simplify: So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the Lord, to dwell in the land of Judah.

So Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, did not give ear to the order of the Lord that they were to go on living in the land of Judah.


rate difficulty: This <FI>is<Fi> the portion of wicked man with God, And the inheritance of terrible ones From the Mighty they receive.

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


simplify: Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame!


simplify: It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.

I will come and give them punishment; and the peoples will come together against them when I give them the reward of their two sins.


simplify: And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.


simplify: and a hair out of your head shall not perish;

Yet not a single hair of your heads will be lost!


simplify: Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be given thee even to the half of the kingdom.

Then the king said, What is your desire, Queen Esther, and what is your request? I will give it to you, even to the half of my kingdom.


simplify: Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.

Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.


simplify: and one of them having seen that he was healed did turn back, with a loud voice glorifying God,

One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,


simplify: So he caused the ark of Jehovah to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.


simplify: But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen.

But I will have mercy on Judah and will give them salvation by the Lord their God, but not by the bow or the sword or by fighting or by horses or horsemen.


rate difficulty: Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

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


simplify: But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

But I put no value on my life, if only at the end of it I may see the work complete which was given to me by the Lord Jesus, to be a witness of the good news of the grace of God.


simplify: And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.

And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.


simplify: And their father said unto them, What way went he? Now his sons had seen what way the man of God went, that came from Judah.

Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.


simplify: And the earthen vessel, which he that hath the issue toucheth, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

And any vessel of earth which has been touched by the unclean man will have to be broken and any vessel of wood washed.


simplify: Each board had two tenons, joined one to another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

Every board had two tongues fixed into it; all the boards were made in this way.


rate difficulty: Starting up, they drove Jesus out of the town, and led him to the brow of the hill on which their town stood, intending to hurl him down.

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


simplify: I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.

So I will go after trouble for them, and will send on them what they are fearing: because no one made answer to my voice, or gave ear to my word; but they did what was evil in my eyes, going after that in which I took no pleasure.


rate difficulty: and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

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


simplify: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


simplify: But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

But the prudent ones answered ‘No, There may not be enough for you and for us. Go instead to those who sell it, and buy for yourselves.’


rate difficulty: Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

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


simplify: And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

And Jacob said, First of all give me your birthright.


simplify: And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord.

And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,

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


simplify: And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to bring him to his house.

And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?


rate difficulty: All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

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


rate difficulty: `Ye do not turn unto those having familiar spirits; and unto wizards ye do not seek, for uncleanness by them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.

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


simplify: and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of Jehovah; for that he heareth your murmurings against Jehovah: and what are we, that ye murmur against us?

And in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord; for your angry words against the Lord have come to his ears: and what are we that you are crying out against us?


rate difficulty: When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt;

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.


simplify: Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.

Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

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


rate difficulty: And he asked him, What is thy name? And he saith unto him, My name is Legion; for we are many.

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


simplify: For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

And they were talking in tongues, and giving glory to God. Then Peter said,


simplify: Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.


simplify: House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.

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


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


simplify: and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this--the life--is in His Son;

And that testimony is that God gave us eternal life, and that this life is in his Son.


rate difficulty: And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw a man, named Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him.

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


simplify: For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

for a great opening for active work has presented itself, and there are many opponents.


simplify: There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.


rate difficulty: Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough,


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and effecting all my purpose for the family of Ahab, your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.


rate difficulty: The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah,


simplify: Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

Out of his mouth go burning lights, and flames of fire are jumping up.


rate difficulty: And I spoke unto you, but ye would not hear, and ye rebelled against the word of Jehovah, and acted presumptuously, and went up the hill.

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


simplify: the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ--who is blessed to the ages--hath known that I do not lie! --

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus — he who is for ever blessed — knows that I am speaking the truth.


simplify: Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;


rate difficulty: And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

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


rate difficulty: And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

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


rate difficulty: And a third messenger did follow them, saying in a great voice, `If any one the beast doth bow before, and his image, and doth receive a mark upon his forehead, or upon his hand,

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


simplify: For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

For see, I will send for all the families of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord; and they will come, everyone placing his high seat at the way into Jerusalem, and against its walls on every side, and against all the towns of Judah.


simplify: And they journeyed: and a terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

So they went on their journey: and the fear of God was on the towns round about, so that they made no attack on the sons of Jacob.


simplify: I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.


simplify: And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

And when the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary, the mother of James, and Salome, got spices, so that they might come and put them on him.


simplify: Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel!


rate difficulty: And he gave him no answer, not even a word: so that the ruler was greatly surprised.

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


simplify: And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

And when he made his answer in these words, Festus said in a loud voice, Paul, you are off your head; your great learning has made you unbalanced.


rate difficulty: which also they did, having sent unto the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.

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


simplify: And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

After greeting them, Paul related in detail all that God had done among the Gentiles through his efforts;


rate difficulty: But we are able to overcome all these things and more through his love.

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


rate difficulty: And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.


simplify: and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

where my prosecutors never found me holding discussions with anyone, or causing a crowd to collect — either in the Temple, or in the Synagogues, or about the city;


simplify: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


rate difficulty: And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,

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


simplify: And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that wherein he hath sinned:

And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;


simplify: But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.

But Jesus still made no reply whatever; at which Pilate was astonished.


rate difficulty: this enrolment first came to pass when Cyrenius was governor of Syria--

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


rate difficulty: Take away from him the ten pounds,’ he said to those standing by, ‘and give them to the one who has the hundred.’

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


simplify: Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?

Have you no knowledge of what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of every land? were the gods of the nations of those lands able to keep their land from falling into my hands?


simplify: For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?


simplify: A scoffer seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; But knowledge is easy unto him that hath understanding.

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


simplify: and he was teaching in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

and he began to teach in their Synagogues, and was honored by everyone.


simplify: For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.

For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.


simplify: Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.


simplify: for I do testify to him, that he hath much zeal for you, and those in Laodicea, and those in Hierapolis.

I can bear testimony to the deep interest he takes in you, as well as in the followers at Laodicea and at Hierapolis.


rate difficulty: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.


simplify: He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.


simplify: saying, `Amen! the blessing, and the glory, and the wisdom, and the thanksgiving, and the honour, and the power, and the strength, <FI>are<Fi> to our God--to the ages of the ages! Amen!'

saying —  ‘Amen. Blessing and praise, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might be ascribed to our God for ever and ever. Amen.’


simplify: And they journeyed from mount Hor, and encamped in Zalmonah.

And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their tents in Zalmonah.


simplify: And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.


rate difficulty: And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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


rate difficulty: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And the families of Kiriath-jearim: The Ithrites, and the Puthites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

And the families of Kiriath-jearim: the Ithrites and the Puthites and the Shumathites and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.


simplify: Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel; neither was the number put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

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


rate difficulty: Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

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


simplify: For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations round about.

For he was wiser than all men, even than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman and Calcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and he had a great name among all the nations round about.


rate difficulty: For Jehovah yourGod is theGod ofgods, and the Lord of lords, the greatGod, the mighty and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward;

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


simplify: Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation.

Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.


simplify: Let the priests take it to them, every man of his acquaintance: and let them repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.

Let the priests take, every man from his friends and neighbours, to make good what is damaged in the house, wherever it is to be seen.


simplify: And Asa and the people that were with him pursued them unto Gerar: and the Ethiopians were overthrown, that they could not recover themselves; for they were destroyed before the Lord, and before his host; and they carried away very much spoil.

And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.


simplify: And David’s men said unto him, Behold, we are afraid here in Judah: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?

And David's men said to him, Even here in Judah we are full of fear: how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?


simplify: Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

proclaiming the kingdom of God, and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ, with perfect fearlessness, unmolested.


rate difficulty: And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:

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


rate difficulty: And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.


rate difficulty: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Nethaneel the son of Zuar.


simplify: He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.


simplify: Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritualgifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.


simplify: Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe.

So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.


rate difficulty: And when Moses heard that, he was content.


simplify: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.


simplify: Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

Have no fear of them: for the Lord your God is with you, a great God greatly to be feared.


rate difficulty: So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.

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


rate difficulty: and the priest hath seen him, and lo, the scall hath spread in the skin, the priest seeketh not for the shining hair, he is unclean;

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.

And the limit will go on to Ziphron, with its farthest point at Hazar-enan: this will be your limit on the north.


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.


rate difficulty: And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another, [the land] concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it unto your fathers; and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

And the building which was in front of the separate place at the side to the west was seventy cubits wide; the wall of the building was five cubits thick all round and ninety cubits long.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


simplify: And was drawn from the north, and went forth to En–shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,

And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;


simplify: In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

On the same day Noah, with Shem, Ham, and Japheth, his sons, and his wife and his sons' wives, went into the ark;


rate difficulty: verily I say to you, that no more may I drink of the produce of the vine till that day when I may drink it new in the reign of God.'

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


simplify: and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died; what time the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign.

And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.


simplify: And Pilate said unto the chief priests, and the multitude, `I find no fault in this man;'

But Pilate, turning to the chief priests and the people, said: “I do not see anything to find fault with in this man.”


simplify: And Solomon did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and went not fully after Jehovah, as did David his father.

And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did.


rate difficulty: Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

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rate difficulty: Then came all the princes unto Jeremiah, and asked him: and he told them according to all these words that the king had commanded. So they left off speaking with him; for the matter was not perceived.

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simplify: And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

And Abijah and his people put them to death with great destruction: five hundred thousand of the best of Israel were put to the sword.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.


rate difficulty: Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

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simplify: A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;


rate difficulty: For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.

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rate difficulty: But if they had been in my secret, then they would have made my people give ear to my words, turning them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

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simplify: Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? or need we, as do some, epistles of commendation to you or from you?

Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?


rate difficulty: Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.


simplify: And Lamech said unto his wives:  Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me:

And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, give ear to my voice; you wives of Lamech, give attention to my words, for I would put a man to death for a wound, and a young man for a blow;


simplify: and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and them that sat at meat with him; and the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.


rate difficulty: Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

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rate difficulty: And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.

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rate difficulty: And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.


simplify: And he that sitteth on anything whereon he that hath the issue sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And he who has been seated on anything on which the unclean man has been seated is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: Nor is that all. There is also the case of Rebecca, when she was about to bear children to our ancestor Isaac.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.


rate difficulty: And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

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simplify: and they having come forth out of the boat, immediately having recognised him,

But they had no sooner left her than the people, recognizing Jesus,


simplify: `And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

‘You lazy, worthless servant!’ was his master’s reply. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather up where I have not winnowed?


simplify: And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

And the king put Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, in his place over the army; and Zadok the priest he put in the place of Abiathar.


simplify: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.

And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.


rate difficulty: Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

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simplify: For to this end also did I write, that I might know the proof of you, whether ye be obedient in all things.

And for the same reason I sent you a letter so that I might be certain of your desire to do my orders in all things.


simplify: For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

For though there are those who have the name of gods, in heaven or on earth, as there are a number of gods and a number of lords,


rate difficulty: In all the places where I went with all the children of Israel, did I ever say to any of the judges of Israel, to whom I gave the care of my people Israel, Why have you not made me a house of cedar?

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rate difficulty: therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

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rate difficulty: Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

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simplify: Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! Let the Christ, the ‘king of Israel,’ come down from the cross now so that we can see it and believe.” Even the men who had been crucified with Jesus insulted him.


simplify: Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.


rate difficulty: O Lord, there is no one like you, and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

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simplify: And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; it is not therefore not of the body.

And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.


rate difficulty: Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Athaliah the daughter of Omri.

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

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simplify: And the man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer unto Jehovah the yearly sacrifice, and his vow.

And the man Elkanah with all his family went up to make the year's offering to the Lord, and to give effect to his oath.


rate difficulty: and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that <FI>it is<Fi> good;


simplify: and shalt return unto Jehovah thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul;

And your hearts are turned again to the Lord your God, and you give ear to his word which I give you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul:


simplify: who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

And God himself will strengthen you to the end, so that at the day of our Lord Jesus Christ you may be found blameless.


rate difficulty: To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

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


simplify: it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

sown weak, it rises strong; sown a human body, it rises a spiritual body.


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

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


rate difficulty: So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ — this Jesus whom you crucified.”

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

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


simplify: And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.

And they went on from Kadesh, and put up their tents in Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.


simplify: And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.


simplify: And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.


simplify: Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:

They themselves have testified before the church to your love; and you will do well to help them on their way in a manner worthy of the service of God.


simplify: And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you--and was hindered till the present time--that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

I want you to know, my friends, that I have many times intended coming to see you — but until now I have been prevented — that I might find among you some fruit of my labors, as I have already among the other nations.


simplify: And they offered unto the Lord the same time, of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.

And that day they made offerings to the Lord of the things they had taken in war, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.


simplify: And I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

And I let the stones go from my hands, and they were broken before your eyes.


rate difficulty: And Jesus having looked round, saith to his disciples, `How hardly shall they who have riches enter into the reign of God!'

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rate difficulty: For Iknowtheir works and their thoughts: the time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.

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simplify: And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

He agreed with the laborers to pay them the standard daily rate of two silver coins, and sent them into his vineyard.


simplify: for being free from all men, to all men I made myself servant, that the more I might gain;

Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone’s slave.


simplify: Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz.

Then Sihon came out against us with all his people, to make an attack on us at Jahaz.


simplify: For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.


rate difficulty: and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

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simplify: O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.

O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.


simplify: For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.

For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.


rate difficulty: Scornful men set the city in a flame; but the wise turn away anger.

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rate difficulty: `And ye--seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

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


simplify: And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,

And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands;


rate difficulty: And Moses called to them; and they turned to him, — Aaron and all the principal men of the assembly; and Moses talked with them.


simplify: Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. And she said unto him, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he brake the withes, as a string of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known.

Now she had men waiting secretly in the inner room; and she said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And the cords were broken by him as a twist of thread is broken when touched by a flame. So the secret of his strength did not come to light.


rate difficulty: And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he got up and went to Hebron.

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simplify: And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they might catch him in talk.

Then they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and the Herodians, so that they might make use of his words to take him by a trick.


simplify: And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?


simplify: And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.


simplify: And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And to the second he gave the name Ephraim, for he said, God has given me fruit in the land of my sorrow.


rate difficulty: Some of the people were convinced, and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, as did also a large body of Greeks who were accustomed to join in the Jewish services, and a great number of leading women.

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simplify: Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones; strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.

Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.


rate difficulty: And Reaiah the son of Shobal begot Jahath; and Jahath begot Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zoreathites.

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


rate difficulty: But all the things which I once held to be gains I have now, for the Christ’s sake, come to count as loss.

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


simplify: And as they cried out, and threw off their garments, and cast dust into the air,

And while they were crying out, and pulling off their clothing, and sending dust into the air,


simplify: because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath seen the plague on the seventh day, and lo, the scall hath not spread, and a shining hair hath not been in it, and the appearance of the scall is not deeper than the skin,

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rate difficulty: And the sixth messenger did sound, and I heard a voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold that is before God,


rate difficulty: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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


simplify: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

I entreat you, then, friends, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, for this is your rational worship.


rate difficulty: The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.

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simplify: and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,


simplify: In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulder, and carry it forth in the dark; thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the land: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel.

And before their eyes, take your goods on your back and go out in the dark; go with your face covered: for I have made you a sign to the children of Israel.


simplify: Thornsandsnares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.


rate difficulty: and David sendeth spies, and knoweth that Saul hath come unto Nachon,

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


simplify: And the men of Babylon made Succoth–benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,


simplify: And he said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.

And he said, May the Lord give you his blessing, my daughter: even better than what you did at the first is this last kind act you have done, in not going after young men, with or without wealth.


rate difficulty: and they came to the fortified city of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba.

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


simplify: But when Jesus heard it, he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.

But Jesus at these words said to him, Have no fear, only have faith, and she will be made well.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.


rate difficulty: And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

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simplify: And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day.


rate difficulty: The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.

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


simplify: Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

And you are to keep watch for the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting day and night for seven days, so that death may not come to you: for so he has given me orders.


simplify: And they gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Jehovah, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Jehovah. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.


rate difficulty: Truly, you will go out from him with your hands on your head: for the Lord has given up those in whom you have put your faith, and they will be of no help to you.

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simplify: And there followed him many multitudes from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judea, and beyond the Jordan.

He was followed by large crowds from Galilee, the district of the Ten Towns, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.


simplify: And having been baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water, and lo, opened to him were the heavens, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming upon him,

After the baptism of Jesus, and just as he came up from the water, the heavens opened, and he saw the Spirit of God coming down like a dove and resting on him,


rate difficulty: And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.


rate difficulty: And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

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


rate difficulty: Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly thatGod has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

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simplify: for if the willing mind is present, according to that which any one may have it is well-accepted, not according to that which he hath not;

For, where there is willingness, a person’s gift is valued by its comparison with what they have, and not with what they do not have.


simplify: And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:

Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;


rate difficulty: Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

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


rate difficulty: and the rest of the people he gave into the hand of Abishai his brother that he might array them against the children of Ammon.

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rate difficulty: And he left off talking with him; andGod went up from Abraham.

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


simplify: and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.


simplify: And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.


simplify: God enlarge Japheth, And let him dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be his servant.

May God make Japheth great, and let his living-place be in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.


rate difficulty: And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As Jehovah liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

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rate difficulty: As for our friend Apollos, I have often urged him to go to you with the others. He has, however, been very unwilling to do so as yet; but he will go as soon as he finds a good opportunity.


rate difficulty: My covenant hath been with him of life and of peace, And I make them to him a fear, and he doth fear Me, And because of My name he hath been affrighted.

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


rate difficulty: That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;


simplify: And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve the Lord their God. And all his days they departed not from following the Lord, the God of their fathers.

Josiah took away all the disgusting things out of all the lands of the children of Israel, and made all who were in Israel servants of the Lord their God. And as long as he was living they were true to the Lord, the God of their fathers.


simplify: Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib?

Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?


simplify: And I, brethren, if uncircumcision I yet preach, why yet am I persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away;

If I, friends, am still proclaiming circumcision, why am I still persecuted? It seems that the cross has ceased to be an obstacle!


rate difficulty: For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

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


rate difficulty: A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

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


simplify: For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.


simplify: Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.


rate difficulty: And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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


simplify: Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.

Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.


simplify: The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.


simplify: And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.

And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.


rate difficulty: but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good news, so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, who is proving our hearts,

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


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

Keeping to the true word of the teaching, so that he may be able to give comfort by right teaching and overcome the arguments of the doubters.


rate difficulty: Come down from honour, sit in thirst, O inhabitant, daughter of Dibon, For a spoiler of Moab hath come up to thee, He hath destroyed thy fenced places.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.

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


simplify: because ye trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Do not have in your bag different weights, a great and a small;


simplify: If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.


rate difficulty: All this, said David, have I been made to understand in writing from the hand of Jehovah, even all the works of this pattern.

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


simplify: Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.


simplify: His bones areastubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.

His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.


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

And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.


simplify: For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.


simplify: If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.


simplify: And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.


simplify: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels going out to the fight with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels made war,


simplify: And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.


rate difficulty: And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

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


simplify: A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?


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

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


simplify: and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill <FI>him<Fi> ,

and plotted together to arrest Jesus by stealth and put him to death;


rate difficulty: And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing.


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

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


rate difficulty: But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

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


simplify: And there come his mother and his brethren; and, standing without, they sent unto him, calling him.

And his mother and brothers came and were outside, and sent for him, requesting to see him.


simplify: And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.


rate difficulty: And I have sent into her pestilence, And blood into her out-places, The wounded hath been judged in her midst, By the sword upon her round about, And they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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


simplify: Surely at the commandment of Jehovah came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did,

Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;


simplify: If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.

If the offering is a burned offering of the herd, let him give a male without a mark: he is to give it at the door of the Tent of meeting so that he may be pleasing to the Lord.


simplify: but speaking truth in love, may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ;

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;


rate difficulty: Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.


simplify: And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:


simplify: Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.


simplify: For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Everyone has heard of your ready obedience. It is true that I am very happy about you, but I want you to be well versed in all that is good, and innocent of all that is bad.


rate difficulty: Use hospitality one to another without grudging.

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


simplify: Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.


rate difficulty: and there are distinctions of operations, but the sameGod who operates all things in all.

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


simplify: And Jesus saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, that thou to-day, even this night, before the cock crow twice, shalt deny me thrice.

And Jesus said to him, Truly, I say to you that you, today, even this night, before the cock's second cry, will say three times that you have no knowledge of me.


simplify: (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

For Jesus was commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions it had seized him, and, even when secured with chains and fetters, and watched, he would break through anything that bound him, and be driven by the demon into the Wilds.


simplify: and having bound him, they did lead away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

They put him in chains and led him away, and gave him up to the Roman Governor, Pilate.


simplify: And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.

And Moses said, We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds; for we are to keep a feast to the Lord.


simplify: Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.

So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.


simplify: And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king bowed himself upon the bed.

And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.


rate difficulty: And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at the mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

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


simplify: And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

These are the names of those whose birth took place in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon


rate difficulty: But if the watchman see the sword coming, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, if the sword come and take a person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

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


simplify: And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.

Plating it with the best gold and putting a gold edge all round it.


simplify: and not by his coming only, but also by the comfort wherewith he was comforted in you, while he told us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me; so that I rejoiced yet more.

And not by his coming only, but by the comfort which he had in you, while he gave us word of your desire, your sorrow, your care for me; so that I was still more glad.


simplify: As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

As the thief is shamed when he is taken, so is Israel shamed; they, their kings and their rulers, their priests and their prophets;


simplify: And they put his armor in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

His war-dress they put in the house of Astarte; and his body was fixed on the wall of Beth-shan.


simplify: and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.

They took up the ark and the Tent of meeting and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests, the Levites, took up.


simplify: but if the cloud was not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken up.

But while the cloud was there, they made no move till it was taken up.


rate difficulty: For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.


rate difficulty: The men of Netophah, fifty-six.

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


simplify: For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

For it will be in the heart of the earth among the peoples, like the shaking of an olive-tree, as the last of the grapes after the getting-in is done.


rate difficulty: And these were the chief officers of king Solomon, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

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


rate difficulty: And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.

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


simplify: Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

I will, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the truth that you now hold.


rate difficulty: Thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

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


rate difficulty: The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, eventhe ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.

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


rate difficulty: He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them.

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


rate difficulty: And all the heads of the forces hear--they and the men--that the king of Babylon hath appointed Gedaliah, and they come in unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite--they and their men;

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


simplify: For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away and cut down.

For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.


simplify: To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

To a virgin who was to be married to a man named Joseph, of the family of David; and the name of the virgin was Mary.


simplify: And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

And, if they succeed in finding it, I tell you that they rejoice more over that one sheep than over the ninety-nine which did not stray.


rate difficulty: Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.

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


simplify: and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

while as to those who are factious, and disobedient to truth but obedient to evil, wrath and anger, distress and despair,


simplify: `And who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

But which of you, by being anxious, can prolong their life a single moment?


rate difficulty: The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

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


rate difficulty: Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil: and he still holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil? and he still keeps his righteousness, though you have been moving me to send destruction on him without cause.


simplify: `Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

Are not two sparrows sold for a one copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.


simplify: Peter said unto him, Though I should die with thee, yet will I not deny thee. Likewise also said all the disciples.

Peter says to him, Even if I am put to death with you, I will not be false to you. So said all the disciples.


simplify: And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.


simplify: And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty.

And Elijah in answer said, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and put an end to him and his fifty men.


simplify: Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

This is why I say to you: Do not be anxious about your life — what you can get to eat or drink, or about your body — what you can get to wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?


simplify: And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did the king’s business, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai was fallen upon them.

And all the chiefs and the captains and the rulers and those who did the king's business gave support to the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai had come on them.


simplify: And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.

The teachers of the law, who had come down from Jerusalem, said: “He has Beelzebul in him! He he drives the demons out by the help of their chief.”


simplify: Thou didst make known to me ways of life, Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.

You have shown me the path to life, You will fill me with gladness in your presence.’


simplify: And the elders of the Jews builded and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

And the responsible men of the Jews went on with their building, and did well, helped by the teaching of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah, the son of Iddo. They went on building till it was complete, in keeping with the word of the God of Israel, and the orders given by Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes, king of Persia.


simplify: And they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of Jehovah with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

And they gave teaching in Judah and had the book of the law of the Lord with them; they went through all the towns of Judah teaching the people.


simplify: For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

For a time is coming when your enemies will surround you with earthworks, and encircle you, and hem you in on all sides;


simplify: By night on my bed  I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.


simplify: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.


simplify: I thank my God always, making mention of thee in my prayers,

I give praise to God at all times and make prayer for you,


simplify: And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all now go, lest we be chargeable unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.


simplify: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it, and built forts against it round about.

And in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army and took up his position before it, building earthworks all round it.


rate difficulty: And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

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


simplify: He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:


rate difficulty: David himself said in the Holy Spirit,  The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

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


rate difficulty: My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, be a prophet, and say, These are the words of the Lord: Give a cry, Aha, for the day!

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


rate difficulty: And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

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


simplify: And he dealt to every one of Israel, both man and woman, to every one a loaf of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins.

And he gave to everyone, every man and woman of Israel, a cake of bread, some meat, and a cake of dry grapes.


rate difficulty: And he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon;

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


rate difficulty: And out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs,

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


simplify: and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.

And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: Therefore the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying,

For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said, as he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that the Christ is the son of David?

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


simplify: Evil pursueth sinners; But the righteous shall be recompensed with good.

Evil will overtake sinners, but the upright will be rewarded with good.


simplify: Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Come, take of my bread, and of my wine which is mixed.


rate difficulty: And one, running and filling a sponge with vinegar, fixed it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone, let us see if Elias comes to take him down.

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


simplify: Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, having put on their robes, sat each on his throne; and they sat in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them.


rate difficulty: And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt; so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

So I will put an end to your evil ways and your loose behaviour which came from the land of Egypt: and your eyes will never be lifted up to them again, and you will have no more memory of Egypt.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: He was abused, but he did not answer with abuse; he suffered, but he did not threaten; he entrusted himself to him whose judgments are just.


rate difficulty: Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?


simplify: Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.

Then Jonathan said to David, Whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.


rate difficulty: I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

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


simplify: For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.

For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin-offering, and put it upon the door-posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.

And the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin-offering and put it on the uprights at the sides of the doors of the house, and on the four angles of the shelf of the altar, and on the sides of the doorway of the inner square.


rate difficulty: This is to be yours of the most holy things, out of the fire offerings; every offering of theirs, every meal offering and sin-offering, and every offering which they make on account of error, is to be most holy for you and your sons.


simplify: I beseech thee for my child, whom I have begotten in my bonds, Onesimus,

My request is for my child Onesimus, the child of my chains,


simplify: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

And if any man takes away from the words of this book, God will take away from him his part in the tree of life and the holy town, even the things which are in this book.


rate difficulty: From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.

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


simplify: For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;

For my people have put me out of their memory, burning perfumes to that which is nothing; and because of this, I will put a cause of falling in their ways, even in the old roads, and will make them go on side-roads, in a way not lifted up;


rate difficulty: And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

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


simplify: `So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

And so with everyone of you who does not bid farewell to all you have — you cannot be a disciple of mine.


rate difficulty: My loved ones, this is now my second letter to you, and in this as in the first, I am attempting to keep your true minds awake;

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


rate difficulty: Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

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


rate difficulty: and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design.


rate difficulty: As I live, saith the Lord God, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith to him again, `Put in, I pray thee, thy hand into thy bosom;' and he putteth in his hand into his bosom, and he bringeth it out, and lo, his hand <FI>is<Fi> leprous as snow;

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


rate difficulty: Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

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


rate difficulty: lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,

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


simplify: And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;

After the Exile to Babylon — Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel of Zerubbabel,


simplify: Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and the fields thereof, Azekah and the towns thereof. So they encamped from Beer-sheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

Zanoah, Adullam and their daughter-towns, Lachish and its fields, Azekah and its daughter-towns. So they were living from Beer-sheba to the valley of Hinnom.


rate difficulty: So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down upon them near to Gibeah, which belongeth to Benjamin.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding the king’s word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

But the king's order was stronger than Joab and the captains of the army. And Joab and the captains of the army went out from the king, to take the number of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.


rate difficulty: in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

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


simplify: They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.

They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.