simplify: Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.


simplify: Peter saith unto him, Even if I must die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

Peter says to him, Even if I am put to death with you, I will not be false to you. So said all the disciples.


simplify: Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.

The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...


rate difficulty: AndGod said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.

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


simplify: Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the more boldly unto you in some sort, as putting you in mind, because of the grace that is given to me of God,

But in parts of this letter I have expressed myself somewhat boldly — by way of refreshing your memories —


simplify: And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and clothed them with coats, and girded them with girdles, and bound head-tires upon them; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Then he took Aaron's sons, clothing them with the coats, and putting the bands round them, and the head-dresses on their heads, as the Lord had given him orders.


simplify: and Tychicus I sent to Ephesus;


rate difficulty: Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

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


simplify: but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

But the Pharisees and the students of the law, having rejected John’s baptism, frustrated God’s purpose in regard to them.)


rate difficulty: And she saith, `These six <FI>measures<Fi> of barley he hath given to me, for he said, Thou dost not go in empty unto thy mother-in-law.'

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the work, and shall serve no more,

But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more;


rate difficulty: Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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


simplify: And he denied him, saying, Woman, I know him not.

But Peter denied it. “I do not know him,” he replied.


rate difficulty: The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: and it hath come to pass in that day that I have broken the bow of Israel, in the valley of Jezreel.'

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


simplify: The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.

The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.


rate difficulty: Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God’s,

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


simplify: and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

and, noticing a fig-tree at a distance in leaf, he went to it to see if by any chance he could find something on it; but, on coming up to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.


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

Passing on, Jesus went into their synagogue,


rate difficulty: and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:


simplify: And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.

And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: On the twelfth day, the prince of the children of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and sandals, did ye lack anything? And they said, Nothing.


rate difficulty: Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

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


simplify: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

When a person appears to be religious, yet does not bridle their tongue, but imposes on their own conscience, that person’s religious observances are valueless.


simplify: Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?


simplify: Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?


rate difficulty: Whoso is walking in integrity walketh confidently, And whoso is perverting his ways is known.

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


simplify: And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.

Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.


simplify: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto Jehovah, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Let the sinner give up his way, and the evil-doer his purpose: and let him come back to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for there is full forgiveness with him.


simplify: and saying, `If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.'

and saying as they did so: “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.”


rate difficulty: provideth her bread in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.

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


rate difficulty: In the multitude of a people <FI>is<Fi> the honour of a king, And in lack of people the ruin of a prince.

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


simplify: Then I said unto them, What meaneth the high place whereunto ye go? So the name thereof is called Bamah unto this day.

Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.


simplify: And they had a few small fishes: and having blessed them, he commanded to set these also before them.

And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.


rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,

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


rate difficulty: For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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


simplify: And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.


simplify: And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said unto him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.


simplify: And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.

And put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway.


simplify: When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:


simplify: Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

In this way may the children of Israel be made free from all sorts of unclean conditions, so that death may not overtake them when they are unclean and when they make unclean my holy place which is among them.


simplify: And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

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


simplify: I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.’


rate difficulty: And the sons of Appaim: Ishi. And the sons of Ishi: Sheshan. And the sons of Sheshan: Ahlai.

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


rate difficulty: Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?

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


simplify: Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, But have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment.

The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.


simplify: Then the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

Then after the yoke had been broken off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah by Hananiah the prophet, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,


rate difficulty: but it shall turn out to you for a testimony.

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


rate difficulty: Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,

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


rate difficulty: But into whatsoever city ye may have entered and they do not receive you, go out into its streets and say,

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


rate difficulty: and two olive-trees beside it, one on the right of the bowl, and the other on the left of it.


simplify: The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.


simplify: And when David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captive.

And when David and his men came to the town, they saw that it had been burned down, and their wives and their sons and daughters had been made prisoners.


simplify: Think ye that I am come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

Is it your opinion that I have come to give peace on earth? I say to you, No, but division:


simplify: And Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and made his defence:

And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:


rate difficulty: Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But come what may, let me, I pray thee, also run after the Cushite. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou wilt have no reward for the tidings?

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


rate difficulty: But since ye say, The burden of Jehovah, therefore thus saith Jehovah: Because ye say this word, The burden of Jehovah, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of Jehovah;

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


simplify: the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Aram on the east, and the Philistines on the west, who have come against Israel with open mouths. For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


rate difficulty: The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

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


simplify: For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.


simplify: Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.


simplify: for it hath been written, `Rejoice, O barren, who art not bearing; break forth and cry, thou who art not travailing, because many <FI>are<Fi> the children of the desolate--more than of her having the husband.'

For scripture says —  ‘Rejoice, you barren one, who does never bear, Break into shouts, you who are never in labor, For many are the children of her who is desolate — aye, more than of her who has a husband.’


simplify: Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

But, if someone suffers as a Christian, do not let them be ashamed of it; let them bring honor to God even though they bear that name.


rate difficulty: knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out over the land of Egypt so that the locusts may come up on the land for the destruction of every green plant in the land, even everything untouched by the ice-storm.


rate difficulty: And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of refuge, Hebron; Libnah also with its suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,

And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts,


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

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


rate difficulty: Set ye up an ensign upon the bare mountain, lift up the voice unto them, wave the hand, that they may go into the gates of the nobles.

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


simplify: The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah: Beno.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah.


simplify: And he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.

And he said to me, Let not the words of this prophet's book be kept secret, because the time is near.


simplify: Who said unto God, Depart from us; And, What can the Almighty do for us?

Who said to God, Go away from us; and, What is the Ruler of all able to do to us?


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.


rate difficulty: The hand of the Lord is on you even now, and you will be blind for a time and unable to see the sun.” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him, and he went feeling about for some one to guide him.

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


rate difficulty: And He saith unto me, `Son of man, all My words, that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear;

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


rate difficulty: And if any one take from the words of the book of this prophecy,God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

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


simplify: And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

With regard to unmarried women, I have no command from the Master to give you, but I tell you my opinion, and the Master in his mercy has made me worthy to be trusted.


simplify: And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren, and Ozem, and Ahijah.

And the sons of Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, were Ram, the oldest, and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah.


simplify: When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.

At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.


simplify: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

So, then, all depends, not on human wishes or human efforts, but on God’s mercy.


simplify: But the Levites shall do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel they have no inheritance.

But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.


rate difficulty: Then Ahijah seized the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: The person who wants to be the greatest among you must be your servant.

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


rate difficulty: See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;

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


simplify: And Moses and Aaron and the chief of the congregation numbered the sons of the Kohathites after their families, and after the house of their fathers,

So Moses and Aaron and the chiefs of the people took in hand the numbering of the sons of the Kohathites, by families, in the order of their fathers' houses;


rate difficulty: The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your fellow follower of the Lord.

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


simplify: Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled: who among them can declare this, and show us former things? let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified; or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.


simplify: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,


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

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


rate difficulty: Howbeit the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

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


simplify: And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

And the tongue is like a spark. Among the members of our body it proves itself a world of mischief; it contaminates the whole body; it sets the wheels of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by the flames of Gehenna.


rate difficulty: `This <FI>is<Fi> the thing that ye do: The third of you, going in on the sabbath, of the priests, and of the Levites, <FI>are<Fi> for gatekeepers of the thresholds,

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


simplify: Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying,


rate difficulty: And having called to [him] each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

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


simplify: For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

For the secret of evil is even now at work: but there is one who is keeping back the evil till he is taken out of the way.


rate difficulty: or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

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


simplify: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur.


rate difficulty: In the middle of its street. And on this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, having twelve sorts of fruits, giving its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree give life to the nations.

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


rate difficulty: And of Hushim he begot Abitub, and Elpaal.

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


simplify: And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.

There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.


rate difficulty: That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

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


simplify: But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.


simplify: To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

to another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers;


simplify: And he said unto his brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack: and their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God hath done unto us?

And he said to his brothers, My money has been given back: it is in my bag; then their hearts became full of fear, and turning to one another they said, What is this which God has done to us?


rate difficulty: The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.


simplify: But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.


rate difficulty: He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

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


rate difficulty: They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.


simplify: Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.

Make a song, O heavens, for the Lord has done it: give a loud cry, you deep parts of the earth: let your voices be loud in song, you mountains, and you woods with all your trees: for the Lord has taken up the cause of Jacob, and will let his glory be seen in Israel.


simplify: But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

And I say to you that in the day when they are judged, men will have to give an account of every foolish word they have said.


rate difficulty: And Jacob loved Rachel, and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

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


simplify: And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,


rate difficulty: For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.


rate difficulty: and ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because Jehovah hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

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


rate difficulty: [with] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber; and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:


rate difficulty: And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.


simplify: to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah upon the altar of burnt-offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of Jehovah, which he commanded unto Israel;

To give burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of burned offerings morning and evening, every day, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord which he gave to Israel;


simplify: I entreated Titus, and did send with <FI>him<Fi> the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? --did we not in the same steps?

I urged Titus to go, and I sent another follower with him. Did Titus take any advantage of you? Did not we live in the same Spirit, and tread in the same footsteps?


simplify: And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.

And they went on from Mithkah, and put up their tents in Hashmonah.


rate difficulty: And he took up his parable, and said,  Rise up, Balak, and hear; Hearken unto me, thou son of Zippor:

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simplify: Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

Let your minds be changed, and do not have an evil opinion of me; yes, be changed, for my righteousness is still in me.


rate difficulty: If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

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simplify: And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;


simplify: And she answered him, Nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.

And answering him, she said, O my brother, do not put shame on me; it is not right for such a thing to be done in Israel: do not this evil thing.


simplify: And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.


simplify: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

And the dragon was angry with the woman and went away to make war on the rest of her seed, who keep the orders of God, and the witness of Jesus:


simplify: Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God:

But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:


rate difficulty: And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

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simplify: The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

My God, my Rock, in him will I put my faith; my breastplate, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my safe place; my saviour, who keeps me safe from the violent man.


rate difficulty: And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: For in that she poured this ointment upon my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.

For in putting this perfume on my body, she did it to make me ready for my last resting-place.


simplify: And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.


rate difficulty: and Joab sendeth messengers unto David, and saith, `I have fought against Rabbah--also I have captured the city of waters;

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


rate difficulty: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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


simplify: The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

The Nethinim: the children of Ziha, the children of Hasupha, the children of Tabbaoth,


rate difficulty: Then Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right hip, and thrust it into his belly;

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


simplify: thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know you do.”


simplify: And having advanced thence, he saw other two brothers, James of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, refitting their nets, and he called them,

Going further on, he saw two other men who were also brothers, James, Zebedee’s son, and his brother John, in their boat with their father, mending their nets. Jesus called them,


simplify: The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging;


simplify: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.


rate difficulty: And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.


rate difficulty: and it came to pass as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me, and fled forth.


simplify: The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.


simplify: And the people blessed all the men that willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.

And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.


simplify: And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array before the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

So the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position on the way into the town; and the kings who had come were stationed by themselves in the field.


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

Now in the morning, David gave Uriah a letter to take to Joab.


rate difficulty: O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

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


rate difficulty: The fire on the altar is to be kept burning; it is never to go out; every morning the priest is to put wood on it, placing the burned offering in order on it, and there the fat of the peace-offering is to be burned.


simplify: And he that beareth the carcass of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

Anyone who takes away the dead body of one of these is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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simplify: Because thou obeyedst not the voice of Jehovah, and didst not execute his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath Jehovah done this thing unto thee this day.

Because you did not do what the Lord said, and did not give effect to his burning wrath against Amalek. So the Lord has done this thing to you today.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray thee, for the word of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.


simplify: and the priest shall look; and, behold, if the appearance thereof be lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy, it hath broken out in the boil.

And after looking at it, if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and the hair on it is turned white, then the priest will say that the man is unclean: it is the leper's disease, it has come out in the bad place.


rate difficulty: Because I feared the great multitude, And the contempt of families terrified me, So that I kept silence, and went not out of the door—

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


simplify: And these were they which went up from Tel–melah, Tel–harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father’s house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

And these were the people who went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer. But having no knowledge of their fathers' families or offspring, it was not certain that they were Israelites;


simplify: He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know it.

He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Go, sacrifice to yourGod in the land.

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


simplify: Jesus said unto him, If thou wouldest be perfect, go, sell that which thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Jesus said to him, If you have a desire to be complete, go, get money for your property, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come after me.


rate difficulty: And the glory of Jehovah mounted up from the cherub, [and came] over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of Jehovah's glory.


simplify: And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?


rate difficulty: And to the people Jesus said: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once ‘There is a storm coming,’ and come it does.

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


rate difficulty: Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, and I also will have no pity.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.


simplify: We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.


rate difficulty: I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in an ecstasy I saw a vision, a certain vessel descending like a great sheet, let down by four corners out of heaven, and it came even to me:

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


simplify: and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.


simplify: Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;


simplify: But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:


rate difficulty: His young have blood for their drink, and where the dead bodies are, there is he to be seen.


rate difficulty: For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;

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


rate difficulty: Then I heard a loud voice, which came from the Temple, saying to the seven angels — ‘Go and empty the seven bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.’

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


simplify: Now they that died by the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, besides them that died about the matter of Korah.

Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.


rate difficulty: By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.


rate difficulty: and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

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


simplify: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.


rate difficulty: Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.


simplify: As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Even as you saw how, like a father with his children, we were teaching and comforting you all, and giving witness,


simplify: Canst thou lead forth the Mazzaroth in their season? Or canst thou guide the Bear with her train?

Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?


simplify: Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!


simplify: Malchijah the son of Harim, and Hashub the son of Pahath–moab, repaired the other piece, and the tower of the furnaces.

Malchijah, the son of Harim, and Hasshub, the son of Pahath-moab, were working on another part, and the tower of the ovens.


rate difficulty: And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it.

The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, and during their stay in Egypt increased the prosperity of the people, and then ‘with uplifted arm brought them out from that land.’


simplify: fall down do the twenty and four elders before Him who is sitting upon the throne, and bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages, and they cast their crowns before the throne, saying,

the twenty-four councillors prostrate themselves before him who is seated on the throne, and worship him who lives for ever and ever, and throw down their crowns before the throne, saying —


simplify: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.

But he is to give his first son his birthright, and twice as great a part of his property: for he is the first-fruits of his strength and the right of the first son is his.


simplify: Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

Teach those who are wealthy in this life not to pride themselves, or fix their hopes, on so uncertain a thing as wealth, but on God, who gives us a wealth of enjoyment on every side.


simplify: So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her; and she poured out.

So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them.


simplify: Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

Son of man, see, the children of Israel say, The vision which he sees is for the days which are a long way off, and his words are of times still far away.


simplify: therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I will stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; even unto Dedan shall they fall by the sword.

The Lord has said, My hand will be stretched out against Edom, cutting off from it man and beast: and I will make it waste, from Teman even as far as Dedan they will be put to the sword.


rate difficulty: And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

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


rate difficulty: but I say unto you, that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but did unto him whatsoever they would. Even so shall the Son of man also suffer of them.

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


simplify: Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,


simplify: and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.

And Hashubah and Ohel and Berechiah and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.


simplify: And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!

Then Jesus said to them: “Foolish men, slow to accept all that the prophets have said!


simplify: He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

He has taken my brothers far away from me; they have seen my fate and have become strange to me.


rate difficulty: Meanwhile they had taken the lad away alive, and were greatly comforted.

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


simplify: Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.

Therefore always receive one another as friends, just as the Christ himself received us, to the glory of God.


rate difficulty: And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?


rate difficulty: As the groom was late in coming, they all became drowsy, and slept.

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


simplify: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.


rate difficulty: They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: From now on, the crown of righteousness is made ready for me, which the Lord, the upright judge, Will give to me at that day: and not only to me, but to all those who have had love for his revelation.

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


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.


rate difficulty: And Moses taketh the waggons and the oxen, and giveth them unto the Levites.

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


rate difficulty: And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass-offering:

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


simplify: In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, king of Judah, Zimri was king for seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were attacking Gibbethon in the land of the Philistines.


simplify: I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box — not like a man hitting the air.


simplify: And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

Then Jacob said, The sun is still high and it is not time to get the cattle together: get water for the sheep and go and give them their food.


simplify: For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

For I have come to set — ‘a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.


rate difficulty: Only rebel not against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is removed from over them, and Jehovah is with us: fear them not.

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


rate difficulty: Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, And look well to thy herds:

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


simplify: A man shall be commended according to his wisdom; But he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.


rate difficulty: Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

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


simplify: And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.

And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear.


simplify: Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.

Your hands were free, your feet were not chained: like the downfall of a man before evil men, so was your fall. And the weeping of the people over him went on again.


simplify: Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

And they will have no heritage among their countrymen: the Lord is their heritage, as he has said to them.


simplify: And he answered, Fear not; for they that are with us are more than they that are with them.

And he said in answer, Have no fear; those who are with us are more than those who are with them.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

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


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

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


simplify: For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,


rate difficulty: And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

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


simplify: And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

And give them orders to say to their masters, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Say to your masters,


rate difficulty: James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, went to Jesus, and said: “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

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


simplify: Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few;

Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.


simplify: Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.


rate difficulty: Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

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


rate difficulty: Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?

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


simplify: They shall only bow down under the prisoners, and shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.


simplify: all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'

all these wicked things come from within, and do defile a person.”


rate difficulty: But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

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


simplify: and I heard as the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, `Alleluia! because reign did the Lord God--the Almighty!

Then I heard ‘what seemed to be the shout of a vast throng, like the sound of many waters,’ and like the sound of loud peals of thunder, crying —  ‘Hallelujah! For the Lord is king, our God, the Almighty.


rate difficulty: For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi–ezrites.

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


simplify: `On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

The next day he again appeared on the scene, when some of them were fighting, and tried to make peace between them. ‘Men,’ he said, ‘you are brothers; how is it that you are ill-treating one another?’


simplify: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

These things are only the shadow of what is to come; the substance is in the Christ.


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


simplify: And the women sang one to another as they played, and said,  Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.

And the women, answering one another in their song, said, Saul has put to death his thousands and David his tens of thousands.


simplify: But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

The others went on from Perga and arrived at Antioch in Pisidia. There they went into the synagogue on the Sabbath and took their seats.


simplify: He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

And he said, But who do you say that I am? And Peter, answering, said, The Christ of God.


simplify: What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean. And whoso toucheth anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goeth from him;

No man of the seed of Aaron who is a leper, or who has a flow from his body, may take of the holy food till he is clean. And any man touching anything which is unclean because of the dead, or any man whose seed goes from him;


simplify: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:


rate difficulty: Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir–heres.

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rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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simplify: Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.


rate difficulty: When one layeth hold on his brother, <FI>Of<Fi> the house of his father, <FI>by<Fi> the garment, `Come, a ruler thou art to us, And this ruin <FI>is<Fi> under thy hand.'

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rate difficulty: and it hath been, the first-born which she beareth doth rise for the name of his dead brother, and his name is not wiped away out of Israel.

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simplify: Better it is to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.


simplify: And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, and the brazen altar, and the brazen grating for it, and all the vessels of the altar,

From it he made the bases of the doorway of the Tent of meeting and the brass altar and the network for it and all the vessels for the altar,


rate difficulty: to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.

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simplify: For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.


rate difficulty: If any one corrupt the temple ofGod, him shallGod destroy; for the temple ofGod is holy, and such are ye.

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


simplify: Who, when they came to Cesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.

And they, when they came to Caesarea, gave the letter to the ruler, and took Paul before him.


rate difficulty: And the prince of princes of the Levites was Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest: he had the oversight of them that kept the charge of the sanctuary.


rate difficulty: The slothful hath said, `A lion <FI>is<Fi> in the way, A lion <FI>is<Fi> in the broad places.'

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


rate difficulty: Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.

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


simplify: The voice of Jehovah crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom will see thy name: hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.


simplify: I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:


simplify: Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.


rate difficulty: The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

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


simplify: And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.


rate difficulty: This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.

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


simplify: But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thy head, and wash thy face;

But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;


simplify: And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

And your family and your kingdom will keep their place before me for ever: the seat of your authority will never be overturned.


rate difficulty: And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.

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


simplify: And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.

And they will be full of fear, and will no longer have faith in Ethiopia which was their hope, or in Egypt which was their glory.


rate difficulty: And outside the inner gate were two cells in the inner court, one at the side of the north gate, and its front towards the south; the other was at the side of the south gate, the front towards the north.


rate difficulty: And when they had been made free, they came back to their friends, and gave an account of all the things which the chief priests and the authorities had said to them.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


simplify: And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

And when the Lord saw him turning to one side to see, God said his name out of the tree, crying, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.


simplify: But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!


rate difficulty: desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

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


simplify: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:


simplify: And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

And, had not the Lord put a limit to those days, not a single soul would escape; but, for the sake of God’s own chosen people, he did limit them.


rate difficulty: What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do?

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


rate difficulty: And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.


simplify: And when he had landed at Cesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.

And when he had come to land at Caesarea, he went to see the church, and then went down to Antioch.


rate difficulty: For there is no acceptance of faces with God,

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus said, What is your name? And he made answer, My name is Legion, because there are a great number of us.


rate difficulty: Come hath the time, arrived hath the day, The buyer doth not rejoice, And the seller doth not become a mourner, For wrath <FI>is<Fi> unto all its multitude.

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


rate difficulty: If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

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


rate difficulty: He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: They shall not hunger nor thirst, neither shall the heat nor sun smite them; for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, and by the springs of water will he guide them.

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


simplify: And Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah.

And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.


simplify: Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.


rate difficulty: thine ox <FI>is<Fi> slaughtered before thine eyes, and thou dost not eat of it; thine ass <FI>is<Fi> taken violently away from before thee, and it is not given back to thee; thy sheep <FI>are<Fi>  given to thine enemies, and there is no saviour for thee.

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


rate difficulty: lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king sent for the Gibeonites; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but were the last of the Amorites, to whom the children of Israel had given an oath; but Saul, in his passion for the children of Israel and Judah, had made an attempt on their lives:)

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


simplify: In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin: but he that refraineth his lips is wise.

Where there is much talk there will be no end to sin, but he who keeps his mouth shut does wisely.


rate difficulty: Then all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and broke it down: his altars and his images they broke in pieces completely, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing: go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back.

And the king said to Joab, See now, I will do this thing: go then and Come back with the young man Absalom.


rate difficulty: And Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.


simplify: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.


simplify: Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee, named Nazareth,


simplify: Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people--whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon,

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


simplify: And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

He will give their kings into your hands, and you will put their names out of existence under heaven; there is not one of them who will not give way before you, till their destruction is complete.


rate difficulty: Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

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


simplify: And thou shalt prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah daily: morning by morning shalt thou prepare it.

And you are to give a lamb a year old without any mark on it for a burned offering to the Lord every day: morning by morning you are to give it.


rate difficulty: And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

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


rate difficulty: Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.

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


simplify: Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.


rate difficulty: and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his stewards, and their clothing, an his burnt-offering that he offered up in the house of Jehovah, and there hath not been any more spirit in her.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put the mercy-seat on the ark of the testimony in the holiest of all.

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


rate difficulty: And Joab goeth out from David, and sendeth messengers after Abner, and they bring him back from the well of Sirah, and David knew not.

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


simplify: And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.


simplify: `See, therefore, how ye hear, for whoever may have, there shall be given to him, and whoever may not have, also what he seemeth to have, shall be taken from him.'

Take care, then, how you listen. For, to all those who have, more will be given; while, from all those who have nothing, even what they seem to have will be taken away.”


simplify: and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam;

And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam;


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.


simplify: I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.

So my desire is that you take me as your example.


simplify: And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

“Teacher,” said John, “we saw a man driving out demons by using your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he did not follow us.”


simplify: The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.

And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.


simplify: And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

As it chanced, a priest was going down by that road. He saw the man, but passed by on the opposite side.


simplify: Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,

But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,


rate difficulty: He was with David at Pas-dammim, where the Philistines had come together for the fight, near a bit of land full of barley; and the people went in flight before the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: And Gaal son of Ebed saith, `Who <FI>is<Fi> Abimelech, and who <FI>is<Fi> Shechem, that we serve him? is <FI>he<Fi> not son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his commander? Serve ye the men of Hamor father of Shechem, and wherefore do we serve him--we?

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


simplify: And now for a little moment grace hath been showed from Jehovah our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.

And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.


simplify: and saying, Lord, my servant lieth in the house sick of the palsy, grievously tormented.

Saying, Lord, my servant is ill in bed at the house, with no power in his body, and in great pain.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and will cut off from thee man and beast.

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


simplify: Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek of him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

Then I gave orders for a time of going without food, there by the river Ahava, so that we might make ourselves low before our God in prayer, requesting from him a straight way for us and for our little ones and for all our substance.


simplify: They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They area perverse and crooked generation.

They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.


rate difficulty: Jesus, however, said: “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their oppressors are styled ‘Benefactors.’

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


simplify: be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.

Learn to be merciful — even as your Father is merciful.


rate difficulty: And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

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


simplify: And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language.

And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.


rate difficulty: for I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck. Lo, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death!

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


rate difficulty: Now there was in the town a poor, wise man, and he, by his wisdom, kept the town safe. But no one had any memory of that same poor man.


simplify: And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and saw them, and, behold, they were sad.

And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.


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

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


rate difficulty: And I say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, `The work is abundant, and large, and we are separated on the wall, far off one from another;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: `Our appointed bread give us to-day.


rate difficulty: And answering they say to him, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body [is], there the eagles will be gathered together.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and spake again in parables unto them, saying,

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


simplify: Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

who, through him, are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and gave him honor, so that your faith and hope are now in God.


simplify: And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

And the number of the armies of the horsemen was twice ten thousand times ten thousand: the number of them came to my ears.


rate difficulty: He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; But he that harpeth on a matter separateth chief friends.

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


simplify: And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.


simplify: knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death no more hath dominion over him.

Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.


simplify: And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle.


simplify: Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?

Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?


simplify: And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.


simplify: And he charged them much that they should not make him known.

And he gave them special orders not to say who he was.


simplify: And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.

And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her.


simplify: And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.


simplify: And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,


simplify: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

After the birth of Jesus at Bethlehem in Judea, in the reign of King Herod, some astrologers from the East arrived in Jerusalem, asking:


rate difficulty: And said, The Lord has let us see his glory and his power, and his voice has come to us out of the fire: today we have seen that a man may go on living even after hearing the voice of God.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall stand in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out from Israel.

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


rate difficulty: 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:

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Yet these shall ye eat of every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four: those which have legs above their feet with which to leap upon the earth.

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


rate difficulty: My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.

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


simplify: Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,


simplify: And the thing pleased me well; and I took twelve men of you, one man for every tribe:

And what you said seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from among you, one from every tribe;


simplify: O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the deepest thoughts of your people, and let their hearts be fixed and true to you;


simplify: And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Now the years of Sarah's life were a hundred and twenty-seven.


rate difficulty: And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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


simplify: Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; cleanse yourselves, ye that bear the vessels of Jehovah.

Away! away! go out from there, touching no unclean thing; go out from among her; be clean, you who take up the vessels of the Lord.


simplify: And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun a prince, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

And of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, a chief, Elizaphan, the son of Parnach.


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Dan: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hastened, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

Now when the Philistine made a move and came near to David, David quickly went at a run in the direction of the army, meeting the Philistine face to face.


simplify: Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.


rate difficulty: And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.

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


rate difficulty: Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Shemer: Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.


rate difficulty: And Elisha said, As the Lord of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

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


simplify: The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.


rate difficulty: for I know your readiness, of which I glory on your behalf to them of Macedonia, that Achaia hath been prepared for a year past; and your zeal hath stirred up very many of them.

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


simplify: rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:


simplify: yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Still, he did not give up faith in the undertaking of God, but was made strong by faith, giving glory to God,


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make its horns at the four corners thereof; its horns shall be of itself; and thou shalt overlay it with copper.

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


simplify: And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.

And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;


simplify: And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.


rate difficulty: And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first-born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: the son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shemer,

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


simplify: Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And he said to the gardener, See, for three years I have been looking for fruit from this tree, and I have not had any: let it be cut down; why is it taking up space?

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


rate difficulty: Now it came about that, after hearing all the words, they said to one another in fear, We will certainly give the king an account of all these words.

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


rate difficulty: For two evils hath My people done, Me they have forsaken, a fountain of living waters, To hew out for themselves wells--broken wells, That contain not the waters.

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


simplify: But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.

But the saying was not clear to them, and they were in fear of questioning him about it.


rate difficulty: And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father.

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


simplify: But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.


simplify: Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

These things happened to them by way of warning, and were recorded to serve as a caution to us, in whose days the close of the ages has come.


simplify: Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.


simplify: For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.


simplify: Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.