simplify: Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;


rate difficulty: Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

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rate difficulty: And the Lord Jehovah of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall wholly rise up like the Nile, and sink down as the river of Egypt.

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rate difficulty: But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns unto God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

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rate difficulty: John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

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

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rate difficulty: Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

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simplify: And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

And for a time he would not: but later, he said to himself, Though I have no fear of God or respect for man,


rate difficulty: Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

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


simplify: And all the nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the time of his own land come: and then many nations and great kings shall make him their bondman.

And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.


simplify: Are the consolations of God too small for thee, Even the word that is gentle toward thee?

Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?


simplify: So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.


rate difficulty: and he poureth of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron, and anointeth him to sanctify him.

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rate difficulty: Hatred stirreth up strifes; But love covereth all transgressions.

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


simplify: And for the leprosy of a garment, and of a house,

And for signs of disease in clothing, or in a house;


simplify: All that were numbered of the camp of Judah were a hundred thousand and fourscore thousand and six thousand and four hundred, according to their hosts. They shall set forth first.

The number of all the armies of Judah was a hundred and eighty-six thousand, four hundred. They go forward first.


rate difficulty: And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

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


simplify: And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord; for he is our God.

And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.


simplify: Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Am I not to send punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?


rate difficulty: Sons of folly--even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

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


rate difficulty: If pure and upright thou <FI>art<Fi> , Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken!

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


simplify: And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.

And the Passover lamb was cooked over the fire, as it says in the law; and the holy offerings were cooked in pots and basins and vessels, and taken quickly to all the people.


simplify: For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand.


simplify: And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he hath in you.

And we have sent with them our brother, whose ready spirit has been made clear to us at times and in ways without number, but it is now all the more so because of the certain faith which he has in you.


rate difficulty: But thisI say, He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

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


rate difficulty: So on the first day of the first month in the second year the House was put up.

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


rate difficulty: And certain having risen up, were bearing false testimony against him, saying--

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simplify: Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.

Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house; for this thing is of me. So they hearkened unto the words of Jehovah, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

The Lord has said, You are not to go to war against your brothers: let every man go back to his house, for this thing is my purpose. So they gave ear to the words of the Lord and were turned back from fighting against Jeroboam.


simplify: of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twelve.

Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.


simplify: Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

Then the wings of the winged ones were lifted up, and the wheels were by their side; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them on high.


rate difficulty: Will you be looking for him to come back, and get in your seed to the crushing-floor?


simplify: I said in my heart, It isbecause of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are but as beasts.

I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.


rate difficulty: `And now, what do we say, O our God, after this? for we have forsaken Thy commands,

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


simplify: And when he had tarried among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down unto Cæsarea; and on the morrow he sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.

And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.


rate difficulty: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

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simplify: And they said unto her, Thou art mad. But she constantly affirmed that it was even so. Then said they, It is his angel.

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


simplify: But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.

But on the day after, all the children of Israel made an outcry against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have put to death the Lord's people.


simplify: But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.


simplify: Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you, It is hard for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of heaven.


simplify: And some of the Pharisees from the multitude said unto him, Teacher, rebuke thy disciples.

And some of the Pharisees among the people said to him, Master, make your disciples be quiet.


rate difficulty: And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the Lord:

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rate difficulty: I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

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rate difficulty: He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

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


rate difficulty: Go and get some roe's meat and make me a good meal, so that I may be full, and give you my blessing before the Lord before my death.

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


simplify: Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,

Of clean beasts, and of beasts which are not clean, and of birds, and of everything which goes on the earth,


rate difficulty: Accordingly, after fasting and prayer, they placed their hands on them and dismissed them.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah is unto Solomon, saying,


simplify: And ye shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he that cometh within the ranks, let him be slain: and be ye with the king when he goeth out, and when he cometh in.

Will make a circle round the king, every man being armed; and whoever comes inside your lines is to be put to death; keep with the king, when he goes out and when he comes in.


simplify: Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man that is with thy servants: there is no want of anything.

But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.


simplify: And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.

And he gave orders for them to have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they kept him with them for some days.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

For see, the Lord is coming out from his place, and will come down, stepping on the high places of the earth.


rate difficulty: And each with the wife of his neighbour hath done abomination, And each his daughter-in-law hath defiled through wickedness, And each his sister, his father's daughter, hath humbled in thee.

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


simplify: That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory.

so that you should make your daily lives worthy of God who is calling you into the glory of his kingdom.


rate difficulty: This do: take to yourselves censers, Korah, and all his company,

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


simplify: I am Jehovah your God: walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them;

I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:


simplify: Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah slew of the Edomites in the valley of salt eighteen thousand.

And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,


simplify: For Jehovah brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed sore against Jehovah.

For the Lord made Judah low, because of Ahaz, king of Israel; for he had given up all self-control in Judah, sinning greatly against the Lord.


rate difficulty: And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.


rate difficulty: `And if a man really lie with her, and her separation is on him, then he hath been unclean seven days, and all the bed on which he lieth is unclean.

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simplify: And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof,

And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases;


simplify: But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.

But to the sons of his other women he gave offerings, and sent them away, while he was still living, into the east country.


simplify: And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

and, wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they failed.”


simplify: For the tabernacle of Jehovah, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt-offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.


simplify: It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.


simplify: The sons of Shobal; Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, and Anah.

The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;

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


simplify: He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.


simplify: The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;


rate difficulty: And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

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


rate difficulty: And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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


simplify: but--which becometh women professing godly piety--through good works.

but — as is proper for women who profess to be religious — with good actions.


simplify: I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.


simplify: But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


rate difficulty: And he goeth with them, and they come in to the Jordan, and cut down the trees,


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah the son of Bebai; and with him twenty and eight males.

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


simplify: Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:

Say to them, By my life, says the Lord, as certainly as your words have come to my ears, so certainly will I do this to you:


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared; for the day is holy to our Lord; and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.


rate difficulty: And thou, Pashhur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity; and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied falsely.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 12 | difficulty: hard


simplify: if the plague be greenish or reddish in the garment, or in the skin, or in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin; it is the plague of leprosy, and shall be showed unto the priest.

If there are red or green marks on the clothing, or on the leather, or in the threads of the cloth, or in anything made of skin, it is the leper's disease: let the priest see it.


rate difficulty: And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep mine ordinances, and do them.

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


simplify: And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.


simplify: And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up in the assembly unto Jehovah? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up unto Jehovah to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.

And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel, who did not come up to the Lord at the meeting of all Israel? For they had taken a great oath that whoever did not come up to Mizpah to the Lord was to be put to death.


simplify: Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the knowledge of the meeting of the people, let all the meeting give a young ox as a burned offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, as is ordered in the law, together with a he-goat for a sin-offering.


simplify: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God.

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan, that I might be your God.


simplify: Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.


simplify: He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.


simplify: Now this I mean, that each one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.


simplify: But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

But the effect of the order is love coming from a clean heart, and a knowledge of what is right, and true faith:


simplify: Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.

Here you all are, you children of Israel; give now your suggestions about what is to be done.


simplify: And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.

Then the king of Assyria took men from Babylon and from Cuthah and Avva and Hamath and Sepharvaim, and put them in the towns of Samaria in place of the children of Israel; so they got Samaria for their heritage, living in its towns.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass in the morning, that his spirit is moved, and he sendeth and calleth all the scribes of Egypt, and all its wise men, and Pharaoh recounteth to them his dream, and there is no interpreter of them to Pharaoh.

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


simplify: Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.


simplify: And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.

And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.


rate difficulty: Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the Lord shall bring his oblation unto the Lord of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

Say to the children of Israel: He who makes a peace-offering to the Lord, is to give an offering to the Lord out of his peace-offering:


rate difficulty: And Samuel saith unto Saul, `Thou hast been foolish; thou hast not kept the command of Jehovah thy God, which He commanded thee, for now had Jehovah established thy kingdom over Israel unto the age;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

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


simplify: They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

They are new every morning; great is your good faith.


simplify: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;


simplify: Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.

But all this is nothing to me while I see Mordecai the Jew seated by the king's doorway.


simplify: For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

For there will be no future for the evil man; the light of sinners will be put out.


rate difficulty: Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judas for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus: for behold, he prayeth;

And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;


rate difficulty: Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

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


simplify: I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.

But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.


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

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


rate difficulty: At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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simplify: For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

And, therefore, a woman ought to wear on her head a symbol of her subjection, because of the presence of the angels.


simplify: And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd: and when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle.

And some said one thing and some another, among the people: and as he was not able to get a knowledge of the facts because of the noise, he gave orders for Paul to be taken into the army building.


simplify: And when he had saluted them, he rehearsed one by one the things which God had wrought among the Gentiles through his ministry.

And when he had said how glad he was to see them, he gave them a detailed account of the things which God had done through his work among the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

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


simplify: And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

And he said to his disciples, For this reason I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about what food you will take, or for your body, how it may be clothed.


rate difficulty: the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks are seven churches.

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


rate difficulty: and over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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


simplify: who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,

for they show the demands of the law written on their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self-defense —


rate difficulty: For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

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


rate difficulty: Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.

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


simplify: and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.

while a person, swearing by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.


simplify: and the glede, and the falcon, and the kite after its kind,

The falcon and the kite, and birds of that sort;


simplify: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so too.

And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, answering the king, said, So be it: and may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say so.


simplify: Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.


simplify: And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.

Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink.


rate difficulty: And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye shall have chosen you; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.

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


rate difficulty: He walked also after their counsel, and went with Jehoram the son of Ahab king of Israel to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth–gilead: and the Syrians smote Joram.

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


simplify: And he said unto all, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me;

And to all present he said: “If any one wishes to walk in my steps, let them renounce self, and take up their cross daily, and follow me.


simplify: And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

And the high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low: and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.


simplify: The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.


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

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.


simplify: From him shall come forth the corner-stone, from him the nail, from him the battle bow, from him every ruler together.

From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler;


rate difficulty: And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate shall sit upon the ground.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul saith, `Draw ye nigh hither all, the chiefs of the people, and know and see in what this sin hath been to-day;

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


rate difficulty: But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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


rate difficulty: And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king in his place.


simplify: Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.

Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.


rate difficulty: He was of the children of Pherez, the head of all the captains of the hosts for the first month.

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


simplify: So these nations feared the Lord, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.


simplify: He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she said, Say on.

Then he said, I have something to say to you. And she said, Say on.


rate difficulty: Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.


simplify: Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:


rate difficulty: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And if a man's hair have fallen off his head, he is bald: he is clean;


rate difficulty: And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with much discourse, and strengthened them.

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


simplify: And of the twelve apostles the names are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James of Zebedee, and John his brother;

The names of the twelve apostles are these: First Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;


simplify: Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name’s sake.

Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.


simplify: And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

And he got up and went to his father. But while he was still far away, his father saw him and was moved with pity for him and went quickly and took him in his arms and gave him a kiss.


rate difficulty: And they brought what Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the assembly approached and stood before Jehovah.


simplify: Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.


simplify: for I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

for I have not shrunk from announcing the whole purpose of God regarding you.


rate difficulty: Afterwards they sent to Jesus some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to set a trap for him in the course of conversation.


rate difficulty: And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

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


simplify: And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

And now I am sending you a wise and expert man, Huram who is as my father,


simplify: Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.

Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open.


rate difficulty: Every bed on which he has been resting will be unclean, and everything on which he has been seated will be unclean.

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


rate difficulty: Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

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


simplify: Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Do not take your servant to be a good-for-nothing woman: for my words have come from my stored-up sorrow and pain.


simplify: And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Other seed fell into rich soil, and grew, and gave a hundredfold return.”After saying this, Jesus cried aloud: “Let those who have ears to hear with hear.”


rate difficulty: And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.


simplify: And so thou shalt do on the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth, and for him that is simple: so shall ye make atonement for the house.

And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.


rate difficulty: greed, wickedness, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly;

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


simplify: For through the anger of Jehovah did it come to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.


simplify: Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and truly, word was not given me of half your great wisdom; you are much greater than they said.


simplify: I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will arise and give him as many as he needeth.

I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.


rate difficulty: It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have communion with us. And our communion is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

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


simplify: For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt: it shall not be eaten.

Every meal offering offered for the priest is to be completely burned: nothing of it is to be taken for food.


simplify: The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.

The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.


rate difficulty: And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.


simplify: And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

And as he might not be moved we did no more, saying, Let the purpose of God be done.


rate difficulty: The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight

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


rate difficulty: And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.


rate difficulty: And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?


rate difficulty: And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

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


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

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


simplify: having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, --

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.


simplify: not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of the Christ, doing the will of God out of soul,

not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please people, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.


simplify: Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen!

The glory, O Israel, is dead on your high places! How have the great ones been made low!


simplify: No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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


simplify: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.


simplify: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?


simplify: And the centurion answering said, `Sir, I am not worthy that thou mayest enter under my roof, but only say a word, and my servant shall be healed;

“Sir,” the captain went on, “I am unworthy to receive you under my roof; but only speak, and my manservant will be cured.


simplify: At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.


rate difficulty: Of Zebulun, there were fifty thousand men, who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight, to give help with all sorts of arms; true-hearted men.

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


simplify: If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?

And, if you cannot do even the smallest thing, why be anxious about other things?


simplify: And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

Now at that time, when Jeroboam was going out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite came across him on the road; now Ahijah had put on a new robe; and the two of them were by themselves in the open country.


rate difficulty: And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

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


rate difficulty: And he shall kill the bullock before Jehovah: and Aaron’s sons, the priests, shall present the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.

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


simplify: A false witness shall not be unpunished; And he that uttereth lies shall not escape.

A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will not go free.


rate difficulty: For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.

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


rate difficulty: All the saints salute you.

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


rate difficulty: And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, recorder.


rate difficulty: The Lord has made clear our righteousness: come, and let us give an account in Zion of the work of the Lord our God.

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


simplify: being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead--

much annoyed because they were teaching the people, and because, through Jesus, they were preaching the resurrection from the dead.


rate difficulty: And this you are to do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who is in error and for the feeble-minded: you are to make the house free from sin.


rate difficulty: And it was so, that, as oft as the king entered into the house of Jehovah, the guard came and bare them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

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


rate difficulty: Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.


rate difficulty: Who had been taken away from Jerusalem among those who had been made prisoner with Jeconiah, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken him away.

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


simplify: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

For to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire; and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.


rate difficulty: And if there is only a short time, he will take account of it with his master, and in relation to the number of years he will give back the price of making him free.

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


rate difficulty: They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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


simplify: And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried inone ofthe cities of Gilead.

Now Jephthah was judge of Israel for six years. And Jephthah the Gileadite came to his death, and his body was put to rest in his town, Mizpeh of Gilead.


rate difficulty: And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.

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


simplify: The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.


rate difficulty: For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under law, but under grace.

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


simplify: Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.

Who were seen in glory and were talking of his death which was about to take place in Jerusalem.


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

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


rate difficulty: And they have hanged on him All the honour of the house of his father, The offspring and the issue, All vessels of small quality, From vessels of basins to all vessels of flagons.

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


rate difficulty: And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.

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


simplify: And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood-offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law;

And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;


rate difficulty: And when King David came to Bahurim, a man of Saul's family named Shimei, the son of Gera, came out from there, calling curses after him.

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


rate difficulty: Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,


simplify: And the sixth, Ithream, by Eglah David’s wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

And the sixth, Ithream, whose mother was David's wife Eglah. These were the sons of David, whose birth took place in Hebron.


rate difficulty: And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.

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


simplify: and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

And Herod and Pilate became friends that very day, for before that there had been ill-will between them.


rate difficulty: And the king said unto his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And filled are thy barns <FI>with<Fi> plenty, And <FI>with<Fi> new wine thy presses break forth.

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


simplify: `And if I, by Beelzeboul, do cast out the demons, your sons--by whom do they cast out? because of this they--they shall be your judges.

And, if it is by Beelzebul’s help that I drive out demons, by whose help is it that your own sons drive them out? Therefore they will themselves be your judges.


simplify: And I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye flourished again in caring for me, for which also ye were caring, and lacked opportunity;

It was a matter of great joy to me, as one in union with the Lord, that at length your interest in me had revived. The interest indeed you had, but not the opportunity.


simplify: For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)

Though Judah became stronger than his brothers, and from him came the ruler, the birthright was Joseph's:)


simplify: And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?


simplify: It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and never again will it be lifted up over the nations: I will make them small, so that they may not have rule over the nations.


simplify: But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

Then the angel of the Lord took up his position in a narrow road through the vine-gardens, with a wall on this side and on that.


simplify: They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.


rate difficulty: And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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


simplify: Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

He will send on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which were a cause of fear to you, and they will take you in their grip.


rate difficulty: `And lo, in mine affliction, I have prepared for the house of Jehovah of gold talents a hundred thousand, and of silver a thousand thousand talents; and of brass and of iron there is no weighing, for in abundance it hath been, and wood and stones I have prepared, and to them thou dost add.

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


simplify: He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.


simplify: At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

At that same time Jesus uttered the words: “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the child-like!


simplify: (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

(Now all the Athenians and the men from other lands who come there were giving all their time to talking or hearing of anything new.)


simplify: And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

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


rate difficulty: As to his house where he dwelleth, the other court <FI>is<Fi> within the porch--as this work it hath been; and a house he maketh for the daughter of Pharaoh--whom Solomon hath taken--like this porch.

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


rate difficulty: And the things which I have said to you before a number of witnesses, give to those of the faith, so that they may be teachers of others.

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


simplify: Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.


rate difficulty: Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and Ramoth and its suburbs, and Anem and its suburbs;


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

And when he had said this, he sent the meeting away.


rate difficulty: In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

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


rate difficulty: And they make a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fleeth to Lachish, and they send after him to Lachish, and put him to death there,

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


rate difficulty: And the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.

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


simplify: If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.


rate difficulty: My heart is toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Because ye have said: `We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'

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


simplify: These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

These were the chiefs among the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz, Esau's first son: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,


simplify: So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say to thee.

So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.


simplify: Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

Let women keep quiet in the churches: for it is not right for them to be talking; but let them be under control, as it says in the law.


simplify: To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

to give light to those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, And guide our feet into the way of peace.”


simplify: So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. And Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.

So Jehu got into his carriage and went to Jezreel, for Joram was ill in bed there; and Ahaziah, king of Judah, had come down to see Joram.


rate difficulty: And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

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


rate difficulty: And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the river.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:

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


simplify: And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs,

And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts,


rate difficulty: Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

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


simplify: Go, and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished before thee in that day.

Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.


rate difficulty: And Menahem got the money from Israel, from all the men of wealth, fifty silver shekels from every man, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria went back without stopping in the land.

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


simplify: And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;

And Abijah took up his position on Mount Zemaraim, in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Give ear to me, O Jeroboam and all Israel:


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


simplify: Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, these may forget, yet will not I forget thee.

Will a woman give up the child at her breast, will she be without pity for the fruit of her body? yes, these may, but I will not let you go out of my memory.


simplify: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.


simplify: Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?


rate difficulty: Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

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


simplify: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

And I will put muscles on you and make flesh come on you, and put skin over you, and breath into you, so that you may have life; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: In that day will I cause a horn to bud forth unto the house of Israel, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

In that day I will make a horn put out buds for the children of Israel, and I will let your words come freely among them, and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: for Adam was first formed, then Eve,


rate difficulty: And the king of Babylon slaughtereth the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also all the princes of Judah hath he slaughtered in Riblah;

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


simplify: And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.

Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them all through the scriptures the passages that referred to himself.


rate difficulty: and thou hast rejoiced in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who <FI>are<Fi> within thy gates.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,

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


rate difficulty: But God clave the hollow place that is in Lehi, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore the name thereof was called En-hakkore, which is in Lehi, unto this day.

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


simplify: But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it cannot rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.


simplify: But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the Lord said to Moses.


rate difficulty: And so thou dost do on the seventh of the month, because of each erring one, and because of the simple one--and ye have purified the house.

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


simplify: I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.

And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Let those who have been forced out of Moab have a resting-place with you; be a cover to them from him who is making waste their land: till the cruel ones are cut off, and wasting has come to an end, and those who take pleasure in crushing the poor are gone from the land.

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


simplify: Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?


rate difficulty: Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

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


simplify: that thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be ashamed because of all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.

So that you will be shamed and made low because of all you have done, when I have mercy on you.


simplify: And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:

And the angel showed me ‘a river of the water of life,’ as clear as crystal, issuing from the throne of God and of the Lamb,


simplify: He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.

After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.


rate difficulty: and I am sending him back to you with this letter — though it is like tearing out of my heart.


simplify: And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.


rate difficulty: But Jesus said to him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one,God.

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


rate difficulty: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:


simplify: Bath–sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set for the king’s mother; and she sat on his right hand.

So Bath-sheba went to King Solomon to have talk with him on Adonijah's account. And the king got up to come to her, and went down low to the earth before her; then he took his place on the king's seat and had a seat made ready for the king's mother and she took her place at his right hand.


rate difficulty: And it will be, when they say to you, Where are we to go? then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are to be in need of food, to need of food; and such as are to be taken away prisoners, to be taken away.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live.

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.


simplify: And when the Syrians saw that they were smitten before Israel, they gathered themselves together.

And when the Aramaeans saw that Israel had overcome them, they got themselves together.


simplify: And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?

And when the boy came to the place where the arrow was, Jonathan, crying out after the boy, said, Has it not gone past you?


simplify: But Omri wrought evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did worse than all that were before him.

And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,


simplify: And what can David say more unto thee? for thou knowest thy servant, O Lord Jehovah.

What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.


rate difficulty: Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

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


rate difficulty: In thee have they taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken interest and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and having cried, and rent him much, it came forth, and he became as dead, so that many said that he was dead,

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


simplify: And Heshbon with her suburbs, and Jazer with her suburbs.

And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.


simplify: For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.


simplify: And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

“Somebody touched me,”said Jesus; “for I felt that power had gone out from me.”


simplify: And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, while they communed and questioned together, that Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

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


simplify: And carry these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

And take these ten cheeses to the captain of their thousand, and see how your brothers are and come back with a sign to say how they are.


rate difficulty: And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

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


rate difficulty: Make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad; for by its fruit you will get knowledge of the tree.


rate difficulty: He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

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


rate difficulty: She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

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


simplify: Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,

The next day — that is, the day following the Preparation-day — the chief priests and Pharisees came in a body to Pilate, and said:


rate difficulty: Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

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


simplify: infirm ones be healing, lepers be cleansing, dead be raising, demons be casting out--freely ye did receive, freely give.

Cure the sick, raise the dead, make the lepers clean, drive out demons. You have received free of cost, give free of cost.


simplify: but when this thy son came, who hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.

But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.


rate difficulty: And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

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


simplify: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

But God made selection of the foolish things of this world so that he might put the wise to shame; and the feeble things that he might put to shame the strong;


simplify: Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?


simplify: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

and then you will be happy indeed, since they cannot reward you; for you will be rewarded at the resurrection of the good.”


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

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


simplify: And his disciples having come, took up the body, and buried it, and having come, they told Jesus,

Then John’s disciples came, and took the body away, and buried it; and went and told Jesus.


simplify: Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.

Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house.


rate difficulty: He shall build a house unto my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

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


rate difficulty: And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam saith unto God, `Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me:

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


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


simplify: And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:

And he took the fat, and the fat tail, and the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, and the right leg;


simplify: And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words?

And he said to them, What sort of a man was it who came and said these words to you?


rate difficulty: It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

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


simplify: And I went unto the angel, saying unto him that he should give me the little book. And he saith unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.

And I went to the angel, and said to him, Give me the little book. And he said to me: Put it in your mouth; and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.


rate difficulty: And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

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


simplify: (As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old),

(As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)


simplify: Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.


rate difficulty: `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: Again he sent other bondmen more than the first, and they did to them in like manner.

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


simplify: And as he journeyed, it came to pass that he drew nigh unto Damascus: and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven:

And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him;


simplify: And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.

And he went away from there, and came into his country; and his disciples went with him.


simplify: And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,


simplify: And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Among the children of Israel I will make my living-place, and I will be their God.


rate difficulty: Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

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


simplify: And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.

Some fell into good soil, and, shooting up and growing, yielded a return, amounting to thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold.”


simplify: So took the priests and the Levites the weight of the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem unto the house of our God.

So the priests and the Levites took the weight of silver and gold and the vessels, to take them to Jerusalem into the house of our God.


simplify: And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.

And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.


simplify: These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.

These people are like springs without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest darkness has been reserved.


simplify: or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that <FI>is<Fi> in thine eye--thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that <FI>is<Fi> in thy brother's eye.

How can you say to your friend ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ while you yourself do not see the plank in your own? Hypocrite! Take out the plank from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the speck in your friend’s.


rate difficulty: — And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and they dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.

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


simplify: for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

For it was to this that you were called! For Christ, too, suffered — on your behalf — and left you an example, that you should follow in his steps.


simplify: And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:

At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;


simplify: And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

And the king will reply ‘I tell you, as often as you did it to one of these my brothers or sisters, however unimportant they seemed, you did it to me.’


rate difficulty: Now therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thou shalt not come down from the bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt certainly die. And Elijah departed.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Aaron, saying,


simplify: For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.


rate difficulty: These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often as they will with every plague.

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


simplify: And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: then let them that are in Judæa flee unto the mountains:

Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains:


simplify: But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.

But the angel of the Lord was seen no more by Manoah and his wife. Then it was clear to Manoah that he was the angel of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to Moses, and did the signs before all the people.

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


rate difficulty: They shall be turned back, they shall be covered with shame, that confide in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are ourgods.


simplify: And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second like an ox, and the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.


simplify: then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

The letter was sent by Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe and their friends; the Dinaites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,


rate difficulty: Do I not--as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

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


simplify: There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.

A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.


simplify: And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


simplify: which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

Which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take away, when he took Jeconiah, the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, a prisoner from Jerusalem to Babylon, with all the great men of Judah and Jerusalem;


simplify: And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

And Shechem said to Hamor, his father, Get me this girl for my wife.


simplify: So Joash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

And so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.


rate difficulty: When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.

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


rate difficulty: But, if anyone has worldly possessions, and yet looks on while one of our own is in need, and steels their heart against that person, how can it be said that the love of God is within them?

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


rate difficulty: Let there be an agreement between me and you as there was between my father and your father: see, I have sent you an offering of silver and gold; go and put an end to your agreement with Baasha, king of Israel, so that he may give up attacking me.

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


simplify: And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

And straight away he was able to see, and he went after him, giving glory to God; and all the people when they saw it gave praise to God.


rate difficulty: But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.


simplify: then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right: then they laid hold on him, and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time of Ephraim forty and two thousand.

Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.


simplify: For ye are all sons of God, through faith, in Christ Jesus.

Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Jesus, however, was aware of what was passing in their minds, and said to them: “Any kingdom divided against itself becomes a desolation, and any town or household divided against itself will not last.


simplify: And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;

Then Jeroboam's wife got up and went away and came to Tirzah; and when she came to the doorway of the house, death came to the child.


simplify: `Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

You are salt for the world. But if salt becomes tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown away, and trampled underfoot.


rate difficulty: And the young man said, I came by chance to Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul supporting himself on his spear; and the war-carriages and horsemen overtook him.

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


simplify: In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

In the twelfth year of Ahaz, king of Judah, Hoshea, the son of Elah, became king over Israel in Samaria, ruling for nine years.


rate difficulty: and I will pronounce my judgments against them for all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto othergods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

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


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;


simplify: if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;

If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well,


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

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


simplify: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.


rate difficulty: Kirjath-Baal (it <FI>is<Fi> Kirjath-Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities and their villages.

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


rate difficulty: and he himself hath gone into the wilderness a day's Journey, and cometh and sitteth under a certain retem-tree, and desireth his soul to die, and saith, `Enough, now, O Jehovah, take my soul, for I <FI>am<Fi> not better than my fathers.'

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


simplify: It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is there.

It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.


rate difficulty: And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

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


rate difficulty: And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures;

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


rate difficulty: They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.

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


simplify: The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

He will make your minds diseased, and your eyes blind, and your hearts wasted with fear:


rate difficulty: Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

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


rate difficulty: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

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


rate difficulty: And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.


simplify: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

With abundant proofs, he showed himself to them, still living, after his death; appearing to them from time to time during forty days, and speaking of all that related to the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: As I thought to do evil unto you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I repented not;

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


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

And at the head of the army of the children of Naphtali was Ahira, the son of Enan.


rate difficulty: O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant.

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


rate difficulty: I know where thou dwellest, where the throne of Satan [is]; and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in the days in which Antipas my faithful witness [was], who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

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