rate difficulty: Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But victuals do not commend us to God, for neither if we may eat are we in advance; nor if we may not eat, are we behind;

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


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Let it not be, I pray Thee, displeasing to the Lord, and I speak only this time: peradventure there are found there ten?' and He saith, `I do not destroy <FI>it<Fi> , because of the ten.'

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


simplify: Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

See, I am driving the Medes against them, who put no value on silver and have no pleasure in gold.


simplify: for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

For you have not forgotten the directions that we gave you on the authority of our Lord Jesus.


simplify: Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth–el, and that were in Dan.

But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.


simplify: And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.

And he came in, and took food and drink; then he said, Now see to this cursed woman, and put her body into the earth, for she is a king's daughter.


rate difficulty: and he charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling all the things concerning the war unto the king,

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


simplify: Therefore it shall be, when Jehovah thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.

So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.


rate difficulty: His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.

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


simplify: And seven days were fulfilled, after that Jehovah had smitten the river.

And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.


rate difficulty: And hereby we shall know that we are of the truth, and shall persuade our hearts before him —

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


rate difficulty: But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

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


simplify: And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.

Then all the men of the town gave ear to the words of Hamor and Shechem his son; and every male in the town underwent circumcision.


rate difficulty: and a voice came out of the heavens, `Thou art My Son--the Beloved, in whom I did delight.'

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


rate difficulty: Then he took unto him the twelve, and said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.

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


rate difficulty: For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

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


simplify: And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister; for he hath made naked his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity.

And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.


rate difficulty: The ways of Sheol--her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

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


rate difficulty: Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

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


rate difficulty: And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that are in heaven shall be shaken.

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


simplify: Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? where are the gods of Samaria? and have they kept Samaria out of my hand?


rate difficulty: Then answered him some of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, Teacher, we desire to see a sign from thee.

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


rate difficulty: The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: but without thy mind I would do nothing; that thy goodness should not be as of necessity, but of free will.

But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.


rate difficulty: And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

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


rate difficulty: And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses went up toGod, and Jehovah called to him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel:

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


rate difficulty: Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.


rate difficulty: May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

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


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the fruit of the tree of life, which is in the Paradise of God.


simplify: And, having come forth quickly, they fled from the sepulchre, and trembling and amazement had seized them, and to no one said they anything, for they were afraid.

They went out, and fled from the tomb, for they were trembling and bewildered; and they did not say a word to anyone, for they were frightened;


simplify: Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I work a work in your days, A work which ye shall in no wise believe, if one declare it unto you.

See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.


rate difficulty: Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

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


rate difficulty: O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

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


simplify: The poor man and the oppressor meet together; Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.

The poor man and his creditor come face to face: the Lord gives light to their eyes equally.


simplify: See with how large letters I write unto you with mine own hand.

See the size of the handwriting which I myself have made use of in writing to you.


rate difficulty: And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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


rate difficulty: That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice [therein].

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


simplify: So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,


rate difficulty: And at the time of her death, when the women who are standing by her say, `Fear not, for a son thou hast borne,' she hath not answered, nor set her heart <FI>to it<Fi> ;

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


simplify: But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee.

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


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

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.


simplify: And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord:

And let him take it to Aaron's sons, the priests; and having taken in his hand some of the meal and of the oil, with all the perfume, let him give it to the priest to be burned on the altar, as a sign, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

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


rate difficulty: That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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


simplify: Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.


rate difficulty: `And the east quarter <FI>is<Fi> from between Havran, and Damascus, and Gilead, and the land of Israel, <FI>to<Fi> the Jordan; from the border over-against the eastern sea ye measure: and <FI>this is<Fi> the east quarter.

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


simplify: And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the showbread;

And Solomon made all the vessels used in the house of God, the gold altar and the tables on which the holy bread was placed,


simplify: but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.


simplify: Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;

All this accords with the loving kindness which God lavished on us, accompanied by countless gifts of wisdom and discernment,


simplify: And the fame hereof went forth into all that land.

And the news of it went out into all that land.


rate difficulty: And before the men went to rest, she came up to them on the roof,

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


simplify: `Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

Alas for you students of the law! You have taken away the key of the door of knowledge. You have not gone in yourselves and you have hindered those who try to go in.”


simplify: `And the merchants of the earth shall weep and sorrow over her, because their lading no one doth buy any more;

And the merchants of the earth weep and wail over her, because no longer does anyone buy their cargoes —


rate difficulty: And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said — ‘Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,


rate difficulty: Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and the scant measure [which is] abominable?

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


rate difficulty: I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, Until he please.

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


rate difficulty: And I will bring distress upon men, and they shall walk like blind men; for they have sinned against Jehovah; and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as dung:

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


simplify: And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; Yea, thou shalt searchabout thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety.

And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;


simplify: Now the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn ye, and get you into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.

Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites are in the valley; tomorrow, turning round, go into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea.


rate difficulty: I would order the cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;


simplify: but with you it may be that I shall abide, or even winter, that ye may set me forward on my journey whithersoever I go.

But I may be with you for a time, or even for the winter, so that you may see me on my way, wherever I go.


simplify: And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

And have you not there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? so whatever comes to your ears from the king's house, give word of it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.


simplify: `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

No, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place, so that, when the host who has invited you comes, he may say to you ‘Friend, come higher up’; and then you will be honored in the eyes of all your fellow guests.


rate difficulty: `The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she <FI>is<Fi> thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

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


rate difficulty: And when he had seen the vision, straight away we made the decision to go into Macedonia, for it seemed certain to us that God had sent us to give the good news to them.

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


simplify: And lo, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Simeon, and this man is righteous and devout, looking for the comforting of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him,

There was at that time in Jerusalem a man named Simeon, a righteous and devout man, who lived in constant expectation of the Consolation of Israel, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: They are making their heart glad, and lo, men of the city, men--sons of worthlessness--have gone round about the house, beating on the door, and they speak unto the old man, the master of the house, saying, `Bring out the man who hath come unto thine house, and we know him.'

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


simplify: And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison,


rate difficulty: And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses are for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as are faint in the wilderness may drink.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the sons of Elah; and Kenaz.

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


simplify: And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him: and the remnant shall be the priest’s, as a meat offering.

And the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness: and the rest of the offering will be the priest's, in the same way as the meal offering.


rate difficulty: saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger for bread; and there will we dwell;


simplify: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

So that the Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.


rate difficulty: And when the Syrians of Damascus came to succour Hadadezer king of Zobah, David slew of the Syrians two and twenty thousand men.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

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


rate difficulty: None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

And Cain said, My punishment is greater than my strength.


simplify: To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;


rate difficulty: All ye that are about him, bemoan him; and all ye that know his name, say, How is the strong staff broken, and the beautiful rod!

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, whereof ye say, It is waste, without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without beast,

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


rate difficulty: From thence he spieth out the prey, his eyes look into the distance;

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


simplify: Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.

The people went out to see what had happened, and, when they came to Jesus, they found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at Jesus’ feet; and they were awe-struck.


simplify: Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;

And why? Because they looked to obedience, and not to faith, to secure it. They stumbled over ‘the Stumbling-block.’


rate difficulty: Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

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


rate difficulty: And on his robe and on his leg is a name, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.


simplify: Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Being conscious, my brothers, dear to God, that you have been marked out by God's purpose;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly come to pass.

And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.


rate difficulty: Blessed is the kingdom that cometh, the kingdom of our father David: Hosanna in the highest.

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


simplify: Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;


rate difficulty: And Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceeds from Jehovah: we cannot speak to thee bad or good.


simplify: And of Dan he said,  Dan is a lion’s whelp, That leapeth forth from Bashan.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan.


simplify: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

So that the word of the prophet Isaiah might come true,


simplify: And the Syrians had gone out in bands, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maiden; and she waited on Naaman’s wife.

Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.


rate difficulty: and his mouth was opened presently, and his tongue, and he was speaking, praising God.

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


simplify: and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea.

And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea.


simplify: and one he-goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt-offering, the meal-offering thereof, and the drink-offering thereof.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.


simplify: And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?

But Jesus answered them: “Can you make the groom’s friends fast while the groom is with them?


simplify: And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.


rate difficulty: Then shall he depart from thee, he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

And the children of Benjamin who came that day from the towns were twenty-six thousand men armed with swords, in addition to the people of Gibeah, numbering seven hundred of the best fighting-men,


rate difficulty: Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the son of Alpheus, and Lebbeus, whose surname was Thaddeus;

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


simplify: And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.

And you said to your servants, Let him come down to me with you, so that I may see him.


rate difficulty: The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

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


simplify: Happy and holy <FI>is<Fi> he who is having part in the first rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Blessed and holy will he be who shares in that first resurrection. The second Death has no power over them; but they will be priests of God, and the Christ, and they will reign with him for the thousand years.


simplify: and those husbandmen said among themselves--This is the heir, come, we may kill him, and ours shall be the inheritance;

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


simplify: But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

But if any man will not be ruled in this question, this is not our way of doing things, and it is not done in the churches of God.


simplify: Diverse weights are an abomination to Jehovah; And a false balance is not good.

Unequal weights are disgusting to the Lord, and false scales are not good.


simplify: If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;


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

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


simplify: It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.


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

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


simplify: But they did not all hearken to the glad tidings. For Isaiah saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?


simplify: Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with him, to wit, with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, the men of war.

And Ishmael put to death all the Jews who were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldaean men of war.


rate difficulty: For there shall be the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.


simplify: Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise mischief against me.

Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.


rate difficulty: He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

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


rate difficulty: So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.

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


rate difficulty: His eyes shall be red with wine, And his teeth white with milk.

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


rate difficulty: He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

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


simplify: And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

And Leah said, Happy am I! and all women will give witness to my joy: and she gave him the name Asher.


rate difficulty: but let judgment roll down as waters, and righteousness as an ever-flowing stream.

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


rate difficulty: Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children;


rate difficulty: Ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

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


simplify: And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will be?


simplify: And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,

And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,


simplify: And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.

and so, too, were James and John, Zebedee’s sons, who were Simon’s partners. “Do not be afraid,”Jesus said to Simon; “from today you will catch people.”


rate difficulty: when Bethel had sent Sherezer and Regem-melech, and his men, to supplicate Jehovah,

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


rate difficulty: And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeyeth, and goeth, and turneth back, and dwelleth in Nineveh;

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


rate difficulty: Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall play the harlot, and shall not increase; because they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.

They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.


rate difficulty: If a man sin against his neighbor, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and he come and swear before thine altar in this house;

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


simplify: And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.


simplify: And they encamped one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians a hundred thousand footmen in one day.

Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.


simplify: and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,

Then will ‘Wickedness Incarnate’ appear, but the Lord Jesus will destroy him with the breath of his lips, and annihilate him by the splendor of his coming.


rate difficulty: And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.

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


simplify: Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, Wherefore hast thou made a breach for thyself? therefore his name was called Perez.

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


simplify: And David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set upon David’s head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, exceeding much.

And David took the crown of Milcom from off his head; its weight was a talent of gold and it had stones of great price in it; and it was put on David's head, and he took a great store of goods from the town.


rate difficulty: And their nobles send their little ones for water: they come to the pits, they find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are ashamed, they are confounded, and have covered their heads.


rate difficulty: Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

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


rate difficulty: A heifer very fair <FI>is<Fi> Egypt, Rending from the north doth come into her.

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


simplify: And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.

Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.


simplify: And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley;

And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;


rate difficulty: Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;


simplify: As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.


simplify: to whom it was revealed, that not to themselves, but to us they were ministering these, which now were told to you (through those who did proclaim good news to you,) in the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, to which things messengers do desire to bend looking.

And it was revealed to them that it was not for themselves, but for you, that they were acting as Ministers of the truths which have now been told to you, by those who, with the help of the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, have brought you the good news — truths into which even angels long to look.


rate difficulty: He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker; But he that hath mercy on the needy honoreth him.

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


simplify: and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.

Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.


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

The number of his army was thirty-five thousand, four hundred.


simplify: I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:

I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.


rate difficulty: and again the Edomites have come, and smite in Judah, and take captive a captivity.

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


simplify: And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?


rate difficulty: When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

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


rate difficulty: and this <FI>is<Fi> the thing <FI>for<Fi> which he lifted up a hand against the king: Solomon built Millo--he shut up the breach of the city of David his father,

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


rate difficulty: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, And I shall multiply my days as the sand:

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


simplify: having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, <FI>that<Fi> there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous;

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


rate difficulty: And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.

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


simplify: And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.

And Jehoiada made an agreement between the Lord and all the people and the king, that they would be the Lord's people.


simplify: Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

So David and his men got up and went, and put to death two hundred of the Philistines; and David took their private parts and gave the full number of them to the king, so that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for his wife.


rate difficulty: On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

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


simplify: Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’housesof the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

Then Solomon sent for all the responsible men of Israel, all the chiefs of the tribes and the heads of families of the children of Israel, to come to Jerusalem and take the ark of the Lord's agreement up out of the town of David, which is Zion.


rate difficulty: John to the seven assemblies that <FI>are<Fi> in Asia: Grace to you, and peace, from Him who is, and who was, and who is coming, and from the Seven Spirits that are before His throne,

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


simplify: For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

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.


simplify: And he that was over the household, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and they that brought up the children, sent to Jehu, saying, We are thy servants, and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any man king: do thou that which is good in thine eyes.

So the controller of the king's house, with the ruler of the town, and the responsible men, and those who had the care of Ahab's sons, sent to Jehu, saying, We are your servants and will do all your orders; we will not make any man king; do whatever seems best to you.


simplify: And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there: and his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

And Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, was king in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was king for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.


rate difficulty: Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

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


rate difficulty: and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man ofGod; and Ezra the scribe before them.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Why hast thou displeasure? and why hath thy countenance fallen?

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


rate difficulty: And they that work in fine flax, and they that weave white stuffs shall be ashamed.

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


simplify: to thrust out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.

To send out from before you all those who are against you.


rate difficulty: Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

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


simplify: And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah shall inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.


rate difficulty: And from that time he was watching for a chance to give him into their hands.


rate difficulty: and other fell to the good ground, and was giving fruit, coming up and increasing, and it bare, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;

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


simplify: And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die: behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep this secret from me? It is not so.


simplify: Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar.

Your eyes will see the king in his glory: they will be looking on a far-stretching land.


rate difficulty: And Hiram had sent to the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold.


simplify: Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

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


simplify: Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the faith of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,


rate difficulty: The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

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


rate difficulty: Fifty twists on the one curtain and fifty on the edge of the curtain of the other group; the twists being opposite to one another.

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


rate difficulty: and David taketh the shields of gold which were on the servants of Hadadezer, and bringeth them to Jerusalem;

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


simplify: At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.


rate difficulty: But he answering said to them, What did Moses command you?


simplify: And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So all Israel departed unto their tents.

And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.


simplify: And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the Lord.

The priest is to take in his hand some of the meal of the meal offering and of the oil of it, and all the perfume on it, burning it on the altar as a sign, for a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

In the thirty-eighth year that Asa was king of Judah, Ahab, the son of Omri, became king over Israel; and Ahab was king in Samaria for twenty-two years.


rate difficulty: and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before Jehovah; as Moses commanded.


simplify: And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send them in flight among the nations, driving them out through the countries.


simplify: And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

and still larger numbers, both of men and women, as they became believers in the Lord, were added to their number.


simplify: For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,


simplify: Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.

Then Sarah said, I was not laughing; for she was full of fear. And he said, No, but you were laughing.


simplify: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.

There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.


rate difficulty: And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.

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


rate difficulty: He, I say, in accordance with God’s definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.

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


simplify: But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites, and with him were three thousand and seven hundred;

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


simplify: The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away backward.

And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.


simplify: Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens:

Then said Boaz to Ruth, Give ear to me, my daughter: do not go to take up the grain in another field, or go away from here, but keep here by my young women:


simplify: Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.


simplify: The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

The first blew; and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it fell on the earth. A third part of the earth was burnt up, and a third of the trees, and every blade of grass.


rate difficulty: He that abideth in this city shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth out, and deserteth to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey.

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


simplify: And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain at the edges of the field be cut, and do not take up the grain which has been dropped in the field; let that be for the poor, and for the man from another country: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead.

And Azariah went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Jotham his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: But you said to your servants, If your youngest brother does not come with you, you will not see my face again.

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


rate difficulty: for the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;


simplify: And there was also a superscription written over him, in letters of Greek, and Roman, and Hebrew, `This is the King of the Jews.'

Above him were the words —  ‘THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’


simplify: Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?


simplify: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


simplify: Wherefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

For this reason the Lord, the God of armies, has said: Because you have said this, I will make my words in your mouth a fire, and this people wood, and they will be burned up by it.


simplify: concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

Above all, set an example of doing good. Show sincerity in your teaching, and a serious spirit;


simplify: Shalt thou reign, because thou strivest to excel in cedar? Did not thy father eat and drink, and do justice and righteousness? then it was well with him.

Are you to be a king because you make more use of cedar than your father? did not your father take food and drink and do right, judging in righteousness, and then it was well for him?


rate difficulty: Now there was, some distance away, a great herd of pigs taking their food.

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


simplify: There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.

There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

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


simplify: And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.


rate difficulty: Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now Haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.

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


rate difficulty: and the haven being incommodious to winter in, the more part gave counsel to sail thence also, if by any means they might be able, having attained to Phenice, <FI>there<Fi> to winter, <FI>which is<Fi> a haven of Crete, looking to the south-west and north-west,

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


rate difficulty: And they gave glory to God in me.

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


rate difficulty: But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: Yet in this thing ye did not believe Jehovah your God,

But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,


rate difficulty: I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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


simplify: And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

The woman gave birth to a son, a male child, who is destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod; and her child was at once caught up to God on his throne.


simplify: and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

And righteousness, its fruit, is sown in peace by those who work for peace.


simplify: But in vain do they worship me, Teachingas theirdoctrines the precepts of men.

But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.


rate difficulty: of the half of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel son of Abner; of Dan, Azareel son of Jeroham:

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


rate difficulty: The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.


simplify: Therefore be ye also ready; for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.


rate difficulty: You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.

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


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

And suddenly, on looking around, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone.


rate difficulty: They then, indeed, having been let go, went to Antioch, and having brought the multitude together, did deliver the epistle,


rate difficulty: And after him Elon the Zebulunite judgeth Israel, and he judgeth Israel ten years,

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


rate difficulty: All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish, to seek his servants; and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.

Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.


rate difficulty: Then Saul said to David, May a blessing be on you, David, my son; you will do great things and without doubt you will overcome. Then David went on his way, and Saul went back to his place.

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


rate difficulty: `And God speaketh all these words, saying,

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


simplify: Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year.


simplify: Now if Timothy come, see that he be with you without fear; for he worketh the work of the Lord, as I also do:

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear; because he is doing the Lord's work, even as I am:


rate difficulty: And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. And the Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.


rate difficulty: To let the Assyrian be broken in my land, and crushed under foot on my mountains: there will his yoke be taken away from them, and his rule over them come to an end.


simplify: Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.

“I tell you,” replied Jesus, “if you have faith, without ever a doubt, you will do what not only what has been done to the fig tree, but, even if you should say to this hill ‘Be lifted up and hurled into the sea!’ it would be done.


simplify: And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

And when the second stamp was undone, the voice of the second beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see.


simplify: which Jehovah commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai.

As they were given by the Lord to Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when the Lord gave orders to the children of Israel to make their offerings to the Lord, in the waste land of Sinai.


rate difficulty: And after a little time, another saw him and said, You are one of them; and he said, Man, I am not.

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


simplify: Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law?


simplify: And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.

The whole city was stirred, and the people quickly collected, seized Paul, and dragged him out of the Temple, when the doors were immediately shut.


rate difficulty: And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth,

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


simplify: He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow; But a prating fool shall fall.

He who makes signs with his eyes is a cause of trouble, but he who makes a man see his errors is a cause of peace.


rate difficulty: and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'

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


rate difficulty: Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: And he looked up, and saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: he commanded them also to be baptized in the name of the Lord; then they besought him to remain certain days.

And he directed that they should be baptized in the faith of Jesus Christ; after which they asked him to stay there a few days longer.


simplify: And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

And Noah, with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark because of the flowing of the waters.


rate difficulty: fulfil my joy, that ye may think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking one thing;

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


rate difficulty: And it was so, when they came into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah slew them, and cast them into the midst of the pit, he, and the men that were with him.

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


simplify: And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

After telling the good news throughout that town, and making a number of converts, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, and Antioch,


rate difficulty: And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

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


simplify: I rejoice that in everything I am of good courage concerning you.

It gives me great joy to see you answering to my good opinion of you in every way.


rate difficulty: Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! — or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!

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


rate difficulty: These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah through Moses.

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


rate difficulty: For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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


simplify: Thou art fair, O my love, as Tirzah, Comely as Jerusalem, Terrible as an army with banners.

You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.


simplify: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.


simplify: And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark.

Barnabas wished to take with them John, whose other name was Mark;


rate difficulty: but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be yourGod, and ye shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

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


rate difficulty: And Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

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


rate difficulty: and there is an evening, and there is a morning--day fifth.


rate difficulty: For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites listed by the names of their fathers.

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


simplify: Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.


simplify: And it shall be, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And whoever makes his prayer to the Lord will have salvation.


rate difficulty: but with him that standeth here with us this day before Jehovah our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day

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


rate difficulty: For the eyes of the Lord are on the upright, and his ears are open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

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


simplify: He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.

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


simplify: And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;

When day came, he summoned his disciples, and chose twelve of them, whom he also named ‘apostles.’


simplify: And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.


simplify: Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.


rate difficulty: When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.


rate difficulty: in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:

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


simplify: Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

Though I sent destruction on the Amorite before them, who was tall as the cedar and strong as the oak-tree, cutting off his fruit from on high and his roots from under the earth.


rate difficulty: and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'

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


rate difficulty: But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

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


rate difficulty: The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

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


rate difficulty: And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

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


simplify: The great day of Jehovah is near, it is near and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of Jehovah; the mighty man crieth there bitterly.

The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.


rate difficulty: Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, And thy mouth is comely. Thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate Behind thy veil.

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


simplify: Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Take up the cause against your mother, take it up, for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband; let her put away her loose ways from her face, and her false ways from between her breasts;


rate difficulty: But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,

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


rate difficulty: Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.


simplify: And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

Then let the ox be taken in front of the Tent of meeting: and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.


rate difficulty: For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

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


rate difficulty: And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

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


simplify: Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

For this cause, O Oholibah, this is what the Lord has said: See, I will make your lovers come up against you, even those from whom your soul is turned away in disgust; and I will make them come up against you on every side;


simplify: They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.

Those who make their oaths by the sin of Samaria and say, By the life of your God, O Dan; and, By the living way of Beer-sheba; even they will go down, never again to be lifted up.


simplify: When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:

And I will let their fate be changed, the fate of Sodom and her daughters, and the fate of Samaria and her daughters, and your fate with theirs.


rate difficulty: Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

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


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child’s mother.


simplify: for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.

For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.


rate difficulty: For thou hast cast off thy people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled [with what comes] from the east, and use auguries like the Philistines, and ally themselves with the children of foreigners.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:


simplify: He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.


simplify: Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.


rate difficulty: And there followed him great multitudes from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judæa and from beyond the Jordan.

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


simplify: Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

Now this man was named Nabal, and his wife's name was Abigail: she was a woman of good sense and pleasing looks: but the man was cruel and evil in his ways; he was of the family of Caleb.


rate difficulty: If I see the light when it shineth, And the precious moon walking,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah addeth to call again Samuel, and Samuel riseth and goeth unto Eli, and saith, `Here <FI>am<Fi> I, for thou hast called for me;' and he saith, `I have not called, my son, turn back, lie down.'

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


simplify: And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his servants; and he gave honour to the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker among the others.


rate difficulty: The cities at the extremity of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the south, were: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

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


simplify: And the rest of the people he delivered unto the hand of Abishai his brother, and they set themselves in array against the children of Ammon.

And the rest of the people he put in position against the children of Ammon with Abishai, his brother, at their head.


rate difficulty: For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

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


rate difficulty: So we laboured in the work: and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared.


simplify: And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.

And the best of all the first-fruits of everything, and every offering which is lifted up of all your offerings, will be for the priests: and you are to give the priest the first of your bread-making, so causing a blessing to come on your house.


rate difficulty: But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

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


simplify: salute Philologus, and Julias, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints with them;

also to Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and to all Christ’s people who are with them.


simplify: For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.

For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.


rate difficulty: of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,


rate difficulty: and I have strengthened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath pursued after them, and I am honoured on Pharaoh, and on all his force, and the Egyptians have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah;' and they do so.

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


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


simplify: And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

And this will be our peace: when the Assyrian comes into our country and his feet are in our land, then we will put up against him seven keepers of the flocks and eight chiefs among men.


rate difficulty: As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us be thus minded; and if ye are any otherwise minded, this alsoGod shall reveal to you.

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


simplify: Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

Then the king gave orders to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, Take with you three men from here and get Jeremiah out of the water-hole before death overtakes him.


rate difficulty: And the king said unto the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And the Cushite answered, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise up against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


simplify: And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;

Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;


rate difficulty: For, where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of base actions.

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


simplify: The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate.

Hanun and the people of Zanoah were working on the doorway of the valley; they put it up and put up its doors, with their locks and rods, and a thousand cubits of wall as far as the doorway where the waste material was placed.


simplify: And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?

And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?


simplify: So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto Jehovah, that he might fulfil the word of Jehovah, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.

So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.


simplify: For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.

For her sins have gone up even to heaven, and God has taken note of her evil-doing.


simplify: Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, will make his fat become wasted; and in his inner parts a fire will be lighted like a burning flame.


simplify: and if a kingdom against itself be divided, that kingdom cannot be made to stand;

When a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot last;


simplify: Take ye from among you an offering unto Jehovah; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Jehovah’s offering: gold, and silver, and brass,

Take from among you an offering to the Lord; everyone who has the impulse in his heart, let him give his offering to the Lord; gold and silver and brass;


simplify: and a voice came out of the cloud saying, `This is My Son--the Beloved; hear ye him;'

and from the cloud came a voice which said — “This is my Son, the Chosen One; him you must hear.”


simplify: He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

Those who, when speaking, use the gift of ‘tongues’ builds up their own faith, while those who preach build up the faith of the church.


simplify: But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

As a last resource he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.


rate difficulty: He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

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


simplify: And ye shall be holy men unto me: therefore ye shall not eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.


rate difficulty: And they stand on their station according to their ordinance; according to the law of Moses the man of God the priests are sprinkling the blood out of the hand of the Levites,

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


rate difficulty: And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

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


simplify: And the king said unto the man of God, Come home with me, and refresh thyself, and I will give thee a reward.

And the king said to the man of God, Come with me to my house for food and rest, and I will give you a reward.


rate difficulty: And Aaron shall burn thereon fragrant incense: every morning, when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn the incense.

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


simplify: And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

Yet, though Herod wanted to put him to death, he was afraid of the people, because they looked on John as a prophet.


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

He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:


simplify: Now David went to and fro from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth-lehem.

Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.


simplify: Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.


rate difficulty: And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

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


simplify: So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.


simplify: having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

Let your daily life among the Gentiles be so upright, that, whenever they malign you as evil-doers, they may learn, as they watch, from the uprightness of your conduct, to praise God ‘at the time when he will visit them.’


rate difficulty: Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water.

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


rate difficulty: but Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they may put us to death, and carry us away captive to Babylon.

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


simplify: But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.

But if the man has no relation to whom the payment may be made, then the payment for sin made to the Lord will be the priest's, in addition to the sheep offered to take away his sin.


rate difficulty: Then make two gold rings and put them on the lower ends of the bag, at the edge of it on the inner side nearest to the ephod.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt bring his sons near, and clothe them with vests.

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


rate difficulty: and was unknown by face to the assemblies of Judea, that <FI>are<Fi> in Christ,

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


rate difficulty: the children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel,

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


simplify: And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?


simplify: but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:

But glory and honour and peace to all whose works are good, to the Jew first and then to the Greek:


simplify: The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

Presently some Pharisees came up to him, and, to test him, said: “Has a man the right to divorce his wife for every cause?”


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. And the Lord said, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

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


simplify: to the end that ye should walk worthily of God, who calleth you into his own kingdom and glory.

So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.


rate difficulty: In the thirty and sixth year of the reign of Asa, come up hath Baasha king of Israel, against Judah, and buildeth Ramah, so as not to permit any going out and coming in to Asa king of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab’s field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh said, I will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away: entreat for me.

Then Pharaoh said, I will let you go to make an offering to the Lord your God in the waste land; but do not go very far away, and make prayer for me.


simplify: But the man that toucheth them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.

But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.


simplify: Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the work of their hands; so my wrath will be on fire against this place, and will not be put out.


rate difficulty: For I feared thee because thou art a harsh man: thou takest up what thou hast not laid down, and thou reapest what thou hast not sowed.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.


rate difficulty: For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.

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


simplify: Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty.

Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Zebulun was Eliab the son of Helon.

And at the head of the army of the children of Zebulun was Eliab, the son of Helon.


simplify: These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to get knowledge about the land. And Moses gave to Hoshea, the son of Nun, the name of Joshua.


simplify: Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.


simplify: I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

Therefore I entreat you — Follow my example.


simplify: Then she said, I ask one small petition of thee; deny me not. And the king said unto her, Ask on, my mother; for I will not deny thee.

Then she said, I have one small request to make to you; do not say, No, to me. And the king said, Say on, my mother, for I will not say, No, to you.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the living things which ye may eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.

Say to the children of Israel: These are the living things which you may have for food among all the beasts on the earth.


simplify: But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

He had been thinking this over, when an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.   “Joseph, son of David,” the angel said, “do not be afraid to take Mary for your wife, for her child has been conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of Jehovah passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.

And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people.