simplify: It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, that have kept my charge, that went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,


simplify: And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him.

And Samuel took a young lamb, offering all of it as a burned offering to the Lord; and Samuel made prayers to the Lord for Israel and the Lord gave him an answer.


simplify: And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.

And Judah came to the watchtower of the waste land, and looking in the direction of the army, they saw only dead bodies stretched on the earth; no living man was to be seen.


rate difficulty: Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;

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rate difficulty: and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that thou Jehovah art in the midst of this people; for thou Jehovah art seen face to face, and thy cloud standeth over them, and thou goest before them, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night.

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rate difficulty: And Joab and Abishai pursue after Abner, and the sun hath gone in, and they have come in unto the height of Ammah, which <FI>is<Fi> on the front of Giah, the way of the wilderness of Gibeon.

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


simplify: and he said to them--`Thus it hath been written, and thus it was behoving the Christ to suffer, and to rise out of the dead the third day,

“Scripture says that the Christ should suffer, and that he should rise again from the dead on the third day,


simplify: And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.

And the years of Ishmael's life were a hundred and thirty-seven: and he came to his end, and was put to rest with his people.


simplify: And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

And he had talk with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they were on his side and gave him their support.


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

That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this: —


rate difficulty: A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

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rate difficulty: Now let Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, come near from among the children of Israel, so that they may be my priests, even Aaron, and Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, his sons.

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simplify: But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee.

But after I am come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.


simplify: I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Pashhur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

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simplify: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

And to my eyes he was like a jasper and a sardius stone: and there was an arch of light round the high seat, like an emerald.


simplify: Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that part the hoof: the camel, because he cheweth the cud but parteth not the hoof, he is unclean unto you.

But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.


simplify: Joahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months.


simplify: And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.

And men were burned with great heat: and they said evil things against the name of the God who has authority over these punishments; and they were not turned from their evil ways to give him glory.


simplify: In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

at the last trumpet-call; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will rise immortal, and we, also, will be transformed.


simplify: Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.


simplify: Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

About such a man I will boast, but about myself I will not boast except as regards my weaknesses.


simplify: And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.

And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;


rate difficulty: And Joab bloweth with a trumpet, and the people turneth back from pursuing after Israel, for Joab hath kept back the people;

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simplify: And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

And the silver given by those who were numbered of the people was a hundred talents, and a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.


rate difficulty: But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.

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simplify: Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? declare if thou knowest it all.

Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.


simplify: Even of the children of Israel’s half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Even from the children of Israel's half, Moses took one out of every fifty, men and beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had the care of the House of the Lord; as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: “Why are you so timid?” he said. “You of little faith!” Then Jesus rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm followed.

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simplify: The elder unto the wellbeloved Gaius, whom I love in the truth.

I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.


rate difficulty: Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.


rate difficulty: and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him.

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rate difficulty: And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.


simplify: and, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.


simplify: And all thy estimations shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel.

And let all your values be based on the shekel of the holy place, that is, twenty gerahs to the shekel.


simplify: And the priest shall put of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before Jehovah, which is in the tent of meeting; and all the blood of the bullock shall he pour out at the base of the altar of burnt-offering, which is at the door of the tent of meeting.

And the priest is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar on which perfume is burned before the Lord in the Tent of meeting, draining out all the rest of the blood of the ox at the base of the altar of burned offering which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?

Perhaps you say that I did wrong in humbling myself that you might be exalted — I mean because I told you God’s good news without payment.


rate difficulty: Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

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rate difficulty: And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these rags and worn-out garments under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so.

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


simplify: But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.


simplify: and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

And, falling down on his face at the feet of Jesus, he gave the credit to him; and he was a man of Samaria.


simplify: And the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of beasts, may be used for any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat of it.

And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.


rate difficulty: Who determined the measures thereof, if thou knowest? Or who stretched the line upon it?

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rate difficulty: But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.

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rate difficulty: And after these things I saw, and lo, opened was the sanctuary of the tabernacle of the testimony in the heaven;

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rate difficulty: And he says to me, Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book. The time is near.


simplify: And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time.


simplify: Of these things put them in remembrance, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.

Put these things before them, giving them orders in the name of the Lord to keep themselves from fighting about words, which is of no profit, only causing error in their hearers.


simplify: And the sound of the cherubims’ wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh.

And the sound of the wings of the winged ones was clear even in the outer square, like the voice of the Ruler of all.


simplify: If he sanctify his field from the year of jubile, according to thy estimation it shall stand.

If he gives his field from the year of Jubilee, the value will be fixed by your decision.


rate difficulty: save that the Holy Spirit testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

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rate difficulty: The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

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


rate difficulty: Then king Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and the priests, and said to them, Why have ye not repaired the breaches of the house? And now receive no money of your acquaintances, but give it for the breaches of the house.


simplify: And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.


rate difficulty: And he saith to them, A man, an enemy, did this; and the servants said to him, Wilt thou, then, <FI>that<Fi> having gone away we may gather it up?

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


simplify: And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

Afterwards, when he was alone, his followers and the Twelve asked him about his parables;


rate difficulty: At that very time Jesus had cured many people of diseases, afflictions, and wicked spirits, and had given many blind people their sight.

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simplify: From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of brooks of water.

From there they went on to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land of streams of water.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the end of many days, that Jehovah saith unto me, `Rise, go to Phrat, and take thence the girdle, that I commanded thee to hide there;'

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rate difficulty: And these shall go away into eternal punishment: but the righteous into eternal life.


rate difficulty: For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother, and be joined to his wife; and the two will become one flesh?


rate difficulty: And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)

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


simplify: the twelve golden spoons, full of incense, weighingtenshekelsapiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary; all the gold of the spoons a hundred and twentyshekels;

The weight of the twelve gold spoons of spice for burning was ten shekels for every one, by the scale of the holy place; all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels;


simplify: And the manna was like coriander seed, and the appearance thereof as the appearance of bdellium.

Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.


rate difficulty: And the other two ends of the chains were joined to the two frames and fixed to the front of the ephod over the arm-holes.

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rate difficulty: And the messenger went; and he came and told David all that Joab had sent him for.


rate difficulty: And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

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simplify: And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the ice-storm and the thunders were ended, he went on sinning, and made his heart hard, he and his servants.


rate difficulty: And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:

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


simplify: Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.

What have I seen? they are overcome with fear and turned back; their men of war are broken and have gone in flight, not looking back: fear is on every side, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the garment, either warp, or woof, or whatsoever thing of skin it be, which thou shalt wash, if the plague be departed from them, then it shall be washed the second time, and shall be clean.

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rate difficulty: whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,

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


simplify: And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.

And all the table-vessels, the plates and spoons and basins and the cups for liquids, he made of the best gold.


simplify: Save thyself, and come down from the cross.

come down from the cross and save yourself!”


rate difficulty: And some of them were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, which, when they were come to Antioch, spake unto the Grecians, preaching the Lord Jesus.

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simplify: and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.


rate difficulty: and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;'

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

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


simplify: But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.


simplify: And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?

So the disciples questioned Jesus: “But, teacher, when will this be? And what sign will there be when this is near?”


simplify: And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

Then Elijah said to him, Come no farther, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. But he said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went on to Jericho.


rate difficulty: And when the townclerk had quieted the multitude, he saith, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

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simplify: And that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

And would make clear to you the secrets of wisdom, and the wonders of his purpose!


rate difficulty: For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.


simplify: And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

And these last will go away ‘into lasting correction,’ but the righteous ‘into lasting life.’”


rate difficulty: Immediately afterwards Jesus made the disciples get into a boat and cross over in advance of him, while he dismissed the crowds.

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simplify: And they that fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to them that were possessed with demons.

And their keepers went in flight to the town and gave an account of everything, and of the men who had the evil spirits.


rate difficulty: And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.


simplify: so again have I thought in these days to do good unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

So in these days it is again my purpose to do good to Jerusalem and to the children of Judah: have no fear.


rate difficulty: And the lad groweth, and she bringeth him in to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he is to her for a son, and she calleth his name Moses, and saith, `Because--from the water I have drawn him.'

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rate difficulty: And the border went down unto the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out thereof were at the sea:

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rate difficulty: for for the name have they gone forth, taking nothing of those of the nations.


simplify: For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

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


simplify: Behold, the Lord God will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

See, the Lord God is my helper; who will give a decision against me? truly, all of them will become old like a robe; they will be food for the worm.


simplify: When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.

Passing the first Guard, and then the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of itself; and, when they had passed through that, and had walked along one street, all at once the angel left him.


rate difficulty: and the plain as far as the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, on the east, toward Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah;

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rate difficulty: And if a man takes his sister, daughter of his father or his mother, and has sex relations with her and she with him, it is an act of shame: they are to be cut off before the children of their people; he has had sex relations with his sister, and his sin will be on him.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.

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


simplify: And there he found a certain man named Eneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

And there was a certain man there, named Aeneas, who for eight years had been in bed, without power of moving.


simplify: Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Jehovah hath sent me, and his Spirit.

Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as he fulfilled his priestly service beforeGod in the order of his course,

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rate difficulty: So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.


simplify: The sons also of Jediael; Bilhan: and the sons of Bilhan; Jeush, and Benjamin, and Ehud, and Chenaanah, and Zethan, and Tharshish, and Ahishahar.

And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar.


simplify: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

and teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age.”


rate difficulty: 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.


rate difficulty: If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.


simplify: and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain--to the age.

And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but they who do God’s will remains for ever.


rate difficulty: She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.

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simplify: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

By your union with him you received a circumcision that was not performed by human hands, when you threw off the tyranny of the earthly body, and received the circumcision of the Christ.


simplify: And if Christ is preached, that out of the dead he hath risen, how say certain among you, that there is no rising again of dead persons?

Now, if it is proclaimed of Christ that he has been raised from the dead, how is it that some of you say that there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead?


simplify: He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.


rate difficulty: And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

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rate difficulty: And Isaac his father said to him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn, Esau.

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


simplify: And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the vintage shout to cease.

And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.


simplify: Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of Jehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.

So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord.


simplify: Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

This is why they are before the high seat of God; and they are his servants day and night in his house: and he who is seated on the high seat will be a tent over them.


rate difficulty: And he maketh chains in the oracle, and putteth on the heads of the pillars, and maketh a hundred pomegranates, and putteth on the chains.

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


rate difficulty: and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth,

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


rate difficulty: And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

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


rate difficulty: Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.

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


simplify: And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the Lord.

And the rest of the oil which is in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean, to take away his sin before the Lord.


simplify: Now I make known unto you brethren, the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye received, wherein also ye stand,

Now I am going to make clear to you, my brothers, what the good news was which I gave to you, and which you took, and on which your faith is based,


rate difficulty: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

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


rate difficulty: But he was silent, and answered nothing. Again the high priest asked him, and says to him, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?

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


rate difficulty: I had no rest in my spirit because Titus my brother was not there: so I went away from them, and came into Macedonia.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | 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: and he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned unto them;

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


simplify: Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.

Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life.


simplify: He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

But Jesus answered: “It is for you to give them something to eat.”“Are we to go and spend almost a year's wages on bread,” they asked, “to give them to eat?”


rate difficulty: for the person who welcomes them is sharing with them in his wicked work.


simplify: And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.

And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.


rate difficulty: And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them,

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


simplify: Notwithstanding, thou mayest kill and eat flesh within all thy gates, after all the desire of thy soul, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and as of the hart.

Only you may put to death animals, such as the gazelle or the roe, for your food in any of your towns, at the desire of your soul, in keeping with the blessing of the Lord your God which he has given you: the unclean and the clean may take of it.


simplify: He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.

He was judge in the cause of the poor and those in need; then it was well. Was not this to have knowledge of me? says the Lord.


rate difficulty: As he was praying, the aspect of his face was changed, and his clothing became of a glittering whiteness.

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


simplify: He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth out to meet the armed men.

He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.


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


rate difficulty: Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!

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


rate difficulty: And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

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


simplify: and she said, Let me glean, I pray you, and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, save that she tarried a little in the house.

And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.


rate difficulty: And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

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


simplify: So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

So the Lord was with Joshua; and news of him went through all the land.


simplify: But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.


simplify: And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left off at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

And he made a search, starting with the oldest and ending with the youngest; and the cup was in Benjamin's bag.


rate difficulty: And Ishmael son of Nethaniah riseth, and the ten men who have been with him, and they smite Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, with the sword, and he putteth him to death whom the king of Babylon hath appointed over the land.

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


simplify: When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

And you will have food enough and be full, praising the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.


rate difficulty: And the light of the moon hath been as the light of the sun, And the light of the sun is sevenfold, As the light of seven days, In the day of Jehovah's binding up the breach of His people, When the stroke of its wound He healeth.

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


rate difficulty: they say to him, `Sir, that our eyes may be opened;'


simplify: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

The rain poured down, the rivers rose, the winds blew and struck against that house, and it fell; and great was its downfall.”


rate difficulty: And Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.


simplify: And Leah’s eyes were tender; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

And Leah's eyes were clouded, but Rachel was fair in face and form.


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

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


simplify: Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them.

Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler.


simplify: And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.

And David got great honour for himself, when he came back, by the destruction of Edom in the valley of Salt, to the number of eighteen thousand men.


rate difficulty: For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.

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


simplify: if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

If anyone’s work is burnt up, they will suffer loss; though they themselves will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.


simplify: And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.


rate difficulty: Only the firstling of the beasts, which should be the Lord’s firstling, no man shall sanctify it; whether it be ox, or sheep: it is the Lord’s.


simplify: From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.


simplify: So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.

So that the cry of the poor might come up to him, and the prayer of those in need come to his ears.


rate difficulty: Then the eyes of the blind will see, and the ears which are stopped will be open.

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


simplify: Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon.

Then Harbonah, one of the unsexed servants waiting before the king, said, See, the pillar fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who said a good word for the king, is still in its place in Haman's house. Then the king said, Put him to death by hanging him on it.


simplify: After these things I heard as it were a great voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, Hallelujah; Salvation, and glory, and power, belong to our God:

After these things there came to my ears a sound like the voice of a great band of people in heaven, saying, Praise to the Lord; salvation and glory and power be to our God:


simplify: Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.


rate difficulty: A cluster of cypress <FI>is<Fi> my beloved to me, In the vineyards of En-Gedi!

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


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

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


simplify: And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,


simplify: And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

And the seed of Israel made themselves separate from all the men of other nations, publicly requesting forgiveness for their sins and the wrongdoing of their fathers.


rate difficulty: And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath–sepher:


simplify: But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for Jehovah is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.

But a man of God came to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with you; for the Lord is not with Israel, that is, the children of Ephraim.


simplify: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.

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


simplify: With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:


rate difficulty: As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret counsel ofGod was over my tent,


simplify: Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

This is a true saying, A man desiring the position of a Bishop has a desire for a good work.


simplify: And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.

The stork and the heron and birds of that sort, and the hoopoe and the bat.


simplify: And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

And the Levites their brothers were responsible for the stores of the house of God and the holy things.


rate difficulty: the <FI>son<Fi> of Judah, the <FI>son<Fi> of Jacob, the <FI>son<Fi> of Isaac, the <FI>son<Fi> of Abraham, the <FI>son<Fi> of Terah, the <FI>son<Fi> of Nahor,


rate difficulty: And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation.

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


simplify: And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.


simplify: For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

For the master of the house is away on a long journey:


simplify: Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak.

So go now, and I will be with your mouth, teaching you what to say.


simplify: And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;


simplify: All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.

All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who was ruling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was one of the last of the Rephaim); these did Moses overcome, driving them out of their country.


simplify: His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.


simplify: whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be--all are yours,

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or the present, or the future — all things are yours!


simplify: Give unto the Lord, ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

Give to the Lord, O you families of the peoples, give to the Lord glory and strength.


rate difficulty: Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that it shall no more be said, As Jehovah liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But he that fixes his view on [the] perfect law, that of liberty, and abides in [it], being not a forgetful hearer but a doer of [the] work, he shall be blessed in his doing.

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


simplify: And of Hushim he begat Abitub and Elpaal.

And Hushim became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.


simplify: Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.

Then said I, O Lord God! see, I have no power of words, for I am a child.


simplify: And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the Lord, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king’s house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the Carians, and the armed men, and all the people of the land; and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord, through the doorway of the armed men, to the king's house. And he took his place on the seat of the kings.


rate difficulty: and ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

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


rate difficulty: And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle.


rate difficulty: Yet, if you keep the royal law which runs — ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself,’ you are doing right;

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


simplify: Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

This is what you are to say to Hezekiah, king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom is your faith, give you a false hope, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.


simplify: And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost.


rate difficulty: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

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


simplify: But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:

But when you give money, let not your left hand see what your right hand does:


rate difficulty: To him that smites thee on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him that would take away thy garment, forbid not thy body-coat also.

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


simplify: Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera.


rate difficulty: After him repaired their brethren, Bavai the son of Henadad, the ruler of the half part of Keilah.

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


simplify: O Jehovah, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be put to shame. They that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.

O Lord, the hope of Israel, all who give you up will be put to shame; those who go away from you will be cut off from the earth, because they have given up the Lord, the fountain of living waters.


simplify: And they made upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold.

And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, until all these things be accomplished.

Truly, I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete.


simplify: brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set <FI>him<Fi> upon them;

They led the ass and the foal back, and, when they had put their cloaks on them, he seated himself on them.


rate difficulty: Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one <FI>is<Fi> profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.

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


rate difficulty: And he built the city round about, even from Millo round about: and Joab repaired the rest of the city.


simplify: but they, having gone forth, did spread his fame in all that land.

But the men went out, and spread the news about him through all that part of the country.


rate difficulty: And she said, Behold, there is my maid, Bilhah: go in to her, in order that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.

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


rate difficulty: Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of repentance:

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


simplify: Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?


simplify: And he made haste, and came down, and received him joyfully.

And he came down quickly, and took him into his house with joy.


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elizur, the son of Shedeur.


simplify: For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have wherewith to complete it?

For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?


rate difficulty: `Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

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


rate difficulty: And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?


rate difficulty: And Gideon cometh--and the hundred men who <FI>are<Fi> with him--into the extremity of the camp, <FI>at<Fi> the beginning of the middle watch (it hath only just confirmed the watchmen), and they blow with trumpets--dashing in pieces also the pitchers which <FI>are<Fi> in their hand;

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


simplify: Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.


simplify: Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes, Which are come up from the washing; Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.


rate difficulty: But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse.

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


rate difficulty: Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

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


simplify: Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

Do we, then, use this faith to abolish law? Heaven forbid! No, we establish law.


simplify: These going before tarried for us at Troas.

These people went to Troas and waited for us there;


simplify: They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.


rate difficulty: And if, after the mark has been washed, the priest sees that the colour of it is not changed and it is not increased, it is to be burned in the fire: the disease is working in it, though the damage may be inside or outside.

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


rate difficulty: And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.

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


simplify: Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name.

Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:


rate difficulty: On that day hath come the number of the slain in Shushan the palace before the king,


simplify: For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, even as it is written.

For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.


simplify: And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling.

And a great storm of wind came up, and the waves came into the boat, so that the boat was now becoming full.


rate difficulty: then they also acted with craft, and they went prepared as on a journey, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-flasks, old and rent and tied up;

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


simplify: Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.


simplify: I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.


simplify: And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.


simplify: But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.


rate difficulty: Yet I have left [myself] seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth that hath not kissed him.

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


simplify: Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas;

Then the chief priests and the councillors of the Nation met in the house of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,


simplify: And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.


rate difficulty: and the chief of the butlers hath not remembered Joseph, but forgetteth him.

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


simplify: And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:

And Lamech was a hundred and eighty-two years old when he had a son:


simplify: O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

O you whose living-place is by the wide waters, whose stores are great, your end is come, your evil profit is ended.


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

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


simplify: Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Jehovah his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Jehovah put them under the soles of his feet.

You have knowledge that David my father was not able to make a house for the name of the Lord his God, because of the wars which were round him on every side, till the Lord put all those who were against him under his feet.


simplify: And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

And I said, I have been sent away from before your eyes; how may I ever again see your holy Temple?


simplify: Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

And the Lord daily added to their company those who were in the path of salvation.


rate difficulty: And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

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


simplify: For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

For I myself, being present in spirit though not in body, have come to a decision about him who has done this thing;


rate difficulty: And on the third day I will send arrows from my bow against its side as if at a mark.


rate difficulty: Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten <FI>on<Fi> him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

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


simplify: thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem,

For you can easily verify that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship at Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.


simplify: Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

And at the memory of your evil ways and your wrongdoings, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of your evil-doings and your disgusting ways, O children of Israel.


rate difficulty: When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.


simplify: But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever.


rate difficulty: My love [be] with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.


simplify: And law came in, that the offence might abound, and where the sin did abound, the grace did overabound,

law was introduced in order that offenses might be multiplied. But, where sins were multiplied, the loving kindness of God was lavished the more,


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel have dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite,

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


simplify: Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?


simplify: A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.

A religious man and one who reverenced God, with all his household. He was liberal in his charities to the people, and prayed to God constantly.


rate difficulty: We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer.


simplify: And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

started on his journey and went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches in the faith.


rate difficulty: And they were full of wonder at the great power of God. But while they were all wondering at all the things which he did, he said to his disciples,

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


rate difficulty: But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith [which was] about to be revealed.

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


rate difficulty: And Zechariah the son of Meshelemiah was porter of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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


simplify: chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,


simplify: Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

Therefore, my friends, strive for the gift of preaching, and yet do not forbid speaking in ‘tongues.’


rate difficulty: Gold is not given for it, Nor is silver weighed--its price.

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


simplify: And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,

And Baalath and Tamar in the waste land, in that land;


simplify: When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.


simplify: Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

And, therefore, in another Psalm it is said —  ‘You will not give up the Holy One to undergo corruption.’


rate difficulty: And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.


simplify: And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.

Then the trees said to the fig-tree, You come and be king over us.


rate difficulty: And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoash did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, all the days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.

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


rate difficulty: Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

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


rate difficulty: And because of all this we are making an agreement in good faith, and putting it in writing; and our rulers, our Levites, and our priests are putting their names to it.


simplify: Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

His love is seen in this — not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.


rate difficulty: Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

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


rate difficulty: and the husbandmen having taken his servants, one they scourged, and one they killed, and one they stoned.


rate difficulty: And in Jerusalem have dwelt of the sons of Judah, and of the sons of Benjamin. Of the sons of Judah: Athaiah son of Uzziah, son of Zechariah, son of Amariah, son of Shephatiah, son of Mahalaleel, of the sons of Perez;


rate difficulty: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first;


rate difficulty: So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from the Lord was fallen upon them.


simplify: And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.


simplify: and I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall quickly come.

And I am confident, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, that before long I myself will follow.


simplify: And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the garments, and clothe Aaron with the vest, and the cloak of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and shalt gird him with the girdle of the ephod.

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


simplify: And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.


simplify: But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her spring dry.

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


simplify: Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:


simplify: The heaven is my throne, And the earth the footstool of my feet: What manner of house will ye build me? saith the Lord: Or what is the place of my rest?

Heaven is the seat of my power, and earth is a resting-place for my feet: what sort of house will you make for me, says the Lord, or what is my place of rest?


simplify: And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,

When some of them spoke about the Temple being decorated with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said:


simplify: And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he came out quickly to the man at the water-spring.


simplify: And there shall be stability in thy times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of Jehovah is thy treasure.

And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.


rate difficulty: Then John sent two of his disciples to the Lord, saying, Are you he who is to come, or are we waiting for another?

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


simplify: Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.


rate difficulty: And they bring him to the place [called] Golgotha, which, being interpreted, is Place of a skull.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.

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


simplify: Howbeit the high places were not taken away; neither as yet had the people set their hearts unto the God of their fathers.

The high places, however, were not taken away, and the hearts of the people were still not true to the God of their fathers.


simplify: And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.


rate difficulty: And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

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


simplify: And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

And my hand will be stretched out against them, making the land waste and unpeopled, from the waste land to Riblah, through all their living-places: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: Unto you, men, I call, and my voice is to the sons of man:

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


simplify: Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.


simplify: And when he had received meat, he was strengthened. Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus.

and, after he had taken food, he felt his strength return.     Saul stayed for some days with the disciples who were at Damascus,


rate difficulty: I know your life, your love, faith, service, and endurance; and I know that your life of late has been better than it was at first.

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


simplify: The children of Ramah and Gaba, six hundred twenty and one.

The children of Ramah and Geba, six hundred and twenty-one.


rate difficulty: And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.

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


rate difficulty: And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal, let not one of them get away. So they took them, and Elijah made them go down to the stream Kishon, and put them to death there.

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


rate difficulty: And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.


rate difficulty: And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace to this house.

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


simplify: And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.


simplify: And he said, The God of our fathers hath appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

And he said, You have been marked out by the God of our fathers to have knowledge of his purpose, and to see the Upright One and to give ear to the words of his mouth.


simplify: Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.


rate difficulty: And Saul saith unto him, `Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, by thy giving to him bread and a sword, and to ask for him at God, to rise against me, to lie in wait, as <FI>at<Fi> this day?'

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


rate difficulty: and certain also of the chief men of Asia, being his friends, having sent unto him, were entreating him not to venture himself into the theatre.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I am inquired of by them that asked notfor me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the court of Jehovah’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Jehovah’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.

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


rate difficulty: And I will make the arms of the king of Babylon strong, and will put my sword in his hand: but Pharaoh's arms will be broken, and he will give cries of pain before him like the cries of a man wounded to death.

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


simplify: And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:


rate difficulty: And he saith unto all Israel, `Ye--ye are on one side, and I and Jonathan my son are on another side;' and the people say unto Saul, `That which is good in thine eyes do.'

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


simplify: For some are already turned aside after Satan.

For even now some are turned away to Satan.


simplify: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

I do not make the grace of God of no effect: because if righteousness is through the law, then Christ was put to death for nothing.


simplify: And every oblation of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt.

And every meal offering is to be salted with salt; your meal offering is not to be without the salt of the agreement of your God: with all your offerings give salt.


simplify: How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;

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


simplify: But Jehovah is the true God; he is the living God, and an everlasting King: at his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations are not able to abide his indignation.

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.


rate difficulty: But thou, Jehovah, knowest me; thou hast seen me, and proved my heart toward thee. Drag them out like sheep for the slaughter, and set them apart for the day of slaughter.

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


simplify: So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.


simplify: Zebulun was a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death, And Naphtali, upon the high places of the field.

It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field.


rate difficulty: Afterwards Jesus got into a boat, and, crossing over, came to his own city.

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


simplify: And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.

And there was an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.


simplify: And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.

And straight away she took down her vessel from her arm, and said, Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels.


simplify: For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.


rate difficulty: And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

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


simplify: The king of Babylon hath heard the report of them, and his hands waxed feeble: anguish took hold of him, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

The king of Babylon has had news of them, and his hands have become feeble: trouble has come on him and pain like the pain of a woman in childbirth.


simplify: But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.

No, it is through the loving kindness of the Lord Jesus that we, just as they do, believe that we have been saved.”


simplify: Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.

Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord.


simplify: and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public ward.

And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.


rate difficulty: But he that prophesies speaks to men [in] edification, and encouragement, and consolation.

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


simplify: Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageous, and be valiant.

Now Absalom had given orders to his servants, saying, Now take note when Amnon's heart is glad with wine; and when I say to you, Make an attack on Amnon, then put him to death without fear: have I not given you orders? be strong and without fear.


rate difficulty: And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,


rate difficulty: that thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place in which thou hast said thou wouldest put thy name: to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

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


simplify: Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.


simplify: And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.


rate difficulty: and onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate.


simplify: And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.


rate difficulty: But if a revelation be made to another sitting by, let the first keep silence.


rate difficulty: For I have been armed by you with strength for the fight: you have made low under me those who came out against me.

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


rate difficulty: Also, now, lo, in the heavens <FI>is<Fi> my witness, And my testifier in the high places.

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


simplify: For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

For see, I am moving and sending up against Babylon a band of great nations from the north country: and they will put their armies in position against her; and from there she will be taken: their arrows will be like those of an expert man of war; not one will come back without getting its mark.


simplify: Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my speeches, and hearken to all my words.

And now, O Job, give ear to my words, and take note of all I say.


simplify: but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overcome them, and you are in danger of fighting against God.


simplify: For I am Jehovah; I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall be performed; it shall be no more deferred: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I speak the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say I will do; it will not be put off: for in your days, O uncontrolled people, I will say the word and do it, says the Lord.


simplify: For all the peoples walk every one in the name of his god; and we will walk in the name of Jehovah our God for ever and ever.

For all the peoples will be walking, every one in the name of his god, and we will be walking in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever.


simplify: He asked water, andshe gave him milk; She brought him butter in a lordly dish.

His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.


simplify: And I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be moved no more; neither shall the children of wickedness waste them any more, as at the first,

And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,


simplify: And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.

And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.


rate difficulty: I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: All those numbered of the Levites whom Moses numbered--Aaron also--by the command of Jehovah, by their families, every male from a son of a month and upward, <FI>are<Fi> two and twenty thousand.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?


rate difficulty: And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.

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


simplify: And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Hadad, Samlah of Masrekah became king.


rate difficulty: And those who had seen it gave them an account of what had been done to him who had the evil spirits, and of the fate of the pigs.

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


simplify: Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.


rate difficulty: that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, — the exactress of gold ceased!

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


simplify: Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

Now in the third year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, became king of Judah.


rate difficulty: The material of the wall of the city was jasper, and the city was built of pure gold, which shone like clear glass.

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


simplify: And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

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


simplify: And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.


simplify: My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

Suddenly will my righteousness come near, and my salvation will be shining out like the light; the sea-lands will be waiting for me, and they will put their hope in my strong arm.


simplify: Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.

Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.


simplify: Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin.

Because Ephraim has been increasing altars for sin, altars have become a cause of sin to him.


rate difficulty: Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

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


rate difficulty: Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up [their voice], the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains:

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


simplify: A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

A man of great wrath will have to take his punishment: for if you get him out of trouble you will have to do it again.


rate difficulty: and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the nations whom the great and noble Asnappar brought over, and set in the cities of Samaria, and the rest that are on this side the river, and at such a time.

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


rate difficulty: also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies--or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, --

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


simplify: And these shall be the measures thereof: the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.

And these will be its measures: the north side, four thousand five hundred, and the south side, four thousand five hundred, and on the east side, four thousand five hundred, and on the west side, four thousand five hundred.


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

But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property.


rate difficulty: He maketh him ride on high places of earth, And he eateth increase of the fields, And He maketh him suck honey from a rock, And oil out of the flint of a rock;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And I have made to them a covenant of peace, A covenant age-during it is with them, And I have placed them, and multiplied them, And placed My sanctuary in their midst--to the age.

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


simplify: Until I make thy foes thy footstool.

Till I put all those who are against you under your feet.


simplify: Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Two women will be crushing grain together; one will be taken away and the other let go.


simplify: And he took up his parable, and said,  Balaam the son of Beor saith, And the man whose eye was closed saith;

Then he went on with his story and said, These are the words of Balaam, the son of Beor, the words of him whose eyes are open:


rate difficulty: For it is my desire, brothers, that this secret may be clear to you, so that you may not have pride in your knowledge, that Israel has been made hard in part, till all the Gentiles have come in;


rate difficulty: And if a woman approach unto any beast to gender therewith, thou shalt kill the woman and the beast: they shall certainly be put to death; their blood is upon them.

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


simplify: Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

Listen to another parable. A man, who was an employer, once planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, and then let it out to tenants and went abroad.