simplify: For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.

For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.


rate difficulty: Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

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rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


simplify: In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.


rate difficulty: And David knoweth that against him Saul is devising the evil, and saith unto Abiathar the priest, `Bring nigh the ephod.'

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


rate difficulty: And when they were past the first and the second guard, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth into the city; which opened to them of its own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and straightway the angel departed from him.

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


simplify: And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass. So they saddled him the ass: and he rode thereon,

So the prophet said to his sons, Make ready an ass for me. So they made an ass ready, and he got on it,


rate difficulty: and He commandeth Joshua son of Nun, and saith, `Be strong and courageous, for thou dost bring in the sons of Israel unto the land which I have sworn to them, and I--I am with thee.'

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


rate difficulty: And he hath slandered thy servant unto my lord the king; but my lord the king is as an angel of God: do therefore what is good in thine eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall count from the morning after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering, seven weeks; they shall be complete;

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


simplify: And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.

The two men left their nets at once and followed him.


rate difficulty: But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

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


simplify: Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt-offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.

The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.


simplify: Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, there is a blemish in them: they shall not be accepted for you.

And from one who is not an Israelite you may not take any of these for an offering to the Lord; for they are unclean, there is a mark on them, and the Lord will not be pleased with them.


simplify: And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

And the sons of Kohath, by their families: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel.


simplify: So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.


rate difficulty: And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will verily buy it of thee at a price; neither will I offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah my God which cost me nothing. So David bought the threshing-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

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


rate difficulty: And I was dead, and see, I am living for ever, and I have the keys of death and of Hell.


simplify: Which was the son of Mathusala, which was the son of Enoch, which was the son of Jared, which was the son of Maleleel, which was the son of Cainan,

The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,


rate difficulty: Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.


rate difficulty: [and] above, over the entry, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about, within and without, [all was] by measure.

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


simplify: But Noah found favor in the eyes of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:

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


simplify: Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.

And the angel of the Lord came again a second time, and touching him said, Get up and have some food, or the journey will be overmuch for your strength.


simplify: And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad, one portion.

And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part.


simplify: Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with you.

For this reason I will be ready at all times to keep your memory of these things awake, though you have the knowledge of them now and are well based in your present faith.


simplify: And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

And he got up and went to his father. But, while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was deeply moved; he ran and threw his arms around his neck and kissed him.


rate difficulty: And now ye know that which restraineth, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.

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


simplify: Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.


rate difficulty: But this kind does not go out but by prayer and fasting.

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


rate difficulty: Now, my son, Jehovah be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house of Jehovah thy God, as he hath spoken concerning thee.


rate difficulty: When the Lord thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 12 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have called thee by thy name; I surnamed thee, though thou didst not know me;


simplify: But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

They will not, however, make further progress; for their wicked folly will be plain to everyone, just as the folly Jannes and Jambres was.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house ofGod with joy;

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


simplify: And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.

There was no loss of anything, small or great, sons or daughters or goods or anything which they had taken away: David got it all back.


rate difficulty: And Jethro said, Blessed be Jehovah, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.


simplify: So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

Again you have among you those who hold in the same way to the teaching of the Nikolaitans.


rate difficulty: And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that, when thy words come to pass, we may do thee honor?

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


rate difficulty: At that moment three men, who had been sent from Caesarea to see me, came up to the house in which we were.

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


simplify: Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

Now then, let your eyes be turned to me, for truly I will not say what is false to your face.


rate difficulty: and in the vine <FI>are<Fi> three branches, and it <FI>is<Fi> as it were flourishing; gone up hath its blossom, its clusters have ripened grapes;

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


simplify: One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


rate difficulty: And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

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


simplify: And it grieved me sore: therefore I cast forth all the household stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber.

And it was evil in my eyes: so I had all Tobiah's things put out of the room.


simplify: For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you.

Because it is not you who say the words, but the Spirit of your Father in you.


rate difficulty: In the path of righteousness <FI>is<Fi> life, And in the way of <FI>that<Fi> path <FI>is<Fi> no death!

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


simplify: He that is stedfast in righteousness shall attain unto life; And he that pursueth evil doeth it to his own death.

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


rate difficulty: Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise.

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


simplify: Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;


rate difficulty: For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves as one [man]: they were all pure; and they killed the passover for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.

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


simplify: David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

David himself calls him ‘lord,’ how comes it, then, that he is to be his son?”   The mass of the people listened to Jesus with delight.


simplify: Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:


simplify: contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.

Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.


simplify: and he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, even all the words of this law.

Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.


rate difficulty: And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah ourGod be with us, as he was with our fathers; let him not forsake us nor cast us off:


rate difficulty: who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the world to come eternal life.

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


simplify: But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted himthat was bornafter the Spirit, so also it is now.

But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.


rate difficulty: And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

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


rate difficulty: they come in unto My sanctuary, and they draw near unto My table to serve Me, and they have kept My charge.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.

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


simplify: and, having supposed him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and were seeking him among the kindred and among the acquaintances,

Thinking that he was with their fellow travelers, they went one day’s journey before searching for him among their relations and acquaintances;


simplify: And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

And they kept their attention fixed on the Apostles' teaching and were united together in the taking of broken bread and in prayer.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thy God will keep with thee the covenant and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers:

And it will be, that if you give attention to these decisions and keep and do them, then the Lord will keep his agreement with you and his mercy, as he said in his oath to your fathers.


simplify: And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord:

And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth.


simplify: Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:

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


rate difficulty: And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

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


simplify: And he that overcometh, and he that keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations:

He who overcomes, and keeps my works to the end, to him I will give rule over the nations,


simplify: In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, shall he do the like the seven days; according to the sin-offering, according to the burnt-offering, and according to the meal-offering, and according to the oil.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he is to give the same for seven days; the sin-offering, the burned offering, the meal offering, and the oil as before.


simplify: And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

And we are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who keep his laws.


rate difficulty: In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell in safety. And this is the name wherewith she shall be called: Jehovah our Righteousness.

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


simplify: Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.


simplify: But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend.


simplify: And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

And it will come on into Judah; rushing on and overflowing, till the waters are up to the neck; *** and his outstretched wings will be covering the land from side to side: for God is with us.


simplify: and having stood over her, he rebuked the fever, and it left her, and presently, having risen, she was ministering to them.

Bending over her, he rebuked the fever; the fever left her, and she immediately got up and began to take care of them.


rate difficulty: For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

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


rate difficulty: The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

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


rate difficulty: and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth;


simplify: The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, and Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Meshech.

The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.


rate difficulty: Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple <FI>are<Fi> her clothing.

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


simplify: Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?


simplify: Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Your holy towns have become a waste, Zion has become a waste, Jerusalem is a mass of broken walls.


simplify: Behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah’s house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, and those women shall say, Thy familiar friends have set thee on, and have prevailed over thee: now that thy feet are sunk in the mire, they are turned away back.

See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.


simplify: Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being gathered to meet him, we beg you, friends,


rate difficulty: and there went forth another horse--red, and to him who is sitting upon it, there was given to him to take the peace from the land, and that one another they may slay, and there was given to him a great sword.

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


rate difficulty: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;

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


rate difficulty: And again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah; and he was at Chezib when she bore him.

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


rate difficulty: All the boards were plated with gold, and the rings through which the rods went were of gold, and the rods were plated with gold.

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


rate difficulty: And if he will not give ear to them, let it come to the hearing of the church: and if he will not give ear to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax-farmer.

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


rate difficulty: and their brethren, heads of their fathers’ houses, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

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


simplify: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.


rate difficulty: Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

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


simplify: but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

but, at the beginning of the Creation, God ‘made them male and female.’


rate difficulty: Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God only.

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


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


simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother,

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus, by the will of God, and from Timothy, also a follower of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Now when David had come to the top of the slope, where they gave worship to God, Hushai the Archite came to him in great grief with dust on his head:

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


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

And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?


rate difficulty: And the centurion answering said, `Sir, I am not worthy that thou mayest enter under my roof, but only say a word, and my servant shall be healed;

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


rate difficulty: Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

At the thought of this you are full of exultation, though (if it has been necessary) you have suffered for the moment somewhat from various trials;


rate difficulty: because for <FI>His<Fi> name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;

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


rate difficulty: for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living--who do remain over to the presence of the Lord--may not precede those asleep,


simplify: and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

And you are to say, So Babylon will go down, never to be lifted up again, because of the evil which I will send on her: and weariness will overcome them. So far, these are the words of Jeremiah.


simplify: Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not; and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.


simplify: And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;


simplify: For some are already turned aside after Satan.

There are some who have already left us, to follow Satan.


rate difficulty: It clappeth at him its hands, And it hisseth at him from his place.

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


simplify: And Mikloth begat Shimeam. And they also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against their brethren.

Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They were living with their brothers in Jerusalem opposite their brothers.


simplify: The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.


simplify: And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessedare ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

And turning his eyes to his disciples he said, Happy are you who are poor: for the kingdom of God is yours.


rate difficulty: for a man also was not created because of the woman, but a woman because of the man;

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


rate difficulty: I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment upon them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land,

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


simplify: Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

Which of these three men, in your opinion, was neighbour to the man who came into the hands of thieves?


rate difficulty: And to Shimei <FI>are<Fi> sixteen sons and six daughters, and to his brethren there are not many sons, and none of their families have multiplied as much as the sons of Judah.

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


simplify: When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.

When Ephraim saw his disease and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to the great king; but he is not able to make you well or give you help for your wound.


rate difficulty: If I whet my glittering sword, And my hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate me.

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


rate difficulty: And his family will be named in Israel, The house of him whose shoe has been taken off.


simplify: And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

And still the waters went on falling, till on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains were seen.


rate difficulty: Get thee up unto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Wherefore, [as] I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, verily because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also withdraw mine eye, and it shall not spare, nor will I have any pity.

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


simplify: Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

“Master,” said Peter, “are you telling this parable with reference to us or to everyone?”


rate difficulty: And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they shall belong: so will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

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


simplify: and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired <FI>house<Fi> , and was receiving all those coming in unto him,

For two whole years Paul stayed in a house which he rented for himself, welcoming all who came to see him,


simplify: And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.

And Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went on as far as Jordan with the king to take him across Jordan.


rate difficulty: for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one--Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Lift up a present, and come before Him. Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David’s, which were in the house of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.


simplify: And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

And everyone went to his own town to be registered.


simplify: but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.


simplify: and all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:

And all the years of Enoch's life were three hundred and sixty-five:


rate difficulty: The word of the Lord came also unto me, saying,

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


simplify: Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art my servant: I have formed thee; thou art my servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.

Keep these things in mind, O Jacob; and you Israel, for you are my servant: I have made you; you are my servant; O Israel, I will not let you go out of my memory.


rate difficulty: And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke [my sentence], because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

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


rate difficulty: And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,

And his brother Asaph, whose place was at his right hand, Asaph, the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,


simplify: Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jehoaddan, of Jerusalem.

Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.


simplify: And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:

And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;


simplify: For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.


rate difficulty: and Shaul dieth, and reign in his stead doth Baal-Hanan son of Achbor;

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


simplify: What then is my reward? That, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel without charge, so as not to use to the full my right in the gospel.

What then is my reward? This, that when I am giving the good news, I may give it without payment, not making use of my rights as a preacher of the good news.


simplify: Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.

Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.


rate difficulty: And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

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


simplify: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.


simplify: And they told him, that Jesus of Nazareth passeth by.

And they said to him, Jesus of Nazareth is going by.


simplify: For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

For our sake God made Christ, who was innocent of sin, one with our sinfulness, so that in him we might be made one with the righteousness of God.


simplify: And it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.

And on the seventh day he is to have all the hair cut off his head and his chin and over his eyes--all his hair is to be cut off--and he will have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and he will be clean.


rate difficulty: And the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the first men of the city, and did raise persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and did put them out from their borders;

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


simplify: but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But praise be to God who gives us strength to overcome through our Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.

And they said to them, The Lord has truly come back to life again, and Simon has seen him.


rate difficulty: But they had the idea that they would see him becoming ill, or suddenly falling down dead; but after waiting a long time, and seeing that no damage came to him, changing their opinion, they said he was a god.

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


rate difficulty: And his ears became open, and the band of his tongue was made loose, and his words became clear.


simplify: standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.

Watching from far away, for fear of her punishment, saying, Sorrow, sorrow for Babylon, the great town, the strong town! for in one hour you have been judged.


simplify: Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

Then he said to his servants, The feast is ready but the guests were not good enough.


simplify: If thy father at all miss me, then say, David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Beth–lehem his city: for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the family.

And if your father takes note of the fact that I am away, say, David made a request to me for himself that he might go to Beth-lehem, to his town: for it is the time when his family make their offering year by year.


simplify: She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:

Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:


rate difficulty: And he took up his parable, and said, Alas! Who shall live whenGod doeth this?

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


simplify: and unto none of them was Elijah sent, but--to Sarepta of Sidon, unto a woman, a widow;

and yet it was not to one of them that Elijah was sent, but to a widow at Zarephath in Sidonia.


rate difficulty: And those about Paul having set sail from Paphos, came to Perga of Pamphylia, and John having departed from them, did turn back to Jerusalem,

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


rate difficulty: `Because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribath-Kadesh, the wilderness of Zin--because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the sons of Israel;

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


rate difficulty: give us to-day our needed bread,

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


rate difficulty: and every present which is baked in an oven, and every one done in a frying-pan, and on a girdel, <FI>is<Fi> the priest's who is bringing it near; it is his;


simplify: But the Jews that were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and on the fifteenth day they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.


rate difficulty: And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.


simplify: And we remaining many more days, there came down a certain one from Judea, a prophet, by name Agabus,

During our visit, which lasted several days, a prophet, named Agabus, came down from Judea.


simplify: But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.


simplify: And Jehu slept with his fathers: and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

And Jehu went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: and he said to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.'


rate difficulty: But he put not their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as Jehovah commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin.

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


simplify: and let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah; and let them give it to the workmen that are in the house of Jehovah, to repair the breaches of the house,

And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;


simplify: Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Blind indeed! Which is the more important? The offering? Or the altar which gives sacredness to the offering?


simplify: the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him.

The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.


simplify: For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or anything superfluous,

For any man whose body is damaged may not come near: one who is blind, or has not the use of his legs, or one who has a broken nose or any unnatural growth,


rate difficulty: And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.

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


rate difficulty: I will keep his kingdom in its place for ever, if he is strong at all times to do my orders and keep my rules, as at this day.

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


rate difficulty: And they have not hearkened, and Manasseh causeth them to err, to do the evil thing above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

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


simplify: Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus that are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:


simplify: For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And two chains of the best gold, twisted like cords; and have the chains fixed on to the frames.

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


simplify: and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'

It is as Isaiah foretold — ‘Had not the Lord of Hosts spared some few of our race to us, we should have become like Sodom and been made to resemble Gomorrah.’


simplify: and Uzziah begat Jotham, and Jotham begat Ahaz, and Ahaz begat Hezekiah,

Uzziah of Jotham, Jotham of Ahaz, Ahaz of Hezekiah,


simplify: And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

And David put up an altar there to the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings with prayers to the Lord; and he gave him an answer from heaven, sending fire on the altar of burned offering.


simplify: And all the people having heard, and the tax-gatherers, declared God righteous, having been baptized with the baptism of John,

(All the people, when they heard this, and even the tax-gatherers, having accepted John’s baptism, acknowledged the justice of God.


rate difficulty: This happened three times, and then all was drawn up again into the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief of the butlers saith unto them, `For thy lord, and unto thee, hath my lord sent me to speak these words? is it not for the men, those sitting on the wall to eat their own dung and to drink their own water, with you?'

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


rate difficulty: Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord’s house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.

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


simplify: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.


simplify: Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.

Peter spoke up: “Explain this saying to us.”


rate difficulty: And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.


simplify: O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.

O sword of the Lord, how long will you have no rest? put yourself back into your cover; be at peace, be quiet.


simplify: Of the tribe of Joseph, namely, of the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi.

Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.


rate difficulty: And they returned from searching out the land after forty days.

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


rate difficulty: And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem toward the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, — a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

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


simplify: And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward.

And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.


simplify: And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster cruse of ointment of pure nard very costly; and she brake the cruse, and poured it over his head.

And while he was in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, seated at table, there came a woman with a bottle of perfumed oil of great price; and when the bottle was broken she put the perfume on his head.


rate difficulty: that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly <FI>places<Fi> , through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

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


simplify: Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.


rate difficulty: And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.


simplify: Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.

So all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take in your hand the book from which you have been reading to the people and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah, took the book in his hand and came down to them.


simplify: Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;


rate difficulty: And there was a young man out of Beth–lehem–judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

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


rate difficulty: and to devise artistic things: to work in gold, and in silver, and in copper,


rate difficulty: and a person, swearing by the Temple, swears by it and by him who dwells in it,


simplify: And they were questioning him, saying, that the scribes say that Elijah it behoveth to come first.

“How is it,” they asked Jesus, “that our teachers of the law say that Elijah has to come first?”


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;

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


simplify: And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

And the snake said, Death will not certainly come to you:


simplify: Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.


simplify: And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for the twenty’s sake.

And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.


simplify: ye--ye have known; --the word that came throughout all Judea, having begun from Galilee, after the baptism that John preached;

You yourselves know the story which spread through all Judea, how, beginning form Galilee, after the baptism which John proclaimed —


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

Dear friend, I pray that all may be well with you and that you may have good health — I know that all is well with your soul.


simplify: and Martha was distracted about much serving, and having stood by him, she said, `Sir, dost thou not care that my sister left me alone to serve? say then to her, that she may partake along with me.'

but Martha was distracted by the many preparations that she was making. So she went up to Jesus and said: “Master, do you approve of my sister’s leaving me to make preparations alone? Tell her to help me.”


simplify: neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

And do not let Hezekiah make you put your faith in the Lord, saying, The Lord will certainly keep us safe, and this town will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.


simplify: And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof; the horns thereof shall be of one piece with it: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

Put horns at the four angles of it, made of the same, plating it all with brass.


simplify: Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `Be not afraid of them, for into thy hand I have given them, there doth not stand a man of them in thy presence.'

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


rate difficulty: If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

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


simplify: The Lord hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the Lord, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.


rate difficulty: Surely, lo, I am raising against you a nation, O house of Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts, And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, Unto the stream of the desert.

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


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

And Moses said to them, Do nothing till the Lord gives me directions about you.


rate difficulty: And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:

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


rate difficulty: Alexander, the coppersmith, showed much ill feeling towards me. ‘The Lord will give him what his actions deserve.’

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


rate difficulty: `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

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


rate difficulty: And the prophet Jeremiah spoke unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?


rate difficulty: But he said, No; lest [in] gathering the darnel ye should root up the wheat with it.

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


simplify: And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:

And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor:


simplify: They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.

They will go after the Lord; his cry will be like that of a lion; his cry will be loud, and the children will come from the west, shaking with fear;


simplify: So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the roll.

And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.


simplify: And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed.


simplify: It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.


simplify: And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.

And he said, I will not let my son go down with you; for his brother is dead and he is all I have: if evil overtakes him on the journey, then through you will my grey head go down to the underworld in sorrow.


simplify: Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.


rate difficulty: So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

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


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons are to put some of its blood on and round the altar.


rate difficulty: And she was delivered of a son, a man child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and unto his throne.


simplify: and when they come from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.


rate difficulty: The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

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


rate difficulty: There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.


simplify: For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails: because their tails are like snakes, and have heads, and with them they give wounds.


rate difficulty: And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

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simplify: And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

And Jonathan said to David, Come, let us go out into the country. And the two of them went out together into the open country.


rate difficulty: The firstborn of death devoureth the members of his body; it will devour his members.

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


simplify: But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

But among all these was not one of those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when the children of Israel were numbered in the waste land of Sinai.


simplify: And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.


simplify: And the flesh and the hide he burnt with fire without the camp.

And the flesh and the skin were burned with fire outside the tent-circle;


simplify: And when they that were about him saw what would follow, they said, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?

And when those who were with him saw what was coming, they said, Lord, may we not make use of our swords?


rate difficulty: Do not say, It is holy, about everything of which this people says, It is holy; and do not be in fear of what they go in fear of.

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


simplify: And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was.

And they were laughing at him. But he, having sent them all out, took the father of the child and her mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was.


simplify: For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.

For it is we who are the circumcised — we whose worship is prompted by the Spirit of God, who exult in Christ Jesus, and who do not rely on external privileges;


simplify: Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

Ezer their chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,


simplify: When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.

When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.


simplify: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.


simplify: But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.


rate difficulty: Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

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simplify: And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the Lord?

They came together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, You take overmuch on yourselves, seeing that all the people are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among them; why then have you put yourselves in authority over the people of the Lord?


rate difficulty: For they flee from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.

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simplify: This was from the Lord, And it is marvellous in our eyes?

This was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?


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

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


simplify: The Lord shall reign for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: In the twenty and fifth year of our removal, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in this self-same day hath a hand of Jehovah been upon me, and He bringeth me in thither;

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


simplify: And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

“How can I,” the other answered, “unless some one will explain it to me?” and he invited Philip to get up and sit by his side.


rate difficulty: And they had then a notable prisoner, named Barabbas.

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


rate difficulty: and speak unto them, saying, `With great riches turn ye back unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.'

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simplify: and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and seven men of them that saw the king’s face, that were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and seven of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.


rate difficulty: I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices <FI>Are<Fi> for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, `A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.

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


simplify: And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

and he made us ‘a kingdom of priests in the service of God,’ his Father! — to Him be ascribed glory and dominion for ever. Amen.


rate difficulty: And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the Lord, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

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simplify: There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle.

Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.


rate difficulty: He isa trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

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


simplify: And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

And if a Levite, moved by a strong desire, comes from any town in all Israel where he is living to the place marked out by the Lord;


simplify: Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.


simplify: Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.


rate difficulty: And the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of Jehovah burnt among them.

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rate difficulty: (Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

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


simplify: But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.

but, if anyone publicly disowns me, I, too, will disown him before my Father who is in heaven.


simplify: But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;


rate difficulty: And Solomon hath been ruling over all the kingdoms, from the River <FI>to<Fi> the land of the Philistines and unto the border of Egypt: they are bringing nigh a present, and serving Solomon, all days of his life.

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


rate difficulty: For who is God but the Lord? and who is a Rock but our God?

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simplify: The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not I only, but also all they that know the truth;

I, a ruler in the church, send word to the noble sister who is of God's selection, and to her children, for whom I have true love; and not only I, but all who have knowledge of what is true;


simplify: Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

Learn the lesson taught by the fig tree. As soon as its branches are full of sap, and it is bursting into leaf, you know that summer is near.


rate difficulty: And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean.

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


rate difficulty: Because he who is dead is free from sin.


simplify: O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.


simplify: I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you.

I am not saying these things to put you to shame, but so that, as my dear children, you may see what is right.


simplify: And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.

And he said, See now, I have undertaken to put my thoughts before the Lord: what if there are twenty there? And he said, I will have mercy because of the twenty.


rate difficulty: And for the hinder part of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.


simplify: So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.

Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man


simplify: And when the woman of Tekoa spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.

And the woman of Tekoa came to the king, and falling on her face, gave him honour and said, Give me help, O king.


simplify: And whatsoever goeth upon its paws, among all beasts that go on all fours, they are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcass shall be unclean until the even.

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


rate difficulty: If a man makes a hole in the earth without covering it up, and an ox or an ass dropping into it comes to its death;

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simplify: And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction.

And the angel of the Lord said, See, you are with child and will give birth to a son, to whom you will give the name Ishmael, because the ears of the Lord were open to your sorrow.


rate difficulty: And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

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


rate difficulty: For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

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


rate difficulty: receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,

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


rate difficulty: And thou hast put a knife to thy throat, If thou <FI>art<Fi> a man of appetite.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry unto me, but I will not hearken unto them.

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


simplify: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and through sin came death; so, also, death spread to all humanity, because every person has sinned.


simplify: And sitting down they watched him there;

And they were seated there watching him.


simplify: Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.


rate difficulty: For the scripture says to Pharaoh, For this very thing I have raised thee up from amongst [men], that I might thus shew in thee my power, and so that my name should be declared in all the earth.

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simplify: And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the people.

And Moses and Aaron went into the Tent of meeting, and came out and gave the people a blessing, and the glory of the Lord was seen by all the people.


simplify: And when he was come, the Jews that had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove;

And when he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem came round him, and made all sorts of serious statements against him, which were not supported by the facts.


rate difficulty: He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;

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


simplify: And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

And his sister Hammoleketh was the mother of Ishhod and Abiezer and Mahlah.


rate difficulty: and Laban giveth to her Zilpah, his maid-servant, to Leah his daughter, a maid-servant.

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


simplify: I Tertius, who write the epistle, salute you in the Lord.

I, Tertius, who have done the writing of this letter, send love in the Lord.


simplify: for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.

for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer.


simplify: And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,


simplify: having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,

After hearing of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have for all the saints,


rate difficulty: The sower soweth the word.

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


simplify: and I saw, and lo, a pale horse, and he who is sitting upon him--his name is Death, and Hades doth follow with him, and there was given to them authority to kill, (over the fourth part of the land,) with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the land.

And in my vision I saw a grey horse. His rider’s name was Death, and the Lord of the place of Death rode behind him; and power was given them over the fourth part of the earth, so that they might ‘destroy with sword and famine and death, and by means of the wild beasts of the earth.’


rate difficulty: Son of man, what is the vine-tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

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


rate difficulty: And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:

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


rate difficulty: And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for servants and for handmaids: and they shall take them captive whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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


rate difficulty: From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the Lord. But the foundation of the temple of the Lord was not yet laid.

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


simplify: now, therefore, why do ye tempt God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?


rate difficulty: Not of works, lest any man should boast.


simplify: And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

But Jesus said to him: “Man, who made me a judge or an arbiter between you?”


simplify: And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster.

And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head


simplify: And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah, the God of hosts, was with him.

And David became greater and greater; for the Lord, the God of armies, was with him.


simplify: For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

For in those days there will be sorrow, such as there has not been from the time when God made the world till now, and will not ever be again.


simplify: And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?

Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?


simplify: For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.


simplify: dost thou think that I am not able now to call upon my Father, and He will place beside me more than twelve legions of messengers?

Do you think that I cannot ask my Father for help, when he would at once send to my aid more than twelve legions of angels?


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

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


rate difficulty: But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp:

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


simplify: this one also began to speak boldly in the synagogue, and Aquilas and Priscilla having heard of him, took him to <FI>them<Fi> , and did more exactly expound to him the way of God,

This man began to speak out fearlessly in the synagogue; and when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the cause of God to him more carefully still.


rate difficulty: And ye shall divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel.

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


simplify: For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.

For they made the blood of saints and prophets come out like a stream, and blood have you given them for drink; which is their right reward.


rate difficulty: to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!


rate difficulty: The children of Azgad, a thousand two hundred and twenty-two.


simplify: So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.


rate difficulty: and these things having said, he dismissed the assembly.


simplify: Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.

No one will make a feast for them in sorrow, to give them comfort for the dead, or put to their lips the cup of comfort on account of their father or their mother.


simplify: And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come out to me with sticks? And the Philistine put curses on David by all his gods.


simplify: and Josiah begat Jechoniah and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away to Babylon.

And the sons of Josiah were Jechoniah and his brothers, at the time of the taking away to Babylon.


simplify: Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.


rate difficulty: The hater of authority, searching for wisdom, does not get it; but knowledge comes readily to the open-minded man.

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


rate difficulty: In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.

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simplify: and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.

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


simplify: And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

Anything touched by the unclean person will be unclean; and any person touching it will be unclean till evening.


simplify: But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben–hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

But the rest went in flight to Aphek, into the town, where a wall came down on the twenty-seven thousand who were still living. And Ben-hadad went in flight into the town, into an inner room.


simplify: But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and scattered, as sheep not having a shepherd.

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.


rate difficulty: and I wrote to you this same thing, that having come, I may not have sorrow from them of whom it behoved me to have joy, having confidence in you all, that my joy is of you all,

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rate difficulty: And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night.

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


simplify: Jehovah was sore displeased with your fathers.

The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:


simplify: Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Jehovah by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, andput italso in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,


rate difficulty: And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

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


rate difficulty: And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

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


simplify: and do not think to say in yourselves, A father we have--Abraham, for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham,

and do not think that you can say among yourselves ‘Abraham is our ancestor,’ for I tell you that out of these stones God is able to raise descendants for Abraham!


rate difficulty: and thy family which thou hast begotten after them are thine; by the name of their brethren they are called in their inheritance.

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


simplify: Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, he also lifteth up.

The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Let your rod be stretched out over the dust of the earth so that it may become insects through all the land of Egypt.

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simplify: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them; for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.


simplify: But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you,

But I say to you who give ear to me, Have love for those who are against you, do good to those who have hate for you,


simplify: let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.

Let the work of this house of God go on; let the ruler of the Jews and their responsible men put up this house of God in its place.


rate difficulty: As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house <FI>are<Fi> they.'

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


simplify: and said unto his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore do these powers work in him.

And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he has come back from the dead, and so these powers are working in him.


simplify: And in Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;

And in Jerusalem there were living certain of the children of Judah and of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah, the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;


simplify: because David did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

Because David did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and never in all his life went against his orders, but only in the question of Uriah the Hittite.


rate difficulty: And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

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


simplify: In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.

In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.


simplify: And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.


simplify: And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:

And in Jerusalem there were living some of the sons of Judah, and of Benjamin, and of Ephraim and Manasseh;


simplify: And Meonothai begat Ophrah: and Seraiah begat Joab the father of Ge-harashim; for they were craftsmen.

And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.


rate difficulty: Behold, I am Jehovah, theGod of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?

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


rate difficulty: Go, say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Because that I have made thee high out of the midst of the people, and appoint thee leader over my people Israel,

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


rate difficulty: And David saith unto Gad, `I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for very many <FI>are<Fi> His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.'

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


rate difficulty: For yet the vision <FI>is<Fi> for a season, And it breatheth for the end, and doth not lie, If it tarry, wait for it, For surely it cometh, it is not late.

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


simplify: And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

And Balaam said to Balak, Make me seven altars here and get seven oxen and seven male sheep ready for me.


simplify: And Moses brought out all the rods from before Jehovah unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them, and every man took his rod.


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

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go on before the people, and take some of the chiefs of Israel with you, and take in your hand the rod which was stretched out over the Nile, and go.


simplify: And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilæans?

And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans?


simplify: Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;


simplify: Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

Make the nations ready for war against her, the king of the Medes and his rulers and all his captains, and all the land under his rule.


simplify: All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,

This happened in fulfillment of these words in the prophet —


simplify: And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.

Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.


simplify: Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

And they are able to say, if they would give witness, that I was living as a Pharisee, in that division of our religion which is most regular in the keeping of the law.


simplify: And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth–el.

Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.


simplify: For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.


rate difficulty: The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

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


rate difficulty: and Jesus said to him, `Verily I say to thee, To-day with me thou shalt be in the paradise.'

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


rate difficulty: For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife.