simplify: Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

For this cause, my dear brothers, give no worship to false gods.


rate difficulty: Gird yourselveswith sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.

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


rate difficulty: Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron said unto Moses, Oh, my lord, lay not, I pray thee, sin upon us, for that we have done foolishly, and for that we have sinned.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover lie thou upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it; according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it, thou shalt bear their iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: and having plaited him a crown out of thorns they put <FI>it<Fi> on his head, and a reed in his right hand, and having kneeled before him, they were mocking him, saying, `Hail, the king of the Jews.'

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


rate difficulty: and out of the half tribe of Manasseh: Aner and its suburbs, and Bileam and its suburbs, — for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.

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


rate difficulty: And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king’s face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

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


simplify: for who did know the mind of the Lord that he shall instruct Him? and we--we have the mind of Christ.

For ‘who has so comprehended the mind of the Lord as to be able to instruct him?’ We, however, have the mind of Christ.


rate difficulty: and the chief of the round-house giveth into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who <FI>are<Fi> in the round-house, and of all that they are doing there, he hath been doer;

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


rate difficulty: He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.

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


simplify: who did change the truth of God into a falsehood, and did honour and serve the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed to the ages. Amen.

for they had substituted a lie for the truth about God, and had reverenced and worshiped created things more than the Creator, who is to be praised for ever. Amen.


simplify: And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,

And like the bad figs which are so bad that they are of no use for food, so I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his chiefs and the rest of Jerusalem who are still in this land, and those who are in the land of Egypt:


simplify: His hands areasrings of gold set with beryl: His body isasivory work overlaid with sapphires.

His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.


simplify: And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.

And he gave them their orders, saying, You are to do your work in the fear of the Lord, in good faith and with a true heart.


rate difficulty: Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.

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


simplify: Brethren, I speak after the manner of men: Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet when it hath been confirmed, no one maketh it void, or addeth thereto.

Brothers, as men would say, even a man's agreement, when it has been made certain, may not be put on one side, or have additions made to it.


simplify: and Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

And Azariah was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,


simplify: And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

And the rest were put to death with the sword of him who was on the horse, even the sword which came out of his mouth: and all the birds were made full with their flesh.


simplify: so that neither is he who is planting anything, nor he who is watering, but He who is giving growth--God;

Therefore neither the one who plants, nor the one who waters, counts for anything, but only God who causes the growth.


rate difficulty: which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

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


rate difficulty: And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another.


simplify: And every beast that parteth the hoof, and hath the hoof cloven in two, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that may ye eat.

Any beast which has a division in the horn of its foot and whose food comes back into its mouth to be crushed again, may be used for food.


rate difficulty: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the Lord your God.

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


rate difficulty: And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.

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


rate difficulty: We heard him saying, I will destroy this temple which is made with hands, and in the course of three days I will build another not made with hands.

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


simplify: And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Those converts from Judaism, who had come with Peter, were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been bestowed even on the Gentiles;


rate difficulty: In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.

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


rate difficulty: they therefore having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, `Whom will ye I shall release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?'

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


simplify: But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

But they went against him, causing grief to his holy spirit: so he was turned against them, and made war on them.


rate difficulty: Where Zedekiah king of Judah hath shut him up, saying, `Wherefore art thou prophesying, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Lo, I am giving this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he hath captured it;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;

“If you are the Christ,” they said, “tell us so.”  “If I tell you,”replied Jesus, “you will not believe me;


simplify: Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.


rate difficulty: even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

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


rate difficulty: And Joab said to the king, May Jehovah thyGod even add to the people, how many soever they be, a hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see [it]; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?

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


simplify: Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.

Dedan did trade with you in cloths for the backs of horses.


rate difficulty: What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

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


rate difficulty: You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

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


simplify: By these three plagues was the third part of men killed, by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone, which proceeded out of their mouths.

By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.


simplify: And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.

And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.


simplify: But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.


rate difficulty: And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heardwasasthe voiceof harpers harping with their harps:

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


simplify: Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.

Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.


rate difficulty: But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at his feet.

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


simplify: (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it Shenir;)

(By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)


simplify: Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

Awake! awake! up! O Jerusalem, you who have taken from the Lord's hand the cup of his wrath; tasting in full measure the wine which overcomes.


simplify: But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

But, as it is, you are constantly boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.


simplify: and a woman I do not suffer to teach, nor to rule a husband, but to be in quietness,

I do not consent to them becoming teachers, or exercising authority over men; they ought to not make a fuss.


simplify: among whom are ye also, called to be Jesus Christ’s:

Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ:


simplify: and when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone; and they were silent, and declared to no one in those days anything of what they have seen.

And, as the voice ceased, Jesus was found alone. The apostles kept silence, and told no one about any of the things that they had seen.


simplify: These are they that were numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


rate difficulty: Now news came to Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, of all God had done for Moses and for Israel his people, and how the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.


rate difficulty: and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,


rate difficulty: And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;


rate difficulty: and Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, `Till when are ye remiss to go in to possess the land which He hath given to you, Jehovah, God of your fathers?

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


simplify: Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.

Then Joab said, I would have made it safe for you. And he took three spears in his hand, and put them through Absalom's heart, while he was still living, in the branches of the tree.


simplify: And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the wicked, and love them that hate Jehovah? for this thing wrath is upon thee from before Jehovah.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.


simplify: And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me.

And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.


rate difficulty: And ye have eaten, eating and being satisfied, And have praised the name of Jehovah your God, Who hath dealt with you wonderfully, And not ashamed are My people to the age.

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


rate difficulty: By the voice of shouters Between the places of drawing water, There they give out righteous acts of Jehovah, Righteous acts of His villages in Israel, Then ruled in the gates have the people of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and Jesus answering said to him, `Seest thou these great buildings? there may not be left a stone upon a stone, that may not be thrown down.'

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


rate difficulty: This is the great first commandment.

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


simplify: Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into the Jordan.

See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.


rate difficulty: Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore the children of Israel do not eat of the sinew that is over the joint of the thigh, to this day; because he touched the joint of Jacob's thigh — the sinew.

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


simplify: And he saith to them, `How many loaves have ye? go and see;' and having known, they say, `Five, and two fishes.'

“How many loaves have you?”he asked; “Go, and see.”When they had found out, they told him: “Five, and two fishes.”


rate difficulty: And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

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


rate difficulty: But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:


simplify: As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

By my life, says the Lord, truly in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he put on one side and let his agreement with him be broken, even in Babylon he will come to his death.


rate difficulty: So now ye are nothing; ye see a terrible object and are afraid.

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


simplify: And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;


simplify: There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.

One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.


simplify: He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.

He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.


rate difficulty: and they were making signs to his father, what he would wish him to be called,


rate difficulty: and the priest hath taken holy water in an earthen vessel, and of the dust which is on the floor of the tabernacle doth the priest take, and hath put <FI>it<Fi> into the water,

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


rate difficulty: Let those who have ears hear.


simplify: And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.


simplify: Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.


rate difficulty: Damascus did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth, with wine of Helbon and white wool.

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


simplify: And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.

And he took us out from that place, guiding us here to give us this land, as he said in his oath to our fathers.


rate difficulty: But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.

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


rate difficulty: And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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


simplify: And there was set food before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.

And meat was put before him, but he said, I will not take food till I have made my business clear to you. And they said, Do so.


simplify: Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

And I have given you more than your brothers, even Shechem as your heritage, which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.


simplify: `For, the Son of Man is about to come in the glory of his Father, with his messengers, and then he will reward each, according to his work.

For the Son of Man is to come in his Father’s glory, with his angels, and then he ‘will give to everyone what his actions deserve.’


simplify: and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;

Then I will give permission to my Two Witnesses, and for those twelve hundred and sixty days they will continue teaching, clothed in sackcloth.’


rate difficulty: and they, having gone forth out of the prison, entered into <FI>the house of<Fi> Lydia, and having seen the brethren, they comforted them, and went forth.

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


simplify: Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.


simplify: Therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who judged her.

For this reason in one day will her troubles come, death and sorrow and need of food; and she will be completely burned with fire; for strong is the Lord God who is her judge.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

You say ‘I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,’ and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!


simplify: And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.

The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.


rate difficulty: And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever;


rate difficulty: Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

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


simplify: And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.


simplify: But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.

But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward.


simplify: And there is hope for thy latter end, saith Jehovah; and thy children shall come again to their own border.

And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.


rate difficulty: and he shall sprinkle upon it of the blood with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God; he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brethren hearkened unto him.

Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.


rate difficulty: Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.


simplify: `Every one, therefore, who shall confess in me before men, I also will confess in him before my Father who is in the heavens;

Everyone, therefore, who will publicly acknowledge me, I, too, will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven;


simplify: Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

Then the king said to Haman, Go quickly, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who is seated at the king's doorway: see that you do everything as you have said.


rate difficulty: Another simile he set before them, saying: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man sowing good seed in his field,

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


rate difficulty: And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

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


rate difficulty: And there came up a great storm in the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves: but he was sleeping.


simplify: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

The lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is unclouded, your whole body will be lit up;


rate difficulty: a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.


simplify: And when even was come, there came a rich man from Arimathæa, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

And in the evening, there came a man of wealth from Arimathaea, Joseph by name, who was a disciple of Jesus:


simplify: Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.


simplify: And Jehovah answered the angel that talked with me with good words, even comfortable words.

And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.


rate difficulty: Any four-footed beast which goes on the ball of its foot, is unclean to you: anyone touching the dead body of one of these will be unclean till evening.


simplify: Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building,

Then the people of the land made the hands of the people of Judah feeble, troubling them with fear in their building;


simplify: And he said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom.

And he said to her, What is your desire? She says to him, Let my two sons be seated, the one at your right hand, and the other at your left, in your kingdom.


rate difficulty: Nor do they deal out to them for mourning, To comfort him concerning the dead, Nor cause them to drink a cup of consolations For his father and for his mother.


rate difficulty: It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.

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


simplify: And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.


rate difficulty: Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

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


rate difficulty: I was wandering, and you took me not in; without clothing, and you gave me no clothing; ill, and in prison, and you came not to me.


simplify: Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.


rate difficulty: I beheld, and lo, the fruitful land was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down, before Jehovah, before his fierce anger.

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


simplify: Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.

Go back quickly to the place you came from: it was my purpose to give you a place of honour, but now the Lord has kept you back from honour.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath done to them as he hath done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land, whom He destroyed.

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


simplify: The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day.

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


rate difficulty: The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,

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


simplify: For if I should desire to glory, I shall not be foolish; for I shall speak the truth: but I forbear, lest any man should account of me above that which he seeth me to be, or heareth from me.

For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.


simplify: and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

And the seven thin heads made a meal of the seven good heads; and I put this dream before the wise men, but not one of them was able to give me the sense of it.


rate difficulty: The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.


simplify: Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:


simplify: A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.


rate difficulty: The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.

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


simplify: And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:

And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.


simplify: And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

And there were a number of lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and not one of them was made clean, but only Naaman the Syrian.


rate difficulty: The soul that doth sin--it doth die. A son doth not bear of the iniquity of the father, And a father doth not bear of the iniquity of the son, The righteousness of the righteous is on him, And the wickedness of the wicked is on him.

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


simplify: Ye shall surely destroy all the places wherein the nations that ye shall dispossess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:


rate difficulty: There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;

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


simplify: Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

You have sent me out this day from the face of the earth and from before your face; I will be a wanderer in flight over the earth, and whoever sees me will put me to death.


simplify: And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

And it is because you are sons that God sent into our hearts the Spirit of his Son, with the cry — ‘Abba, our Father.’


simplify: When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.


simplify: And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.


rate difficulty: And they shall spring up among the grass, as willows by the water-courses.

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


simplify: Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest indeed is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

Then he said to his disciples, There is much grain but not enough men to get it in.


simplify: These are the families of the sons of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.


simplify: And they could not take hold of his words before the people: and they marvelled at his answer, and held their peace.

And they were not able to get anything from these words before the people: but they were full of wonder at his answer, and said nothing.


simplify: So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels’ burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Ben–hadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?

So Hazael went to see him, taking with him forty camels with offerings on their backs of every sort of good thing from Damascus; and when he came before him, he said, Your son Ben-hadad, king of Aram, has sent me to you, saying, Will I get better from this disease?


rate difficulty: And I will give it into the hands of strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, It is the king of Israel. Therefore they turned about to fight against him: but Jehoshaphat cried out, and Jehovah helped him; and God moved them to depart from him.

So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, It is the king of Israel. And turning about, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry, and the Lord came to his help, and God sent them away from him.


simplify: even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.

I will make them come to my holy mountain, and will give them joy in my house of prayer; I will take pleasure in the burned offerings which they make on my altar: for my house will be named a house of prayer for all peoples.


simplify: Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.

See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.


simplify: Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Take of this cup and be overcome, and let it come out again from your lips, and from your fall you will never be lifted up again, because of the sword which I will send among you.


rate difficulty: Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in heaven has no reward for you.

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


simplify: And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments.


rate difficulty: So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.


simplify: And they turned aside thither, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man that took them into his house to lodge.

And they went off the road there with the purpose of stopping for the night in Gibeah: and he went in, seating himself in the street of the town, for no one took them into his house for the night.


rate difficulty: that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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


rate difficulty: When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

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


simplify: and if we may say, From men, all the people will stone us, for they are having been persuaded John to be a prophet.'

But, if we say ‘human,’ the people will all stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”


simplify: came unto me, and standing by me said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And in that very hour I looked up on him.

Came to my side and said, Brother Saul, let your eyes be open. And in that very hour I was able to see him.


rate difficulty: Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

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


simplify: As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.

Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.


simplify: But Jehovah said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Jehovah seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh on the heart.

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.


simplify: Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.


simplify: and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses thy servant,

And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:


simplify: Woe be unto thee, O Moab! the people of Chemosh perisheth: for thy sons are taken captives, and thy daughters captives.

Sorrow is yours, O Moab! the people of Chemosh are overcome: for your sons have been taken away as prisoners, and your daughters made servants.


simplify: And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,


rate difficulty: And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.


rate difficulty: Mouth to mouth do I speak to him openly, and not in riddles; and the form of Jehovah doth he behold. Why then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

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


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

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


simplify: For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

For our object is not to give relief to others and bring distress on you. It is a matter of a fair balance.


simplify: because He did set a day in which He is about to judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He did ordain, having given assurance to all, having raised him out of the dead.'

because he has fixed a day on which he intends to ‘judge the world with justice,’ by a man whom he has appointed — and of this he has given all people a pledge by raising this man from the dead.”


simplify: And from the sixth hour darkness came over all the land unto the ninth hour,

After midday a darkness came over all the country, lasting until three in the afternoon.


rate difficulty: But, not as the offence so also <FI>is<Fi> the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many;

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


rate difficulty: Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

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


simplify: And Judah was put to the worse before Israel; and they fled every man to their tents.

And Judah was overcome before Israel, so that they went in flight, every man to his tent.


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

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


rate difficulty: because the eyes of the Lord <FI>are<Fi> upon the righteous, and His ears--to their supplication, and the face of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon those doing evil;'

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


simplify: and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought not unto it in the days of Saul.

And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions.


rate difficulty: the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, <FI>is<Fi> with you all! Amen.

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


simplify: Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.

Then Herod sent for the wise men privately, and put questions to them about what time the star had been seen.


simplify: And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.


simplify: And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?

And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.


simplify: And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Calling the people and his disciples to him, Jesus said: “If anyone wishes to walk in my steps, let them renounce self, take up their cross, and follow me.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to them, Go, report to John what ye hear and see.


rate difficulty: Do not you know that we are to try angels — to say nothing of the affairs of this life?


simplify: But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.

But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.


simplify: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen; from David to the Exile to Babylon fourteen; and from the Exile to Babylon to the Christ fourteen.


simplify: And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith Jehovah.

And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.


simplify: And when this cometh to pass (behold, it cometh), then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

And when this comes about (see, it is coming), then it will be clear to them that a prophet has been among them.


simplify: But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.

But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.


rate difficulty: And the king said, Turn aside [and] stand here. And he turned aside and stood still.

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


rate difficulty: And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

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


rate difficulty: For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.


rate difficulty: `This <FI>is<Fi> a law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth,

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


simplify: if so be that God is one, and he shall justify the circumcision by faith, and the uncircumcision through faith.

If God is one; and he will give righteousness because of faith to those who have circumcision, and through faith to those who have not circumcision.


rate difficulty: and thou hast said unto them: Hear a word of Jehovah, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all inhabitants of Jerusalem, who are coming in by these gates,

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


simplify: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

we are proclaiming Christ crucified! — to the Jews an obstacle, to the Gentiles mere folly,


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

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


simplify: And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered him.

So he went up from there to Penuel and made the same request to the men of Penuel; but they gave him the same answer as the men of Succoth had given.


simplify: And the watchman told, saying, He came even unto them, and cometh not again: and the driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi; for he driveth furiously.

And the watchman gave them word, saying, He went up to them and has not come back again; and the driving is like the driving of Jehu, son of Nimshi, for he is driving violently.


simplify: The children of Nebo, fifty and two.


rate difficulty: And he sent the youths of the children of Israel, and they offered up burnt-offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offering of bullocks to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Jehovah, and wept much.

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


simplify: Beloved, I pray that in all things thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.

My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.


simplify: And Zacchæus stood, and said unto the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have wrongfully exacted aught of any man, I restore fourfold.

And Zacchaeus, waiting before him, said to the Lord, See, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone wrongly, I give him back four times as much.


simplify: but unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor, and slayeth him, even so is this matter;

Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:


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

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


simplify: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.


rate difficulty: My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

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


simplify: And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;


simplify: Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: See that ye do not despise one of these little ones; for I say unto you that their angels in [the] heavens continually behold the face of my Father who is in [the] heavens.

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


simplify: Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.


simplify: Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Then the king said to me, What is your desire? So I made prayer to the God of heaven.


simplify: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah —


rate difficulty: And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

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


simplify: Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

leading us to renounce irreligious ways and worldly ambitions, and to live discreet, upright, and religious lives here in this present world,


simplify: And they brought their offering before the Lord, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they brought them before the tabernacle.

And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.


simplify: He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.

Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.


rate difficulty: The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

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


simplify: Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

The third time, the devil took Jesus to a very high mountain, and, showing him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor, said to him:


simplify: And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.


rate difficulty: And I decreed, and search hath been made, and it is found that this city of old time hath made insurrection against kings, and that rebellion and sedition have been made therein.

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


simplify: because our good news did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much assurance, even as ye have known of what sort we became among you because of you,

because the good news that we brought came home to you, not merely as so many words, but with a power and a fulness of conviction due to the Holy Spirit. For you know the life that we lived among you for your good.


simplify: and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth <FI>him<Fi> to know;

If someone thinks that they know anything, they have not yet reached that knowledge which they ought to have reached.


simplify: And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

“Where will it be, Master?” asked the disciples. “Where there is a body,”said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”


simplify: and offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim freewill-offerings and publish them: for this pleaseth you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.


simplify: to rejoice with the rejoicing, and to weep with the weeping,

Rejoice with those who are rejoicing, and weep with those who are weeping.


simplify: Now therefore do ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you, as though ye would judge of his case more exactly: and we, before he comes near, are ready to slay him.

So now, will you and the Sanhedrin make a request to the military authorities to have him sent down to you, as if you were desiring to go into the business in greater detail; and we, before ever he gets to you, will be waiting to put him to death.


simplify: And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.

And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.


simplify: So he departed from Elisha, and came to his master; who said to him, What said Elisha to thee? And he answered, He told me that thou shouldest surely recover.

Then he went away from Elisha and came in to his master, who said to him, What did Elisha say to you? And his answer was, He said that you would certainly get well.


simplify: Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Remember, this is the third time that I have made every preparation to come to see you, and I will refuse to be a burden to you; I want, not your money, but you. It is not the duty of children to put by for their parents, but of parents to put by for their children.


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

And Azariah went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Jotham his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: They that sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go unto the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.


simplify: And ye shall serve Jehovah your God, and he will bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.


simplify: And he shall prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah.

And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah.


rate difficulty: Then the king said to the attendants ‘Tie him hand and foot, and ‘put him out into the darkness’ outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’

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


simplify: As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord commanded Moses.

As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.


simplify: And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.

And they took their places in their right order, as it was ordered in the law of Moses, the man of God: the priests draining out on the altar the blood given them by the Levites.


simplify: The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.


rate difficulty: For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

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


rate difficulty: Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

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


simplify: And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land from Absalom.

And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.


rate difficulty: Now at that time, Judah went away from his brothers and became the friend of a man of Adullam named Hirah.

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


simplify: Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

A widow, when her name is added to the list, should not be less than sixty years old; she should have been a faithful wife,


rate difficulty: And a navy hath king Solomon made in Ezion-Geber, that is beside Eloth, on the edge of the Sea of Suph, in the land of Edom.

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


simplify: That which was torn of beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst thou require it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

Anything which was wounded by beasts I did not take to you, but myself made up for the loss of it; you made me responsible for whatever was taken by thieves, by day or by night.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.

And a great number were seated round him; and they said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.


simplify: Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gainto him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Is it of any interest to the Ruler of all that you are upright? or is it of use to him that your ways are without sin?


simplify: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

I had no clothing, and you gave it to me: when I was ill, or in prison, you came to me.


simplify: and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.


simplify: Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?


rate difficulty: and the second took the wife, and he died childless,

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


rate difficulty: And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.


rate difficulty: And burnt thy houses with fire, And done in thee judgments before the eyes of many women, And I have caused thee to cease from going a-whoring, And also a gift thou givest no more.

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


simplify: And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well,


simplify: And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.


rate difficulty: and they give their hand to send out their wives, and, being guilty, a ram of the flock, for their guilt.


rate difficulty: Now there was, a great way off from them, a herd of many swine feeding;


simplify: For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.


simplify: And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.


simplify: I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,


rate difficulty: How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;


simplify: But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:


simplify: And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.


simplify: And when these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What do ye?

And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?


rate difficulty: whose fan <FI>is<Fi> in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

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


rate difficulty: And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him,

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


rate difficulty: And of the blue and purple and scarlet they made garments of service, for service in the sanctuary, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.

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


simplify: In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.


simplify: Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of the Lord,

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord,


simplify: To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.

Marking out the unclean from the clean, and the living thing which may be used for food from that which may not.


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

And when news came to him that Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia, had made an attack on him, he sent representatives to Hezekiah again, saying,


rate difficulty: he said unto them, `The Holy Spirit did ye receive--having believed?' and they said unto him, `But we did not even hear whether there is any Holy Spirit;'

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


simplify: There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.

She has no one among all her children to be her guide; not one of the sons she has taken care of takes her by the hand.


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

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


rate difficulty: behold now, thy servant hath found favor in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy lovingkindness, which thou hast showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die:

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And now this blessing which thine handmaid hath brought unto my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.

And let this offering, which your servant gives to my lord, be given to the young men who are with my lord.


simplify: To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

To do what is right and true is more pleasing to the Lord than an offering.


simplify: Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.


rate difficulty: And they that weep, as though they wept not; and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as though they possessed not;

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


rate difficulty: And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: What then will the master of the garden do? He will come and put the workmen to death, and will give the garden into the hands of others.

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


simplify: And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

And never again will there be an old man in your family.


rate difficulty: But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.

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


simplify: And Maachah the wife of Machir bare a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

And Maacah, the wife of Gilead, gave birth to a son to whom she gave the name Peresh; and his brother was named Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.


rate difficulty: The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.


simplify: Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:

Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Give ear to the word of the Lord of armies:


simplify: He said also unto me, Thou shalt again see yet other great abominations which they do.

Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do.


rate difficulty: And they laid it up for the morning, as Moses had commanded; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm in it.


rate difficulty: “Is not the reason of your mistake,”answered Jesus, “your ignorance of the scriptures and of the power of God?

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


rate difficulty: His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

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


rate difficulty: And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth–gamul, and upon Beth–meon,

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


rate difficulty: Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

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


rate difficulty: (as it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord),

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


simplify: For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

For I am not conscious of any wrong in myself; but this does not make me clear, for it is the Lord who is my judge.


simplify: for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: The bread of hisGod, of the most holy and of the holy, shall he eat;


simplify: And it came to pass on the day that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed it, and sanctified it, and all the instruments thereof, both the altar and all the vessels thereof, and had anointed them, and sanctified them;

And when Moses had put up the House completely, and had put oil on it and made it holy, with all the things in it, and had made the altar and all its vessels holy with oil;


simplify: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;


rate difficulty: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.


simplify: Then Saul said to David, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do mightily, and shalt surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

Then Saul said to David, May a blessing be on you, David, my son; you will do great things and without doubt you will overcome. Then David went on his way, and Saul went back to his place.


rate difficulty: Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

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


simplify: Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

For three years he was king in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah, the daughter of Abishalom.


simplify: Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.


rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto Jeremiah the prophet, saying:

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


simplify: And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.

But his master said to him, We will not go out of our way into a strange town, whose people are not of the children of Israel; but we will go on to Gibeah.


simplify: And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And he said, He that shewed him mercy. And Jesus said to him, Go, and do thou likewise.


rate difficulty: While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

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


simplify: And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.


simplify: Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.


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

I tell you that even the present generation will not pass away until all has taken place.


rate difficulty: being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with <FI>him<Fi> through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

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


simplify: And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.


simplify: Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Let no one make little of you because you are young, but be an example to the church in word, in behaviour, in love, in faith, in holy living.


rate difficulty: And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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


rate difficulty: and he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth them forth to swim; and he shall bring down their pride together with the plots of their hands.

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


simplify: And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, besides the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

He was a trouble to Israel all through the days of Solomon. And this is the damage Hadad did: he was cruel to Israel while he was ruler over Edom.


simplify: so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love;

That is how husbands ought to love their wives — as if they were their own bodies. A man who loves his wife is really loving himself;


rate difficulty: And there is none calling in Thy name, Stirring up himself to lay hold on Thee, For Thou hast hid Thy face from us, And thou meltest us away by our iniquities.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,


rate difficulty: So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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


simplify: And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.


rate difficulty: If they refuse to listen to them, speak to the church; and, if they also refuse to listen to the church, treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax-gatherer.


rate difficulty: And Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him: now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk-tree in Ramah, with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.

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


simplify: While he yet spake, behold, a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them; and he drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.

And while he was saying these words, there came a band of people, and Judas, one of the twelve, was in front of them, and he came near to Jesus to give him a kiss.


rate difficulty: Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the Lord shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?

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


rate difficulty: And the angel said to her, Have no fear, Mary, for you have God's approval.

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


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

Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Hananiah: Pelatiah, and Jeshaiah; the sons of Rephaiah, the sons of Arnan, the sons of Obadiah, the sons of Shecaniah.

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


rate difficulty: Thou wilt be quite exhausted, both thou and this people that is with thee; for the thing is too heavy for thee: thou canst not perform it alone.

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


rate difficulty: Better is little with the fear of Jehovah than great store and disquietude therewith.

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


rate difficulty: And he charged them saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of Jehovah faithfully and with a perfect heart.

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


rate difficulty: Proclaim the message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance.

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


rate difficulty: Show me a denarius. Whose image and superscription hath it? And they said, Cæsar’s.

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


rate difficulty: And I will put an end to evil in all the land, teaching all women not to do as you have done.


simplify: But the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.

But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.


simplify: And I charged Baruch before them, saying,

And I gave orders to Baruch in front of them, saying,


rate difficulty: and they hasten and take down each his bag to the earth, and each openeth his bag;

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


rate difficulty: But, when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before his guests, and so pleased Herod,

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


simplify: For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.


simplify: Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth–gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king’s hand.

So the king of Israel got together all the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for God will give it into the hands of the king.


rate difficulty: And the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

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


simplify: And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.


simplify: Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.

Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.


simplify: Then the chief captain, having come nigh, took him, and commanded <FI>him<Fi> to be bound with two chains, and was inquiring who he may be, and what it is he hath been doing,

Then he went up to Paul, arrested him, ordered him to be doubly chained, and proceeded to inquire who he was, and what he had been doing.


rate difficulty: And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

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


rate difficulty: and also, against king Nebuchadnezzar he hath rebelled, who had caused him to swear by God, and he hardeneth his neck, and strengtheneth his heart, against turning back unto Jehovah, God of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

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


simplify: And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

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


rate difficulty: Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.


simplify: And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

These four Creatures have each of them six wings, and all around, and within, they are full of eyes; and day and night they never cease to say —  ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord, our God, the Almighty, who was, and who is, and who will be.’


rate difficulty: And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

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


simplify: And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them.

And the king gave orders to Jerahmeel, the king's son, and Seraiah, the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah, the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the Lord kept them safe.


rate difficulty: And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.


rate difficulty: Princes have kept in words, And a hand they place on their mouth.

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


rate difficulty: And if any one say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye, The Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him back hither.

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simplify: And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; take care not to be alarmed, for such things must occur; but the end is not yet here.


simplify: thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;


simplify: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.


rate difficulty: Do you go near: and after hearing everything which the Lord our God has to say, give us an account of all he has said to you, and we will give ear, and do it.

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rate difficulty: And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

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rate difficulty: When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

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simplify: And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.

But Jesus made answer, saying to him, Let it be so now: because so it is right for us to make righteousness complete. Then he gave him baptism.


simplify: The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hasteth fast.

The fate of Moab is near, and trouble is coming on him very quickly.


simplify: And he was parted from them about a stone’s cast; and he kneeled down and prayed,

And he went a little distance away from them and, falling on his knees in prayer, he said,


simplify: And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:


simplify: For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.

I can testify that they are zealous for the honor of God; but they are not guided by true insight,


rate difficulty: And David said to Ittai, Go forward, then. And Ittai the Gittite went on, with all his men and all the little ones he had with him.


simplify: And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:


simplify: For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

For not only was the word of the Lord sounding out from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but in every place your faith in God is made clear; so that we have no need to say anything.


simplify: and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,

As Ananias heard these words, he fell down and expired; and everyone who heard of it was appalled.


rate difficulty: Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.


simplify: And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

And when his talk with Moses on Mount Sinai was ended, he gave him the two stones of the law, two stones on which was the writing made by the finger of God.


rate difficulty: And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

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rate difficulty: And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

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

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.


simplify: because of the love I rather entreat, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ;

yet the claims of love make me prefer to plead with you — yes, even me, Paul, though I am an ambassador for Christ Jesus and, now a prisoner for him as well.


rate difficulty: And they have not known that Joseph understandeth, for the interpreter <FI>is<Fi> between them;

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simplify: The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.


simplify: For for this cause ye pay tribute also; for they are ministers of God’s service, attending continually upon this very thing.

For the same reason, make payment of taxes; because the authority is God's servant, to take care of such things at all times.


rate difficulty: Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.

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rate difficulty: Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

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