simplify: asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.


rate difficulty: Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.

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


rate difficulty: and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

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


simplify: And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

And they put them together in masses, and a bad smell went up from the land.


rate difficulty: Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.

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


simplify: And he went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.

So he went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.


simplify: and Solomon begat Rehoboam, and Rehoboam begat Abijah, and Abijah begat Asa,

Solomon of Rehoboam, Rehoboam of Abijah, Abijah of Asa,


rate difficulty: He seized the Dragon, the primeval snake (who is the ‘devil’ or ‘Satan’), and bound him in chains for a thousand years.

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


rate difficulty: What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if one of them gets loose and goes away, will not let the ninety-nine be in the waste land by themselves, and go after the wandering one, till he sees where it is?

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


simplify: This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.


simplify: Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:

They will not see the land about which I made an oath to their fathers; not one of these by whom I have not been honoured will see it.


simplify: and having turned back from the tomb told all these things to the eleven, and to all the rest.

and, on returning from the tomb, they told all this to the Eleven and to all the rest.


simplify: Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

let the instruction that you give be sound and above reproach, so that the enemy may be ashamed when he fails to find anything bad to say about us.


rate difficulty: The Lord has said about you, O last of Judah, Go not into Egypt: be certain that I have given witness to you this day.

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


simplify: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.


rate difficulty: By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

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


rate difficulty: And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

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


simplify: They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.

They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.


simplify: for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?


rate difficulty: With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

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


simplify: And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah with all manner of instruments made of fir-wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt hear, Israel, and take heed to do [them]; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase greatly, as Jehovah theGod of thy fathers hath said unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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


simplify: The first-ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring unto Jehovah, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thy house shall eat thereof.

The earliest produce from their land which they take to the Lord is to be yours; everyone in your house who is clean may have it for his food.


rate difficulty: In that hour came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

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


rate difficulty: And Cain saith unto Abel his brother, <FI>`Let us go into the field;'<Fi> and it cometh to pass in their being in the field, that Cain riseth up against Abel his brother, and slayeth him.

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


simplify: So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let the Lord even require it at the hand of David’s enemies.

And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible.


rate difficulty: Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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


rate difficulty: And the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What further need have we of witnesses?

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


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him.

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


simplify: Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.


rate difficulty: And also Elnathan, and Delaiah, and Gemariah have interceded with the king not to burn the roll, and he hath not hearkened unto them.

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


rate difficulty: and he hath brought out the bullock unto the outside of the camp, and hath burned it as he hath burned the first bullock; it <FI>is<Fi> a sin-offering of the assembly.

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


rate difficulty: And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.


simplify: Moreover David and the captains of the host set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of them that did the work according to their service was:

Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was:


rate difficulty: And he saith, `I have seen all Israel scattered on the hills as sheep that have no shepherd, and Jehovah saith, These have no master; they turn back each to his house in peace.'

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


rate difficulty: For scripture says —  ‘You will be holy, because I am holy.’

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


simplify: And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it: for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you put to death in the valley of Elah, is here folded in a cloth at the back of the ephod: take that, if you will, for there is no other sword here. And David said, there is no other sword like that; give it to me.


simplify: The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given glory to his servant Jesus; whom you gave up, turning your backs on him, when Pilate had made the decision to let him go free.


simplify: The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;


rate difficulty: And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; and they had wings like the wings of a stork; and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heavens.


simplify: And on the morrow, they having come forth from Bethany, he hungered,

The next day, after they had left Bethany, Jesus became hungry;


rate difficulty: When Ephraim spake, there was trembling; he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

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


simplify: And Samson’s wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not: thou hast put forth a riddle unto the children of my people, and hast not told it me. And he said unto her, Behold, I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?

Then Samson's wife, weeping over him, said, Truly you have no love for me but only hate; you have put a hard question to the children of my people and have not given me the answer. And he said to her, See, I have not given the answer even to my father or my mother; am I to give it to you?


simplify: And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

And Abraham took note of the price fixed by Ephron in the hearing of the children of Heth, and gave him four hundred shekels in current money.


simplify: And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the body, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

And when Abner was back in Hebron, Joab took him on one side by the doorway of the town to have a word with him quietly, and there he gave him a wound in the stomach, causing his death in payment for the death of his brother Asahel.


simplify: And then the coast turneth westward to Aznoth–tabor, and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.

And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out from there to Hukkok, stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah at Jordan on the east.


simplify: And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him,

And when Peter came to Jerusalem, those who kept the rule of circumcision had an argument with him,


simplify: And going on from thence he saw two other brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them.

And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother, in the boat with their father, stitching up their nets; and he said, Come.


rate difficulty: And when he had agreed with the laborers for a shilling a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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


simplify: And while they are going on, lo, certain of the watch having come to the city, told to the chief priests all the things that happened,

While they were still on their way, some of the guard came into the city, and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.


rate difficulty: And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.


simplify: And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.


rate difficulty: If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is a sin offering.

And he is to put his hand on the head of the goat and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering before the Lord: it is a sin-offering.


simplify: And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.

I will keep you safe from the hands of the evil-doers, and I will give you salvation from the hands of the cruel ones.


rate difficulty: Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations, And will sing praises unto thy name.

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


rate difficulty: And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

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


simplify: He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son.

He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.


rate difficulty: For, where there is willingness, a person’s gift is valued by its comparison with what they have, and not with what they do not have.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah plagueth Pharaoh and his house--great plagues--for the matter of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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


simplify: Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.


simplify: And when all Jabesh–gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the Philistines had done to Saul,


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

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


simplify: Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

Then Eliashib, the chief priest, got up with his brothers the priests, and took in hand the building of the sheep doorway; they made it holy and put its doors in position; as far as the tower of Hammeah they made it holy, even to the tower of Hananel.


rate difficulty: Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.


rate difficulty: But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;


simplify: And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;

Then the angel said to me — ‘Do not keep secret the words of the prophecy contained in this book; for the time is near.


simplify: Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.


simplify: And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish, and one ewe-lamb a year old without blemish, and three tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

And on the eighth day let him take two male lambs, without any marks on them, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, and three tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal, mixed with oil, and one log of oil.


simplify: Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

And so I am ordering you to see that three towns are marked out for this purpose.


rate difficulty: Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

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


simplify: `Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

Listen to another parable. A man, who was an employer, once planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.


simplify: And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

And Jacob sent for his sons, and said, Come together, all of you, so that I may give you news of your fate in future times.


simplify: None shall be weary nor stumble among them; none shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken:

There is no weariness among them, and no man is feeble-footed: they come without resting or sleeping, and the cord of their shoes is not broken.


rate difficulty: Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.

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


simplify: And three tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, for one ram;

And three tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for every ox; and two tenth parts of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one sheep;


simplify: And Jesus saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered.

presently Jesus said to them: “All of you will fall away; for scripture says — ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’


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 trod down the thistle.

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


simplify: Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,

Now the first name to come out was that of Jehoiarib; the second Jedaiah,


simplify: and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save <FI>me<Fi> --to his heavenly kingdom; to whom <FI>is<Fi> the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.

The Lord will rescue me from all evil, and bring me safe into his Heavenly kingdom. All glory to him for ever and ever! Amen.


simplify: But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.


rate difficulty: Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.

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


rate difficulty: and their teaching will spread like a cancer. Hymenaeus and Philetus are instances of this.

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


rate difficulty: Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

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


simplify: The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.

Just then some Pharisees came up to Jesus and said: “Go away and leave this place, for Herod wants to kill you.”


simplify: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.


rate difficulty: And thou hast said: I go up against a land of unwalled villages, I go in to those at rest, dwelling confidently, All of them are dwelling without walls, And bar and doors they have not.

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


rate difficulty: And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?

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


rate difficulty: And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;


simplify: Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Set free from the control of sin, you became servants to righteousness.


simplify: And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

So God’s message spread, and the number of the disciples continued to increase rapidly in Jerusalem, and a large body of the priests accepted the faith.


rate difficulty: The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

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


rate difficulty: And there was great joy in that city.

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


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

And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand;


simplify: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.


simplify: `After this one rose up, Judas the Galilean, in the days of the enrolment, and drew away much people after him, and that one perished, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered;

After him, Judas the Galilean appeared at the time of the census, and induced people to follow him; Yet he, too, perished and all his followers were dispersed.


rate difficulty: He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

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


simplify: and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Jehovah in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

And Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, who had the ephod. And the people had no idea that Jonathan had gone.


simplify: And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near unto the altar, and offered thereon.

And when the king came from Damascus, he saw the altar; and he went up on it and made an offering on it.


simplify: And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.

So he went up to Jesus at once, and exclaimed: “Welcome, Rabbi!” and kissed him;


rate difficulty: One male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;

We know, of course, that the law is excellent, when used legitimately,


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise.

And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.


simplify: for I have known your readiness of mind, which in your behalf I boast of to Macedonians, that Achaia hath been prepared a year ago, and the zeal of you did stir up the more part,

I know, of course, your willingness to help, and I am always boasting of it to the Macedonians. I tell them that you in Greece have been ready for a year past; and it was really your zeal that stimulated most of them.


simplify: For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?


simplify: Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazon–tamar, which is En–gedi.

And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from Edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar (which is En-gedi).


simplify: If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?

If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?


simplify: And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

And when he had taken him down, they saw them all, seated about on all sides, feasting and drinking among all the mass of goods which they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.


rate difficulty: And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

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


simplify: And they removed from Ezion–gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their tents in the waste land of Zin (which is Kadesh).


simplify: Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot them forth.

In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.


simplify: And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?


simplify: Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.


rate difficulty: But they gave no attention, and went about their business, one to his farm, another to his trade:

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


simplify: Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.

The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,


rate difficulty: Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.

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


rate difficulty: I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of thee.

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


rate difficulty: And I say, `What <FI>is<Fi> it?' And he saith, `This--the ephah that is coming forth.' And he saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> their aspect in all the land.


rate difficulty: They feared Jehovah, and served their owngods after the manner of the nations, whence they had been carried away.

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


simplify: and having called him, he said to him, What <FI>is<Fi> this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

So the master called him and said ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give in your accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.’


simplify: and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, <FI>art<Fi> a transgressor of law.

Indeed, the person who, owing to his birth, remains uncircumcised, and yet scrupulously obeys the law, will condemn you, who, for all your written law and your circumcision, are yet a breaker of the law.


rate difficulty: No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

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


simplify: and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true <FI>are<Fi> Thy ways, O King of saints,

They are singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb —  ‘Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord, our God, the Almighty. Righteous and true are your ways, eternal King.


simplify: His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

His flesh is so wasted away, that it may not be seen, and his bones. ...


simplify: Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

Now those who were scattered in different directions went from place to place proclaiming the good news.


simplify: Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Do not, then, allow anyone to take you to task on questions of eating or drinking, or in the matter of annual or monthly or weekly festivals.


rate difficulty: Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

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


rate difficulty: And king David answereth and saith, `Call for me for Bath-Sheba;' and she cometh in before the king, and standeth before the king.

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


rate difficulty: And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

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


simplify: And Jesus said to those having come upon him--chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders--`As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?

Then, turning to the chief priests and officers in charge at the Temple and councillors, who had come for him, he said: “Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs?


simplify: Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

To the church of God in Corinth, to those who have been consecrated by union with Christ Jesus and called to become his people, and also to all, wherever they may be, who invoke the name of our Lord Jesus Christ — their Master and ours,


simplify: And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

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


simplify: but that which ye have--hold ye, till I may come;

only hold fast to what you have received, until I come.


simplify: Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!


rate difficulty: Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so.

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


simplify: And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put up their tents in Dophkah.


simplify: Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;


rate difficulty: And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

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


rate difficulty: And those of the sons of Merari who were numbered by families, in the order of their fathers' houses,

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


simplify: But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;


rate difficulty: For, although we had experienced suffering and ill treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God’s good news in spite of great opposition.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Only, Jehovah took pleasure in thy fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, [even] you, out of all the peoples, as it is this day.

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


simplify: and having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;

After their arrival, they gathered the church together, and gave an account of all that God had helped them to do, and especially how he had opened to the Gentiles the door of faith;


rate difficulty: Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

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


simplify: When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),

When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),


simplify: Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets unto Elisha, saying, Thy servant my husband is dead; and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the Lord: and the creditor is come to take unto him my two sons to be bondmen.

Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt.


simplify: And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.


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

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the men of wealth, and the strong, and every servant and free man, took cover in the holes and the rocks of the mountains;


rate difficulty: And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down.

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


simplify: That thou shalt set apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the Lord’s.

You are to put on one side for the Lord every mother's first male child, the first-fruit of her body, and the first young one of every beast; every male is holy to the Lord.


simplify: And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was honored above all the house of his father.

And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.


simplify: Do not err, my beloved brethren.


rate difficulty: The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

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


simplify: The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.


rate difficulty: `Jehovah--God of the spirits of all flesh--appoint a man over the company,

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


simplify: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

And they put cords on him and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate, the ruler.


simplify: And if they were all one member, where were the body?

If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?


rate difficulty: Go from the presence of a foolish man, in whom thou perceivest not the lips of knowledge.

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


simplify: Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

Magdiel, Iram; these are the Edomite chiefs, in their places in their heritage; this is Esau, the father of the Edomites.


simplify: and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast--the two--to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

The Beast was captured, and with him was taken the false prophet, who performed the marvels before the eyes of the Beast, with which he deceived those who had received the brand of the Beast and those who worshiped his image. Alive, they were thrown, both of them, into the lake of fire - of burning sulphur.


rate difficulty: And in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah hath Sennacherib king of Asshur come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and seizeth them,

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


rate difficulty: Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

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


rate difficulty: According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

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


rate difficulty: And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

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


rate difficulty: And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her house.

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


simplify: This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

This is to be the work of the Gershonites, the things they are to do and take up.


simplify: Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

So now send the news quickly to David, and say, Do not take your night's rest by the way across the river to the waste land, but be certain to go over; or the king and all the people with him will come to destruction.


simplify: Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give unto us a possession among the brethren of our father.

Why is the name of our father to be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give us a heritage among our father's brothers.


rate difficulty: All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

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


rate difficulty: Chasten thy son, and he shall give thee rest, and shall give delight unto thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: Of laughing I said, It is foolish; and of joy--What use is it?


simplify: and the lamp of God was not yet gone out, and Samuel was laid down to sleep, in the temple of Jehovah, where the ark of God was;

And the light of God was still burning, while Samuel was sleeping in the Temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,


simplify: And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.


rate difficulty: they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

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


rate difficulty: Make two silver horns of hammered work, to be used for getting the people together and to give the sign for the moving of the tents.

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


rate difficulty: Will Jehovah take pleasure in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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


rate difficulty: he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,


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

And Jehoram, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; and he was king for twelve years.


simplify: and an ox and a ram for peace-offerings, to sacrifice before Jehovah; and a meal-offering mingled with oil: for to-day Jehovah appeareth unto you.

And an ox and a male sheep for peace-offerings, to be put to death before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for this day you are to see the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Hadad dieth, and reign in his stead doth Samlah of Masrekah;

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


simplify: Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?

Then Paul said to him, God will give blows to you, you whitewashed wall: are you here to be my judge by law, and by your orders am I given blows against the law?


simplify: And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.


rate difficulty: For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

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


simplify: knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

Having first of all the knowledge that in the last days there will be men who, ruled by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things,


rate difficulty: These are the words of the Lord: Whoever goes on living in this town will come to his death by the sword or through need of food or by disease: but whoever goes out to the Chaldaeans will keep his life out of the power of the attackers and be safe.

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


rate difficulty: All through the life of Saul there was bitter war against the Philistines; and whenever Saul saw any strong man or any good fighting man, he kept him near himself.


simplify: but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock;

But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;


simplify: And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.

When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret.


rate difficulty: Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,

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


simplify: And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.

And if Satan is at war with himself, and there is division in him, he will not keep his place but will come to an end.


rate difficulty: and from the house of Gilgal, and from fields of Geba and Azmaveth, for villages have the singers built for themselves round about Jerusalem;

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


rate difficulty: and many demons they were casting out, and they were anointing with oil many infirm, and they were healing <FI>them<Fi> .

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


rate difficulty: And every offering of thine oblation shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thyGod to be lacking from thine oblation: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

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


simplify: But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

But all the chiefs said to the people, We have taken an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and so we may not put our hands on them.


rate difficulty: and the number of the forces of the horsemen <FI>is<Fi> two myriads of myriads, and I heard the number of them.

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


simplify: And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.

And while they were coming out, they saw a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they made him go with them, so that he might take up his cross.


simplify: Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.


simplify: The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established for ever.

The king who is a true judge in the cause of the poor, will be safe for ever on the seat of his power.


rate difficulty: And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

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


rate difficulty: Uthai, the son of Ammihud, the son of Omri, the son of Imri, the son of Bani, of the sons of Perez, the son of Judah.


simplify: not glorying beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors; but having hope that, as your faith groweth, we shall be magnified in you according to our province unto further abundance,

Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,


rate difficulty: therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I, even I, am against thee; and I will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

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


simplify: And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And a number of nations will go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will give us knowledge of his ways and we will be guided by his word: for from Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

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


rate difficulty: and he sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren are come to Shechem, and behold, they shut up the city against thee;

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


simplify: For John the Baptist is come eating no bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a demon.

For John the Baptist came, taking no food or drink, and you say, He has an evil spirit.


rate difficulty: to cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah, on the altar of burnt-offering continually, morning and evening, and for all that is written in the law of Jehovah, that He charged on Israel.

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


simplify: And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.

Then he went out to the spring from which the water came, and put salt in it, and said, The Lord says, Now I have made this water sweet; no longer will it be death-giving or unfertile.


simplify: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then shall he render unto every man according to his deeds.

For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.


rate difficulty: Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.

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


rate difficulty: And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a son.


simplify: Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.

But year by year you and all your house are to take a meal of it before the Lord, in the place of his selection.


simplify: Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the merciful,  for they will find mercy.


simplify: And those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was filled with guests.

And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.


simplify: But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard.

But how does it seem to you? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go and do work today in the vine-garden.


rate difficulty: So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

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


simplify: And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.


rate difficulty: The second Woe has passed; and there is a third Woe soon to follow!


simplify: And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defence unto the people.

But some of the crowd prompted Alexander, whom several of the Jewish leaders had pushed to the front, and he waved his hand to show that he wanted to speak in their defense to the people.


simplify: And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.

Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.


rate difficulty: The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.


simplify: for we by the Spirit, by faith, a hope of righteousness do wait for,

For we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of our hope — that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.


simplify: Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

or when they ask for a fish, will give them a snake?


simplify: And when the voice came, Jesus was found alone. And they held their peace, and told no man in those days any of the things which they had seen.

And after the voice was gone they saw that Jesus was by himself. And they kept quiet, and said nothing at that time to anyone of the things which they had seen.


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

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.

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


simplify: and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering unto every lamb; for a burnt-offering of a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: And he wrote a letter after this manner:


rate difficulty: Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah raiseth up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; of the seed of the king <FI>is<Fi> he in Edom;

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


rate difficulty: Be instructed, O Jerusalem, Lest My soul be alienated from thee, Lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

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


simplify: And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

When they had reached the place called ‘The Skull,’ there they crucified Jesus and the criminals, one on the right, and one on the left.


simplify: give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again.

Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.


rate difficulty: All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

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


rate difficulty: And when they saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they gave cries of fear.

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


simplify: Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.


rate difficulty: And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.

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


rate difficulty: All that are with me salute thee. Greet them that love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.  It was written to Titus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.


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

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


simplify: And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

And what will you do in the day of punishment, and in the destruction which is coming from far? to whom will you go for help, and what will become of your glory?


rate difficulty: whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the] restoring of all things, of whichGod has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.

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


rate difficulty: And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.

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


simplify: and he told us how he had seen the angel standing in his house, and saying, Send to Joppa, and fetch Simon, whose surname is Peter;

And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;


simplify: And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

Then he made a feast for them, and they all had food and drink.


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

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


simplify: And he said unto Jether his first-born, Up, and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth.

Then he said to Jether, his oldest son, Up! Put them to death. But the boy did not take out his sword, fearing because he was still a boy.


rate difficulty: And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you.

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


simplify: Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,


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

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


rate difficulty: and Saul saith unto the Kenite, `Go, turn aside, go down from the midst of Amalek, lest I consume thee with it, and thou didst kindness with all the sons of Israel, in their going up out of Egypt;' and the Kenite turneth aside from the midst of Amalek.

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


simplify: And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another; for I sware to give it unto your fathers: and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.

And you are to make an equal division of it; as I gave my oath to your fathers to give it to you: for this land is to be your heritage.


rate difficulty: And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.


simplify: For I the Lord love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.


rate difficulty: They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

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


simplify: Moreover I make a decree what ye shall do to the elders of these Jews for the building of this house of God: that of the king’s goods, even of the tribute beyond the river, forthwith expenses be given unto these men, that they be not hindered.

Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.


simplify: to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it — that is sin in them.


simplify: So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.


rate difficulty: Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

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


rate difficulty: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

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


simplify: And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

And Paul, after waiting some days, went away from the brothers and went by ship to Syria, Priscilla and Aquila being with him; and he had had his hair cut off in Cenchrea, for he had taken an oath.


simplify: And the sons of Nadab; Seled, and Appaim: but Seled died without children.

And the sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim; but Seled came to his end without sons.


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

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


simplify: Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.

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


simplify: And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

And David gave his parcels into the hands of the keeper of the army stores, and went running to the army and came to his brothers to get knowledge about them.


rate difficulty: And Moses spoke to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the oblation that is left of Jehovah's offerings by fire, and eat it with unleavened bread beside the altar; for it is most holy.

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


rate difficulty: It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father--Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

Let your lives, then, prove your repentance; and do not begin to say among yourselves ‘Abraham is our ancestor,’ for I tell you that out of these stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!


simplify: Of Naphtali; Ahira the son of Enan.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.


simplify: According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee.

If the number of years is great, the price will be increased, and if the number of years is small, the price will be less, for it is the produce of a certain number of years which the man is giving you.


simplify: And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.


simplify: That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

bears me out when I say that there is a great weight of sorrow on me and that my heart is never free from pain.


rate difficulty: At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

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


simplify: Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?

Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?


simplify: Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;

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


rate difficulty: For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

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


simplify: `But thou, doing kindness, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth,

But, when you do acts of charity, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,


simplify: And if there be yet a tenth in it, it also shall in turn be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.

And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).


simplify: for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

For our knowledge is incomplete, and our preaching is incomplete,


simplify: I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, on the hills in the field. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

I have seen your disgusting acts, even your false behaviour and your cries of desire and your loose ways on the hills in the field. Unhappy are you, O Jerusalem, you have no desire to be made clean; how long will you be in turning back to me?


rate difficulty: And say unto him, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority to do these things?

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


simplify: And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us.

And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.


simplify: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?

Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?


rate difficulty: And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

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


rate difficulty: If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be:

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


simplify: but in everything recommending ourselves as God's ministrants; in much patience, in tribulations, in necessities, in distresses,

No, we are trying to commend ourselves under all circumstances, as God’s ministers should — in many an hour of endurance, in troubles, in hardships, in difficulties,


simplify: And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;

And Ahaz was the father of Jarah; and Jarah was the father of Alemeth and Azmaveth and Zimri; and Zimri was the father of Moza.


simplify: But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them that desire an occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

But what I do, that I will go on doing, so that I may give no chance to those who are looking for one; so that, in the cause of their pride, they may be seen to be the same as we are.


rate difficulty: Or hath God tried to go in to take to Himself, a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors--according to all that Jehovah your God hath done to you, in Egypt, before your eyes?

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


simplify: And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.

And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.


simplify: And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,


rate difficulty: He has helped Israel his servant, in order to remember mercy,


rate difficulty: Would I not take it upon my shoulder? I would bind it on to me [as] a crown;


simplify: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.

Let a woman quietly take the place of a learner and be under authority.


simplify: He shall beas the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, A morning without clouds, Whenthe tender grassspringeth out of the earth, Through clear shining after rain.

It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.


simplify: `And evening having come, the lord of the vineyard saith to his steward, Call the workmen, and pay them the reward, having begun from the last--unto the first.

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


simplify: He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.


rate difficulty: She was full of desire for the Assyrians, captains and rulers, her neighbours, clothed in blue, horsemen going on horses, all of them young men to be desired.

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


simplify: And Jesus having called near his disciples, said, `I have compassion upon the multitude, because now three days they continue with me, and they have not what they may eat; and to let them away fasting I will not, lest they faint in the way.'

Afterwards Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: “My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry; they might faint on the way home.”


rate difficulty: Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

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


simplify: And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:

And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the south of the stream: these towns were Ephraim's among the towns of Manasseh; Manasseh's limit was on the north side of the stream, ending at the sea:


simplify: Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;

Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;


simplify: And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

And Jesus said, And I will not make clear to you by what authority I do these things.


simplify: By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

by the message of truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;


rate difficulty: For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

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


simplify: Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,

Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah, the son of Johanan, Berechiah, the son of Meshillemoth Jehizkiah, the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, put themselves against those who had come from the war,


rate difficulty: and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,

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


simplify: Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty and six.

Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast; because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.


rate difficulty: These were the chief officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

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


simplify: Let such a one reckon this, that, what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.

Let those who say this keep in mind that, what we are in word by letters when we are away, so will we be in act when we are present.


rate difficulty: And I praise you, brethren, that in all things ye remember me, and according as I did deliver to you, the deliverances ye keep,

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


rate difficulty: So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.

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


rate difficulty: But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

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


rate difficulty: These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east.

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


simplify: And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.


simplify: And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

Even with inanimate things, such as a flute or a harp, though they produce sounds, yet unless the notes are quite distinct, how can the tune played on the flute or the harp be recognized?


rate difficulty: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

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


simplify: Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and purify it; so shall they consecrate it.

For seven days they are to make offerings to take away sin from the altar and to make it clean; so they are to make it holy.


rate difficulty: And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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


rate difficulty: House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.


simplify: Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.

Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who were living in the hill-country, and overcame them completely, driving them back as far as Hormah.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Satan, Jehovah rebuke thee, O Satan; yea, Jehovah that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?


simplify: the day that thou stoodest before Jehovah thy God in Horeb, when Jehovah said unto me, Assemble me the people, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.


simplify: On the left hand, when he doth work, but I cannot behold him; He hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

I am looking for him on the left hand, but there is no sign of him; and turning to the right, I am not able to see him.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I am thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

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


simplify: So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.

So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.


simplify: All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.

All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!


simplify: And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

And evil spirits came out of a number of them, crying out and saying, You are the Son of God. But he gave them sharp orders not to say a word, because they had knowledge that he was the Christ.


rate difficulty: Yea also, when the fool walketh by the way, his understanding faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

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


rate difficulty: And he dreameth, and lo, a ladder set up on the earth, and its head is touching the heavens; and lo, messengers of God are going up and coming down by it;

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


simplify: For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

In pouring this perfume on my body, she has done it for my burying.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will bring up a company against them, and will give them to be tossed to and fro and robbed.

For this is what the Lord has said: I will make a great meeting of the people come together against her, and will send on her shaking fear and take everything from her.


simplify: In the resurrection whose wife shall she be of them? for the seven had her to wife.

In the future life, when they come back from the dead, whose wife will she be? for the seven had her for a wife.


rate difficulty: And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.

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


rate difficulty: Speak not too much about a servant to his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be held guilty.

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


rate difficulty: Then he said, Great is my sin: but still, give me honour now before the heads of my people and before Israel, and come back with me so that I may give worship to the Lord your God.

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


rate difficulty: All that were numbered of the camp of Dan were a hundred and fifty-seven thousand six hundred. They shall set forth last according to their standards.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

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


simplify: and coming, he dwelt in a city named Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophets, that `A Nazarene he shall be called.'

There he settled in the town of Nazareth, in fulfillment of these words in the prophets — ‘He will be called a Nazarene.’


rate difficulty: But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

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


rate difficulty: and Aaron hath come in unto the tent of meeting, and hath stripped off the linen garments which he had put on in his going in unto the sanctuary, and hath placed them there;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: From the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his mighty ones, From the rushing of his chariot, the noise of his wheels, Fathers have not turned unto sons, From feebleness of hands,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

this corner-stone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’”


simplify: Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.

“But we,” began Peter, “we left everything and have followed you.”


simplify: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

You have heard that it was said — ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’


simplify: So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

So every one of us will have to give an account of himself to God.


rate difficulty: or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?


simplify: Andthylife shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.

And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.


rate difficulty: So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

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


rate difficulty: Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon--<FI> saying<Fi> : Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.

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


rate difficulty: And I will take thee, that thou mayest reign over all that thy soul desireth, and thou shalt be king over Israel.

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


simplify: And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

Make an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this rock, in the ordered way and take the ox and make a burned offering with the wood of the holy tree which has been cut down.


rate difficulty: Only, the flesh with its life, its blood, ye shall not eat.

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


rate difficulty: and I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

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


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

A lion has gone up from his secret place in the woods, and one who makes waste the nations is on his way; he has gone out from his place, to make your land unpeopled, so that your towns will be made waste, with no man living in them.


simplify: And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

And make four gold rings and put them at the four angles, on the four feet of the table;


rate difficulty: My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

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


simplify: None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.


rate difficulty: and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and let them give it to the workmen that are in the house of Jehovah, to repair the breaches of the house,

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


rate difficulty: I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

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


simplify: And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.

There were six steps up to it, and a foot-rest of gold fixed to it, and arms on the two sides of the seat, with two lions at the side of the arms.


rate difficulty: And Solomon numbered all the sojourners that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found a hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

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


rate difficulty: Then there came two women that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

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


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron’s sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death at the door of the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put some of the blood on and round the altar.


rate difficulty: Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

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


rate difficulty: Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man who was lifted up on high, the man on whom the God of Jacob put the holy oil, the loved one of Israel's songs, says:

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


simplify: Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them.


rate difficulty: For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

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


simplify: and God doth give to it a body according as He willed, and to each of the seeds its proper body.

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


rate difficulty: And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

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


rate difficulty: `In booths ye dwell seven days; all who are natives in Israel dwell in booths,

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