rate difficulty: And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting <FI>is<Fi> the tabernacle, and the tent, its covering, and the vail at the opening of the tent of meeting,

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


simplify: `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things--being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

You children of snakes! How can you, evil as you are, say anything good? For what fills the heart will rise to the lips.


simplify: These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

I write this to you so that you may realize that you have found eternal life — you who believe in the name of the Son of God.


simplify: But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.


rate difficulty: for I had determined that, while with you, I would forget everything Jesus Christ — and him crucified!

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


simplify: Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

and who made his home in the tombs. No one had ever been able to secure him, even with a chain;


simplify: Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of Jehovah: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers' doorway in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah, I have a question to put to you; keep nothing back from me.


simplify: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.


rate difficulty: And there shall be eight boards, and their bases, of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one board, and two bases under another board.

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


rate difficulty: And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

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


simplify: And within the oracle was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.

And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold.


simplify: For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.


rate difficulty: for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,

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


rate difficulty: Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

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


simplify: Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat.

Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.


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

And they are not to take as wives any widow or woman whose husband has put her away: but they may take virgins of the seed of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.


simplify: Shall he therefore empty his net, and spare not to slay the nations continually?

For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.


simplify: In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.


rate difficulty: As to the Jebusites, inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah have not been able to dispossess them, and the Jebusite dwelleth with the sons of Judah in Jerusalem unto this day.

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


simplify: Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great things.

Have no fear, O land; be glad with great joy; for the Lord has done great things.


simplify: He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.


rate difficulty: and other money have we brought down in our hand to buy food; we have not known who put our money in our bags.'


simplify: And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.


simplify: If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

If a man takes by force one of his countrymen, the children of Israel, using him as his property or getting a price for him, that thief is to be put to death: so you are to put away evil from among you.


simplify: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;


rate difficulty: But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in delicate raiment? behold, those who wear delicate things are in the houses of kings.

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


rate difficulty: For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

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


rate difficulty: But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world.

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


rate difficulty: To this you were called by the good news which we brought you, to attain to the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


simplify: And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him, but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.

Now a traveller came to the house of the man of wealth, but he would not take anything from his flock or his herd to make a meal for the traveller who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb and made it ready for the man who had come.


simplify: Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,


rate difficulty: whither are we going up? our brethren have melted our heart, saying, A people greater and taller than we, cities great and fenced to heaven, and also sons of Anakim--we have seen there.

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


simplify: Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. “The man whom I kiss,” he had said, “will be the one; arrest him.”


rate difficulty: And the watchman calleth, and declareth to the king, and the king saith, `If by himself, tidings <FI>are<Fi> in his mouth;' and he cometh, coming on and drawing near.

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


simplify: For verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men desired to see the things which ye see, and saw them not; and to hear the things which ye hear, and heard them not.

For truly, I say to you that prophets and upright men had a desire to see the things which you see, and saw them not; and to have knowledge of the words which have come to your ears, and they had it not.


simplify: And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt.


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

For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.


simplify: Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the Lord God.

And Ezekiel will be a sign to you; everything he has done you will do: when this takes place, you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled,

A violent squall came on, and the waves kept dashing into the boat, so that the boat was actually filling.


simplify: When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Now when it was morning, all the chief priests and those in authority took thought together with the purpose of putting Jesus to death.


simplify: My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.

My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.


simplify: And the sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee The city of Jehovah, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

And the sons of those who were cruel to you will come before you with bent heads; and those who made sport of you will go down on their faces at your feet; and you will be named, The Town of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

See now, the Lord your God has put the land into your hands: go up and take it, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has said to you; have no fear and do not be troubled.


simplify: And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, and to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God;

But Ruth said, Give up requesting me to go away from you, or to go back without you: for where you go I will go; and where you take your rest I will take my rest; your people will be my people, and your God my God.


simplify: and without a parable spake he not unto them: but privately to his own disciples he expounded all things.

And without a story he said nothing to them: but privately to his disciples he made all things clear.


rate difficulty: Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

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


simplify: And thou shalt make fifty clasps of brass, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one.

Then make fifty brass hooks and put the hooks into the twists, joining the tent together to make it one.


rate difficulty: And Naomi taketh the lad, and layeth him in her bosom, and is to him for a nurse;

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En–gedi even unto En–eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.


rate difficulty: And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:

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


rate difficulty: Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazzar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.

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


rate difficulty: Then he brought me forth into the utter court, the way toward the north: and he brought me into the chamber that was over against the separate place, and which was before the building toward the north.

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


rate difficulty: Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

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


simplify: That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

Who give help to a man in a wrong cause, and who put a net for the feet of him who gives decisions in the public place, taking away a man's right without cause.


rate difficulty: Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

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


simplify: And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

And David, hearing of it, sent Joab with all the army of fighting-men.


simplify: He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.

He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.


simplify: And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

But his mother made answer and said, No, his name is John.


rate difficulty: Abram (the same is Abraham).


rate difficulty: While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came; and Adonijah said [to him], Come in; for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good news.

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


rate difficulty: by which also ye are saved, (if ye hold fast the word which I announced to you as the glad tidings,) unless indeed ye have believed in vain.

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


simplify: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.

In which were all sorts of beasts and birds.


simplify: But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.


simplify: But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.


rate difficulty: In righteousness <FI>are<Fi> all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

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


rate difficulty: But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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


simplify: Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.

Now Satan took possession of Judas, who was known as Iscariot, and who belonged to the Twelve;


simplify: Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And now, why should we die? for this great fire will consume us. If we hear the voice of Jehovah ourGod any more, we shall die.

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


simplify: He mocketh at fear, and is not dismayed; Neither turneth he back from the sword.

In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.


simplify: But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

Let everyone look into their own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.


rate difficulty: in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

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


rate difficulty: And all the store-towns and the towns which Solomon had for his war-carriages and for his horsemen, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

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


rate difficulty: They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.


rate difficulty: He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was full of wisdom and understanding and knowledge, to do all kinds of works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and made all his work.


rate difficulty: For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

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


rate difficulty: These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.

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


simplify: And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their fathers’ houses.

And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.


rate difficulty: Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

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


rate difficulty: Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;


simplify: And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

And did not have mercy on the world which then was, but only kept safe Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he let loose the waters over the world of the evil-doers;


simplify: And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.

And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came with certain of the rulers, and an expert talker, one Tertullus; and they made a statement to Felix against Paul.


simplify: And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering.

And on that day the ruler is to give for himself and for all the people of the land an ox for a sin-offering.


rate difficulty: Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.

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


simplify: Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people that remained in the city, the deserters also that fell away to him, and the residue of the people that remained.

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away to Babylon as prisoners, all the rest of the workmen who were still in the town, as well as those who had given themselves up to him, and all the rest of the people.


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.


simplify: Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.


simplify: And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

And let her take off the dress in which she was made prisoner and go on living in your house and weeping for her father and mother for a full month: and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she will be your wife.


simplify: And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

And they will take the South, and the lowland, and the country of Ephraim, and Gilead, as their heritage.


rate difficulty: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be reckoned a curse to him.

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


rate difficulty: And, therefore, I also, since I have investigated all these events with great care from their very beginning, have resolved to write a connected history of them for you,

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


simplify: And furthermore ye have sent for men that come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent, and, lo, they came; for whom thou didst wash thyself, paint thine eyes, and deck thyself with ornaments,

And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.


simplify: Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house of the Lord: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.

Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and took him into the rulers' doorway in the house of the Lord: and the king said to Jeremiah, I have a question to put to you; keep nothing back from me.


simplify: And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.


simplify: And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days’ respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.

Then the responsible men of Jabesh said to him, Give us seven days, so that we may send men to every part of Israel: and then, if no one comes to our help, we will come out to you.


simplify: Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward.

O nation full of sin, a people weighted down with crime, a generation of evil-doers, false-hearted children: they have gone away from the Lord, they have no respect for the Holy One of Israel, their hearts are turned back from him.


simplify: He that hath an evil eye hasteth after riches, And knoweth not that want shall come upon him.

He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.


simplify: But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim to the place that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.

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


simplify: Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.

The numbering was started by Joab, the son of Zeruiah, but he did not go on to the end; and because of it, wrath came on Israel and the number was not recorded in the history of King David.


simplify: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,


simplify: And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?

And David said to the young man who gave him the news, Why are you certain that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?


simplify: and there was sitting a certain youth, by name Eutychus, upon the window--being borne down by a deep sleep, Paul discoursing long--he having sunk down from the sleep, fell down from the third story, and was lifted up dead.

and a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, was gradually overcome with great drowsiness, as Paul continued his address. At last, quite overpowered by his drowsiness, he fell from the third story to the ground, and was picked up for dead.


simplify: and the mother-in-law of Simon was lying fevered, and immediately they tell him about her,

Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying ill with a fever, and they at once told Jesus about her.


simplify: and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, on which were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.


simplify: for ye did die, and your life hath been hid with the Christ in God;

For you died, and your life now lies hidden, with the Christ, in God.


rate difficulty: And thou hast been a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, And a diadem of royalty in the hand of thy God,

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


simplify: Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort:

Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, sent a letter against Jerusalem, to Artaxerxes the king;


simplify: And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.

And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

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


rate difficulty: Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,

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


rate difficulty: and he said, `Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all;


rate difficulty: And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

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


simplify: They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper.

They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;


rate difficulty: He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens.

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


simplify: And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

And her sister Oholibah saw this, but her desire was even more unmeasured, and her loose behaviour was worse than that of her sister.


simplify: Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.


simplify: But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

And after you have undergone pain for a little time, the God of all grace who has given you a part in his eternal glory through Christ Jesus, will himself give you strength and support, and make you complete in every good thing;


simplify: And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron saw him, and turned to the Lord.

and all the inhabitants of Lydda and of the Plain of Sharon saw him, and came over to the Lord’s side.


rate difficulty: And he asked his father, How long a time is it that it has been like this with him? And he said, From childhood;

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


simplify: And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

And news of the coming of the children of Israel came to the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who was living in the South in the land of Canaan.


simplify: in every thing give thanks, for this <FI>is<Fi> the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.


simplify: if then the equal gift God did give to them as also to us, having believed upon the Lord Jesus Christ, I--how was I able to withstand God?'

Since then, God had given them the very same gift as he gave us when we became believers in Jesus Christ the Master — who was I that I could thwart God?”


rate difficulty: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of ruin and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and gross darkness,

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


simplify: For Jehovah is our judge, Jehovah is our lawgiver, Jehovah is our king; he will save us.

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.


simplify: and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest.

And Annas, the high priest, was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all the relations of the high priest.


simplify: They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

They give birth to snake's eggs, and make spider's threads: whoever takes their eggs for food comes to his death, and the egg which is crushed becomes a poison-snake.


rate difficulty: Will iron break? iron from the north? and bronze?


simplify: for ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail, for, night and day working not to be a burden upon any of you, we did preach to you the good news of God;

You will not have forgotten, friends, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God’s good news.


rate difficulty: But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.

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


simplify: for if the ministration of the condemnation <FI>is<Fi> glory, much more doth the ministration of the righteousness abound in glory;

For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!


rate difficulty: And if a man lie with her at all, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.

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rate difficulty: Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.

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


rate difficulty: And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the Lord in the high place that was at Gibeon,

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


simplify: and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.

And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:


rate difficulty: I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

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


simplify: And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

and a servant of the Lord should never quarrel. They ought, on the contrary, to be courteous to everyone, skillful teachers, and forbearing.


rate difficulty: for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

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simplify: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

In our strong affection for you, that seemed to us the best way of sharing with you, not only God’s Good news, but our lives as well — so dear had you become to us.


rate difficulty: Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

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


simplify: and also the Levites shall no more have need to carry the tabernacle and all the vessels of it for the service thereof.

And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.


simplify: In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.


simplify: And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant, saying,

And he gave orders to Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, and Achbor, the son of Micaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king's servant, saying,


simplify: He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.


rate difficulty: And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.

And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.


simplify: everything that may abide the fire, ye shall make to go through the fire, and it shall be clean; nevertheless it shall be purified with the water for impurity: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make to go through the water.

And anything which may be heated, is to go through the fire and be made clean; but in addition it is to be put in the water of cleaning: and anything which may not go through the fire is to be put in the water.


simplify: Jehovah standeth up to contend, and standeth to judge the peoples.

The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.


rate difficulty: Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.

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


simplify: He that hideth hatred is of lying lips; And he that uttereth a slander is a fool.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.


rate difficulty: And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: But at [the] feast he released to them one prisoner, whomsoever they begged [of him].


rate difficulty: Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

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


simplify: So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.

So the wall was complete on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.


simplify: For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

for Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so as to avoid spending much time in Roman Asia. He was making haste to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the Festival at the close of the Harvest.


rate difficulty: And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

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


simplify: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

And ... without my flesh I will see God;


rate difficulty: And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

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


simplify: Let peoples serve thee, And nations bow down to thee: Be lord over thy brethren, And let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: Cursed be every one that curseth thee, And blessed be every one that blesseth thee.

Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.


simplify: for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

For it is by God’s loving kindness that you have been saved, through your faith. It is not due to yourselves; the gift is God’s.


rate difficulty: Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

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


simplify: and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

“We are only people like yourselves, and we have come with the good news that you should turn away from these follies to a living God, ‘who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them.’


rate difficulty: And the far-off come in, and they have built in the temple of Jehovah, and ye have known that Jehovah of Hosts hath sent me unto you, yea, it hath come to pass, if ye do certainly hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God.'

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


rate difficulty: The simple believeth every word; but the prudent [man] heedeth his going.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

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


simplify: And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

And Cain had connection with his wife and she became with child and gave birth to Enoch: and he made a town, and gave the town the name of Enoch after his son.


rate difficulty: And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

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


simplify: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

And all of us, with faces from which the veil is lifted, seeing, as if reflected in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into his likeness, from glory to glory, as it is given by the Lord, the Spirit.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.


simplify: The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

The Lord God is my strength, and he makes my feet like roes' feet, guiding me on my high places. For the chief music-maker on corded instruments.


rate difficulty: But those tenants said to one another ‘Here is the heir! Come, let us kill him, and his inheritance will be ours.’


simplify: And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast enquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?

And Saul said to him, Why have you made designs against me with the son of Jesse, giving him food and a sword and getting directions from the Lord for him, and helping him to take up arms against me, and to be on the watch to make a secret attack on me as he is doing now?


rate difficulty: while thou stretchest forth thy hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And I besought thy disciples that they might cast him out, and they could not.

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


simplify: Why is it judged incredible with you, if God doth raise the dead?

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


rate difficulty: And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.


rate difficulty: And his princes gave a voluntary heave-offering for the people, for the priests, and for the Levites: Hilkijah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house ofGod, gave to the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand six hundred [small cattle] and three hundred oxen;

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


rate difficulty: and twenty bowls of gold, of a thousand darics; and two vessels of fine bright brass, precious as gold.

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


rate difficulty: I said, Only fear me, receive correction; so her dwelling shall not be cut off, howsoever I may punish her. But they rose early, they corrupted all their doings.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock’s head, and kill the bullock before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

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


simplify: and when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision were contending with him,

But, when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those who were converts from Judaism began to attack him,


rate difficulty: so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

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


simplify: Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.

Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.


simplify: but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.


simplify: And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.

And the sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul, the son of a woman of Canaan: these are the families of Simeon.


simplify: And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.

And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.


simplify: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!


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

Truly there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is washed out.


simplify: And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner; and all the people wept.

And they put Abner's body to rest in Hebron; and the king and all the people were weeping loudly by the resting-place of Abner's body.


rate difficulty: And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.


simplify: For which cause I suffer also these things: yet I am not ashamed; for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed unto him against that day.

And for which I undergo these things: but I have no feeling of shame. For I have knowledge of him in whom I have faith, and I am certain that he is able to keep that which I have given into his care till that day.


rate difficulty: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.


rate difficulty: As regards the glad tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.


rate difficulty: Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

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


rate difficulty: Eleazar begat Phinehas, Phinehas begat Abishua,

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


rate difficulty: So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.


rate difficulty: And straight away he got up before them, and took up his bed and went away to his house giving praise to God.

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


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

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


simplify: or with any stone, whereby a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, so that he died, and he was not his enemy, neither sought his harm;

Or has given him a blow with a stone, without seeing him, so causing his death, though he had nothing against him and no desire to do him evil:


simplify: And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.

And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and he will come after them and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and all his army, so that the Egyptians may see that I am the Lord. And they did so.


simplify: for not the hearers of the law <FI>are<Fi> righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be declared righteous: --

It is not those who hear the words of a law that are righteous before God, but it is those who obey it that will be pronounced righteous.


simplify: Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,

Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:


simplify: As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

It is said in the prophet Isaiah —  ‘I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way.


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

Then, calling his disciples to him, Jesus said: “I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all the others who were putting money into the chests;


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: And on the fifth day, nine bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;

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


rate difficulty: Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

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


simplify: And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,


rate difficulty: And Job answered Jehovah and said,

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's maidservant: Dan and Naphtali.

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


rate difficulty: And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.


simplify: I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to them that have sinned heretofore, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;

I said before, and still say it before I come, as being present for the second time, though I am still away from you, to those who have done wrong before, and to all the others, that if I come again I will not have pity;


simplify: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

For, just as ‘Jonah was inside the sea-monster three days and three nights,’ so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


rate difficulty: My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my [mother's] womb.

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


simplify: And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.

At the end of our visit, we made our preparations, and started on our way up to Jerusalem.


simplify: Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Women are to be serious in behaviour, saying no evil of others, controlling themselves, true in all things.


rate difficulty: And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.

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


simplify: Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

“Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,


rate difficulty: And if a man has sex relations with his son's wife, the two of them are to be put to death: it is unnatural; their blood will be on them.


simplify: And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

And in that day seven women will put their hands on one man, saying, There will be no need for you to give us food or clothing, only let us go under your name, so that our shame may be taken away.


simplify: But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.

but they pressed him not to do so. “Stay with us,” they said, “for it is getting towards evening, and the sun in already low.” So Jesus went in to stay with them.


simplify: And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed with him from Galilee, stood afar off, seeing these things.

And all his friends and the women who came with him from Galilee, were waiting at a distance, watching these things.


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you.

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


simplify: And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.

And, here, too, he holds authority from the chief priests to put in chains all those who invoke your name.”


simplify: And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.

And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.


simplify: For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

For it is not those who commend themselves that stand the test, but those who are commended by the Lord.


rate difficulty: And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times: and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

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


simplify: For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.


rate difficulty: To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah;

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


rate difficulty: and Balaam saith to the ass, `Because thou hast rolled thyself against me; oh that there were a sword in my hand, for now I had slain thee;'

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


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah hath scattered thee among all the peoples, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth; and thou hast served there other gods which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers--wood and stone.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then — face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I will know in full, as I have been fully known.


simplify: And the priest of his sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it: it is a statute for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt.

And the same offering is to be given by that one of his sons who takes his place as priest; by an order for ever, all of it is to be burned before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

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


rate difficulty: and he maketh loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain, at the end, in the joining; so he hath made in the edge of the outmost curtain, in the joining of the second;

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


simplify: Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

Deacons, in the same way, are to be serious in their behaviour, not false in word, not given to taking much wine or greatly desiring the wealth of this world;


simplify: And the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard it again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

And the voice came to me again from heaven, saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who has his place on the sea and on the earth.


simplify: And I will camp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee.

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.


simplify: So all the people that Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went unto Johanan the son of Kareah.

And all the people whom Ishmael had taken away prisoners from Mizpah, turning round, came back and went to Johanan, the son of Kareah.


simplify: besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.


simplify: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

for, many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.


rate difficulty: the Lord grant to him to find mercy from [the] Lord in that day — and how much service he rendered in Ephesus thou knowest best.

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rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

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simplify: Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;


simplify: And after him repaired the priests, the men of the plain.

After him were working the priests, the men of the lowland.


rate difficulty: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

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rate difficulty: And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Gratify us with them, because we did not take each man his wife in the war; for ye did not give them to them, that ye should now be guilty.

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rate difficulty: And they sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of theGod of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it kill us not, and our people. For there was deadly alarm throughout the city: the hand ofGod was very heavy there;

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


simplify: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

Their victory was due to the blood of the Lamb, and to the message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.

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simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

And for the young of an ass you may give a lamb in payment, or if you will not make payment for it, its neck is to be broken; but for all the first sons among your children, let payment be made.


simplify: Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and, behold, they are before the altar of Jehovah.

And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.


simplify: Even all that the Lord hath commanded you by the hand of Moses, from the day that the Lord commanded Moses, and henceforward among your generations;

All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after from generation to generation;


rate difficulty: And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.

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


simplify: Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ:

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:


rate difficulty: And it was told him, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

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


simplify: And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel: three gates northward; one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

And the doors of the town are to be named by the names of the tribes of Israel; three doors on the north, one for Reuben, one for Judah, one for Levi;


simplify: And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.

And I do everything for the sake of the good news, so that with them I may share in its blessings.


simplify: For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

For the teaching of all the prophets and of the law continued until the time of John;


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that Ben–hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

Now after this, Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got together all his army and went up to make an attack on Samaria, shutting the town in on all sides with his forces.


simplify: saying in a great voice, `Fear ye God, and give to Him glory, because come did the hour of His judgment, and bow ye before Him who did make the heaven, and the land, and sea, and fountains of waters.'

and he cried in a loud voice — ‘Reverence God, and give him praise (for the hour of his judgment has come) and worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all springs of water.’


simplify: That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.


simplify: So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.


rate difficulty: And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

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


rate difficulty: Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habaziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

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

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


simplify: Unto these the land shall be divided for an inheritance according to the number of names.

Let there be a division of the land among these, for their heritage, in relation to the number of names.


rate difficulty: and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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


rate difficulty: Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;

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


rate difficulty: and to those in Rachal, and to those in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those in the cities of the Kenites,

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rate difficulty: And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

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


rate difficulty: Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

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


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and seven years; and he expireth, and dieth, and is gathered unto his people;

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simplify: But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.


rate difficulty: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.

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


simplify: Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.


rate difficulty: While the king sat at his table, My spikenard sent forth its fragrance.

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


simplify: Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied unto Tobiah,

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who had been placed over the rooms of the house of our God, being a friend of Tobiah,


simplify: And thou art different from other women in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

And in your loose behaviour you are different from other women, for no one goes after you to make love to you: and because you give payment and no payment is given to you, in this you are different from them.


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.

And when he had said this, he went on in front of them, going up to Jerusalem.


simplify: Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more evil than himself; and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first.

Then he goes and gets seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they go in, and take their places there: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first.


rate difficulty: and by him to reconcile all things to itself, having made peace by the blood of his cross — by him, whether the things on the earth or the things in the heavens.

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rate difficulty: And these things write we to you that your joy may be full.

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


rate difficulty: for thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and Jehovah shall reward thee.

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


simplify: And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.


rate difficulty: The altar of Baal was pulled down and the house of Baal was broken up and made an unclean place, as it is to this day.


simplify: I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

I say to you, It is not so: but if your hearts are not changed, you will all come to an end in the same way.


simplify: Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

Every oath, and every undertaking which she gives, to keep herself from pleasure, may be supported or broken by her husband.


rate difficulty: And the heart of Pharaoh was hard, and he did not let the people go, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Moses.

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rate difficulty: And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the entry of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given to him as wife.

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


simplify: Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Dan were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years and over who was able to go to war;


rate difficulty: And seek not Beth-El, and Gilgal enter not, And Beer-Sheba pass not through, For Gilgal doth utterly remove, And Beth-El doth become vanity.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as they went in the way, a certain man said unto him, Lord, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

And, while they were on their way, a man said to Jesus: “I will follow you wherever you go.”


simplify: David therefore calleth him Lord, how is he then his son?

David then gives him the name of Lord, so how is it possible for him to be his son?


simplify: But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,


rate difficulty: Then you ought to have placed my money in the hands of bankers, and I, on my return, should have received my money, with interest.

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rate difficulty: And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.


rate difficulty: and Jesus said to him, `Go, thy faith hath saved thee:' and immediately he saw again, and was following Jesus in the way.

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rate difficulty: for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, <FI>it is<Fi> evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

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


simplify: How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!


simplify: (Yea, a sword shall pierce through thy own soul also,) that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.

Yes, the sword will pierce your own heart — and so the thoughts in many minds will be disclosed.”


rate difficulty: Say, His disciples came by night and took him away secretly while we were sleeping.

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simplify: And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, saying,

And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

And Jesus said to him, Friend, do that for which you have come. Then they came and put hands on Jesus, and took him.


simplify: And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.


rate difficulty: And it was told Solomon saying, Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for behold, he has caught hold of the horns of the altar, saying, Let king Solomon swear to me this day that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.

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


rate difficulty: He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

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


simplify: nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;

Nor should you swear by your head, since you cannot make a single hair either white or black.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou shalt drink of thy sister’s cup, which is deep and large; thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much.

This is what the Lord has said: You will take a drink from your sister's cup, which is deep and wide: you will be laughed at and looked down on, more than you are able to undergo.


simplify: For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.

And, if that which was to pass away was attended with glory, far more will that which is to endure be surrounded with glory!


simplify: And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.


simplify: And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.

And he said to him, O Lord, how may I be the saviour of Israel? See, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.


rate difficulty: In that day will Jehovah of hosts become a crown of glory, and a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people;

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


simplify: Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar;

Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;


simplify: Marvel not, brethren, if the world hateth you.

Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.


rate difficulty: The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.

And now, I pray you, Lady — not as though I were writing a new command for you; no, it is the command which we had from the first — Let us love one another.


rate difficulty: Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.

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


rate difficulty: But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

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rate difficulty: If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

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


simplify: The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.


simplify: O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

O Israel, your prophets have been like jackals in the waste places.


simplify: Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.

Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.


rate difficulty: And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, By what power, or in what name, have ye done this?

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


simplify: To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

He whose heart is shut against his friend has given up the fear of the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: And wherever he went, into small towns, or great towns, or into the country, they took those who were ill into the market-places, requesting him that they might put their hands even on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, surely God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment.

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


simplify: For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, whichit cannot bear:

For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:


simplify: because of these things the Jews--having caught me in the temple--were endeavouring to kill <FI>me<Fi> .

This is why some men seized me in the Temple, and made attempts on my life.


simplify: And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

King Solomon made an offering of twenty-two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people kept the feast of the opening of the house of God.


simplify: Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Jehohanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water; for he mourned because of the trespass of them of the captivity.

Then Ezra got up from before the house of God and went into the room of Jehohanan, the son of Eliashib; but when he came there, he took no food or drink, for he was sorrowing for the sin of those who had come back.


rate difficulty: And the name of the man <FI>is<Fi> Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail, and the woman <FI>is<Fi> of good understanding, and of fair form, and the man <FI>is<Fi> hard and evil <FI>in<Fi> doings; and he <FI>is<Fi> a Calebite.

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


rate difficulty: How much less the abominable and corrupt, — man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!

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


rate difficulty: and upon Kerijoth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far and near.

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


simplify: And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea.

And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.


simplify: Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.


simplify: be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

‘Be angry, yet do not sin.’ Do not let the sun go down on your anger;


rate difficulty: suffering themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts.

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


simplify: He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers?

He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?


rate difficulty: The master was moved with compassion; and he let him go, and forgave him the debt.

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


simplify: As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;


simplify: And Jesus answering said to them, `Elijah doth indeed come first, and shall restore all things,

“Elijah indeed does come,” Jesus replied, “and will restore everything;


simplify: And they ate, and were filled: and they took up, of broken pieces that remained over, seven baskets.

And they took the food, and had enough; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken bits.


simplify: And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.


simplify: Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city, brought oxen and garlands unto the gates, and would have done sacrifice with the people.

And the priest of the image of Jupiter, which was before the town, took oxen and flowers to the doors of the town, and was about to make an offering with the people.


simplify: And they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again.

And he will be given cruel blows and put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.


simplify: And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.

And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and were there for some time.


simplify: And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

We beg you, friends, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any follower who is living an ill-ordered life, which is not in agreement with the teaching that you received from us.


simplify: And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.


simplify: My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.


simplify: And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

And Elizabeth, your cousin, is herself also expecting a son in her old age; and it is now the sixth month with her, though she is called barren;


simplify: When I shall send Artemas unto thee, or Tychicus, be diligent to come unto me to Nicopolis, for there to winter I have determined.

As soon as I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, join me as quickly as possible at Nicopolis, for I have arranged to spend the winter there.


simplify: With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.


rate difficulty: and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, `This <FI>is<Fi> the camp of God;' and he calleth the name of that place `Two Camps.'

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon sacrificed a sacrifice of peace-offerings, which he sacrificed to Jehovah, twenty-two thousand oxen and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.


simplify: Your women in the assemblies let them be silent, for it hath not been permitted to them to speak, but to be subject, as also the law saith;

At the meetings of the church married women should remain silent, for they are not allowed to speak in public; they should take a subordinate place, as the law itself directs.


simplify: `And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;

Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days!


simplify: Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you.


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

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


simplify: Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah stood up against this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite helped them.

Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, the son of Tikvah, were against this, Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.


simplify: And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher.

And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.

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


simplify: For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

This is my reason for sending Timothy to you. He is my own dear faithful child in the Master’s service, and he will remind you of my methods of teaching the faith of Christ Jesus — methods which I follow everywhere in every church.


simplify: And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

And put it in the resting-place which had been cut out of the rock for himself; and after rolling a great stone to the door of it he went away.


rate difficulty: for it alone is his covering, it <FI>is<Fi> his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I <FI>am<Fi> gracious.

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


simplify: And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again speaking with me, and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing upon the sea, and upon the land:'

Then came the voice which I had heard from heaven. It spoke to me again, and said — ‘Go and take the book that is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.’


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, in the going up of the flame from off the altar toward the heavens, that the messenger of Jehovah goeth up in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife are looking on, and they fall on their faces to the earth,

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


rate difficulty: If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

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


simplify: and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.

And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.


rate difficulty: And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.


rate difficulty: Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

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


rate difficulty: Ben-Hesed <FI>is<Fi> in Aruboth, hath Sochoh and all the land of Hepher;

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


simplify: `Then rose all those virgins, and trimmed their lamps,

Then all the bridesmaids woke up and trimmed their lamps,


simplify: And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.


simplify: They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,


simplify: And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.

On his return, Jesus was welcomed by the people; for everyone was looking out for him.


simplify: they say to him, `Caesar's;' then saith he to them, `Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'

“The Emperor’s,” they answered: on which he said to them: “Then pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”


rate difficulty: The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.


simplify: And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

So he summoned two of them, and sent them to the Master to ask — “Are you ‘the coming one,’ or are we to look for some one else?”