simplify: And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.


simplify: And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.


simplify: And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.

And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.


simplify: At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.

Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.

So while Joab was watching the town, he put Uriah in the place where it was clear to him the best fighters were.


rate difficulty: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:

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

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rate difficulty: And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith.

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simplify: For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the Lord; what then should a king do to us?

Now, truly, they will say, We have no king, we have no fear of the Lord; and the king, what is he able to do for us?


simplify: And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the Lord.

And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: “Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean.”


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

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


simplify: Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.


simplify: The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

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rate difficulty: So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

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simplify: And they journeyed from Etham, and turned back unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they encamped before Migdol.

And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol.


rate difficulty: I know that there is nothing good for them but to rejoice and to do well in their life;

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simplify: But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;


simplify: And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto the great sea. This is the south side southward.

And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south.


rate difficulty: And David said to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with sword, and with spear, and with javelin; but I come to thee in the name of Jehovah of hosts, theGod of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

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simplify: And he took up his parable, and said,  From Aram hath Balak brought me, The king of Moab from the mountains of the East: Come, curse me Jacob, And come, defy Israel.

And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, From Aram Balak has sent for me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East: come, put curses on Jacob for me and be angry with Israel.


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that saith unto [his] father, What begettest thou? Or to [his] mother, What hast thou brought forth?

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


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without your order no man may do anything in all the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?

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rate difficulty: And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to another by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. But the man refused to smite him.

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


simplify: Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.


rate difficulty: And letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

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rate difficulty: And they have come in, And have sung in the high place of Zion, And flowed unto the goodness of Jehovah, For wheat, and for new wine, and for oil, And for the young of the flock and herd, And their soul hath been as a watered garden, And they add not to grieve any more.

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


simplify: They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.


simplify: And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.

And David said to all his servants who were with him at Jerusalem, Come, let us go in flight, or not one of us will be safe from Absalom: let us go without loss of time, or he will overtake us quickly and send evil on us, and put the town to the sword.


simplify: And as he went, they spread their garments in the way.

And while he went on his way they put their clothing down on the road in front of him.


simplify: And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master.

Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.


simplify: And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!

Then he looked around on the people sitting in a circle around him, and said: “Here are my mother and my brothers!


simplify: having known, brethren beloved, by God, your election,

Friends, whom God loves, we know that he has chosen you,


simplify: And ye shall take you on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm-trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days.

On the first day, take the fruit of fair trees, branches of palm-trees, and branches of thick trees and trees from the riverside, and be glad before the Lord for seven days.


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

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rate difficulty: to enrol himself with Mary his betrothed wife, being with child.

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simplify: Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

For Hannah's prayer came from her heart, and though her lips were moving she made no sound: so it seemed to Eli that she was overcome with wine.


simplify: But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.


rate difficulty: A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh life merry; but money answereth everything.

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rate difficulty: But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews that dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Remember ye the law of Moses My servant, That I did command him in Horeb, For all Israel--statutes and judgments.

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simplify: For all the gods of the peoples are idols: But Jehovah made the heavens.

For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.


rate difficulty: for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that <FI>are<Fi> through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;

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simplify: And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering.

And the priest is to take some of the blood of the offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burned offering, draining out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar of burned offering.


rate difficulty: and he casteth for it four rings of gold, and putteth the rings on the four corners which <FI>are<Fi> to its four feet;

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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simplify: And he was casting forth a demon, and it was dumb, and it came to pass, the demon having gone forth, the dumb man spake, and the multitudes wondered,

Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;


simplify: But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

a woman’s long hair is her glory? Her hair has been given her to serve as a covering.


simplify: In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign.

In the twelfth year that Joram, the son of Ahab, was king of Israel, Ahaziah, the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, became king;


rate difficulty: Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit:

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rate difficulty: And on the seventh day the priest will see the place: and if it is not increased, and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not seem to go deeper than the skin,

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


simplify: For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

For in the law of Moses it is said —  ‘You should not muzzle a bullock while it is treading out the grain.’  Is it the bullocks that God is thinking of?


simplify: For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

For in it there is a revelation of the divine righteousness resulting from faith and leading on to faith; as scripture says — ‘Through faith the righteous will find life.’


simplify: The servant then, having fallen down, was bowing to him, saying, Sir, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all;

The servant threw himself down on the ground before him and said ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.’


rate difficulty: Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.

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rate difficulty: “For saying that,”he answered, “you may go. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”

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rate difficulty: And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens; and there was a thick darkness throughout the land of Egypt three days:

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rate difficulty: And he saith, `Catch them alive;' and they catch them alive, and slaughter them at the pit of the shearing-house, forty and two men, and he hath not left a man of them.

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rate difficulty: And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

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simplify: But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that which I give thee.

But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.


rate difficulty: With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols — we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

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simplify: And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of Jehovah, and thou hast followed the Baalim.

Then he said in answer, I have not been troubling Israel, but you and your family; because, turning away from the orders of the Lord, you have gone after the Baals.


simplify: And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

And even while I was saying this to myself, Rebekah came out with her vessel on her arm; and she went down to the spring to get water; and I said to her, Give me a drink.


simplify: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John;


rate difficulty: and Joash the king hath not remembered the kindness that Jehoiada his father did with him, and slayeth his son, and in his death he said, `Jehovah doth see, and require.'

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simplify: and he saith to them, `Exceeding sorrowful is my soul--to death; remain here, and watch.'

“I am sad at heart,”he said, “sad even to death; wait here, and watch.”


simplify: therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day.

and that is why that field is called the ‘Field of Blood’ to this very day.


simplify: And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

And he continued to make his proclamation in the Synagogues of Judea.


simplify: From the days of your fathers ye have turned aside from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith Jehovah of hosts. But ye say, Wherein shall we return?

From the days of your fathers you have been turned away from my rules and have not kept them. Come back to me, and I will come back to you, says the Lord of armies. But you say, How are we to come back?


rate difficulty: And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:


rate difficulty: And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that covereth all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

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simplify: that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.


rate difficulty: But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.


simplify: And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden of the Lord? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the Lord.

And if this people, or the prophet, or a priest, questioning you, says, What word of weight is there from the Lord? then you are to say to them, You are the word, for I will not be troubled with you any more, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;

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


rate difficulty: And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of the cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

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rate difficulty: And they went to another small town.

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simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.


rate difficulty: Howbeit the Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel for ever: for he hath chosen Judah to be the ruler; and of the house of Judah, the house of my father; and among the sons of my father he liked me to make me king over all Israel:

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


simplify: and they were baptized of him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

And they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying openly that they had done wrong.


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> the nations which Jehovah left, to try Israel by them, all who have not known all the wars of Canaan;

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simplify: And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of Jehovah, Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; and he prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah.

And there was another man who was a prophet of the Lord, Uriah, the son of Shemaiah of Kiriath-jearim; he said against this town and against this land all the words which Jeremiah had said:


simplify: If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

If any man seems to himself to be a prophet or to have the Spirit, let him take note of the things which I am writing to you, as being the word of the Lord.


rate difficulty: whereby, when ye read, ye can perceive my understanding in the mystery of Christ;

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simplify: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, was very angry; and he sent out, and put to death all the male children in Beth-lehem and in all the parts round about it, from two years old and under, acting on the knowledge which he had got with care from the wise men.


simplify: He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

He will let you have his wealth at interest, and will have no need of yours: he will be the head and you the tail.


simplify: When therefore the lord of the vineyard shall come, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?


simplify: Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.

“What then,” Pilate asked, “should I do with Jesus who is called ‘Christ?’ “Let him be crucified,” they all replied.


rate difficulty: But if our unrighteousness commendeth the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who visiteth with wrath? (I speak after the manner of men.)


simplify: For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:


simplify: The men of Beth–el and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.

The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.


simplify: And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.

Then Jonathan sent for David and gave him word of all these things. And Jonathan took David to Saul, who kept him by his side as in the past.


simplify: and again did he deny with an oath--`I have not known the man.'

Again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”


rate difficulty: Mary of Magdala and Mary, the mother of Joseph, were watching to see where he was laid.

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simplify: For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;

For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:


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

He came with the good news of peace for you who were ‘far off,’ and of peace for those who were ‘near’;


simplify: And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he communed with Saul upon the housetop.

And when they had come down from the high place into the town, where a bed was made ready for Saul, he went to rest.


rate difficulty: And while they were seated taking food, Jesus said, Truly I say to you, One of you will be false to me, one who is taking food with me.

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


rate difficulty: Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

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


simplify: For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.


rate difficulty: and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

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rate difficulty: These are they that were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

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


simplify: Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;

Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ our Lord, the all-merciful Father, the God ever ready to console,


simplify: Yea and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days Will I pour forth of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.

And on my men-servants and my women-servants I will send my Spirit, and they will be prophets.


simplify: Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.

Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.


rate difficulty: But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of [those of] the nations and made [them] evil-affected against the brethren.

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simplify: And they said, If we have found favor in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.

And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.


rate difficulty: then the priest shall look; and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be of a dull white, it is a tetter, it hath broken out in the skin; he is clean.

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


simplify: And when he heard of Jesus, he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

And, hearing about Jesus, he sent some Jewish councillors to him, with the request that he would come and save his slave’s life.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Shemida are Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam.

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


simplify: For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five hundred.

The number of his army was forty thousand, five hundred.


simplify: And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, andbrought Jehovah’s offering, for the work of the tent of meeting, and for all the service thereof, and for the holy garments.

And everyone whose heart was moved, everyone who was guided by the impulse of his spirit, came with his offering for the Lord, for whatever was needed for the Tent of meeting and its work and for the holy robes.


rate difficulty: They <FI>are<Fi> near Jebus, and the day hath gone greatly down, and the young man saith unto his lord, `Come, I pray thee, and we turn aside unto this city of the Jebusite, and lodge in it.'

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


simplify: Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

Now Rachel had taken the images, and had put them in the camels' basket, and was seated on them. And Laban, searching through all the tent, did not come across them.


rate difficulty: — and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came to this place;

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


simplify: and being in readiness to avenge every disobedience, whenever your obedience may be fulfilled.

and are fully prepared to punish every act of rebellion, when once your submission is complete.


rate difficulty: And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.

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


rate difficulty: so powerfully was the word of God increasing and prevailing.

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


simplify: Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.


rate difficulty: And where <FI>are<Fi> your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, The king of Babylon doth not come in against you, and against this land?


rate difficulty: And they cried out again, Crucify him.

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


rate difficulty: A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

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


rate difficulty: The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.


rate difficulty: and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.


simplify: In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;


simplify: An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.


rate difficulty: Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

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


simplify: and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus:

So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;


rate difficulty: `And we say, And it hath been, when they say <FI>so<Fi> unto us, and unto our generations hereafter, that we have said, See the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made--not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice--but a witness it <FI>is<Fi> between us and you.

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


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

And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ.


simplify: And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.


simplify: If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

If, then, Satan is at war with himself, how will he keep his kingdom? because you say that I send evil spirits out of men by the help of Beelzebul.


rate difficulty: — A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest!


rate difficulty: And Lot went up from Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.


simplify: And when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you?


rate difficulty: and they took up of broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full, and of the fishes,

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


simplify: These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;


simplify: A foolish son is a grief to his father, And bitterness to her that bare him.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitter pain to her who gave him birth.


simplify: But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.


simplify: For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

For I have no pleasure in the death of him on whom death comes, says the Lord: be turned back then, and have life.


simplify: Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Then Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothing parted as a sign of grief, and gave him an account of what the Rab-shakeh had said.


simplify: Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.


simplify: And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the bruised grain thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

And part of the meal of the offering and part of the oil and all the perfume is to be burned for a sign by the priest: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.


simplify: as ye also learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow-servant, who is for you a faithful ministrant of the Christ,

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


simplify: So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.

So Jesus, moved with compassion, touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight, and followed him.


simplify: Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.


simplify: And the sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel.

And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.


simplify: For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.


rate difficulty: And Job answereth and saith: --

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


simplify: A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

A man will be praised in the measure of his wisdom, but a wrong-minded man will be looked down on.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


rate difficulty: And they said to him, We are able. And Jesus said to them, You will take of the cup from which I take; and the baptism which I am about to undergo you will undergo:

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


simplify: And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?

“What, do even you understand nothing yet?” Jesus exclaimed.


simplify: And he made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.


rate difficulty: But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

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


simplify: And the things that I write to you, lo, before God--I lie not;

(As to what I am now writing to you, I call God to witness that I am speaking the truth).


simplify: We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as he shall command us.

But we will go three days' journey into the waste land and make an offering to the Lord our God as he may give us orders.


simplify: And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

‘And, if anyone puts temptation in the way of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be far better for him if he had been thrown into the sea with a great millstone around his neck.


simplify: Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.


rate difficulty: If any one has an ear, let him hear.

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


simplify: If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:

For you have heard, I suppose, of the responsible charge with which God entrusted me for your benefit,


rate difficulty: But of that day and hour knoweth no one, not even the angels of heaven, neither the Son, but the Father only.

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


rate difficulty: Out of Ephraim [came] those whose root was in Amalek; After thee was Benjamin among thy peoples. Out of Machir came down governors, And out of Zebulun they that handled the staff of the ruler.

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


rate difficulty: Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


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

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


simplify: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, ready to forgive one another, just as God, in Christ, forgave you.


rate difficulty: For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

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


simplify: He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.


rate difficulty: lo, the money which we found in the mouth of our bags we brought back unto thee from the land of Canaan, and how do we steal from the house of thy lord silver or gold?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, neither shall any man enter in by it; for Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it; therefore it shall be shut.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.

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


simplify: He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord: and he that eateth, eateth unto the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, unto the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.

He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.


simplify: And they journeyed from Mithkah, and encamped in Hashmonah.

And they went on from Mithkah, and put up their tents in Hashmonah.


simplify: Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.

Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,


simplify: God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.


rate difficulty: My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

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


simplify: All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity, because thy sins were increased.

Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;


rate difficulty: `In which things, also, going on to Damascus--with authority and commission from the chief priests--

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


rate difficulty: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

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


simplify: And David abode in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill-country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

And David kept in the waste land, in safe places, waiting in the hill-country in the waste land of Ziph. And Saul was searching for him every day, but God did not give him up into his hands.


rate difficulty: Then, after prayer and going without food they put their hands on them, and sent them away.

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


rate difficulty: and they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces twelve hand-baskets full;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:

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


simplify: As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.


simplify: For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:

For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;


simplify: Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.


simplify: Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.

This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

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


rate difficulty: Purposes by counsel thou dost establish, And with plans make thou war.

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


simplify: And Jesus seeing their faith saith unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins are forgiven.

And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.


simplify: I have cut off nations; their battlements are desolate; I have made their streets waste, so that none passeth by; their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, so that there is no inhabitant.

I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.


simplify: How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord God, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

How feeble is your heart, says the Lord, seeing that you do all these things, the work of a loose and overruling woman;


rate difficulty: And the thieves who were on the crosses said evil words to him.

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


simplify: `Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;'

Understand, then, that this salvation of God was sent for the Gentiles; and they will listen.”


simplify: And wisdom we speak among the perfect, and wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age--of those becoming useless,

Yet there is a philosophy that we teach to those whose faith is matured, but it is not the philosophy of today, or of the leaders of today — whose downfall is at hand.


rate difficulty: and in graving of stone for settings, and in graving of wood to work in all work.


simplify: I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.

I will give them good grass-land for their food, and their safe place will be the mountains of the high place of Israel: there they will take their rest in a good place, and on fat grass-land they will take their food on the mountains of Israel.


rate difficulty: They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.


simplify: A wicked man receiveth a bribe out of the bosom, To pervert the ways of justice.

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.


rate difficulty: How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.


rate difficulty: Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?

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


rate difficulty: Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

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


simplify: that they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

So that they may give you worship, walking in your ways, as long as they are living in the land which you gave to our fathers.


simplify: Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them in like manner.

Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.


rate difficulty: And one of them said, Not one of us, my lord king; but Elisha, the prophet in Israel, gives the king of Israel news of the words you say even in your bedroom.


rate difficulty: And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of Jehovah thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would Jehovah have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.


simplify: And they journeyed from Moseroth, and encamped in Bene-jaakan.

And they went on from Moseroth, and put up their tents in Bene-jaakan.


simplify: Salute Mary, who bestowed much labor on you.

Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.


simplify: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.


rate difficulty: For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?

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


rate difficulty: And he was nailed to the cross; and they made a division of his clothing among them, putting to the decision of chance what everyone was to take.


rate difficulty: even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

Now Abner, the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth over to Mahanaim,


simplify: For we know that if the earthly house of our tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

For we are conscious that if this our tent of flesh is taken down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in heaven.


simplify: Every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering of Jehovah.

Everyone who is numbered, from twenty years old and over, is to give an offering to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Moreover Jehovah thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee.

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


simplify: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?

O foolish Galatians, by what strange powers have you been tricked, to whom it was made clear that Jesus Christ was put to death on the cross?


simplify: Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,

In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,


simplify: And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.


rate difficulty: [But] I would encourage you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips should assuage [your pain].

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


simplify: Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.

But still he did the same sins which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do; he went on in them.


simplify: therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

So he argued in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who joined in their worship, as well as daily in the public Square with those who happened to be there.


rate difficulty: He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

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


simplify: which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.


simplify: And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, And gather us together and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks unto thy holy name, And to triumph in thy praise.

And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name and have glory in your praise.


simplify: let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.


rate difficulty: Salute Prisca and Aquilas, and Onesiphorus' household;

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


simplify: And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he behold the good that I will do for my people, saith the Lord; because he hath taught rebellion against the Lord.

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


simplify: And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.

And as there was a ship going to Phoenicia, we went in it.


rate difficulty: And when the woman saw that she was not able to keep it secret, she came, shaking with fear, and falling down before him she made clear before all the people the reason for her touching him, and how she was made well straight away.

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


rate difficulty: giving no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our ministration be not blamed;

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


rate difficulty: The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,

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


rate difficulty: for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed;

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


simplify: And his inward affection is more abundant toward you, whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all, how with fear and trembling ye received him.

And his love to you is the more increased by his memory of you all, how you gave way to his authority, and how you took him to your hearts with fear and honour.


rate difficulty: And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.)

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


simplify: And as he was yet a coming, the demon dashed him down, and tare him grievously. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

And while he was coming, he was pushed violently down and twisted by the evil spirit. But Jesus gave sharp orders to the unclean spirit, and made the boy well, and gave him back to his father.


rate difficulty: In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;

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


simplify: That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.


simplify: and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made the heaven and the earth and sea and fountains of waters.

Saying with a loud voice, Have fear of God and give him glory; because the hour of his judging is come; and give worship to him who made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of water.


simplify: Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

In that day my wrath will be moved against them, and I will be turned away from them, veiling my face from them, and destruction will overtake them, and unnumbered evils and troubles will come on them; so that in that day they will say, Have not these evils come on us because our God is not with us?


simplify: for his sins which he sinned in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

Because of his sin in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, in going in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin which he made Israel do.


simplify: Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?

Till the memory of what you have done to him is past and he is no longer angry: then I will send word for you to come back; are the two of you to be taken from me in one day?


rate difficulty: And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a people numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.


rate difficulty: The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah hath read.

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


simplify: And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.

And lifting up his hand, Moses gave the rock two blows with his rod: and water came streaming out, and the people and their cattle had drink enough.


rate difficulty: And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

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


simplify: And the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst thou not sow good seed in thy field? whence then hath it tares?

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?


simplify: And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

and that they all ate the same supernatural food,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

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


rate difficulty: And they come in over against Gibeah--ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel--and the battle <FI>is<Fi> grievous, and they have not known that the evil is striking against them.

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


rate difficulty: of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed;


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.


simplify: And there appeared to him a messenger from heaven strengthening him;

Presently there appeared to him an angel from heaven, who strengthened him.


simplify: And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.

Near them was Shallum, the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half Jerusalem, with his daughters.


rate difficulty: And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.


rate difficulty: And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

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


rate difficulty: Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.

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


simplify: Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar–adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,

Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of hisgodly ones.

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


rate difficulty: `And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck, in those days; for there shall be great distress on the land, and wrath on this people;


simplify: All things do without murmurings and reasonings,

In all that you do, avoid murmuring and dissension,


simplify: And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

And you are to take the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel are to put their hands on them:


rate difficulty: And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue; and put thereon the dishes, and the cups, and the bowls, and goblets of the drink-offering; and the continual bread shall be thereon.


rate difficulty: and saith to the Levites--who are teaching all Israel--who are sanctified to Jehovah, `Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built; it is not to you a burden on the shoulder. `Now, serve Jehovah your God, and His people Israel,

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


simplify: For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

For they have not been your servants in their kingdom, and in all the good things you gave them, and in the great and fat land you gave them, and they have not been turned away from their evil-doing.


simplify: And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when it shall fail, they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles.

And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.


rate difficulty: Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.


simplify: By Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I accounthim, I have written unto you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God: stand ye fast therein.

I have sent you this short letter by Silvanus, a true brother, in my opinion; comforting you and witnessing that this is the true grace of God; keep to it.


simplify: And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.

“To you,”he said, “the knowledge of the hidden truths of the kingdom of God has been imparted, but to others in parables only, so that ‘though they have eyes they may not see, and though they have ears, they may not understand.’


simplify: and He said to him, Go forth out of thy land, and out of thy kindred, and come to a land that I shall shew thee.

‘Leave your country and your kindred, and come into the country that I will show you.’


rate difficulty: For the breast of the wave-offering, and the shoulder of the heave-offering, have I taken of the children of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons from the children of Israel by an everlasting statute.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

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


rate difficulty: Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

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


rate difficulty: And he suffered no man to follow with him, save Peter, and James, and John the brother of James.


simplify: And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:

“What things do you mean?”asked Jesus. “Why, about Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered, “who, in the eyes of God and all the people, was a prophet, whose power was felt in both his words and actions;


simplify: And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;

And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;


simplify: And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,


simplify: Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

Now that you have done with all malice, all deceitfulness, insincerity, jealous feelings, and all backbiting,


rate difficulty: And the two disciples answered — “The Master wants it.”

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


rate difficulty: And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

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


rate difficulty: Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.


simplify: Likewise even as it came to pass in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building;


simplify: And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.


rate difficulty: The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.


rate difficulty: And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle; and now why are ye silent as to bringing the king back?

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


rate difficulty: The burden of the beasts of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the humps of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim;

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;


simplify: And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

After Jesus had entered Capernaum, a captain in the Roman army came up to him, entreating his help.


simplify: and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also--and they were the days of the unleavened food--

and, when he saw that the Jews were pleased with this, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This was during the Festival of the unleavened bread.)


simplify: And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

And Moses took his wife and his sons and put them on an ass and went back to the land of Egypt: and he took the rod of God in his hand.


rate difficulty: for a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

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


simplify: Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

Son of man, has not Israel, the uncontrolled people, said to you, What are you doing?


simplify: And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.


rate difficulty: and all the brethren with me, to the assemblies of Galatia.

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


rate difficulty: The days of visitation are come; the days of recompence are come: Israel shall know [it]: the prophet is a fool, the inspired man is mad, because of the greatness of thine iniquity, and the great enmity.


rate difficulty: Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

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


rate difficulty: The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

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


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


rate difficulty: Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth the feet of the ox and the ass.


simplify: And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

And David had word in the waste land that Nabal was cutting the wool of his sheep.


rate difficulty: They then fixed a day with him, and came to the place where he was staying, in even larger numbers, when Paul proceeded to lay the subject before them. He bore his testimony to the kingdom of God, and tried to convince them about Jesus, by arguments drawn from the law of Moses and from the prophets — speaking from morning until evening.

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


simplify: And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.

And frequently it has sent him into the fire and into the water, for his destruction; but if you are able to do anything, have pity on us, and give us help.


rate difficulty: And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You women have said with your mouths, and with your hands you have done what you said, We will certainly give effect to the oaths we have made, to have perfumes burned to the queen of heaven and drink offerings drained out to her: then give effect to your oaths and do them.


rate difficulty: and having heard that Archelaus doth reign over Judea instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go thither, and having been divinely warned in a dream, he withdrew to the parts of Galilee,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Now to God our Father be glory for ever and ever. So be it.

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


simplify: And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

And you will be my people, and I will be your God.


rate difficulty: and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;


simplify: Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith Jehovah; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, saith Jehovah, I will not keep anger for ever.

Go, and give out these words to the north, and say, Come back, O Israel, though you have been turned away from me, says the Lord; my face will not be against you in wrath: for I am full of mercy, says the Lord, I will not be angry for ever.


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.

Then the angel of the Lord went further, stopping in a narrow place where there was no room for turning to the right or to the left.


simplify: for see your calling, brethren, that not many <FI>are<Fi> wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble;

Look at the facts of your call, friends. There are not many among you who are wise, as people reckon wisdom, not many who are influential, not many who are high-born;


simplify: And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters,

Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and spoke to me. ‘Come here,’ he said, ‘and I will show you the sentence passed on that Great Harlot who is seated at the meeting of many waters,


rate difficulty: You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.


simplify: And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, make known unto them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the egresses thereof, and the entrances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof; and write it in their sight; that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

And they will be shamed by what they have done; so give them the knowledge of the form of the house and its structure, and the ways out of it and into it, and all its laws and its rules, writing it down for them: so that they may keep all its laws and do them.


simplify: And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.

And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.


rate difficulty: And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?

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


simplify: And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight.

Then he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men; and the third captain of fifty went up, and falling on his knees before Elijah, requesting mercy of him, said, O man of God, let my life and the life of these your fifty servants be of value to you.


rate difficulty: But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.


simplify: Thou hast granted me life and favour, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.


rate difficulty: And if a man sanctify unto the Lord a field which he hath bought, which is not of the fields of his possession;

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


simplify: And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, as a voice of thunder, Come [and see].

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


rate difficulty: By whom this poor body of ours will be changed into the image of the body of his glory, in the measure of the working by which he is able to put all things under himself.

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


rate difficulty: When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And do this: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their stead;

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


rate difficulty: Because of this a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

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


simplify: But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.


rate difficulty: And sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; and Seled dieth without sons.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are wandering without direction, they are shut in by the waste land.

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


simplify: Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, a scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.

Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the God of heaven, all peace;


rate difficulty: Then the rest of the nations round about you will be certain that I the Lord am the builder of the places which were pulled down and the planter of that which was waste: I the Lord have said it, and I will do it.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Saul are Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-Shua; as to the name of his two daughters, the name of the first-born <FI>is<Fi> Merab, and the name of the younger Michal;

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> slow to anger, and of great kindness; bearing away iniquity and transgression, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on sons, on a third <FI>generation<Fi> , and on a fourth; --

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


rate difficulty: and overlayeth it with pure gold, and maketh for it a wreath of gold round about.

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


simplify: And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

And Jesus said to them, The sons of this world are married and have wives;


simplify: And suddenly, when they had looked round about, they saw no man any more, save Jesus only with themselves.

And suddenly looking round about, they saw no one any longer, but Jesus only with themselves.


rate difficulty: Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.


rate difficulty: And David inquired ofGod saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines, and wilt thou give them into my hand? And Jehovah said to him, Go up; and I will give them into thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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


rate difficulty: All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

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


rate difficulty: Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.


simplify: O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.


rate difficulty: Then he said to all Israel, You be on one side, and I with Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do whatever seems good to you.

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


rate difficulty: in that day, he who shall be on the house top, and his vessels in the house, let him not come down to take them away; and he in the field, in like manner, let him not turn backward;


simplify: I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;


simplify: I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.

I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.


simplify: Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord’s thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is.

The Lord your God is ruler of heaven, of the heaven of heavens, and of the earth with everything in it.


rate difficulty: So Hushai, David's friend, went into the town, and Absalom came to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

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


rate difficulty: And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the purple, and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to crucify him.


rate difficulty: and, noticing a fig-tree at a distance in leaf, he went to it to see if by any chance he could find something on it; but, on coming up to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.

At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.

There were a good many lamps in the upstairs room, where we had met;


rate difficulty: And Jehu said, Sanctify a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

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


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

but as to a seat at my right or at my left — that is not mine to give, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”


simplify: and go up did the smoke of the perfumes to the prayers of the saints out of the hand of the messenger, before God;

The smoke of the incense ascended, with the prayers of Christ’s people, from the hand of the angel before God.


simplify: and those weeping, as not weeping; and those rejoicing, as not rejoicing; and those buying, as not possessing;

those who are weeping as if not weeping, those who are rejoicing as if not rejoicing, those who buy as if not possessing,


rate difficulty: For many are called, but few chosen.”

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


simplify: Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.


simplify: Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

Only he did not take the land of the priests, for the priests had their food given them by Pharaoh, and having what Pharaoh gave them, they had no need to give up their land.


simplify: Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the Lord by Samuel.

So all the responsible men of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and David made an agreement with them in Hebron before the Lord; and they put the holy oil on David and made him king over Israel, as the Lord had said by Samuel.


simplify: For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

And this is no small thing for you, but it is your life, and through this you may make your days long in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.


simplify: Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

Then Samuel said to the people, Come, let us go to Gilgal and there make the kingdom strong in the hands of Saul.


simplify: Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.


simplify: Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.

And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you.


rate difficulty: Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah, I will joy in theGod of my salvation.


simplify: And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south.


simplify: And now, behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground, which thou, O Jehovah, hast given me. And thou shalt set it down before Jehovah thy God, and worship before Jehovah thy God:

So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:


simplify: And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.

And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.


rate difficulty: and I have tabernacled in the midst of the sons of Israel, and have become their God,


rate difficulty: And [his] brightness was as the light; Rays [came forth] from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.


simplify: And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.

So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.


rate difficulty: and ye have brought near a fire-offering to Jehovah seven days; in the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a holy convocation; ye do no servile work.'

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


rate difficulty: And the messenger that went to call Micah spoke to him saying, Behold now, the words of the prophets [declare] good to the king with one assent: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak good.

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