rate difficulty: and he covereth the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold, and hath graved cherubs on the walls.

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


rate difficulty: rooted and builded up in him, and established in your faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

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


simplify: Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

And Paul got to his feet on Mars' Hill and said, O men of Athens, I see that you are overmuch given to fear of the gods.


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah about all the Jews who were living in the land of Egypt, in Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros, saying,


rate difficulty: Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

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


rate difficulty: Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

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


simplify: And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

And Saul was very angry and this saying was unpleasing to him; and he said, They have given David credit for tens of thousands, and to me for only thousands: what more is there for him but the kingdom?


simplify: So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins.

So, as the Lord said, I got a band for a price and put it round my body.


rate difficulty: Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of [thy] words: —

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


rate difficulty: And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

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


rate difficulty: But if his hand cannot attain to two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin-offering: he shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put frankincense thereon; for it is a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail--All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:

While they were at a loss to account for this, all at once two men stood beside them, in dazzling clothing.


simplify: at which having looked stedfastly, I was considering, and I saw the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of heaven;

Looking intently at it, I began to distinguish quadrupeds, wild beasts, reptiles, and birds;


simplify: Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he returned to Galilee.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put all these words in writing; for on them is based the agreement which I will make with you.


simplify: Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I amwithout transgression.

Though I am right, still I am in pain; my wound may not be made well, though I have done no wrong.


rate difficulty: and now, my lord, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, in that Jehovah hath withheld thee from coming in with blood, and to save thy hand to thee--now let thine enemies be as Nabal, even those seeking evil unto my lord.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.


simplify: Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?


simplify: And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.


simplify: And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Jehovah, and the other lot for Azazel.

And Aaron will make selection from the two goats by the decision of the Lord, one goat for the Lord and one for Azazel.


rate difficulty: and this house, [which] is high, every one that passes by it shall be astonished at, and shall hiss, and they shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land and to this house?

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


rate difficulty: Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

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


simplify: And again he entered into Capernaum, after <FI>some<Fi> days, and it was heard that he is in the house,

Some days later, when Jesus came back to Capernaum, the news spread that he was in a house there;


simplify: And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

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


rate difficulty: Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and though I forbear, what am I eased?


simplify: And as Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, Is it peace, thou Zimri, thy master’s murderer?

And when Jehu was coming into the town, she said, Is all well, O Zimri, taker of your master's life?


rate difficulty: Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.


simplify: And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.

And when he said these things, those who were against him were shamed, and all the people were full of joy because of the great things which were done by him.


simplify: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon.

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.


simplify: They therefore, being brought on their way by the church, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.

So they, being sent on their way by the church, went through Phoenicia and Samaria, giving news of the salvation of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the brothers.


simplify: And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

Now if they get married to any of the sons of other tribes of the children of Israel, then their property will be taken away from the heritage of our fathers, and become part of the heritage of the tribe into which they get married: and their heritage will be taken away from the heritage of our tribe.


simplify: Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Do not have the thought that I have come to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.


simplify: This persuasion came not of him that calleth you.

This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.


simplify: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.

They will be named waste silver, because the Lord has given them up.


simplify: And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

Being once asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, Jesus answered: “The kingdom of God does not come in a way that can be seen,


simplify: Thus I fell down before the Lord forty days and forty nights, as I fell down at the first; because the Lord had said he would destroy you.

So I went down on my face in prayer before the Lord for forty days and forty nights as I did at first; because the Lord had said that he would put an end to you.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;


simplify: They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea, and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Zion.

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.


rate difficulty: And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

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


rate difficulty: If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

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


rate difficulty: Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'

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


simplify: And the Lord was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.


rate difficulty: After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,

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


rate difficulty: And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand.

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


rate difficulty: Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah your God giveth you to possess it.

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


rate difficulty: and to have authority to cast out demons:

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


simplify: Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.


simplify: I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.


simplify: And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.


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

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


simplify: and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.

And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.


rate difficulty: And he allowed no one to accompany him, except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James.


rate difficulty: Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.

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


simplify: For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:


rate difficulty: And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part.

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


simplify: but I will show to you, whom ye may fear; Fear him who, after the killing, is having authority to cast to the gehenna; yes, I say to you, Fear ye Him.

I will show you of whom you should be afraid. Be afraid of him who, after killing you, has the power to fling you into Gehenna. Yes, I say, be afraid of him.


simplify: And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.

And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


simplify: and he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin.

And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin.


rate difficulty: For we write no other things unto you, than what ye read or even acknowledge, and I hope ye will acknowledge unto the end:

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


simplify: For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will display great signs and marvels, so that, were it possible, even God’s people would be led astray.


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


simplify: and Paul said, `I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am--except these bonds.'

“Whether it is soon or late,” answered Paul, “I pray to God that not only you, but all who are listening to me, might today become just what I am myself — except for these chains!”


simplify: And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

And early in the morning Laban, after kissing and blessing his daughters, went on his way back to his country.


simplify: And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.


rate difficulty: So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,


simplify: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

For they are God’s servants appointed for your good. But, if you do what is wrong, you may well be afraid; for the sword they carry is not without meaning! They are God’s servants to inflict his punishments on those who do wrong.


simplify: And Saul said unto his uncle, He told us plainly that the asses were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, whereof Samuel spake, he told him not.

And Saul, answering him, said, He gave us word that the asses had come back. But he said nothing to him of Samuel's words about the kingdom.


simplify: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

for the rich will pass away ‘like the flower of the grass.’


simplify: And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions.


rate difficulty: Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Issachar, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

Fifty-four thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Issachar were numbered.


rate difficulty: Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

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


simplify: This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good 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.


rate difficulty: In his days is Judah saved, and Israel dwelleth confidently, And this his name that Jehovah proclaimeth him, `Our Righteousness.'

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


simplify: for many shall come in my name, saying--I am <FI>he<Fi> , and many they shall lead astray;

Many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am He’, and will lead many astray.


simplify: And they went away, and found the colt tied at the door without, by the two ways, and they loose it,

The two disciples went, and, finding a foal tethered outside a door in the street, they untied it.


simplify: And he was questioning them, `How many loaves have ye?' and they said, `Seven.'

“How many loaves have you?”he asked. “Seven,” they answered.


simplify: And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.


rate difficulty: When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterwards; it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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


simplify: from Jews five times forty <FI>stripes<Fi> save one I did receive;

Five times I received at the hands of my own people forty lashes, all but one.


rate difficulty: the one, indeed, of rivalry the Christ do proclaim, not purely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds,

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


rate difficulty: But Abraham said, Child, recollect that thou hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and thou art in suffering.

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


rate difficulty: And God saith unto him in the dream, `Yea, I--I have known that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I withhold thee, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not suffered thee to come against her;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:

There were many women there, watching from a distance, who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had been attending on him.


simplify: And he coupled five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

Five curtains were joined together to make one group, and six curtains were joined together to make the other group.


rate difficulty: Whoso is slow to anger <FI>is<Fi> of great understanding, And whoso is short in temper is exalting folly.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at my prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah is dying, and I fall on my face, and cry--a loud voice--and say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, an end Thou art making of the remnant of Israel.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.


rate difficulty: I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;

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


simplify: So thatthey go about naked without clothing, And being hungry they carry the sheaves.

Others go about without clothing, and though they have no food, they get in the grain from the fields.


rate difficulty: For the ministration of this service not only filleth up the measure of the wants of the saints, but aboundeth also through many thanksgivings unto God;

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


rate difficulty: And if he bring a lamb for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

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


rate difficulty: And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?

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


simplify: and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars — their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.’


simplify: Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.

Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.


rate difficulty: `And the nakedness of thy mother's sister, and of thy father's sister, thou dost not uncover; because his relation he hath made bare; their iniquity they bear.

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


simplify: and a messenger of the Lord through the night opened the doors of the prison, having also brought them forth, he said,

An angel of the Lord, however, opened the prison doors at night and led them out.


simplify: And there was much joy in that city.


rate difficulty: And about the eleventh hour, having gone forth, he found others standing idle, and saith to them, Why here have ye stood all the day idle?

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


rate difficulty: And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.

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


simplify: and if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague.

And if it is increasing on the skin, the priest will say that he is unclean: it is a disease.


rate difficulty: Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; And let them say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth!

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

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


simplify: And the apostles, when they were returned, declared unto him what things they had done. And he took them, and withdrew apart to a city called Bethsaida.

And the twelve, when they came back, gave him an account of what they had done. And he took them with him and went away from the people to a town named Beth-saida.


simplify: Beside the sabbaths of the Lord, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the Lord.

In addition to the Sabbaths of the Lord, and in addition to the things you give and the oaths you make and the free offerings to the Lord.


simplify: Behold, to morrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.


simplify: He hoped withal that money would be given him of Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.


simplify: And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

And he put James, the brother of John, to death with the sword.


simplify: And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.


simplify: Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of the Lord, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

From everything given to you, let the best of it, the holy part of it, be offered as a lifted offering to the Lord.


simplify: And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness.


rate difficulty: I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

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


simplify: Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


simplify: He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

But the angel of the Lord said to him, Why are you questioning me about my name, seeing that it is a wonder?


simplify: And he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway his leprosy was cleansed.

And he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.


simplify: So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.

Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.


simplify: In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.


simplify: And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

And when the evening was near, he went wandering out into the fields, and lifting up his eyes he saw camels coming.


rate difficulty: But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle (I know that ye have much cattle), shall abide in your cities which I have given you,

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


simplify: Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.


rate difficulty: `Who <FI>is<Fi> simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

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


rate difficulty: Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, shall ye send to the war.

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


simplify: What is it therefore? they will certainly hear that thou art come.

What then is the position? They will certainly get news that you have come.


simplify: Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.


rate difficulty: Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he had ended speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso is lending <FI>to<Fi> Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to him.

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and the Tirshatha saith to them, that they eat not of the most holy things till the standing up of a priest with Urim and with Thummim.


simplify: Thus said Jehovah: Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,


simplify: And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.


simplify: And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do men look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.

And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.


simplify: But certain of the Pharisees said, Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?

But some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?


simplify: Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

Then it says ‘I will go back to the home which I left’; but, on coming there, it finds it unoccupied, and swept, and put in order.


rate difficulty: And seeing a fig-tree by the wayside, he came to it, and saw nothing on it but leaves only; and he said to it, Let there be no fruit from you from this time forward for ever. And straight away the fig-tree became dry and dead.

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


rate difficulty: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.


simplify: And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

And you are to make twisted frames of gold;


simplify: Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread.

Then his servants said to him, Why have you been acting in this way? you were weeping and going without food while the child was still living; but when the child was dead, you got up and had a meal.


rate difficulty: They drove out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were infirm, and cured them.

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


simplify: After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.

It was now two days before the Festival of the Passover and the unleavened bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for an opportunity to arrest Jesus by stealth, and to put him to death;


rate difficulty: for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.


simplify: And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

And your food will be the fruit of your body, the flesh of the sons and daughters which the Lord your God has given you; because of your bitter need and the cruel grip of your haters.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.


simplify: And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

The commotion spread through the whole city, and the people rushed together into the amphitheater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, two Macedonians who were Paul’s traveling companions.


simplify: So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts;


simplify: And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.


rate difficulty: And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; for their works follow with them.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

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


rate difficulty: Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

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


rate difficulty: None of his sin that he hath sinned is remembered to him, Judgment and righteousness he hath done, He doth surely live.

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


simplify: I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

I, Paul, writing this myself, say, I will make payment to you: and I do not say to you that you are in debt to me even for your life.


rate difficulty: By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will give thee abundance of good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land that Jehovah swore unto thy fathers to give thee.

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


simplify: And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.


rate difficulty: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should have patience?


simplify: And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

And one of the seven angels who had the seven vessels in which were the seven last punishments, came and said to me, Come here, and see the bride, the Lamb's wife.


simplify: Jehovah hath mingled a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

The Lord has sent among them a spirit of error: and by them Egypt is turned out of the right way in all her doings, as a man overcome by wine is uncertain in his steps.


rate difficulty: and the peaceable enclosures shall be desolated, because of the fierce anger of Jehovah.

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


simplify: and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and strengthen ye your heart; after that ye shall pass on: forasmuch as ye are come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

And let me get a bit of bread to keep up your strength, and after that you may go on your way: for this is why you have come to your servant. And they said, Let it be so.


simplify: And his father-in-law, the damsel’s father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.

And his father-in-law, the girl's father, kept him there for three days; and they had food and drink and took their rest there.


simplify: For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

I had this further object, also, in what I wrote — to find out whether you might be relied on to be obedient in everything.


rate difficulty: Then Jesus added: “Have you never read in the scriptures? — ‘The stone which the builders despised — Has now itself become the corner-stone; This corner-stone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’

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


simplify: And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.


rate difficulty: A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

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


rate difficulty: Now may the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him never go away from us or give us up;


simplify: And there they abode long time with the disciples.

And they were with the disciples there for a long time.


simplify: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.


rate difficulty: And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the Lord might bring evil upon Absalom.

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


rate difficulty: elect according to [the] foreknowledge ofGod [the] Father, by sanctification of [the] Spirit, unto [the] obedience and sprinkling of [the] blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

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


simplify: who <FI>is<Fi> he that is condemning? Christ <FI>is<Fi> He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God--who also doth intercede for us.

Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! — or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!


rate difficulty: The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:

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


rate difficulty: But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

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


simplify: making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.


rate difficulty: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

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


rate difficulty: If a man deliver unto his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

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


simplify: And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.


rate difficulty: And amazement came upon all, and they spake together, one with another, saying, What is this word? for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

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


simplify: And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

And he came to us, and took the band of Paul's clothing, and putting it round his feet and hands, said, The Holy Spirit says these words, So will the Jews do to the man who is the owner of this band, and they will give him up into the hands of the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

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


simplify: and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;

and a person, swearing by the Temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it,


simplify: For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails are like unto serpents, and have heads; and with them they hurt.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.


rate difficulty: Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.


simplify: But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.

But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.


rate difficulty: And the king said to the couriers that stood about him, Turn and put the priests of Jehovah to death; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not inform me. But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hand to fall on the priests of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And [one] of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the Lord God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.

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


rate difficulty: They stayed therefore a good while, speaking boldly, [confiding] in the Lord, who gave witness to the word of his grace, giving signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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


simplify: And when they were come out of the boat, straightway the people knew him,

And when they had got out of the boat, the people quickly had news of him,


rate difficulty: Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The ants are a people not strong, Yet they provide their food in the summer;

The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;


simplify: Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.  Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus.

May God’s blessing be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.


rate difficulty: And he said to it, Let no man take fruit from you for ever. And his disciples took note of his words.

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


rate difficulty: And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father’s.


rate difficulty: And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

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


rate difficulty: And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

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


simplify: And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah, one portion.

And on the limit of Reuben, from the east side to the west side: Judah, one part.


simplify: And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

And when the ship got into the grip of it, and was not able to make headway into the wind, we gave way, and went before it.


rate difficulty: And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom Jehovah knew face to face,

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


simplify: And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.


rate difficulty: Hear this, ye aged ones, And give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land, Hath this been in your days? Or in the days of your fathers?

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


simplify: and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And <FI>be<Fi> ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that <FI>is<Fi> in you, with meekness and fear;

Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to anyone who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it with courtesy and respect,


simplify: The quiver rattleth against him, The flashing spear and the javelin.

The bow is sounding against him; he sees the shining point of spear and arrow.


rate difficulty: So the sons of Israel came to buy [grain] among those that came; for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

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


simplify: Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.

So make images of the growths caused by your disease and of the mice which are damaging your land; and give glory to the God of Israel: it may be that the weight of his hand will be lifted from you and from your gods and from your land.


rate difficulty: It <FI>is<Fi> the appearance of the likeness of the honour of Jehovah, and I see, and fall on my face, and I hear a voice speaking, and He saith unto me, `Son of man, stand on thy feet, and I speak with thee.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!

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


rate difficulty: Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

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


simplify: And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.

And the sons of Shomer: Ahi and Rohgah, Jehubbah and Aram.


rate difficulty: And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.

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


simplify: And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.

When Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly pleased, for he had been wanting to see him for a long time, having heard a great deal about him; and he was hoping to see some sign given by him.


rate difficulty: Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he that was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.


simplify: For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

For he saw that the chief priests had given him up through envy.


simplify: And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

It came out that it was recorded in the book how Mordecai had given word of the designs of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's servants, keepers of the door, by whom an attack on the king had been designed.


simplify: And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.

And Laban said, It is better for you to have her than another man: go on living here with me.


simplify: So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation, unto this day.

So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.


rate difficulty: Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.

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


simplify: Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.


rate difficulty: His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.

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


simplify: And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.


simplify: Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

So he said to his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he has barley in it; go and put it on fire. And Absalom's servants put the field on fire.


simplify: Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the Lord, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the Lord.

Because they have not given ear to my words, says the Lord, when I sent to them my servants the prophets, getting up early and sending them; but you did not give ear, says the Lord.


simplify: And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell it me, I pray you.

Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?


rate difficulty: And thou shalt stone him to death with stones, because he hath sought to draw thee away from Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when Jehovah sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.

And when the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and take the land which I have given you; you went against the orders of the Lord your God, and had no faith in him, and would not give ear to his voice.


simplify: I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil; I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.


rate difficulty: they shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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


rate difficulty: desiring to be law-teachers, not understanding either what they say or concerning what they [so] strenuously affirm.

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


simplify: who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.


simplify: I have known thy works, and where thou dost dwell--where the throne of the Adversary <FI>is<Fi> --and thou dost hold fast my name, and thou didst not deny my faith, even in the days in which Antipas <FI>was<Fi> my faithful witness, who was put to death beside you, where the Adversary doth dwell.

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


rate difficulty: And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

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


simplify: And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.

And said to Moses, The people are giving much more than is needed for the work which the Lord has given us orders to do.


rate difficulty: And do not call anyone on the earth your ‘Father,’ for your have only one Father, the heavenly Father.

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


simplify: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:

The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:


simplify: Wealth addeth many friends; But the poor is separated from his friend.

Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.


simplify: And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.

And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.


rate difficulty: And as we have borne the likeness of him who came from the dust, so let us bear the likeness of him who came from heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

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


simplify: In your own selves judge ye; is it seemly for a woman uncovered to pray to God?

judge for yourselves. Is it fitting that a woman should pray to God in public with her head uncovered?


simplify: And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.


simplify: And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.


simplify: And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

And on his looking round to see her who had done this thing,


simplify: and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.

the Everliving. I died, and I am alive for ever and ever. And I hold the keys of the Grave and of the place of the dead.


simplify: Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;


rate difficulty: In that day go forth do messengers from before Me in ships, To trouble confident Cush, And there hath been great pain among them, As the day of Egypt, for lo, it hath come.

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


simplify: And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.

When they went about from one nation to another, and from one kingdom to another people;


simplify: and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him?

“What, do even you understand so little?”exclaimed Jesus. “Do not you see that there is nothing external to a person, which by going into a person, can ‘defile’ them,


simplify: Jehu met with the brethren of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are ye? And they answered, We are the brethren of Ahaziah: and we go down to salute the children of the king and the children of the queen.

When he came across the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they said, We are the brothers of Ahaziah, king of Judah; we are going down to see the children of the king and of the queen.


simplify: that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,


simplify: the baptism of John, whence was it? --from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

It is about John’s baptism. What was its origin? Divine or human?” But they began arguing among themselves: “If we say ‘divine,’ he will say to us ‘Why then did not you believe him?’


simplify: We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is dead, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.


simplify: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

So that they are no longer two, but one. What God himself, then, has yoked together people must not separate.”


rate difficulty: and then Jesus impressed on him that he was not to say a word to anyone, “but,”he added, “set out and show yourself to the priest, and make the offerings for your cleansing, in the manner directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure.”

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


simplify: and they spake to him the word of the Lord, and to all those in his household;

Then they spoke to him of God’s message, and to all his household as well.


rate difficulty: son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,

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


simplify: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded them: and Jehovah accepted Job.

And Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the Lord had said. And the Lord gave ear to Job.


simplify: And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.


rate difficulty: And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Then come to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees often fast, but thy disciples fast not?

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


rate difficulty: Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

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


simplify: And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

Suddenly so great a storm came up on the Sea, that the waves broke right over the boat. But Jesus was asleep;


simplify: Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?


rate difficulty: Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

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


simplify: Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.


simplify: That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.


rate difficulty: `Ye do not add to give straw to the people for the making of the bricks, as heretofore--they go and have gathered straw for themselves;

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


rate difficulty: And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer concerning Jeroboam the son of Nebat?


rate difficulty: And the ark of Jehovah remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months; and Jehovah blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?


simplify: for we take thought for things honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.


simplify: And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

So they laid hold of him and took him to the Court of Areopagus.  “May we hear,” they asked, “what new teaching this is which you are giving?


rate difficulty: All forms of life are not the same; there is one for people, another for beasts, another for birds, and another for fishes.

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


rate difficulty: And when the children of Ammon saw that they were become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with a thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.


simplify: But Peter put them all forth, and kneeled down, and prayed; and turning him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she opened her eyes: and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

But Peter sent everybody out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said: “Tabitha! Stand up.”  She opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.


rate difficulty: Then doth Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the hill that <FI>is<Fi> on the front of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the sons of Ammon;

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


rate difficulty: All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.


simplify: And they possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto the Jordan.

All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.


rate difficulty: Master, Moses wrote unto us, If a man’s brother die, and leave his wife behind him, and leave no children, that his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall set the woman before Jehovah, and uncover the woman's head, and put the memorial oblation in her hands, which is the jealousy offering; and in the hand of the priest shall be the bitter water that bringeth the curse.

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


rate difficulty: before the length of the hundred cubits: the entry was on the north, and the breadth was fifty cubits,

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


rate difficulty: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

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


simplify: and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

And let us go up to Beth-el: and there I will make an altar to God, who gave me an answer in the day of my trouble, and was with me wherever I went.


simplify: Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

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


simplify: But afterward I will bring back the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith Jehovah.

But after these things, I will let the fate of the children of Ammon be changed, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

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


simplify: All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred fourscore and four.

All the Levites in the holy town were two hundred and eighty-four.


simplify: Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.

Let Aaron come into the holy place in this way: with an ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering.


simplify: And this is but a light thing in the sight of Jehovah: he will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.


rate difficulty: But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: and cedar-trees innumerable; for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-wood in abundance to David.

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


rate difficulty: Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

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


simplify: I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord.

I Tertius, who am writing this letter, send you my Christian greeting.


simplify: And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.


rate difficulty: All ye that are round about him, bemoan him, and all ye that know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!

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


rate difficulty: the same shall purify himself therewith on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses told these words unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

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


simplify: Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.


simplify: Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?


simplify: Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto the Lord, saying,

Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying,


simplify: And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek a sign? verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.

And he was very sad in spirit, and said, Why is this generation looking for a sign? truly, I say to you, No sign will be given to this generation.


rate difficulty: And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.

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


simplify: And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.

And the sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah and Eliashib and Pelaiah and Akkub and Johanan and Delaiah and Anani, seven.


rate difficulty: And the wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house; and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub.

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


rate difficulty: Wilt thou also annul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me that thou mayest be righteous?

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


rate difficulty: And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared.

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


simplify: and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, and a knop under two branches of one piece with it, for the six branches going out of it.

And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.


simplify: Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,

But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,


simplify: So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.


rate difficulty: Assemble yourselves, and hear, ye sons of Jacob, And listen to Israel your father.

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


simplify: For if ye do this thing indeed, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, he, and his servants, and his people.

For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people


rate difficulty: Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.

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


simplify: thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;


simplify: And she said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant said, It is my master: and she took her veil, and covered herself.

And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.


simplify: and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;

But omit the court outside the Temple, and do not measure that, for it has been given up to the nations; and the holy City will be under their heel for forty-two months.


rate difficulty: What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, Loose the shoes from thy feet: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.


simplify: And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

And he made them all be seated in groups on the green grass.


simplify: And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,

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


rate difficulty: Lo, thou hast heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands--to devote them; and thou art delivered!

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


simplify: And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.

I will make you come out from inside the town and will give you up into the hands of men from other lands, and will be judge among you.


rate difficulty: The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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


rate difficulty: yea, they bring their offering before Jehovah, six waggons covered, and twelve oxen--a waggon for two of the princes, and an ox for one--and they bring them near before the tabernacle.

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


rate difficulty: From year to year he went in turn to Beth-el and Gilgal and Mizpah, judging Israel in all those places.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces),

Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)


rate difficulty: And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses cometh, and calleth for the elders of the people, and setteth before them all these words which Jehovah hath commanded him;

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


rate difficulty: Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

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


rate difficulty: Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother, and upon his sons with him, and shalt anoint them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

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


rate difficulty: What, I ask, is Apollos? Or what is Paul? Servants through whom you were led to accept the faith; and that only as the Lord helped each of you.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And he dreameth yet another dream, and recounteth it to his brethren, and saith, `Lo, I have dreamed a dream again, and lo, the sun and the moon, and eleven stars, are bowing themselves to me.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, Your sons and your daughters were feasting together in their oldest brother's house,


simplify: For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. And their course is evil, and their might is not right;

For the land is full of men who are untrue to their wives; because of the curse the land is full of grief; the green fields of the waste land have become dry; and they are quick to do evil, their strength is for what is not right.


simplify: Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

But this I have against you — You have abandoned your first love.


rate difficulty: For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.


rate difficulty: They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.


rate difficulty: And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren: Shallum was the chief;

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


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

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


simplify: And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

You will be betrayed even by your parents and brothers and sisters and sisters and relations and friends, and they will cause some of you to be put to death,


rate difficulty: And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant of the Lord, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.


simplify: Hath not my hand made all these things?


simplify: Wherefore putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.


rate difficulty: Therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Jehovah liveth.

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


rate difficulty: And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.


rate difficulty: Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

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


simplify: And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before Jehovah; and the bullock shall be killed before Jehovah.

And let the chiefs of the people put their hands on its head before the Lord, and put the ox to death before the Lord.


simplify: And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.

And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them.


rate difficulty: So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;

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


rate difficulty: The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

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


rate difficulty: So, then, even though I did write to you, it was not for the sake of the wrong-doer, or of the man who was wronged, but to make you conscious, in the sight of God, of your own earnest care for us. And it is this that has encouraged us.

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


simplify: And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

In the third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

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


rate difficulty: that sendest ambassadors over the sea, and in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying,] Go, swift messengers, to a nation scattered and ravaged, to a people terrible from their existence and thenceforth; to a nation of continued waiting and of treading down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

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


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass, that when all the people which were with Ishmael saw Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, then they were glad.

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


simplify: How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:


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

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


rate difficulty: that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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


simplify: But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.


rate difficulty: And the gold mice, one for every town of the Philistines, the property of the five lords, walled towns as well as country places: and the great stone where they put the ark of the Lord is still in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite to this day.

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


simplify: And then the Lord’s wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.

For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.


simplify: But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.


simplify: And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.


simplify: For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;


rate difficulty: And he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in woollen or in linen, or anything of skin, wherein the plague is: for it is a fretting leprosy; it shall be burnt in the fire.

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


rate difficulty: and the covenant that I have made with you ye do not forget, and ye do not fear other gods;

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


simplify: Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.

Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.


simplify: Then charged he the disciples that they should tell no man that he was the Christ.

Then he gave orders to the disciples to give no man word that he was the Christ.


rate difficulty: Before he had finished speaking, some people from the house of the synagogue leader came and said: “Your daughter is dead! Why should you trouble the teacher further?”

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


simplify: And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

And the heaven was taken away like the roll of a book when it is rolled up; and all the mountains and islands were moved out of their places.


rate difficulty: And I charge Baruch before their eyes, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and Simon he surnamed Peter;


rate difficulty: If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

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


simplify: And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the Lord thy God, that I am come unto the country which the Lord sware unto our fathers for to give us.

And you are to come to him who is priest at that time, and say to him, I give witness today before the Lord your God, that I have come into the land which the Lord made an oath to our fathers to give us.