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

and, after retiring, discussed the case among themselves. “There is nothing,” they said, “deserving death or imprisonment in this man’s conduct”;


simplify: None of his sins that he hath committed shall be remembered against him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.


rate difficulty: And Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Jehovah had said to him. And it came to pass, because he feared his father's house, and the men of the city, if he did it by day, that he did it by night.

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


simplify: Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

So all that you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear, within closed doors, will be proclaimed on the housetops.


rate difficulty: But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

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


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> the names of those born to him in Jerusalem: Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

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


rate difficulty: Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and depend on horses, and confide in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very strong; and who look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!

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


simplify: And the one, whose name was Cleopas, answering, said unto him, `Art thou alone such a stranger in Jerusalem, that thou hast not known the things that came to pass in it in these days?'

and then one of them, whose name was Cleopas, said to Jesus: “Are you staying by yourself at Jerusalem, that you have not heard of the things that have happened there within the last few days?”


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

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


simplify: Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

Then the virgin will have joy in the dance, and the young men and the old will be glad: for I will have their weeping turned into joy, I will give them comfort and make them glad after their sorrow.


simplify: And not that only, but who was also chosen of the churches to travel with us with this grace, which is administered by us to the glory of the same Lord, and declaration of your ready mind:

And not only so, but he was marked out by the churches to go with us in the grace of this giving which we have undertaken to the glory of the Lord and to make clear that our mind was ready:


rate difficulty: And David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.


rate difficulty: and a passage before them, like the appearance of the cells that were toward the north, according to their length, according to their breadth and all their goings out, and according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

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


simplify: And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim, and went over Jordan with the king, to conduct him over Jordan.

And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went on as far as Jordan with the king to take him across Jordan.


simplify: Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.


rate difficulty: he received him into his arms, and blessedGod, and said,

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


rate difficulty: And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.

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


rate difficulty: And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

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


rate difficulty: And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.


simplify: or unto governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evil-doers and for praise to them that do well.

And those of the rulers who are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of those who do well.


rate difficulty: What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?


rate difficulty: So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.

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


simplify: And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the Lord, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.


simplify: For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

Because John had said to him, It is not right for you to have her.


rate difficulty: My eye affecteth my soul, Because of all the daughters of my city.


simplify: and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,

Then Peter, surrounded by the eleven other apostles, stood up, and, raising his voice, addressed the crowd. “People of Judea,” he began, “and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let me tell you what this means. Mark well my words.


simplify: I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.


rate difficulty: Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

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


simplify: They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.


simplify: and having received <FI>it<Fi> , they were murmuring against the householder, saying,

on which they began to grumble at their employer.


rate difficulty: I will send up my cry to the Lord, who is to be praised; so will I be made safe from those who are against me.


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

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


rate difficulty: They are not humbled unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes which I set before you and before your fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that hears say, Come. And let him that is athirst come; he that will, let him take [the] water of life freely.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.


simplify: So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah cast about and returned, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

And all the people whom Ishmael had taken away prisoners from Mizpah, turning round, came back and went to Johanan, the son of Kareah.


rate difficulty: For from Jerusalem those who have been kept safe will go out, and those who are still living will go out of Mount Zion: by the fixed purpose of the Lord of armies this will be done.

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


simplify: of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

to be forbearing, and under all circumstances to show a gentle spirit in dealing with others, whoever they may be.


rate difficulty: And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer. And the makers of melody made their voices loud, with Jezrahiah their overseer.

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


simplify: Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.


simplify: And hath not oppressed any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

And has done no wrong to any, but has given back to the debtor what is his, and has taken no one's goods by force, and has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;


simplify: so then, my brethren, coming together to eat, for one another wait ye;

Therefore, my friends, when you meet together to eat the Supper, wait for one another.


rate difficulty: My honour <FI>is<Fi> fresh with me, And my bow in my hand is renewed.

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


simplify: And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.


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

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


rate difficulty: It was at that time that King Herod began to ill-treat some of the members of the church.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall take for yourselves as inheritance by lot, which Jehovah commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

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


rate difficulty: Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah.

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


simplify: The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight;

The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;


simplify: And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.


rate difficulty: And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. And [the king] said, Behold, this evil is of Jehovah: why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?

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


simplify: But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

Though I am no trained orator, yet I am not without knowledge; indeed we made this perfectly clear to you in every way.


rate difficulty: What answer, then, will my people give to the representatives of the nation? That the Lord is the builder of Zion, and she will be a safe place for the poor of his people.

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


simplify: For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book:


simplify: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May God himself, the giver of peace, make you altogether holy; and may your spirits, souls, and bodies be kept altogether faultless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Jehovah spake unto me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.

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


rate difficulty: These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

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


simplify: And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:

And he took a cup and, having given praise, he said, Make division of this among yourselves;


rate difficulty: For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

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


simplify: In those days the Lord began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;

In those days the Lord was angry first with Israel; and Hazael made attacks on all the land of Israel,


rate difficulty: And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spake the parable against them: and they left him, and went away.

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


rate difficulty: And they say not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now do their own doings encompass them; they are before my face.


rate difficulty: And the second took her, and died, neither left he any seed: and the third likewise.


simplify: And in the synagogue there was a man, that had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,

And there was a man in the Synagogue who had an unclean spirit; and he gave a loud cry and said,


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in Jordan.

And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.


simplify: And he slew it; and Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation upon it.

And he put it to death; and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar and round it with his finger, and made the altar clean, draining out the blood at the base of the altar; so he made it holy, taking away what was unclean.


simplify: Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

But Jesus, uttering another loud cry, gave up his spirit.


rate difficulty: There is a beauty of the sun, and a beauty of the moon, and a beauty of the stars; for even star differs from star in beauty.

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


simplify: And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered.

And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.


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

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


rate difficulty: But you are nothing, and your work is of no value: foolish is he who takes you for his gods.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.


simplify: Have ye not driven out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

And after driving out the priests of the Lord, the sons of Aaron and the Levites, have you not made priests for yourselves as the people of other lands do? so that anyone who comes to make himself priest by offering an ox or seven sheep, may be a priest of those who are no gods.


rate difficulty: But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.


rate difficulty: for, in their ignorance of the divine righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the divine righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses gave the tribute, which was the Lord’s heave offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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


simplify: And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth–lehem, that is at the gate!

And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town!


rate difficulty: And to Jonathan son of Saul <FI>is<Fi> a son--lame; he was a son of five years at the coming in of the rumour of <FI>the death of<Fi> Saul and Jonathan, out of Jezreel, and his nurse lifteth him up, and fleeth, and it cometh to pass in her hasting to flee, that he falleth, and becometh lame, and his name <FI>is<Fi> Mephibosheth.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For they prophesy falsely unto you in my name: I have not sent them, saith the Lord.

For they are saying to you what is false in my name: I have not sent them, says the Lord.


simplify: `Thy reign come: Thy will come to pass, as in heaven also on the earth.

your kingdom come, your will be done —  on earth, as in heaven.


rate difficulty: They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

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


simplify: and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For from Jerusalem goeth out a remnant, And an escape from mount Zion; The zeal of Jehovah <FI>of Hosts<Fi> doth this.

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


simplify: added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

Did this most evil thing of all, and had John shut up in prison.


rate difficulty: so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

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


rate difficulty: If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?

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


simplify: The overseer also of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Micha. Of the sons of Asaph, the singers were over the business of the house of God.

And the overseer of the Levites at Jerusalem was Uzzi, the son of Bani, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Mica, of the sons of Asaph, the music-makers, who was over the business of the house of God.


rate difficulty: Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

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


rate difficulty: To him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and from him that taketh away thy cloak withhold not thy coat also.

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


rate difficulty: For thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city that is going out a thousand, Doth leave an hundred, And that which is going out an hundred, Doth leave ten to the house of Israel.

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


simplify: in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,

and it was while engaged in this that they found me in the Temple, after completing a period of purification, but not with any crowd or disorder.


simplify: These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

These will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because he is the Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with him are named, marked out, and true.


rate difficulty: In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.


rate difficulty: Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.


simplify: And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before Jehovah.

And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.


simplify: And he made the breastplate, the work of the skilful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red.


rate difficulty: Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.


rate difficulty: The word which the Lord said about Babylon, about the land of the Chaldaeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

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


rate difficulty: And his armour-bearer said to him, Do all that is in thy heart; turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

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


rate difficulty: The rod and reproof give wisdom; but a child left [to himself] bringeth his mother to shame.

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


rate difficulty: and Azor begat Sadok, and Sadok begat Achim, and Achim begat Eliud,

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And when we had sailed slowly many days, and were come with difficulty over against Cnidus, the wind not further suffering us, we sailed under the lee of Crete, over against Salmone;

And when we had gone on slowly for a long time, and had had hard work getting across to Cnidus, for the wind was against us, we went under cover of Crete, in the direction of Salmone;


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah saith, `What <FI>is<Fi> the sign that I go up to the house of Jehovah!'


rate difficulty: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her own brood under her wings, and ye would not!

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


rate difficulty: The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I made an agreement with your fathers on the day when I took them out of Egypt, out of the prison-house, saying,

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


simplify: Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have I not declared unto thee of old, and showed it? and ye are my witnesses. Is there a God besides me? yea, there is no Rock; I know not any.

Have no fear, be strong in heart; have I not made it clear to you in the past, and let you see it? and you are my witnesses. Is there any God but me, or a Rock of whom I have no knowledge?


simplify: Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan.

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


simplify: And thy dead body shall be food unto all birds of the heavens, and unto the beasts of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Your bodies will be meat for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth; there will be no one to send them away.


rate difficulty: And it hath been from month to month, And from sabbath to sabbath, Come do all flesh to bow themselves before Me, Said Jehovah.

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


simplify: For it was of Jehovah to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.


simplify: Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat Jehovah your God, that he may take away from me this death only.

Let me now have forgiveness for my sin this time only, and make prayer to the Lord your God that he will take away from me this death only.


simplify: But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared:

But I have sent the brothers, so that the good things we said about you may be seen to be true, and that, as I said, you may be ready:


rate difficulty: because they met you not with bread and with water on the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt, and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor, of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

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


rate difficulty: For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

Daily I face death — I swear it, friends, by the pride in you that I feel through my union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.


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

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


rate difficulty: And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? is he a vessel wherein none delighteth? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

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


rate difficulty: For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

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


simplify: for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.