simplify: But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;


rate difficulty: But see lest anywise this your right [to eat] itself be a stumbling-block to the weak.

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rate difficulty: He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.

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simplify: And king Solomon answered and said unto his mother, And why dost thou ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is mine elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.

Then King Solomon made answer and said to his mother, Why are you requesting me to give Abishag the Shunammite to Adonijah? Take the kingdom for him in addition, for he is my older brother, and Abiathar the priest and Joab, the son of Zeruiah, are on his side.


simplify: that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

In that day, one who has got away safe will come to you to give you news of it.


simplify: And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, `Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'

When the islanders saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another: “Evidently this man is a murderer, for though he has been saved from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”


simplify: Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.


simplify: And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am Jehovah who halloweth you,

And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,


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

But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.


simplify: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the heavens,’ with power and great glory;


simplify: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

These persecutions will vindicate the justice of God’s judgment, and will result in your being reckoned worthy of God’s kingdom, for the sake of which you are now suffering;


simplify: And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:

He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;


simplify: Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.

Give you comfort and strength in every good work and word.


simplify: For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:

For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:


simplify: And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

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rate difficulty: And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains;

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


simplify: And straightway all the people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.

But, as soon as they saw Jesus, all the people, in great astonishment, ran up and greeted him.


simplify: Be not righteous overmuch; neither make thyself overwise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?


rate difficulty: `And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover,

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


simplify: The word that Jehovah spake concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

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


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father had done.

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


simplify: And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:


rate difficulty: And he returned to be healed in Jizreel because of the wounds that were given him at Ramah, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria. And Azariah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab at Jizreel; for he was sick.

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


rate difficulty: But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoahaz lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in Samaria, and reign doth Joash his son in his stead.

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


simplify: and having known that he is a Jew, one voice came out of all, for about two hours, crying, `Great <FI>is<Fi> the Artemis of the Ephesians!'

However, when they recognized him as a Jew, one cry broke from them all, and they continued shouting for two hours — “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”


simplify: The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.


simplify: And she said, These six measures of barley gave he me; for he said to me, Go not empty unto thy mother in law.

And she said, He gave me these six measures of grain, saying, Do not go back to your mother-in-law with nothing in your hands.


simplify: Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.

And they sent and took Jeremiah out of the place of the watchmen, and gave him into the care of Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him to his house: so he was living among the people.


simplify: For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.

For he did not know what to say, because they were much afraid.


simplify: opening and alleging, `That the Christ it behoved to suffer, and to rise again out of the dead, and that this is the Christ--Jesus whom I proclaim to you.'

He laid before them and explained that the Christ must undergo suffering and rise from the dead; and “It is this man,” he declared, “who is the Christ — this Jesus about whom I am telling you.”


rate difficulty: But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.

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


simplify: but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.


simplify: Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.

For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.


simplify: Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

In bygone times he permitted all the nations to go their own ways.


simplify: Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.

Take care that you do not lose the fruit of all our work; rather, reap the benefit of it in full.


rate difficulty: For instead of glory, thy men by sword do fall, And thy might in battle.

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


simplify: And he measured the breadth of the entry of the gate, ten cubits; and the length of the gate, thirteen cubits.

And he took the measure of the opening of the doorway, ten cubits wide; and the way down the doorway was thirteen cubits;


simplify: And Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned to his house in peace to Jerusalem.

And Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, went back to his house in Jerusalem in peace.


simplify: And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?

Then the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?


simplify: And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering he shall take off from it; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

And he is to take away all the fat of the ox of the sin-offering; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat of the inside parts,


simplify: Thy borders are in the heart of the seas; thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.


rate difficulty: chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

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


rate difficulty: but grow in grace, and in [the] knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him [be] glory both now and to [the] day of eternity. Amen.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel were numbered and victualled, and they went against them; and the children of Israel encamped before them like two little flocks of goats; but the Syrians filled the land.


rate difficulty: And thy bondmaid said, Let the word of my lord the king now be comfortable; for as an angel ofGod, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad; and Jehovah thyGod will be with thee.


rate difficulty: And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

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


rate difficulty: And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

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


simplify: in that day I sware unto them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.

In that day I gave my oath to take them out of the land of Egypt into a land which I had been searching out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands:


rate difficulty: for I say unto you, Among them that are born of women a greater [prophet] is no one than John [the baptist]; but he who is a little one in the kingdom ofGod is greater than he.

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


simplify: The cloke that I left at Troas with Carpus, when thou comest, bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments.

The coat which I did not take from Troas and which is with Carpus, get when you come, and the books, specially the papers.


rate difficulty: (and our hope for you [is] sure;) or whether we are encouraged, [it is] for your encouragement and salvation: knowing that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.


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

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


simplify: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, so that I, who have called others to the contest, will not myself be rejected.


rate difficulty: from the mount of Halak, which is going up <FI>to<Fi> Seir, and unto Baal-Gad, in the valley of Lebanon, under mount Hermon; and all their kings he hath captured, and he smiteth them, and putteth them to death.

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


simplify: be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

Run the great race of the faith, and win the eternal life. It was for this that you received the call, and, in the presence of many witnesses, made the great profession of faith.


simplify: because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done--to stand.

Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the evil day comes, you may be able to withstand the attack, and, having fought to the end, still to stand your ground.


rate difficulty: I have stirred up <FI>one<Fi> from the north, And he cometh, From the rising of the sun he calleth in My name, And he cometh in <FI>on<Fi> prefects as <FI>on<Fi> clay, And as a potter treadeth down mire.

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


rate difficulty: And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.

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


rate difficulty: When the heavens are 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, because thou hast afflicted them;

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


rate difficulty: The eleventh captain for the eleventh month was Benaiah the Pirathonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.


rate difficulty: I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.


simplify: When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

Jesus was surprised to hear these words from him; and, turning to the crowd which was following him, he said: “I tell you, nowhere in Israel have I met with such faith as this!”


rate difficulty: And the people say unto me, `Dost thou not declare to us what these <FI>are<Fi> to us, that thou art doing?'

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


rate difficulty: The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.

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


rate difficulty: And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling;

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


simplify: To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,

That we should be rescued from the hands of our enemies,


rate difficulty: `And--they have confessed their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they have trespassed against Me, and also, that they have walked with Me, in opposition,

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


simplify: And the others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.


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

These three were the sons of Noah and from them all the earth was peopled.


simplify: And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the Lord of hosts.

And death will be desired more than life by the rest of this evil family who are still living in all the places where I have sent them away, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix:


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that are left in this city,

For this is what the Lord has said about the rest of the vessels which are still in this town,


simplify: Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also am I invited by her together with the king.

And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.


rate difficulty: They speak [mere] words, swearing falsely in making a covenant; therefore shall judgment spring up as hemlock in the furrows of the fields.

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


simplify: and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offerings thereof.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offerings.


simplify: And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

And the keepers of the sheep came up and were driving them away; but Moses got up and came to their help, watering their flock for them.


rate difficulty: Among the trumpets he saith, Aha, And from afar he doth smell battle, Roaring of princes and shouting.

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


rate difficulty: And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with [it]; and if one member be glorified, all the members rejoice with [it].


rate difficulty: Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:

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


rate difficulty: But the hair of his head began to grow after he was shaved.


simplify: Hear the word of Jehovah, ye children of Israel; for Jehovah hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.


rate difficulty: And his fame went out straightway into the whole region of Galilee around.

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


simplify: A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.


simplify: And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;

They came to Jerusalem. Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers,


simplify: then will I distress Ariel, and there shall be mourning and lamentation; and she shall be unto me as Ariel.

And I will send trouble on Ariel, and there will be weeping and cries of grief; and she will be to me as Ariel.


rate difficulty: The children of Ater of [the family of] Hezekiah, ninety-eight.

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


simplify: The words of the wicked are of lying in wait for blood; But the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

The words of sinners are destruction for the upright; but the mouth of upright men is their salvation.


simplify: For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.

For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.


rate difficulty: Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

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


rate difficulty: and for the drink-offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

My words may seem wrong to you, but the words of him who has no hope are for the wind.


rate difficulty: Have joy with the woman of your love all the days of your foolish life which he gives you under the sun. Because that is your part in life and in your work which you do under the sun.

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


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

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.


rate difficulty: You did not give me a kiss: but she, from the time when I came in, has gone on kissing my feet.


simplify: In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

In the thirty-seventh year of the rule of Joash, king of Judah, Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for sixteen years.


rate difficulty: And a man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the fastenings and the corslet. And he said to his charioteer, Turn thy hand, and drive me out of the camp; for I am wounded.

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


rate difficulty: And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug-trees and precious stones.

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


simplify: I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves.


simplify: And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, Who is there like Tyre, like her that is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?


rate difficulty: And they ministered before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting with singing, until Solomon had built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem; and they attended to their office according to their order.

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


simplify: And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;


simplify: Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

Look to yourself as well as to your teaching. Persevere in this, for your doing so will mean salvation for yourself as well as for your hearers.


simplify: and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

Put that message into practice, and do not merely listen to it — deceiving yourselves.


simplify: and he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according as he is able, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for the ox and an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


rate difficulty: (See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)


simplify: This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold:

These were the offerings given for the altar by the chiefs of Israel, when the holy oil was put on it: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve gold spoons;


rate difficulty: but ye--ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these--brethren!

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


simplify: But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and gave no attention to your orders,


rate difficulty: For, lo, I am raising up the Chaldeans, The bitter and hasty nation, That is going to the broad places of earth, To occupy tabernacles not its own.

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


rate difficulty: It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it?

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


simplify: And he preached, saying, There cometh after me he that is mightier than I, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

And he said to them all, There is one coming after me who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo.


simplify: In four quarters were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.


rate difficulty: And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


simplify: Or, Deliver me from the adversary’s hand? Or, Redeem me from the hand of the oppressors?

Or, Get me out of the power of my hater? or, Give money so that I may be free from the power of the cruel ones?


rate difficulty: and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

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


simplify: Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the house, and ministering in the house: they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them.

But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.


simplify: And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.


simplify: As for the sacrifices of mine offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but Jehovah accepteth them not: now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins; they shall return to Egypt.

He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.


simplify: Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?

So, then, be kind to your servant; for you have been united with your servant in an agreement made before the Lord: but if there is any wrongdoing in me, put me to death yourself; why take me to your father?


rate difficulty: And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.

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rate difficulty: The rulers of Judah are like those who take away a landmark; I will let loose my wrath on them like flowing water.


simplify: And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.


rate difficulty: and they do so, and bring out unto him these five kings from the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.

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


rate difficulty: and his brethren, chief fathers, two hundred and forty-two; and Amassai the son of Azareel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer;


rate difficulty: Land of Zabulon and land of Nepthalim, way of [the] sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:

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


simplify: And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and from beyond Jordan.

And there went after him great numbers from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judaea and from the other side of Jordan.


simplify: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.


simplify: And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.

When they had got into the boat, the wind dropped.


simplify: But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.


simplify: For what doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?


simplify: For thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,

For this is what the Lord has said about the rest of the vessels which are still in this town,


rate difficulty: As birds flying, so doth Jehovah of Hosts Cover over Jerusalem, covering and delivering, Passing over, and causing to escape.'

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


simplify: The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.


rate difficulty: and thou hast made for the covering five pillars of shittim <FI>wood<Fi> , and hast overlaid them <FI>with<Fi> gold, their pegs <FI>are<Fi> of gold, and thou hast cast for them five sockets of brass.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: verily I say to you, Whoever may not receive the reign of God as a little child, may not enter into it.'

I tell you, unless a man receives the kingdom of God like a child, he will not enter it at all.”


simplify: And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due.

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


simplify: and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away.

And the two kidneys, and the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;


rate difficulty: having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

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


rate difficulty: And all the valley of the carcases and of the ashes, And all the fields unto the brook Kidron, Unto the corner of the horse-gate eastward, <FI>Are<Fi> holy to Jehovah, it is not plucked up, Nor is it thrown down any more to the age!

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


simplify: And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

And the Tirshatha said that they were not to have the most holy things for their food, till a priest came to give decision by Urim and Thummim.


rate difficulty: He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring-reed round about.

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


rate difficulty: Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

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


rate difficulty: When the evil-doer comes, a low opinion comes with him, and with the loss of honour comes shame.

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


rate difficulty: And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me?

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


rate difficulty: And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.

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


simplify: And they shall stumble one upon another, as it were before the sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.

Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.


rate difficulty: And he said to the men of Succoth, Give bread cakes to my people, for they are overcome with weariness, and I am going on after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

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


simplify: And the sons of Pharez were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.

And the sons of Perez were: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.


rate difficulty: And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.


rate difficulty: and they transformed the glory of the immortal God into the likeness of mortal humans, and of birds, and beasts, and reptiles.

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


rate difficulty: Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.

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


simplify: Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:


simplify: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:


simplify: Now therefore as Jehovah liveth, who hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me a house, as he promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.


simplify: And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

I want you to be free from anxiety. The unmarried man is anxious about the Master’s cause, desiring to please him;


simplify: `And the first having come, did suppose that they shall receive more, and they received, they also, each a denary,

So, when the first went up, they thought that they would receive more, but they also received two silver coins each;


rate difficulty: and he commanded the chariot to stand still, and they both went down to the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him;

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


rate difficulty: and having called ten servants of his own, he gave to them ten pounds, and said unto them, Do business--till I come;

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


simplify: And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.


simplify: Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the Lord liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

Then Achish sent for David and said to him, By the living Lord, you are upright, and everything you have done with me in the army has been pleasing to me: I have seen no evil in you from the day when you came to me till now: but still, the lords are not pleased with you.


rate difficulty: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

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


rate difficulty: I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.

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


simplify: And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him,


simplify: Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?

So when they came together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you have? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is named Christ?


rate difficulty: For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

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


simplify: And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

And he said, To you is given knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God; but to the others, they are given in stories, so that seeing, they may not see, and though they give hearing, the sense will not be clear to them.


simplify: Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Stand firm then, friends, and hold fast to the truths that we taught you, whether by word or by letter.


rate difficulty: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, their poison drinketh up my spirit: the terrors ofGod are arrayed against me.

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


simplify: If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them relieve them, and let not the assembly be burdened, that those really widows it may relieve.

Any Christian woman, who has relations who are widows, ought to relieve them and not allow them to become a burden to the church, so that the church may relieve those widows who are really widowed.


simplify: And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Eben–ezer unto Ashdod.

Now the Philistines, having taken the ark of God, took it with them from Eben-ezer to Ashdod.


simplify: It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.


simplify: Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.


simplify: A lying tongue hateth those whom it hath wounded; And a flattering mouth worketh ruin.

A false tongue has hate for those who have clean hearts, and a smooth mouth is a cause of falling.


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

They will not be in need of food or drink, or be troubled by the heat or the sun: for he who has mercy on them will be their guide, taking them by the springs of water.


rate difficulty: `And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

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


rate difficulty: Though they be tangled together [as] thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make a lamp-stand of pure gold; [of] beaten work shall the lamp-stand be made: its base and its shaft, its cups, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of the same.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites?

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


rate difficulty: There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

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


rate difficulty: Those by the side of the road are those who have given hearing; then the Evil One comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not have faith and get salvation.

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


simplify: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:


simplify: The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.


simplify: and having looked to the heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, `Ephphatha,' that is, `Be thou opened;'

Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to the man: “Ephphatha!”which means ‘Be opened.’


simplify: They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords.

And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.


simplify: So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

Now when Saul had taken his place as ruler of Israel, he made war on those who were against him on every side, Moab and the Ammonites and Edom and the kings of Zobah and the Philistines: and whichever way he went, he overcame them.


rate difficulty: And oft-times it hath cast him both into the fire and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.

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


simplify: And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.


simplify: To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:


simplify: For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:


simplify: If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.


simplify: and the brethren having known, brought him down to Caesarea, and sent him forth to Tarsus.

But, when the followers found this out, they took him down to Caesarea, and sent him on his way to Tarsus.


rate difficulty: And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one, but Jesus only.

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


rate difficulty: Dead flies cause a perfumer's perfume To send forth a stink; The precious by reason of wisdom--By reason of honour--a little folly!

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


rate difficulty: And having the same spirit of the faith, according to that which hath been written, `I believed, therefore I did speak;' we also do believe, therefore also do we speak;

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


simplify: And in that same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.

And keep in that same house, taking what food and drink they give you: for the worker has a right to his reward. Do not go from house to house.


rate difficulty: Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

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


rate difficulty: But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

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


simplify: For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

For by your hand the yoke on his neck and the rod on his back, even the rod of his cruel master, have been broken, as in the day of Midian.


simplify: I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

I say to you that he will quickly do right in their cause. But when the Son of man comes, will there be any faith on earth?


rate difficulty: Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

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


simplify: A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;


simplify: but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

But what I tell you is this: love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,


simplify: and she lifted up her voice with a loud cry, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

And she said with a loud voice: May blessing be on you among women, and a blessing on the child of your body.


simplify: Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation;

Then, before all the meeting, the spirit of the Lord came on Jahaziel, the son of Zechariah, son of Benaiah, son of Jeiel, son of Mattaniah, a Levite and one of the family of Asaph;


rate difficulty: Then will I also confess of thee That thine own right hand can save thee.


rate difficulty: Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

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


simplify: This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.


simplify: one saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels that are bound at the great river Euphrates.

Saying to the sixth angel who had the horn, Make free the four angels who are chained at the great river Euphrates.


rate difficulty: Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

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


simplify: Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.


simplify: And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.


simplify: And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord God fell there upon me.

Now in the sixth year, in the sixth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was in my house and the responsible men of Judah were seated before me, the hand of the Lord came on me there.


simplify: Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.


simplify: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.


simplify: And thou shalt make fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one.


simplify: God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.


rate difficulty: one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;

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


simplify: And David said, As Jehovah liveth, Jehovah will smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.

And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.


simplify: Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.

Opposite the space of twenty cubits which was part of the inner square, and opposite the stone floor of the outer square. There were covered ways facing one another on the third floor.


simplify: But Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye them thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him.

But Jesus, answering, said, Put up with this, at least. And touching his ear, he made it well.


simplify: For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

For your giving of the blessing is certainly well done, but of no profit to the man without knowledge.


rate difficulty: the rich doth not multiply, and the poor doth not diminish from the half-shekel, to give the heave-offering of Jehovah, to make atonement for your souls.

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


rate difficulty: Is Ephraim a watchman with myGod? [nay] the prophet is a fowler's snare on all his ways, enmity in the house of hisGod.

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


simplify: And he came forth, and saw a great multitude, and he had compassion on them, and healed their sick.

And he came out and saw a great number of people and he had pity on them, and made well those of them who were ill.


rate difficulty: and I recalled the saying of the Master — ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

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


rate difficulty: But while the disciples encircled him, he rose up and entered into the city. And on the morrow he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.


simplify: And it came to pass, before Isaiah was gone out into the middle part of the city, that the word of Jehovah came to him, saying,

Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,


rate difficulty: He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled their tents.

Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents.


simplify: `But woe to you--the rich, because ye have got your comfort.

But  ‘alas for you who are rich,’ for you have had your comforts in full.


simplify: And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

And Zadok and Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, were priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;


simplify: And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;


rate difficulty: And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.


simplify: The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;

The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,


rate difficulty: And Moses stretcheth out his rod against the land of Egypt, and Jehovah hath led an east wind over the land all that day, and all the night; the morning hath been, and the east wind hath lifted up the locust.

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


simplify: Now the apostles and the brethren that were in Judæa heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judaea had news that the word of God had been given to the Gentiles.


simplify: And thou shalt put it on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of the mitre it shall be.

Put a blue cord on it and put it on the front of the twisted head-dress:


rate difficulty: Sorrow for the day! for the day of the Lord is near, and as destruction from the Ruler of all it will come.


simplify: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the Lord.

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign that Jehovah hath spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

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


simplify: And one of them that stood by drew a sword, and smote a servant of the high priest, and cut off his ear.

But a certain one of those who were near took out his sword, and gave the servant of the high priest a blow, cutting off his ear.


rate difficulty: If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives — of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah —

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


rate difficulty: And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;

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


rate difficulty: And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me, my brother? And he called them the land of Cabul unto this day.

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


simplify: For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

For we all go wrong in a number of things. If a man never makes a slip in his talk, then he is a complete man and able to keep all his body in control.


rate difficulty: And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

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


simplify: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.


simplify: and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.


simplify: And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried away my daughters as captives of the sword?

And Laban said to Jacob, Why did you go away secretly, taking my daughters away like prisoners of war?


simplify: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

Had not those days been limited, not a single soul would escape; but for the sake of ‘God’s people’ a limit will be put to them.


simplify: Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.

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


simplify: The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.


simplify: But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.

but as to a seat at my right or at my left — that is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”


simplify: And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;


rate difficulty: `And it hath been on Aaron to minister in, and its sound hath been heard in his coming in unto the sanctuary before Jehovah, and in his going out, and he doth not die.

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


simplify: And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus did question them,

Before the Pharisees separated, Jesus put this question to them —


simplify: Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there was gathered together unto him out of Israel a very great assembly of men and women and children; for the people wept very sore.

Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.


simplify: A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.


simplify: From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.


rate difficulty: Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

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


rate difficulty: Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.

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


rate difficulty: And he taught them many things in parables. And he said to them in his doctrine,


simplify: And there come unto him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,


simplify: Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

Truly, my eye has seen all this, word of it has come to my ear, and I have knowledge of it.


simplify: But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.

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


simplify: I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.

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


simplify: But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Now a short time after, at the time of the grain-cutting, Samson, taking with him a young goat, went to see his wife; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the bride's room. But her father would not let him go in.


rate difficulty: Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

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


simplify: But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

and has revealed at his own time in his message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.


rate difficulty: because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

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


simplify: Nevertheless in those days, saith the Lord, I will not make a full end with you.

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.


rate difficulty: and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to her, No, but we will go back with you to your people.

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


simplify: And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Jehovah, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.

And year by year, whenever she went up to the house of the Lord, she kept on attacking her, so that Hannah gave herself up to weeping and would take no food.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,

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


simplify: These four were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

These four were of the offspring of the Rephaim in Gath; and they came to their end by the hands of David and his servants.


simplify: And I will scatter toward every wind all that are round about him to help him, and all his bands; and I will draw out the sword after them.

And all his helpers round about him and all his armies I will send in flight to every wind; and I will let loose a sword after them.


rate difficulty: And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah;

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


simplify: `Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations! --

‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the land of the Road by the Sea, and beyond the Jordan, with Galilee of the Gentiles —


simplify: Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.


simplify: And the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated unto Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.

And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses.


simplify: and they said unto her, `Thou art mad;' and she was confidently affirming <FI>it<Fi> to be so, and they said, `It is his messenger;'

“You are mad!” they exclaimed. But, when she persisted that it was so, they said: “It must be his spirit!”


rate difficulty: Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this?

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


simplify: Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.


simplify: Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.


simplify: the <FI>son<Fi> of Joanna, the <FI>son<Fi> of Rhesa, the <FI>son<Fi> of Zerubbabel, the <FI>son<Fi> of Shealtiel,

Johanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel, Neriah,


simplify: Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.


simplify: And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their sentence has not been standing idle, nor their ruin slumbering.


rate difficulty: And they said to her, There is no one among thy kinsfolk who is called by this name.

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


rate difficulty: and the anointing oil, and the incense of sweet spices for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

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


rate difficulty: And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.

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


simplify: look ye out the best and meetest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.

Take the best and most upright of your master's sons, and make him king in his father's place, and put up a fight for your master's family.


rate difficulty: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.


simplify: All the cities which ye shall give to the Levites shall be forty and eight cities; them shall ye give with their suburbs.

Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them.


simplify: The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.


rate difficulty: And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece [of land] was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

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


simplify: And Jotham slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

And Jotham went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in the town of David; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.


simplify: And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

The Tempter came to him, and said:  “If you are God’s Son, tell these stones to become loaves of bread.”


simplify: For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;


simplify: Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.


rate difficulty: `Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

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


simplify: For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

For I am even now being offered, and my end is near.


rate difficulty: And the messenger said to them, `Fear not, for lo, I bring you good news of great joy, that shall be to all the people--

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, Even by reason of my haste that is in me.

For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.


rate difficulty: and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.


rate difficulty: It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

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


rate difficulty: But Peter answering, and the apostles, said,God must be obeyed rather than men.

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


rate difficulty: Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and [the other] five curtains coupled one to another.

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


rate difficulty: and our hope <FI>is<Fi> stedfast for you, knowing that even as ye are partakers of the sufferings--so also of the comfort.

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


simplify: And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:

And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord:


rate difficulty: And they bring the colt unto Jesus, and cast on him their garments; and he sat upon him.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

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


rate difficulty: and I weigh to their hand, of silver, talents six hundred and fifty, and of vessels of silver a hundred talents, of gold a hundred talents,

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


rate difficulty: But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

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


simplify: but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.


simplify: For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

for ‘the earth, with all that is in it, belongs to the Lord.’


rate difficulty: He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the sojourner, in giving him food and raiment.

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


simplify: And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, What is it? for they knew not what it was. And Moses said unto them, It is the bread which Jehovah hath given you to eat.

And when the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, What is it? for they had no idea what it was. And Moses said to them, It is the bread which the Lord has given you for your food.


rate difficulty: Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.

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


simplify: Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Listen, I give some of the Congregation of Satan, the people who declare that they are God's people, though they are not, but are lying — I will make them ‘come and bow down at your feet,’ and they will learn that I loved you.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

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


simplify: And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof.

And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.


simplify: This evil people, that refuse to hear my words, that walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is profitable for nothing.

These evil people who say they will not give ear to my words, who go on in the pride of their hearts and have become servants and worshippers of other gods, will become like this band which is of no use for anything.


simplify: `For ye brought these men, who are neither temple-robbers nor speaking evil of your goddess;

for you have brought these men here, though they are neither robbers of Temples nor blasphemers of our Goddess.


simplify: So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even unto the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.


rate difficulty: So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights, as I fell down; for Jehovah had said he would destroy you.


rate difficulty: and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels — that she should be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son.

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


rate difficulty: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.


rate difficulty: Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, in all the people being baptised, Jesus also being baptised, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Now after the baptism of all the people, and when Jesus had been baptized and was still praying, the heavens opened,


rate difficulty: For who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? and who will have sorrow for you? or who will go out of his way to see how you are?

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


simplify: And some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents, and silver for tribute; the Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand and seven hundred rams, and seven thousand and seven hundred he-goats.

And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.


rate difficulty: with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house.


simplify: The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.


rate difficulty: But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.

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


simplify: Having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

You will be engaged in the same hard struggle as that which you once saw me waging, and which you hear that I am waging still.


simplify: Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

Are they not on the other side of Jordan, looking west, in the land of the Canaanites living in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, by the holy tree of Moreh?


simplify: Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah.

Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, Abijam became king over Judah.


simplify: Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.

Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.


rate difficulty: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.


rate difficulty: And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.

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


rate difficulty: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

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


simplify: And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

But his mother made answer and said, No, his name is John.


rate difficulty: For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

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


simplify: Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army, slain by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord.


simplify: I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.


rate difficulty: And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

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


simplify: And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

And my face will be turned from you, and you will be broken before those who are against you, and your haters will become your rulers, and you will go in flight when no man comes after you.


simplify: To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.

To give knowledge that the year of the Lord's good pleasure is come.


simplify: What then is the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise hath been made; and it was ordained through angels by the hand of a mediator.

What then is the law? It was an addition made because of sin, till the coming of the seed to whom the undertaking had been given; and it was ordered through angels by the hand of a go-between.


rate difficulty: And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:

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


rate difficulty: (for they hear of Thy great name, and of Thy strong hand, and of Thy stretched-out arm) --and he hath come in and prayed towards this house,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

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


simplify: And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.


simplify: nevertheless thou shalt not build the house; but thy son that shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house for my name.

But you yourself will not be the builder of the house; but your son, the offspring of your body, he it is who will put up a house for my name.


simplify: but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue.

But at a meeting of the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, and so teach others, than ten thousand words when using the gift of ‘tongues.’


rate difficulty: And he went out, weeping bitterly.


rate difficulty: Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,


simplify: And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: For thy servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, If I bring him not to thee, then I shall be guilty toward my father all my days.

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


simplify: Whosoever shall receive one of such children in my name, receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me, receiveth not me, but him that sent me.

Whoever will give honour to one such little child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour not to me, but to him who sent me.


simplify: And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.

And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.


rate difficulty: Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

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


simplify: And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.

and then he will send the angels, and gather his people from the four winds, from one end of the world to the other.


simplify: I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there is none greater than John: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


rate difficulty: And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:


simplify: In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.

In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah, Pekahiah, the son of Menahem, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for two years.


simplify: The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.


simplify: I have made the earth, the men and the beasts that are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it unto whom it seemeth right unto me.

I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.


rate difficulty: and having seen him, they bowed to him, but some did waver.

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


rate difficulty: The priests: sons of Jedaiah: of the house of Jeshua: nine hundred seventy and three;


simplify: And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.


simplify: Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

Come, let us go down and take away the sense of their language, so that they will not be able to make themselves clear to one another.


simplify: All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar; and I will glorify the house of my glory.

All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are thrown down by the mounts, and by the sword;

For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and ...;


simplify: and the serpent did cast forth after the woman, out of his mouth, water as a river, that he may cause her to be carried away by the river,

Then the snake poured water from its mouth after the woman, like a river, so that it might sweep her away.


rate difficulty: But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

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


simplify: And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud.

And of the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel, the son of Ammihud.


simplify: A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.

An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.