simplify: and when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, do ye pollute yourselves with all your idols unto this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will not be inquired of by you;

And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.


rate difficulty: Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

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simplify: And I will sow them among the peoples; and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return.

Though I had them planted among the peoples, they will keep me in mind in far countries: and they will take care of their children and will come back.


simplify: O Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.

Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.


simplify: Which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium.

and who was well spoken of by the followers of the Lord in Lystra and Iconium.


simplify: So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath–pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.

So Ahaz sent representatives to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, I am your servant and your son; come to my help against the kings of Aram and Israel who have taken up arms against me.


simplify: saying, `Teacher, Moses wrote to us, If any one's brother may die, having a wife, and he may die childless--that his brother may take the wife, and may raise up seed to his brother.

“Teacher, Moses laid down for us in his writings that —  ‘Should a man’s married brother die, and should he be childless, the man should take the widow as his wife, and raise up a family for his brother.’


rate difficulty: I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.

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


simplify: `And then they shall see the Son of Man, coming in a cloud, with power and much glory;

Then will be seen the ‘Son of Man coming in a cloud’ with power and great glory.


simplify: And if thine eye cause thee to stumble, cast it out: it is good for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell;

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said, Call his name Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

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


rate difficulty: The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings together were thirty-one.

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


rate difficulty: When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:

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simplify: For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;


simplify: And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out thence a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he came out, and cursed still as he came.

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.


rate difficulty: According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

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

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


rate difficulty: We entreat you also, friends — warn the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, give a helping hand to the weak, and be patient with everyone.

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


simplify: And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them.

And a great number had come together, so that there was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door: and he gave them teaching.


rate difficulty: Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid,


simplify: In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

In that day there will be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and Assyria will come into Egypt, and Egypt will come into Assyria; and the Egyptians will give worship to the Lord together with the Assyrians.


rate difficulty: And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place for gold which they refine.

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


simplify: For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.


simplify: and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,

There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the way of the truth to be maligned.


rate difficulty: They made search for their record among the lists of families, but their names were nowhere to be seen, so they were looked on as unclean and no longer priests.

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


simplify: This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

This is the law for him who takes an oath to keep himself separate, and for his offering to the Lord on that account, in addition to what he may be able to get; this is the law of his oath, which he will have to keep.


rate difficulty: It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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


rate difficulty: and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

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


rate difficulty: and they take their cattle, and their goods which they have acquired in the land of Canaan, and come into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

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


simplify: But if he shall make them null and void after that he hath heard them, then he shall bear her iniquity.

But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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


simplify: And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

And the servants of Saul gave him an account of what David had said.


simplify: And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with great terror;

And have taken your people Israel out of the land of Egypt with signs and with wonders and with a strong hand and an outstretched arm, causing great fear;


simplify: Be it known therefore unto you, that the salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.

Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.


rate difficulty: Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

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


rate difficulty: And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;

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


simplify: And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.


simplify: As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

It is just what you learned from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who, as a minister of the Christ, faithfully represents us,


simplify: And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:

And though the Lord will give you the bread of trouble and the water of grief, you will no longer put your teacher on one side, but you will see your teacher:


simplify: And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish, which in sight are lower than the wall;

And if he sees that the walls of the house are marked with hollows of green and red, and if it seems to go deeper than the face of the wall;


rate difficulty: The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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


simplify: And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted.

and, when they saw him, they bowed to the ground before him; although some felt doubtful.


rate difficulty: <FI> With<Fi> my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, <FI>with<Fi> my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments <FI>are<Fi> on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

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


simplify: And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.


simplify: And the high priest stood up, and said unto him, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?


rate difficulty: Jehovah had delight [in him] for his righteousness' sake: he hath magnified the law, and made it honourable.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put in it the ark of the testimony, and shalt cover the ark with the veil.

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


simplify: And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.

The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.


simplify: Yea, I will gather you, and blow upon you with the fire of my wrath, and ye shall be melted in the midst thereof.

Yes, I will take you, breathing on you the fire of my wrath, and you will become soft in it.


rate difficulty: And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

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


simplify: Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.

But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.


simplify: And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

Then Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.


simplify: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

But while men were sleeping, one who had hate for him came and put evil seeds among the grain, and went away.


rate difficulty: And Moses came down from the mountain to the people, and hallowed the people; and they washed their clothes.

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


rate difficulty: And Manoah said, Now when your words come true, what is to be the rule for the child and what will be his work?

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


simplify: So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

This I said to you, but you gave no attention and went against the orders of the Lord, and in your pride went up into the hill-country.


rate difficulty: And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes.

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


simplify: and the son said to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.’


simplify: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

And I will put my spirit in you, causing you to be guided by my rules, and you will keep my orders and do them.


simplify: For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

for, in their ignorance of the divine righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the divine righteousness.


simplify: And Jesus seeing him said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

And Jesus, looking at him, said, How hard it is for those who have wealth to get into the kingdom of God!


simplify: for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.


rate difficulty: But I tell you that Elijah has come, and people have treated him just as they pleased, as scripture says of him.”

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simplify: In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.


simplify: All the people of the land shall give unto this oblation for the prince in Israel.

All the people are to give this offering to the ruler.


rate difficulty: but to sit on my right and on my left, is not mine to give, but--to those for whom it hath been prepared.'

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


rate difficulty: and being afraid I went away and hid thy talent in the earth; behold, thou hast that which is thine.

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


simplify: But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

But the rest of the grain-plants were undamaged, for they had not come up.


simplify: Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.


rate difficulty: And they were exceedingly afraid, and said, Behold, the two kings stood not before him; and how shall we stand?

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


simplify: And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath–paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.


simplify: For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of man also shall be ashamed of him, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Whoever has a feeling of shame because of me and my words in this false and evil generation, the Son of man will have a feeling of shame because of him, when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have been more uncontrolled than the nations round about you, and have not been guided by my rules or kept my orders, but have kept the orders of the nations round about you;


simplify: And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.


rate difficulty: in which was written: It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says [it, that] thou and the Jews think to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall, and according to these words thou wilt become their king.

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


rate difficulty: And all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], and they entered into the stronghold of the house of thegod Berith.

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


rate difficulty: I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

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


simplify: And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

Then the sheep is to be cut up into its parts, and after washing its legs and its inside parts, you are to put them with the parts and the head,


simplify: Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.


simplify: Is this blessing then pronounced upon the circumcision, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say, To Abraham his faith was reckoned for righteousness.

Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.


rate difficulty: And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

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


simplify: seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;


rate difficulty: and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

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


simplify: And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,

But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him,


simplify: as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.

As Sarah was ruled by Abraham, naming him lord; whose children you are if you do well, and are not put in fear by any danger.


rate difficulty: Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true we may give you honour?

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


simplify: A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

A comforting tongue is a tree of life, but a twisted tongue is a crushing of the spirit.


rate difficulty: There is a league between me and thee, and between my father and thy father: behold, I send thee silver and gold; go, break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.

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


simplify: Jehovah hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy grain to be food for thine enemies; and foreigners shall not drink thy new wine, for which thou hast labored:

The Lord has taken an oath by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Truly, I will no longer give your grain to be food for your haters; and men of strange countries will not take the wine for which your work has been done:


simplify: And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

They devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles and to the Common life of the church, to the breaking of the bread and to the Prayers.


simplify: but Jehovah of hosts is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.


simplify: Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

Because you kept in mind the story of my endurance, I will keep you in the hour of trial that is about to come on the whole world, the hour that will test all who are living on earth.


simplify: And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.

And they gave him wine mixed with myrrh; but he did not take it.


simplify: And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day.

And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.


rate difficulty: When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

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


rate difficulty: Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

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


simplify: Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.


rate difficulty: The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,


rate difficulty: Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.


rate difficulty: For this cause the Lord has said, See, I have taken an oath that the nations which are round about you are themselves to undergo the shame which they have put on you.

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


simplify: And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea--

I commend to your care our sister, Phoebe, who is a minister of the church at Cenchreae;


rate difficulty: So these went out of the city, the young men of the princes of the provinces, and the army which followed them.

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


simplify: That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.


simplify: At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father’s house:

At which time Moses came to birth, and he was very beautiful; and he was kept for three months in his father's house:


rate difficulty: and saith to him, `See thou mayest say nothing to any one, but go away, thyself shew to the priest, and bring near for thy cleansing the things Moses directed, for a testimony to them.'

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, that he may bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

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


rate difficulty: and two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, as his hand may be able to get: the one shall be a sin-offering, and the other a burnt-offering.


simplify: And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.

Then the king, taking his place by the pillar, made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and to keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and with all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in this book.


rate difficulty: And one of the rulers of the Synagogue, Jairus by name, came, and seeing him, went down at his feet,

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


simplify: The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.

At the sound of the cry of your ships' guides, the boards of the ship will be shaking.


rate difficulty: If ye are reproached in [the] name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; for the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit ofGod rests upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.]

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


simplify: And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness;

And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;


simplify: Jehovah is a jealous God and avengeth; Jehovah avengeth and is full of wrath; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

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


simplify: Elkanah, and Isshiah, and Azarel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korahites,

Elkanah and Isshiah and Azarel and Joezer and Jashobeam, the Korahites;


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good, except One--God;


rate difficulty: And he said, Hagar, Sarai's maidservant, whence comest thou? and whither art thou going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

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


simplify: Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?


simplify: To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

In his doing wrong to a man in his cause, the Lord has no pleasure.


rate difficulty: Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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


simplify: Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:


simplify: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.


simplify: Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;

May grace and peace ever be increasing in you, in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord;


simplify: that I may be delivered from those not believing in Judea, and that my ministration, that <FI>is<Fi> for Jerusalem, may become acceptable to the saints;

Pray that I may be rescued from those in Judea who reject the faith, and that the help which I am taking to Jerusalem may prove acceptable to Christ’s people;


simplify: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;


rate difficulty: And some from among the heads of fathers’ houses gave unto the work. The governor gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.

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


rate difficulty: Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

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


rate difficulty: Vedan and Javan of Uzal traded in thy markets: wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were in thy traffic.

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


rate difficulty: And they speak unto him, saying, `If, to-day, thou art servant to this people, and hast served them, and answered them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.'

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

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


simplify: Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the deadly wounded: it is the sword of the great one that is deadly wounded, which entereth into their chambers.

So then, son of man, be a prophet, and put your hands together with a loud sound, and give two blows with the sword, and even three; it is the sword of those who are wounded, even the sword of the wounded; the great sword which goes round about them.


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

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


rate difficulty: but you will receive power, when the Holy Spirit will have descended on you, and will be witnesses for me not only in Jerusalem, but throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

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


simplify: And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.

On the Sabbath we went outside the gate to the riverside, where we supposed there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and talked to the women who were gathered there.


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

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


simplify: Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the histories of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, after the manner of genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.


simplify: if we may live in the Spirit, in the Spirit also we may walk;

Since our life is due to the Spirit, let us rule our conduct also by the Spirit.


rate difficulty: Therefore hath Sheol enlarged herself, And hath opened her mouth without limit. And gone down hath its honour, and its multitude, And its noise, and its exulting one--into her.

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


rate difficulty: Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, which was the second day of the month, that David’s place was empty: and Saul said unto Jonathan his son, Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to meat, neither yesterday, nor to day?

And on the day after the new moon, that is, the second day, there was still no one in David's seat: and Saul said to his son Jonathan, Why has the son of Jesse not come to the feast yesterday or today?


rate difficulty: And he received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah cometh down on mount Sinai, unto the top of the mount, and Jehovah calleth for Moses unto the top of the mount, and Moses goeth up.

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


simplify: The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:


simplify: Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:

And so, let it be clear to you, my brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is offered to you:


simplify: in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.

We know that we remain in union with him, and he with us, by this — by his having given us some measure of his Spirit.


rate difficulty: And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.

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


simplify: And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.

When Jesus went into Peter’s house, he saw Peter’s mother-in-law prostrated with fever.


rate difficulty: And Rehoboam son of Solomon hath reigned in Judah; a son of forty and one years <FI>is<Fi> Rehoboam in his reigning, and seventeen years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, the city that Jehovah chose to set His name there, out of all the tribes of Israel, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Naamah the Ammonitess.

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


simplify: for we also who are in the tabernacle do groan, being burdened, seeing we wish not to unclothe ourselves, but to clothe ourselves, that the mortal may be swallowed up of the life.

For we who are in this ‘tent’ sigh under our burden, unwilling to take it off, yet wishing to put our heavenly body over it, so that all that is mortal may be absorbed in life.


simplify: `For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

For, if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will forgive you also;


simplify: They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.


simplify: And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.


simplify: And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.

And he said, Go and say to that fox, I send out evil spirits and do works of mercy today and tomorrow, and on the third day my work will be complete.


rate difficulty: and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.

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


simplify: So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

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


simplify: And Judas and Silas, being prophets also themselves, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.

And Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, gave teaching to the brothers and made them strong in the faith.


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

Jesus answered: “Can the groom’s friends fast, while the groom is with them? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.


rate difficulty: And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? Even thou art Saul.

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


simplify: for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size;

The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;


rate difficulty: and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me;

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


rate difficulty: What agreement can you be between a temple of God and idols? And we are a temple of the living God. That is what God meant when he said —  ‘I will live among them, and walk among them; And I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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


simplify: Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the Lord; and they prepared them,

Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.


rate difficulty: And he lodged there that night; and took of what came to his hand a gift for Esau his brother —


simplify: but hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, like as the house of Ahab did, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father’s house, who were better than thyself:

But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake, for that the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.


simplify: So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sitteth above the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.


simplify: and Asa begat Jehoshaphat; and Jehoshaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Uzziah;

And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah;


rate difficulty: Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the inner square was full of the cloud.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these words, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching:

And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching,


rate difficulty: And thou shalt bring Aaron and his sons near, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and bathe them with water.

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


rate difficulty: one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt-offering, and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

On that day, if anyone is on the roof of the house, and his goods are in the house, let him not go down to take them away; and let him who is in the field not go back to his house.


simplify: As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.


simplify: And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.


rate difficulty: — And the south side was from the extreme end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

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


rate difficulty: And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.


rate difficulty: For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

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


simplify: What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?


simplify: And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the winepress.

And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.


rate difficulty: And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

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


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, And for four, I do not reverse it, Because of his burning the bones of the king of Edom to lime,

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


rate difficulty: If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;


simplify: avoiding this, that any man should blame us in the matter of this bounty which is ministered by us:

And so that no man might be able to say anything against us in the business of this giving which has been put into our hands:


rate difficulty: And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.


simplify: Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.


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


rate difficulty: He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.


simplify: As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations.

As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.


rate difficulty: and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

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


rate difficulty: The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.

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


simplify: The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.

The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterwards shall thy hand be strengthened, and thou shalt go down unto the camp. And he went down with Phurah his servant to the outside of the armed men that were in the camp.

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


rate difficulty: But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

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


rate difficulty: Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

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


simplify: But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

But, when he saw the crowds, his heart was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and harassed, ‘like sheep without a shepherd’;


simplify: Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

never flagging in zeal; fervent in spirit; serving the Master;


simplify: And the angel of the Lord protested unto Joshua, saying,

And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said,


simplify: For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

But for this reason I sent for you, to see and have talk with you: for because of the hope of Israel I am in these chains.


simplify: Hisstrong scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal.

His back is made of lines of plates, joined tight together, one against the other, like a stamp.


simplify: And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay that which was due.

And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.


simplify: But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.

And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.


simplify: And he bowed the heart of all the men of Judah, even as the heart of one man; so that they sent this word unto the king, Return thou, and all thy servants.

And the hearts of the men of Judah were moved like one man; so that they sent to the king, saying, Come back, with all your servants.


simplify: Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

Then Peter said: “How did you come to agree to provoke the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The footsteps of those who have buried your husband are at the door; and they will carry you out too.”


rate difficulty: And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

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


simplify: but a Jew <FI>is<Fi> he who is <FI>so<Fi> inwardly, and circumcision <FI>is<Fi> of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

and the real circumcision is the circumcision of the heart, a spiritual and not a literal thing. Such a person wins praise from God, though not from people.


rate difficulty: Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be killed before the Lord: it is most holy.

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


rate difficulty: The words of scripture are — ‘I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.’

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


simplify: And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?


simplify: And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer; go up before me unto the high place, for ye shall eat with me to-day: and in the morning I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thy heart.

Then Samuel said to Saul, I am the seer; go up before me to the high place and take food with me today: and in the morning I will let you go, after opening to you all the secrets of your heart.


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

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


simplify: And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

And he made his disciples come to him, and said to them, Truly I say to you, This poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting money into the box:


simplify: Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name’s sake

And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name:


simplify: And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Jehovah hath spoken will we do, and be obedient.

And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.


rate difficulty: This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

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


simplify: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

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


simplify: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.


simplify: and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak;

And Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak;


rate difficulty: And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.

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


simplify: So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

So David overcame the Philistine with his leather band and a stone, wounding the Philistine and causing his death: but David had no sword in his hand.


rate difficulty: But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.


rate difficulty: And the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it at the gate of the house of Jehovah without,

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


simplify: But now are they many members, yet but one body.

But now they are all different parts, but one body.


rate difficulty: And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

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


rate difficulty: Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

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


simplify: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.


simplify: Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.


rate difficulty: and whether we be in tribulation, <FI>it is<Fi> for your comfort and salvation, that is wrought in the enduring of the same sufferings that we also suffer; whether we are comforted, <FI>it is<Fi> for your comfort and salvation;

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


simplify: She went and told them that had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

She went and gave news of it to those who had been with him, while they were sorrowing and weeping.


simplify: That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;


rate difficulty: The children of Hanan, the children of Giddel, the children of Gahar,


rate difficulty: and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus,

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.


rate difficulty: And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

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


rate difficulty: We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love each other. The person who does not love remains in a state of death.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul drew near to Samuel in the midst of the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is.

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simplify: But neither so did their witness agree together.

Yet not even on that point did their evidence agree.


rate difficulty: And now I have heard that thou hast shearers: thy shepherds have now been with us, and we did them no hurt, neither was there aught missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel.

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simplify: And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.

In my persecution of this cause I did not stop even at the taking of life. I put in chains, and imprisoned, men and women alike —


rate difficulty: and their oblation shall be of fine flour mingled with oil: three tenth parts shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth parts for the ram;

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


simplify: And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there.

The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.


simplify: And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

And he said, My brothers, do not this evil.


simplify: And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

And, when he has found it, he puts in on his shoulders rejoicing;


rate difficulty: And strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And I have given My sword into his hand, And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, And he hath groaned the groans of a pierced one--before him.

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


simplify: Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:


simplify: to open their eyes, to turn <FI>them<Fi> from darkness to light, and <FI>from<Fi> the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that <FI>is<Fi>  toward me.

to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God’s people, by faith in me.’


simplify: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

It would be good for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone around their neck, rather than that they should prove a trap even one of these little ones.


simplify: Be it known unto the king, that the Jews that came up from thee are come to us unto Jerusalem; they are building the rebellious and the bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

We give news to the king that the Jews who came from you have come to us at Jerusalem; they are building up again that uncontrolled and evil town; the walls are complete and they are joining up the bases.


simplify: And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.


rate difficulty: And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

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


simplify: to your walking worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, in every good work being fruitful, and increasing to the knowledge of God,

Then you will live lives worthy of the Master, and so please God in every way. Your lives will be fruitful in every kind of good action, and your characters will grow through a fuller knowledge of God;


simplify: Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.

And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.


simplify: And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him.

And Moses and Elijah came before their eyes, talking with him.


rate difficulty: And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

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


simplify: But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.

And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: and on a certain island it behoveth us to be cast.'

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


simplify: When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;


rate difficulty: neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

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


rate difficulty: And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals;


rate difficulty: He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.


simplify: Yeta little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:


simplify: for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.

For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.


rate difficulty: These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

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


rate difficulty: And I spoke and said unto the angel that talked with me, What are these, my lord?

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


simplify: And Moses said unto Jehovah, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found favor in my sight.

And Moses said to the Lord, See, you say to me, Be this people's guide on their journey, but you have not made clear to me whom you will send with me. But you have said, I have knowledge of you by name, and you have grace in my eyes.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

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


rate difficulty: And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

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


simplify: For truly my words are not false: One 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: For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For the promise that he should inherit the world did not come to Abraham or his descendants through law, but through the righteousness due to faith.


simplify: and her children I will kill in death, and know shall all the assemblies that I am he who is searching reins and hearts; and I will give to you--to each--according to your works.

I will also put her children to death; and all the churches will learn that I am he who ‘looks into people's hearts and souls’; and I will give to each one of you what their life deserves.


rate difficulty: whomGod has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for [the] shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance ofGod;

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


simplify: And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto Jehovah.

And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.


simplify: and they were all weeping, and beating themselves for her, and he said, `Weep not, she did not die, but doth sleep;

And everyone was weeping and mourning for her.   “Do not weep,”Jesus said, “she is not dead; she is asleep.”


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Gad, David’s seer, saying,

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


simplify: Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.

Of the sons of Joab, Obadiah, the son of Jehiel; and with him two hundred and eighteen males.


rate difficulty: And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

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


simplify: and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

Jesus, however, turning to Peter, said: “Out of my way, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you look at things, not as God does, but as person does.”


rate difficulty: Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

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


simplify: And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi–shua, and Abinadab, and Esh–baal.

And Ner was the father of Abner, and Kish was the father of Saul, and Saul was the father of Jonathan and Malchi-shua and Abinadab and Eshbaal.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, unto thee, O Baruch;

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of you, O Baruch:


rate difficulty: Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

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


rate difficulty: and all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wicked thing as this in thy midst.


simplify: Know therefore that they that are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.

Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.


rate difficulty: `And if with a stone <FI>in<Fi> the hand, wherewith he dieth, he hath smitten him, and he dieth, he <FI>is<Fi> a murderer: the murderer is certainly put to death.

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


rate difficulty: And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

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


simplify: Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit,  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

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


rate difficulty: And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

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


rate difficulty: God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn this day from following the Lord, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the Lord our God that is before his tabernacle.

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rate difficulty: And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only,

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


rate difficulty: And they have been in My sanctuary ministrants, overseers at the gates of the house, and ministrants at the house; they slay the burnt-offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they stand before them to serve them.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.


rate difficulty: Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!


rate difficulty: And in the second year of their coming to the house ofGod at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that had come out of the captivity to Jerusalem; and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to superintend the work of the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.


rate difficulty: And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it: if not, it shall turn to you again.

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


simplify: and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.

So he said to him ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding-robe?’ The man was speechless.


rate difficulty: And I--in Jehovah I do watch, I do wait for the God of my salvation, Hear me doth my God.

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


simplify: And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.

And he made four gold rings for its four angles, two on one side and two on the other,


rate difficulty: My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.  The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

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


simplify: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.

For the outcome of the law is wrath; but where there is no law it will not be broken.


simplify: Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

The islanders were expecting inflammation to set in, or that he would suddenly fall dead; but, after waiting for a long time, and seeing that there was nothing amiss with him, they changed their minds and said that he was a God.


simplify: And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.


simplify: `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here!

At the judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the people of this generation, and will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!


rate difficulty: And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

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


rate difficulty: Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

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


rate difficulty: Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.


simplify: If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

As far as it is possible for you be at peace with all men.


simplify: and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;


rate difficulty: The Levites: the children of Jeshua, of Kadmiel, of the children of Hodevah, seventy-four.


simplify: There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.


simplify: Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes.


simplify: And when Samuel saw Saul, Jehovah said unto him, Behold, the man of whom I spake to thee! this same shall have authority over my people.

And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said to him, This is the man of whom I gave you word! he it is who is to have authority over my people.


simplify: and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting <FI>it<Fi> a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing <FI>their<Fi> minds, said he was a god.


simplify: (Simon, whom also he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

They were Simon (whom Jesus also named Peter), and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,


simplify: He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers — does he do this as the result of obedience to law? Or as the result of your having listened with faith?


simplify: And Jehovah stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians that are beside the Ethiopians:

Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;


rate difficulty: And Elisha saith, `Hear ye a word of Jehovah: thus said Jehovah, About this time to-morrow, a measure of fine flour <FI>is<Fi> at a shekel, and two measures of barley at a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'

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


simplify: And Jehovah will set him apart unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that is written in this book of the law.

He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.


rate difficulty: And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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


rate difficulty: Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.


simplify: Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;


simplify: so that my bonds have become manifest in Christ in the whole praetorium, and to the other places--all,

It has even become evident, not only to all the imperial guard, but to everyone else, that it is for Christ’s sake that I am in chains.


rate difficulty: But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

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


simplify: And ye are witnesses of these things.


rate difficulty: Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy;

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


rate difficulty: Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;

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


simplify: And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

and, leaping up, he stood and began to walk about, and then went with them into the Temple Courts, walking, and leaping, and praising God.


simplify: And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.


simplify: Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.


simplify: And certain also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, What would this babbler say? others, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.


rate difficulty: and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

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


simplify: I, Jehovah, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

I the Lord have made you the vessel of my purpose, I have taken you by the hand, and kept you safe, and I have given you to be an agreement to the people, and a light to the nations:


rate difficulty: The wings of these cherubim spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were toward the house.

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


simplify: That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.


rate difficulty: The ninth for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjaminites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: but they shall have no inheritance among their brethren: Jehovah, he is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.

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


rate difficulty: a tenth part shalt thou offer for every lamb of the seven lambs;

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


simplify: And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.


simplify: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

Of this good news I became a minister, in virtue of the charge with which God entrusted me in the exercise of his power —


simplify: But now hath Christ been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of them that are asleep.

But now Christ has truly come back from the dead, the first-fruits of those who are sleeping.


rate difficulty: But it shall come to pass at the end of the days, I will turn the captivity of Elam, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and <FI>it is<Fi> covered with cedar above, on the sides that <FI>are<Fi> on the forty and five pillars, fifteen in the row.

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


rate difficulty: And she made him sleep upon her knees, and called a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to overpower him, and his strength went from him.

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


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

You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.


rate difficulty: And even with the fat cows inside them they seemed as bad as before. And so I came out of my sleep.


simplify: A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will--only in the Lord;

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives; but, if the husband should pass to his rest, the widow is free to marry anyone she wishes, provided he is a believer.


simplify: Neither said they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?


rate difficulty: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

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


rate difficulty: And thus said Shimei in his reviling, `Go out, go out, O man of blood, and man of worthlessness!

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


simplify: There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;

The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.


simplify: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.


rate difficulty: And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.

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


simplify: And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.

Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for witness against Jesus so that they might put him to death; and they were unable to get any.


rate difficulty: If any of thine outcasts be in the uttermost parts of heaven, from thence will Jehovah thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

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


simplify: Forasmuch as this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

Because this people will have nothing to do with the softly-flowing waters of Shiloah, and have fear of Rezin and Remaliah's son;


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament, neither bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, even lovingkindness and tender mercies.

For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.


simplify: And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

“And when the seven for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of broken pieces did you pick up?”   “Seven,” they said.


simplify: And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were:

And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret place; then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I had no idea where they came from;


rate difficulty: I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me.

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


simplify: He received again Israel His servant, To remember kindness,

He has stretched out his hand to his servant Israel, Ever mindful of his mercy


simplify: And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, that eateth any manner of blood, I will set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.


simplify: and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.


simplify: Now this wasthe customin former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning exchanging, to confirm all things: a man drew off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbor; and this was the manner of attestation in Israel.

Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.


simplify: And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: According to the lot shall their inheritance be divided between the more and the fewer.

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


simplify: For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh,

I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ’s people at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me;


rate difficulty: and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

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


simplify: And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.

Then the prophet took up the body of the man of God and put it on the ass and took it back; and he came to the town to put the body to rest with weeping.


simplify: Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

“I tell you,” replied Jesus, “that this very night, before the cock crows, you will disown me three times!”


rate difficulty: And she saith, `Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but the fulness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and lo, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it--and died.'

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


simplify: They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Jehovah; but they shall not find him: he hath withdrawn himself from them.

They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.


simplify: And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto him, and said unto him, Jehovah is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.

And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.


simplify: But if he smote him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

But if a man gives another man a blow with an iron instrument, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.


simplify: The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

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


simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.