rate difficulty: And Jesus said to them in answer, I will put one question to you, and if you give me the answer, I will say by what authority I do these things.

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


simplify: and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

while the next said ‘I am just married, and for that reason I am unable to come.’


simplify: and the dead sat up, and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother;

The dead man sat up and began to talk, and Jesus restored him to his mother.


simplify: Then the angel of the Lord commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then the angel of the Lord gave orders to Gad to say to David that he was to go and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

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


rate difficulty: Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

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


rate difficulty: And Chaldea shall be a prey: all that prey upon her shall be satisfied, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself; Butthe simple pass on, and suffer for it.

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


simplify: For many nations and great kings shall make bondmen of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.

For a number of nations and great kings will make servants of them, even of them: and I will give them the reward of their acts, even the reward of the work of their hands.


simplify: And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:

And the sons of Gad were living opposite to them, in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah:


simplify: And I will set apart in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.

And at that time I will make a division between your land and the land of Goshen where my people are, and no flies will be there; so that you may see that I am the Lord over all the earth.


rate difficulty: I live--an affirmation of the King, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name, Surely as Tabor <FI>is<Fi> among mountains, And as Carmel by the sea--he cometh in,

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


simplify: Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.

See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

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


simplify: Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof.

Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit.


simplify: For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

But what does it say in the holy Writings? And Abraham had faith in God, and it was put to his account as righteousness.


rate difficulty: For your haters, it seems, are dear to you, and your friends are hated. For you have made it clear that captains and servants are nothing to you: and now I see that if Absalom was living and we had all been dead today, it would have been right in your eyes.

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


simplify: And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

Every first son from a month old and over was numbered by name, and the number came to twenty-two thousand, two hundred and seventy-three.


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

Another parable which Jesus told them was this — “The kingdom of heaven is compared to a person who sowed good seed in their field.


simplify: And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

and from Jesus Christ, ‘the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the Ruler of all the kings of the earth.’ To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood —


simplify: But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

But he did not put their children to death, for he kept the orders of the Lord recorded in the book of the law of Moses, saying, The fathers are not to be put to death for their children or the children for their fathers, but a man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done.


rate difficulty: And Absalom saith, `If not--let, I pray thee, Amnon my brother go with us;' and the king saith to him, `Why doth he go with thee?'

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


simplify: And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

(The star is called ‘Wormwood.’) A third of the water became bitter as wormwood, and so bitter was the water that many died from drinking it.


rate difficulty: He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

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


rate difficulty: And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

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


simplify: Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz stayed by En–rogel; for they might not be seen to come into the city: and a wench went and told them; and they went and told king David.

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting by En-rogel; and a servant-girl went from time to time and gave them news and they went with the news to King David, for it was not wise for them to let themselves be seen coming into the town.


rate difficulty: Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?


rate difficulty: And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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


simplify: Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.


simplify: So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar.


simplify: And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that was in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.

Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the noise in the tents of the Philistines became louder and louder; and Saul said to the priest, Take back your hand.


rate difficulty: they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.

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


rate difficulty: How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?

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


rate difficulty: And in the porch of the gate were two tables on this side, and two tables on that side, to slay thereon the burnt offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering.

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


simplify: these things be speaking, and exhorting, and convicting, with all charge; let no one despise thee!

Speak of all this, and encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.


rate difficulty: The nineteenth to Mallothi; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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


simplify: And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

Go in flight, go back, take cover in deep places, you who are living in Dedan; for I will send the fate of Edom on him, even the time of his punishment.


rate difficulty: But in the last days it will come about that the mountain of the Lord's house will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and peoples will be flowing to it.

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


rate difficulty: Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

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


rate difficulty: All his best fighting-men will be put to the sword, and the rest will be sent away to every wind: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it.


simplify: And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his fellow by the word of Jehovah, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.

And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not.


rate difficulty: `Fallen, not again to rise, hath the virgin of Israel, Left on her land--she hath no raiser up.'

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


rate difficulty: Because he hath despised the word of Jehovah, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

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


simplify: then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:

Then when he gives his property to his sons for their heritage, he is not to put the son of his loved one in the place of the first son, the son of the hated wife:


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah ourGod gave into our hand Og the king of Bashan also, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.

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


rate difficulty: and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.

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


simplify: Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the threshing-floor, but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.

So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.


rate difficulty: And he reasoneth for a man with God, And a son of man for his friend.

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


simplify: Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

Today I put before you a blessing and a curse:


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

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon saith, `If he becometh a virtuous man--there doth not fall of his hair to the earth, and if evil is found in him--then he hath died.'

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


simplify: that thou be not seen of men to fast, but of thy Father who is in secret: and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall recompense thee.

So that no one may see that you are going without food, but your Father in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


simplify: Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

Reflect on what I say; the Lord will always help you to understand.


rate difficulty: And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;

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


simplify: And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.


simplify: But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before him.

But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, but went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him.


rate difficulty: And when David was coming back after the destruction of the Philistine, Abner took him to Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:


rate difficulty: I was the first to give word of it to Zion, and I gave the good news to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And many brought gifts unto the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.

And great numbers came to Jerusalem with offerings for the Lord, and things of great price for Hezekiah, king of Judah: so that he was honoured among all nations from that time.


rate difficulty: Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; And go not to thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: Better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.

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


simplify: And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.

Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


simplify: That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.


rate difficulty: and they have teemed in the earth, and been fruitful, and have multiplied on the earth.'

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


rate difficulty: And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou wast not rubbed with salt at all, nor swaddled at all.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him;

And he sent two of his disciples, and said to them, Go into the town, and there will come to you a man with a vessel of water: go after him;


rate difficulty: Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established.

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


rate difficulty: And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is Jehovah, the God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over.

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


simplify: see, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.

See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.


rate difficulty: and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red,

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


simplify: And he took all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed–edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord, under the care of Obed-edom, and all the wealth from the king's house, as well as those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.


simplify: And, behold, the Cushite came; and the Cushite said, Tidings for my lord the king; for Jehovah hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.

And then the Cushite came and said, I have news for my lord the king: today the Lord has done right in your cause against all those who took up arms against you.


simplify: And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

But when Paul had got some sticks together and put them on the fire, a snake came out, because of the heat, and gave him a bite on the hand.


simplify: For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

For see, they are going away into Assyria; Egypt will get them together, Memphis will be their last resting-place; their fair silver vessels will be covered over with field plants, and thorns will come up in their tents.


rate difficulty: There made her nest hath the bittern, Yea, she layeth, and hath hatched, And hath gathered under her shadow, Only there gathered have been vultures, Each with its companion.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,

On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,


simplify: How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

How while they were undergoing every sort of trouble, and were in the greatest need, they took all the greater joy in being able to give freely to the needs of others.


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

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


simplify: But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed on us with the rest of the world.


simplify: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Surely the person who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that they have been purified from their sins of the past!


rate difficulty: We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

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


rate difficulty: But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat — whatsoever they were, it makes no difference to me:God does not accept man's person; for to me those who were conspicuous communicated nothing;

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


rate difficulty: And they put up over his head the statement of his crime in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


simplify: So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.

Barnabas and Saul, sent on this mission, as they were, by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia, and from there sailed to Cyprus.


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

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


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

And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.


simplify: Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

If God so clothes even the grass of the field, which is living today and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, will not he much more clothe you, you of little faith?


rate difficulty: Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I--I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which <FI>is<Fi> before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.'

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


simplify: Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

So then, my brothers, when you come together to the holy meal of the Lord, let there be waiting for one another.


simplify: They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.

They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.


rate difficulty: Judging uprightly in the cause of the widow and of the child who has no father, and giving food and clothing in his mercy to the man from a strange country.

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


simplify: That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

So that they may be certain that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by you.


simplify: For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

For there are men who, from birth, were without sex: and there are some who were made so by men: and there are others who have made themselves so for the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to take it, let him take it.


simplify: I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

I think, then, that, in view of the time of suffering that has now come upon us, what I have already said is best — that a man should remain as he is.


rate difficulty: And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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


rate difficulty: And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.


simplify: For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

For the land where you are going is not like the land of Egypt from which you have come, where you put in your seeds, watering them with your foot, like a planted garden:


rate difficulty: When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.

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


rate difficulty: And all Judah are standing before Jehovah, also their infants, their wives, and their sons.

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


simplify: from whom thou wilt be able, by examining him thyself, to take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him.

And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him.


simplify: In this thing Jehovah pardon thy servant: when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, Jehovah pardon thy servant in this thing.

But may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this one thing: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon for worship there, supported on my arm, and my head is bent in the house of Rimmon; when his head is bent in the house of Rimmon, may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this thing.


rate difficulty: and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places; that thou mayest know that I, Jehovah, who call thee by name, [am] theGod of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

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


simplify: Now when Ebed–melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

Now it came to the ears of Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, an unsexed servant in the king's house, that they had put Jeremiah into the water-hole; the king at that time being seated in the doorway of Benjamin:


simplify: And the dung gate repaired Malchijah the son of Rechab, the ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof.

And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the doorway of the waste, building it up and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods.


rate difficulty: When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

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


simplify: Take the choice of the flock, and burn also the bones under it, and make it boil well, and let them seethe the bones of it therein.

Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.


simplify: and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

while one who does not know his master’s wishes, but acts so as to deserve a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone to whom much has been given much will be expected, and from the man to whom much has been entrusted the more will be demanded.


simplify: And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Come down on us, covering us from the face of him who is seated on the high seat, and from the wrath of the Lamb:


rate difficulty: the two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side the Jordan of Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.

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


rate difficulty: So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

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


simplify: It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.


rate difficulty: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

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


simplify: And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:


rate difficulty: Do ye not remember that, being yet with you, these things I said to you?

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


rate difficulty: But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet:

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


rate difficulty: and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

Now after this, the children of Moab and the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Meunim, made war against Jehoshaphat.


rate difficulty: Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, Mine ear hath heard and understood it.

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


simplify: And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

And their fear was great, and they said one to another, Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea do his orders?


simplify: And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

and I have a hope that rests in God — a hope which they also cherish — that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.


simplify: I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

I made the door open to my loved one; but my loved one had taken himself away, and was gone, my soul was feeble when his back was turned on me; I went after him, but I did not come near him; I said his name, but he gave me no answer.


simplify: But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give unto their fathers; and they took possession of it, and dwelt in it.


rate difficulty: And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah his God was with him.

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


simplify: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

since ‘you have found by experience that the Lord is kind.’


simplify: for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

for the mind of this nation has grown dense, and their ears are dull of hearing, their eyes also have they closed; Otherwise some day they might perceive with their eyes, and with their ears they might hear, and in their mind they might understand, and might turn — and I might heal them.’


rate difficulty: And the prophets will become wind, and the word is not in them; so it will be done to them.

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


rate difficulty: And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.

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


simplify: And thou shalt take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before Jehovah: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

Then take them from their hands, and let them be burned on the burned offering on the altar, a sweet smell before the Lord, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities.

And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.


rate difficulty: and they are there, with David, three days, eating and drinking, for their brethren have prepared for them.

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


rate difficulty: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

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


rate difficulty: And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:


simplify: to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto great, saying, `This one is the great power of God;'

Everyone, high and low, paid attention to him. ‘This man,’ they used to say, ‘must be that power of God which people call “The Great Power.”’


rate difficulty: And it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

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


simplify: But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, got money for his property,


simplify: And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.


simplify: Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them forth.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.


rate difficulty: And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Art thou not come from a journey? wherefore didst thou not go down unto thy house?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Joash did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as long as Jehoiada the priest was living.


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass, when they had heard all the words, they turned in fear one toward another, and said unto Baruch, We will surely tell the king of all these words.

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


simplify: and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region.

But afterwards, having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they returned to their own country by another road.


rate difficulty: And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

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


rate difficulty: For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.

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


simplify: And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, eventhe lake of fire.

And death and Hell were put into the sea of fire. This is the second death, even the sea of fire.


simplify: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire first, I pray thee, for the word of Jehovah.

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


simplify: For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.

For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord of armies has said: See, I will have the bow of Elam, their chief strength, broken.

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


simplify: The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.


rate difficulty: And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;


simplify: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Let everyone obey the supreme Authorities. For no Authority exists except by the will of God, and the existing Authorities have been appointed by God.


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada made a covenant between Jehovah and the king and the people, that they should be Jehovah’s people; between the king also and the people.

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


simplify: But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name’s sake.

But before all this, they will take you and be very cruel to you, giving you up to the Synagogues and to prisons, taking you before kings and rulers, because of my name.


rate difficulty: But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;

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


rate difficulty: And on the day after, Moses said to the people, Great has been your sin: but I will go up to the Lord, and see if I may get forgiveness for your sin.


simplify: And whether it be cow or ewe, ye shall not kill it and its young both in one day.

A cow or a sheep may not be put to death with its young on the same day.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> the words which Moses hath spoken unto all Israel, beyond the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain over-against Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-Zahab;

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


rate difficulty: And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, giveth you.

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


simplify: Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places;


rate difficulty: And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:


simplify: They shall not return into the land of Egypt; but the Assyrian shall be their king, because they refused to return to me.

He will go back to the land of Egypt and the Assyrian will be his king, because they would not come back to me.


simplify: If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

If someone says ‘I love God,’ and yet hates another person, they are a liar; for the person who does not love their fellow, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.


simplify: And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

And he gave him orders: Say nothing to any man, but let the priest see you and give an offering so that you may be made clean, as the law of Moses says, and for a witness to them.


simplify: I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.

Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.


simplify: And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.


simplify: and ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.


simplify: And the priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand:

And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;


simplify: And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.


simplify: and when Jehovah thy God delivereth it into thy hand, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

And when the Lord your God has given it into your hands, let every male in it be put to death without mercy.


rate difficulty: He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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


rate difficulty: And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations.

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


simplify: Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.

Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.


simplify: Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

My friends, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves adults.


rate difficulty: For they all saw him, and were troubled. But straight away he said to them, Take heart, it is I, have no fear.

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


simplify: And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.

Their names were Oholah, the older, and Oholibah, her sister: and they became mine, and gave birth to sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem, Oholibah.


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

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


simplify: As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

Those who are of the dust are like him who came from the dust; and those who are of heaven are like him who came from heaven.


simplify: But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

But the men who were sent saw that they were not in the prison, and came back with the news,


simplify: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.


rate difficulty: But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

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


rate difficulty: But he said, Things which are not possible with man are possible with God.


simplify: And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

And the thorn said to the trees, If it is truly your desire to make me your king, then come and put your faith in my shade; and if not, may fire come out of the thorn, burning up the cedars of Lebanon.


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

For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.


rate difficulty: and the weight of the golden candlesticks, and of their golden lamps, by weight for every candlestick, and for its lamps; and for the silver candlesticks, by weight, for the candlestick and for its lamps, according to the use of every candlestick;

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


rate difficulty: The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.


simplify: If one lay at him with the sword, it cannot avail; Nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.


rate difficulty: And on the day that the tabernacle was reared up the cloud covered the tabernacle, even the tent of the testimony: and at even it was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire, until morning.

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


simplify: And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.


simplify: And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

And Saul sent for the people and had them numbered in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand men of Judah.


simplify: For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:


rate difficulty: And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

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


rate difficulty: And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger;

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


rate difficulty: Have you knowledge of the rock-goats? or do you see the roes giving birth to their young?

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


rate difficulty: And having advanced thence, he saw other two brothers, James of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, refitting their nets, and he called them,

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


simplify: to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.


rate difficulty: And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.


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

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,


rate difficulty: And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know anything of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed the young men to such and such a place.

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


simplify: Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.

Put a pillar at the top of the road for the sword to come to Rabbah in the land of the children of Ammon, and to Judah and to Jerusalem in the middle of her.


rate difficulty: the field which Abraham purchased of the children of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

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


rate difficulty: And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

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


simplify: Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?

Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?


simplify: Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.


simplify: And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.


simplify: the blessing, if ye shall hearken unto the commandments of Jehovah your God, which I command you this day;

The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:


simplify: For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.


rate difficulty: who comforteth us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort them that are in any affliction, through the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers <FI>are<Fi> wicked.

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


simplify: And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean, and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

And on the seventh day, after washing your clothing, you will be clean, and then you may come into the tent-circle.


simplify: But his father and his mother knew not that it was of Jehovah; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.

Now his father and mother had no knowledge that this was the purpose of the Lord, who had the destruction of the Philistines in mind. Now the Philistines at that time were ruling over Israel.


rate difficulty: `Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour--Jesus,

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


simplify: And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived:

And they gave him an account of everything Joseph had said to them; and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent for them, his spirit came back to him:


simplify: Moreover they that were nigh them, even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, and meat, meal, cakes of figs, and bunches of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep abundantly: for there was joy in Israel.

And those who were near, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came with food on asses and camels and mules and oxen, with meal for food and cakes of figs and masses of grapes, and wine and oil and oxen and sheep in great numbers, for there was joy in Israel.


rate difficulty: He is not theGod of [the] dead, but of [the] living. Ye therefore greatly err.

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


rate difficulty: and if thou art refusing to send away, lo, I am smiting all thy border with frogs;

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


simplify: Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.

Do not go after those who make use of spirits, or wonder-workers; do not go in their ways or become unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.

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


simplify: And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote unto you;

And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him;


rate difficulty: and Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

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


rate difficulty: If thou hast anything to say, answer me: Speak, for I desire to justify thee.

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


simplify: And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

And he said, Go, and say to this people, You will go on hearing, but learning nothing; you will go on seeing, but without getting wiser.


simplify: Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

See, I will make those of the Synagogue of Satan who say they are Jews, and are not, but say what is false; I will make them come and give worship before your feet, and see my love for you.


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


simplify: then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.


simplify: and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

And he sent and had John's head cut off in the prison.


simplify: And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.

Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons have put their hands on its head,


simplify: again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

Yet, in a way, it is a new command that I am writing to you — manifest in Christ’s life and in your own — for the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.


simplify: As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

So righteousness gives life; but he who goes after evil gets death for himself.


simplify: And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.


rate difficulty: But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.

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


rate difficulty: it is square, doubled, a span its length, and a span its breadth.


simplify: and with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.

And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel, the door-keepers.


simplify: But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.

And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land.


simplify: The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

and the enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest time is the close of the age, and the reapers are angels.


simplify: Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.


simplify: And, behold, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.

Then the man clothed in linen, who had the inkpot at his side, came back and said, I have done what you gave me orders to do.


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

For this reason it is right for the woman to have a sign of authority on her head, because of the angels.


simplify: Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God <FI>is<Fi> He that is declaring righteous,

Who will bring a charge against any of God’s people? He who pronounces them righteous is God!


rate difficulty: And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek [them] not; for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou shalt go.

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


rate difficulty: And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

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


rate difficulty: And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.

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


simplify: But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.


rate difficulty: All they that know thee among the peoples shall be astonished at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.

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


simplify: But Jesus perceiving it said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.


rate difficulty: thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, their families, and by their fathers’ houses,

And those of the sons of Gershon who were numbered by families,


simplify: Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Give one another the kiss of love. Peace be to you all in Christ.


rate difficulty: And they came to Beth-saida. And they took a blind man to him, requesting him to put his hands on him.

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


rate difficulty: Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

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


simplify: O foolish Galatians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly set forth crucified?

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


simplify: And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.

Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.


rate difficulty: The spirit of a man will be his support when he is ill; but how may a broken spirit be lifted up?

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


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

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


simplify: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.


rate difficulty: And, when he prayed again, the clouds brought rain, and the land bore crops.


simplify: Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

Therefore, be glad, heaven, and all who live in heaven! Alas for the earth and for the sea, for the devil has gone down to you in great fury, knowing that he has but little time.’


simplify: That the daughters of Israel went yearly to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.

For the women to go year by year sorrowing for the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in every year.


rate difficulty: And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatever any man giveth the priest shall be his.

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


rate difficulty: The people who ate the bread were five thousand in number.


simplify: And afterward when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord for ever from the blood of Abner the son of Ner:

And when David had word of it he said, May I and my kingdom be clear for ever in the eyes of the Lord from the blood of Abner, the son of Ner:


simplify: But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.

But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.


simplify: Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;


simplify: But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:

But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:


rate difficulty: Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

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


rate difficulty: They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.

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


simplify: Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.


simplify: Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?


rate difficulty: And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto them.

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


simplify: Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.


rate difficulty: And as soon as Jerusalem came to meet the king, the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

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


rate difficulty: and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things.


simplify: then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.


rate difficulty: Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

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


simplify: Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valor, a thousand and seven hundred, had the oversight of Israel beyond the Jordan westward, for all the business of Jehovah, and for the service of the king.

Of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brothers, seventeen hundred able men, were overseers of Israel on the other side of the Jordan, to the west, being responsible for all the work of the Lord's house and for the work done by the king's servants.


rate difficulty: And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

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


simplify: And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

And Saul said to Michal, why have you been false to me, letting my hater go and get safely away? And in answer Michal said to Saul, He said to me, Let me go, or I will put you to death.


simplify: And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.

The women of Midian with their little ones the children of Israel took prisoner; and all their cattle and flocks and all their goods they took for themselves;


simplify: But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Now in all Israel there was no one so greatly to be praised for his beautiful form as Absalom: from his feet to the crown of his head he was completely beautiful.


simplify: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.

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


simplify: Wherefore David blessed Jehovah before all the assembly; and David said, Blessed be thou, O Jehovah, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

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


simplify: If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.


simplify: The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: Then came near to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee, with her sons, bowing and asking something from him,

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to him with her sons, bowing to the ground, and begging a favor.


simplify: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.


simplify: For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face:


rate difficulty: And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,

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


simplify: And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.

And Ruth the Moabitess said, Truly, he said to me, Keep near my young men till all my grain is cut.


simplify: lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.


simplify: Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

Then the responsible men of the children of Israel came to Pharaoh, protesting and saying, Why are you acting in this way to your servants?


simplify: for we have much joy and comfort in thy love, because the bowels of the saints have been refreshed through thee, brother.

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ’s People have been cheered, friend, by you.


simplify: Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;


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

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


simplify: And he answering said, `Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant shall be rooted up;

“Every plant,” Jesus replied, “that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.


rate difficulty: There is none greater in this house than I; neither has he withheld anything from me but thee, because thou art his wife; and how should I do this great wickedness, and sin againstGod?

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


rate difficulty: And they gave drink in vessels of gold (the vessels being diverse one from another), and royal wine in abundance, according to the king's bounty.

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


simplify: But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

But now, says the Lord your Maker, O Jacob, and your life-giver, O Israel: have no fear, for I have taken up your cause; naming you by your name, I have made you mine.


simplify: Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal:

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.


simplify: Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but in fulfillment of his merciful purposes. He saved us by that washing which was a new birth to us, and by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit,


rate difficulty: And Samuel said, What [means] then this bleating of sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of oxen which I hear?

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


simplify: And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;


rate difficulty: So, after consultation, they bought with them the ‘Potter’s Field’ for a burial-ground for foreigners;

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


simplify: And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.

And they made two gold frames and two gold rings, the rings being fixed to the ends of the priest's bag;


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

Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire.


simplify: And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them.

And Moses sent for all the children of Israel to come together, and said to them, This is what the Lord has said and these are his orders.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

Now when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, went in flight to David, he came down to Keilah with the ephod in his hand.


rate difficulty: Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

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


simplify: and having sailed over the sea over-against Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myria of Lycia,

and, after crossing the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.


simplify: In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

In that neighborhood there was an estate belonging to the Governor of the island, whose name was Publius. He took us up to his house, and for three days entertained us most courteously.


simplify: A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; But the soul of the treacherousshall eatviolence.

A man will get good from the fruit of his lips, but the desire of the false is for violent acts.


rate difficulty: The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

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


simplify: And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.

From there we made our way to Philippi, which is the principal city of that part of Macedonia, and also a Roman Settlement.  In that city we spent several days.


rate difficulty: Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:

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


simplify: and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

And, if anyone gives but a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because they are a disciple, I tell you that they will assuredly not lose their reward.”


rate difficulty: and voice of harpers, and musicians, and pipers, and trumpeters, may not be heard at all in thee any more; and any artisan of any art may not be found at all in thee any more; and noise of a millstone may not be heard at all in thee any more;

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


rate difficulty: and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

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


simplify: Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.

Who is this who comes from Edom, with blood-red robes from Bozrah? he whose clothing is fair, stepping with pride in his great strength? I whose glory is in the right, strong for salvation.


rate difficulty: But when it is planted, it comes up, and becomes taller than all the plants, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of heaven are able to take rest in its shade.

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


rate difficulty: And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


rate difficulty: Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

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


simplify: To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding;

To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:


rate difficulty: for the shewing forth of His righteousness in the present time, for His being righteous, and declaring him righteous who <FI>is<Fi> of the faith of Jesus.

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


simplify: I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

I will get together all the nations, and make them come down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and there I will take up with them the cause of my people and of my heritage Israel, whom they have sent wandering among the nations, and of my land which has been parted by them.


rate difficulty: Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither has Jehovah chosen this one.


rate difficulty: And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: `Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine,

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


simplify: It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.

Will they go down with me into the underworld? Will we go down together into the dust?


simplify: For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?

But if I give praise to God for the food which I take, let no man say evil of me for that reason.


rate difficulty: And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.

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


rate difficulty: Yet see! The hand of the man who is betraying me is beside me on the table!

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


rate difficulty: As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

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


simplify: And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.

And the sons of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who did wrong about the cursed thing.


simplify: And they brought forth the images out of the house of Baal, and burned them.

And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.


rate difficulty: Sing unto Jehovah, praise ye Jehovah; for he hath delivered the soul of the needy from the hand of evil-doers.

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


simplify: And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

“Why are you asleep?”he asked them. “Rise and pray so that you don't fall into temptation.”


simplify: the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows (now the windows were covered),

And the sloping windows and the covered ways round all three of them were of shakiph-wood all round from the level of the earth up to the windows;


simplify: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.


simplify: Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

Take the Levites out from among the children of Israel and make them clean.


simplify: For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.


rate difficulty: and say ‘Here is a person who began to build and was not able to finish!’


rate difficulty: And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease.


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

And when he had gone up, and had taken the broken bread, he went on talking to them for a long time, even till dawn, and then he went away.


rate difficulty: And command them to say unto their masters, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say unto your masters;

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


simplify: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.


simplify: And he set the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of Jehovah by his prophets.

Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.


simplify: And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.

And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.


simplify: behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.

My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.


simplify: Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil.


simplify: but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'

Go and learn what this means — ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice’; for I did not come to call the religious, but the outcast.”


simplify: and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he did break, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Jesus took the seven loaves and the fish, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke them, and gave them to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the crowds.


simplify: Then Job answered Jehovah, and said,


simplify: Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.


simplify: I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.


rate difficulty: And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, that I may see whether they are yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

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


simplify: And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey.


simplify: the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

The sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi.


simplify: For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

For now that John the Baptist has come, not eating bread or drinking wine, you are saying ‘He has a demon in him’;


rate difficulty: and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.

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


rate difficulty: And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down--He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

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


rate difficulty: and Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (the same is Debir),

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not rule over him with rigor, but shalt fear thy God.

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


simplify: And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have put a fire in Egypt and all her helpers are broken.


rate difficulty: As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.

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


rate difficulty: On the right a man was cutting off bits and was still in need; on the left a man took a meal but had not enough; no man had pity on his brother; every man was making a meal of the flesh of his neighbour.

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


simplify: Then came forth unto him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.


rate difficulty: And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

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


simplify: Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?


simplify: These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;


simplify: And she said, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.


simplify: All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.