simplify: Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Afterwards Jesus called his disciples to him, and said: “My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat; and I am unwilling to send them away hungry; they might faint on the way home.”


rate difficulty: For he that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment unto himself, if he discern not the body.

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


simplify: There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.

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


simplify: Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.

Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.


simplify: He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.


rate difficulty: And the fool multiplieth words: [yet] man knoweth not what shall be; and what shall be after him, who will tell him?

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


rate difficulty: And the three broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; David however would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.

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


simplify: Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

In this way you nullify the words of God by your traditions, which you hand down; and you do many similar things.”


rate difficulty: And Moses spoke to all the assembly of the children of Israel, saying, This is the word which Jehovah has commanded, saying,

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


simplify: And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;


rate difficulty: and they go and serve other gods, and bow themselves to them--gods which they have not known, and which He hath not apportioned to them;

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


rate difficulty: And a certain young man went after him, with only a linen cloth about his body; and they put their hands on him;

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


simplify: Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach unto the clouds;

Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;


simplify: I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from mine iniquity.

And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.


simplify: And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:

So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people:


rate difficulty: It would be good for them if they had been flung into the sea with a millstone around their neck, rather than that they should prove a trap even one of these little ones.

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


simplify: Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.

See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.


simplify: And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias;

And the son of Hezekiah was Manasseh; and the son of Manasseh was Amon; and the son of Amon was Josiah;


simplify: And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

And at the end of his talk with them, Moses put a veil over his face.


rate difficulty: Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

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


simplify: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;

But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;


rate difficulty: For my own sake, as well, I decided not to pay you another painful visit.


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.


simplify: And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

And God-fearing men put Stephen's body in its last resting-place, making great weeping over him.


simplify: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winevat?

Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?


simplify: And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter.

And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.


rate difficulty: I open on high places rivers, And in midst of valleys fountains, I make a wilderness become a pond of water, And a dry land become springs of water.

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


rate difficulty: At ease I have been, and he breaketh me, And he hath laid hold on my neck, And he breaketh me in pieces, And he raiseth me to him for a mark.

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


rate difficulty: Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

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


simplify: He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Whoever is not with me is against me; and he who does not take part with me in getting people together, is driving them away.


rate difficulty: At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, to receive from them a share of the produce of the grape harvest;

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


simplify: Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

Yet I have this against you — You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, until they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.


rate difficulty: And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide.

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


rate difficulty: For I delivered unto you first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

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


rate difficulty: Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Jehovah was there:

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


rate difficulty: it came to pass even so unto him; for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died.


simplify: Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that <FI>is<Fi> to God for Israel, is--for salvation;

My friends, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for my people is for their salvation.


rate difficulty: And do not grieve God’s Holy Spirit; for it was through that Spirit that God sealed you as his, against the day of Redemption.


simplify: And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.

Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.


simplify: Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Being in the light of day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.


rate difficulty: But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

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


simplify: but if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.


simplify: men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

Men's strength will go from them in fear and in waiting for the things which are coming on the earth; for the powers of the heavens will be moved.


rate difficulty: and they raise up over him a great heap of stones unto this day, and Jehovah turneth back from the heat of His anger, therefore hath <FI>one<Fi> called the name of that place `Valley of Achor' till this day.

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


simplify: And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth:

And blessing him, said, May the blessing of the Most High God, maker of heaven and earth, be on Abram:


simplify: every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'

Everyone who falls on that stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls — it will scatter him as dust.”


rate difficulty: And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?


simplify: A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.


simplify: but if it is a question concerning words and names, and of your law, look ye yourselves <FI>to it<Fi> , for a judge of these things I do not wish to be,'

but, since it is a dispute about words, and names, and your own law, you must see to it yourselves. I do not choose to be a judge in such matters.”


simplify: And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.

But it is not possible for you to see my face, for no man may see me and still go on living.


simplify: who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

And yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.


rate difficulty: And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.

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


simplify: And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:


rate difficulty: And they gave him worship and went back to Jerusalem with great joy.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he slew his servants who had slain the king his father:

Now when he became strong in the kingdom, straight away he put to death those servants who had taken the life of the king his father;


simplify: It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

It is easier for a camel to get through a needle’s eye, than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”


rate difficulty: Are you still uplifted in pride against my people so that you will not let them go?

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


simplify: For the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, And the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood; So the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

The shaking of milk makes butter, and the twisting of the nose makes blood come: so the forcing of wrath is a cause of fighting.


simplify: And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: And the priest will be like the people; I will give them punishment for their evil ways, and the reward of their acts.


rate difficulty: And all the heads come in unto Jeremiah, and ask him, and he declareth to them according to all these words that the king commanded, and they keep silent from him, for the matter was not heard;

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


rate difficulty: John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

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


simplify: And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel.

And Nahash the Ammonite said to them, I will make an agreement with you on this condition, that all your right eyes are put out; so that I may make it a cause of shame to all Israel.


simplify: Now that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord —  ‘The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’


rate difficulty: For Ahaz took a part of the wealth from the house of the Lord, and from the house of the king and of the great men, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it was no help to him.


simplify: Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord: it is a sin offering.

And let him come to the priest with it, and the priest will take some of it in his hand, to be burned on the altar as a sign, among the offerings of the Lord made by fire: it is a sin-offering.


simplify: Vex the Midianites, and smite them:

Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;


rate difficulty: These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

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


simplify: Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

but his disciples let him down by night through an opening in the wall, lowering him in a basket.


rate difficulty: It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.


rate difficulty: I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

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


rate difficulty: These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.

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


simplify: Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.


simplify: Ben-deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

... the son of Deker in Makaz and Shaalbim and Beth-shemesh and Elonbeth-hanan;


simplify: O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?


rate difficulty: How comely on the mountains, Have been the feet of one proclaiming tidings, Sounding peace, proclaiming good tidings, Sounding salvation, Saying to Zion, `Reigned hath thy God.'

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


simplify: But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.

yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet.


simplify: And now men see not the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind passeth, and cleareth them.

And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.


rate difficulty: And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated in them.

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


simplify: The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

The looking-glasses, and the fair linen, and the high head-dresses, and the veils.


simplify: So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.

So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.


simplify: Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, Neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

Truly, there is no deceit in my lips, and my tongue does not say what is false.


simplify: Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot.

These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution.


simplify: And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

When the time for the grape harvest drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants, to receive his share of the produce.


rate difficulty: Thenthe kingsent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spake unto him, O man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

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


simplify: Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?

Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!


simplify: Now therefore, Tatnai, governor beyond the river, Shethar–boznai, and your companions the Apharsachites, which are beyond the river, be ye far from thence:

So now, Tattenai, ruler of the land across the river, and Shethar-bozenai and your people the Apharsachites across the river, keep far from that place:


simplify: out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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


rate difficulty: and he putteth in Edom garrisons--in all Edom he hath put garrisons, and all Edom are servants to David; and Jehovah saveth David whithersoever he hath gone.

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


rate difficulty: And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

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


rate difficulty: And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Jehovah. And Samuel feared to declare the vision to Eli.

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


rate difficulty: And when the Sabbath day had come, he was teaching in the Synagogue; and a number of people hearing him were surprised, saying, From where did this man get these things? and, What is the wisdom given to this man, and what are these works of power done by his hands?


simplify: Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.


rate difficulty: And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came to Moses with his sons and his wife into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mountain ofGod.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

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


simplify: And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah.

Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.


simplify: Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.


simplify: And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

And the sons of Levi did as Moses said; and about three thousand of the people were put to death that day.


simplify: I find then the law, that, to me who would do good, evil is present.

So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.


simplify: At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.


rate difficulty: go ye, get yourselves straw where ye may find it; but none of your work shall be diminished.

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


rate difficulty: I have not got wisdom by teaching, so that I might have the knowledge of the Holy One.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand:


rate difficulty: The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

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


simplify: And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.

And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.


simplify: by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and yet true;

By glory and by shame, by an evil name and a good name; as untrue, and still true;


simplify: O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.

O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.


rate difficulty: One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:


simplify: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And all the princes and all the people that had entered into the covenant obeyed, every man letting his bondman and every man his bondmaid go free, that none should exact service of them any more: they obeyed, and let [them] go.

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


rate difficulty: And if his offering be a sacrifice of peace-offering, — if he present [it] of the herd, whether a male or female, he shall present it without blemish before Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast to it; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

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


rate difficulty: Give my love to Mary, who gave much care to you.

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


simplify: But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.


rate difficulty: but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn toGod, doing works worthy of repentance.

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


simplify: And there was great joy in that city.


rate difficulty: Suffer both to grow together unto the harvest, and in time of the harvest I will say to the harvestmen, Gather first the darnel, and bind it into bundles to burn it; but the wheat bring together into my granary.

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


simplify: The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the man that hath the spirit is mad, for the abundance of thine iniquity, and because the enmity is great.

The days of punishment, the days of reward are come; Israel will be put to shame; the prophet is foolish, the man who has the spirit is off his head, because of your great sin.


simplify: Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him: but Jesus sent him away, saying,

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus to let him be with him; but Jesus sent him away.


rate difficulty: Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto the bitter of soul:

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


simplify: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.


rate difficulty: and advanced in Judaism beyond many [my] contemporaries in my nation, being exceedingly zealous of the doctrines of my fathers.

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


simplify: And a vision through the night appeared to Paul--a certain man of Macedonia was standing, calling upon him, and saying, `Having passed through to Macedonia, help us;' --

and there one night Paul saw a vision. A Macedonian was standing and appealing to him — ‘Come over to Macedonia and help us.’


rate difficulty: And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.

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


rate difficulty: And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

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


simplify: And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

And I will give you a name without honour for ever, and unending shame which will never go from the memory of men.


simplify: On the twelfth day Ahira the son of Enan, prince of the children of Naphtali:

On the twelfth day Ahira, the son of Enan, chief of the children of Naphtali:


simplify: And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

And when the living beings went on, the wheels went by their side; and when the living beings were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.


rate difficulty: A third part with fire thou dost burn in the midst of the city, at the fulness of the days of the siege; and thou hast taken the third part, thou dost smite with a weapon round about it; and the third part thou dost scatter to the wind, and a weapon I draw out after them.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

I have no greater joy than to have news that my children are walking in the true way.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:

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


simplify: Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

Get rid entirely of the old leaven, so that you may be like new dough — free from leaven, as in truth you are. For our passover lamb is already sacrificed — Christ himself;


simplify: and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I have not seen him since:

The one went away from me, and I said, Truly he has come to a violent death; and from that time I have not seen him,


rate difficulty: but--which becometh women professing godly piety--through good works.

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


rate difficulty: My eyes are streaming without stopping, they have no rest,

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


rate difficulty: let alone the work of this house of God, let the governor of the Jews, and the elders of the Jews, build this house of God on its place.

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


rate difficulty: but to those that [are] called, both Jews and Greeks, ChristGod's power andGod's wisdom.

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


simplify: The sower went forth to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden under foot, and the birds of the heaven devoured it.

A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.


rate difficulty: But he would not, but went away and cast him into prison, until he should pay what was owing.


simplify: Pleasant words areas a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.


rate difficulty: and Nebo, and Baal-Meon (changed in name), and Shibmah, and they call by <FI>these<Fi> names the names of the cities which they have built.


simplify: Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of these least, ye did it not unto me.

Then will he make answer to them, saying, Truly I say to you, Because you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.


rate difficulty: and for the tribe of the children of Ephraim, a prince, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan;


rate difficulty: And he recounteth unto his father, and unto his brethren; and his father pusheth against him, and saith to him, `What <FI>is<Fi> this dream which thou hast dreamt? do we certainly come--I, and thy mother, and thy brethren--to bow ourselves to thee, to the earth?'

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, This time will I praise Jehovah: therefore she called his name Judah; and she left off bearing.

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.


rate difficulty: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

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


simplify: They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.

They have seen visions without substance and made use of secret arts, who say, The Lord has said; and the Lord has not sent them: hoping that the word would have effect.


simplify: Behold now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing, forasmuch as they are come under the shadow of my roof.

See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof.


simplify: and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth,

and saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth.


rate difficulty: So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half the height thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

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


simplify: Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.


simplify: It is a snare to a man rashly to say, It is holy, And after vows to make inquiry.

It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.


rate difficulty: The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.


rate difficulty: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

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


simplify: They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.


rate difficulty: As the passage of scripture says — ‘No one who believes in him will have any cause for shame.’

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


simplify: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.


simplify: And the men of David said unto him, Behold, the day of which Jehovah said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thy hand, and thou shalt do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.

And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him.

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


simplify: The same heard Paul speaking: who, fastening his eyes upon him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,

This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,


simplify: And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.

And when you see that the wind is in the south, you say ‘It will be burning hot,’ and so it proves.


simplify: And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

The eye cannot say to the hand ‘I do not need you,’ nor, again, the head to the feet ‘I do not need you.’


simplify: Yea, brother, let me have joy of thee in the Lord: refresh my bowels in the Lord.

So brother, let me have joy of you in the Lord: give new life to my heart in Christ.


simplify: And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her.

But if you have no delight in her, you are to let her go wherever she will; you may not take a price for her as if she was your property, for you have made use of her for your pleasure.


simplify: And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore shall he be slain? what hath he done?

And Jonathan, answering his father Saul, said to him, Why is he to be put to death? What has he done?


simplify: And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people of the Lord, even over Israel.

And he got up and went into the house; then he put the holy oil on his head and said to him, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, I have made you king over the people of the Lord, over Israel.


simplify: But now the Lord hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

But now the Lord has said, In three years, the years of a servant working for payment, the glory of Moab, all that great people, will be turned to shame, and the rest of Moab will be very small and without honour.


rate difficulty: And Joshua passeth over, and all Israel with him, from Lachish to Eglon, and they encamp against it, and fight against it,

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


simplify: And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour.

And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.


simplify: Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH.

Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.


simplify: And they cried unto Jehovah, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken Jehovah, and have served the Baalim and the Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

Then crying out to the Lord, they said, We have done evil, because we have been turned away from the Lord, worshipping the Baals and the Astartes: but now, make us safe from those who are against us and we will be your servants.


simplify: and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.

And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.


simplify: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

And after that, it will come about, says the Lord, that I will send my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will be prophets, your old men will have dreams, your young men will see visions:


simplify: The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; But every one that is hastyhastethonly to want.

The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.


simplify: that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof;

Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:


simplify: Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.


rate difficulty: Husbands, have love for your wives, and be not bitter against them.

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


simplify: The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.

She who is in Babylon, who has a part with you in the purpose of God, sends you her love; and so does my son Mark.


simplify: And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

And I will make a nation of the son of your servant-woman, because he is your seed.


rate difficulty: As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;

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


rate difficulty: and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.

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


simplify: And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my brothers and sisters and all they have, so that death may not come on us?


simplify: Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God.


simplify: And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant to wife; and she bare him Attai.

And Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha, his servant, as a wife; and she had Attai by him.


rate difficulty: And all the people made an agreement with the king in the house of God. And he said to them, Truly, the king's son will be king, as the Lord has said about the sons of David.

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


simplify: Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.


rate difficulty: The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is made plain.


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

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


simplify: The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.


simplify: and the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be as the first-ripe fig before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.


simplify: And he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place.

And by his measure it was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide in front of the Temple: and he said to me, This is the most holy place.


simplify: From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.


simplify: And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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


rate difficulty: and who told us of the love with which the Spirit has inspired you.


simplify: And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

And there was a voice from the cloud saying, This is my Son, the man of my selection; give ear to him.


rate difficulty: in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place.

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


simplify: The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that the man whom I shall choose, his staff shall bud forth; and I will make to cease from before me the murmurings of the children of Israel, that they murmur against you.

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


simplify: But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

But Paul’s answer to them was: “They have flogged us in public without trial, though we are Roman citizens, and they have put us in prison, and now they are for sending us out secretly! No, indeed! Let them come and take us out themselves.”


rate difficulty: For our exhortation [was] not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

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


rate difficulty: Some one, indeed, may say — “You are a man of faith, and I am a man of action.”   “Then show me your faith,” I reply, “apart from any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.”

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


rate difficulty: and they journey from Hashmonah, and encamp in Moseroth.


rate difficulty: Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein — the son of Tabeal;

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


rate difficulty: At that time Merodach-Baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent a letter and a present to Hezekiah; for he had heard that he had been sick and had recovered.


simplify: All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.

All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.

This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.


simplify: They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard.

They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden.


simplify: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

And say to the children of Israel, If a man has no son at the time of his death, let his heritage go to his daughter.


rate difficulty: If you let your brother have the use of anything which is yours, do not go into his house and take anything of his as a sign of his debt;

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


simplify: and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

and they may yet come to a sober mind, and escape from the devil's net, when captured by the Lord’s servant to do the will of God.


simplify: according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

And this will fulfill my earnest expectation and hope that I will have no cause for shame, but that, with unfailing courage, now as hitherto, Christ will be honored in my body, whether by my life or by my death,


rate difficulty: neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

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


rate difficulty: And let those whose masters are of the faith have respect for them because they are brothers, working for them the more readily, because those who take part in the good work are of the faith and are dear. Give orders and teaching about these things.

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


rate difficulty: Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

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


rate difficulty: and he was saying to them in his teaching, `Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,

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


rate difficulty: Now I want you all to speak in ‘tongues,’ but much more I wish that you should preach. A preacher is worth more than one who speaks in ‘tongues,’ unless they interprets their words, so that the faith of the church may be built up.

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


rate difficulty: But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

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


rate difficulty: And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father.

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


rate difficulty: And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.

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


rate difficulty: For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Jizhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel. And the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred and thirty-three years.

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


simplify: Then said David to Jonathan, Who shall tell me? or what if thy father answer thee roughly?

Then David said to Jonathan, Who will give me word if your father gives you a rough answer?


simplify: And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

Now after the death of their father, Joseph's brothers said to themselves, It may be that Joseph's heart will be turned against us, and he will give us punishment for all the evil which we did to him.


simplify: For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.


rate difficulty: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;


rate difficulty: But if also ye should suffer for righteousness' sake, blessed [are ye]; but be not afraid of their fear, neither be troubled;

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


simplify: He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.

He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;


simplify: Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Be strong and take heart, and have no fear of them: for it is the Lord your God who is going with you; he will not take away his help from you.


simplify: And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

Happy will she be who had faith that the things which the Lord has said to her will be done.


rate difficulty: And Samson said unto her, If they bind me with seven green withes that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.

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


simplify: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.

For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.


rate difficulty: Which sends its representatives by the sea, even in ships of papyrus on the waters. Go back quickly, O representatives, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers.


rate difficulty: and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

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


simplify: And Zaccheus having stood, said unto the Lord, `Lo, the half of my goods, sir, I give to the poor, and if of any one anything I did take by false accusation, I give back fourfold.'

But Zacchaeus stood forward and said to the Master: “Listen, Master! I will give half my property to the poor, and, if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give him back four times as much.”


rate difficulty: Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the evil day comes, you may be able to withstand the attack, and, having fought to the end, still to stand your ground.

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


rate difficulty: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, were seventy-four thousand six hundred.

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


rate difficulty: Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

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


rate difficulty: and the sons of Aaron bring the blood near unto him, and he dippeth his finger in the blood, and putteth <FI>it<Fi> on the horns of the altar, and the blood he hath poured out at the foundation of the altar;

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


rate difficulty: Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity;

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


simplify: They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive as the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

They will come back and have rest in his shade; their life will be made new like the grain, and they will put out flowers like the vine; his name will be like the wine of Lebanon.


simplify: Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.


simplify: And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why hast thou done so? and he was also a very goodly man; and he was born after Absalom.

Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.


simplify: and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to <FI>me<Fi> , and he divided to them the living.

and the younger of them said to his father ‘Father, give me my share of the inheritance.’ So the father divided the property between them.


simplify: But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.


rate difficulty: and the profane vain talkings stand aloof from, for to more impiety they will advance,

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, mine anger and my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.


simplify: And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Even those whom he has made free, will come back again; they will come with songs to Zion; on their heads will be eternal joy; delight and joy will be theirs, and sorrow and sounds of grief will be gone for ever.


rate difficulty: And Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, came to David, and falling down on his face, gave him honour. And David said, Mephibosheth. And answering he said, Your servant is here.

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


rate difficulty: Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, And Jehovah will require it at the hand of David’s enemies.

And if it comes about that the name of Jonathan is cut off from the family of David, the Lord will make David responsible.


rate difficulty: And I have called against him, to all My mountains a sword, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, The sword of each is against his brother.

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


simplify: and having gone in he saith to them, `Why do ye make a tumult, and weep? the child did not die, but doth sleep;

“Why this confusion and weeping?”he said on entering. “The little child is not dead; she is asleep.”


rate difficulty: `And when a man (or a woman) hath in him a plague in the head or in the beard,

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


simplify: it is he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.

It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.


simplify: So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

So I put my foot on him and gave him his death-blow, because I was certain that he would not go on living after his fall: and I took the crown from his head and the band from his arm, and I have them here for my lord.


rate difficulty: Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.


simplify: The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.


rate difficulty: They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.

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


simplify: And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath’s sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her.

And the king was very sad; but because of his oaths, and those who were with him at table, he would not say 'No' to her.


simplify: but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.

But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.


rate difficulty: and Jishmerai, and Jizliah, and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.

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


simplify: But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

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


rate difficulty: and [that] Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-Aram.


rate difficulty: And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Jehovah, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

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


rate difficulty: It was permitted to breathe life into the image of the Beast, so that the image of the Beast might speak; and it was also permitted to cause all who refused to worship the image of the Beast to be put to death.

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


simplify: For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:


rate difficulty: Verily I say to you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom ofGod as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

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


rate difficulty: Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.

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


rate difficulty: in nothing giving any cause of offence, that the ministration may be not blamed,

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


rate difficulty: And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to me, Who are you? And I said, I am an Amalekite.


simplify: And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

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


simplify: Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was afraid at the meeting of David, and said unto him, Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?

Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?


rate difficulty: And Jeroboam was an able and responsible man; and Solomon saw that he was a good worker and made him overseer of all the work given to the sons of Joseph.


simplify: therefore will I do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.


simplify: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the Lord, saying,

When Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, first became king, this word came from the Lord, saying,


simplify: Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red.

But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red.


simplify: And afterward, saith the Lord, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.

And after that, says the Lord, I will give up Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his servants and his people, even those in the town who have not come to their end from the disease and the sword and from need of food, into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of their haters, and into the hands of those desiring their death: he will put them to the sword; he will not let anyone get away, he will have no pity or mercy.


simplify: But if her husband disallow her in the day that he heareth it, then he shall make void her vow which is upon her, and the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul: and Jehovah will forgive her.

But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.


rate difficulty: The Kenite, the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite,

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom resteth in the heart of the intelligent [man]; but that which is in the foolish maketh itself known.


rate difficulty: The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.


rate difficulty: and Shimei riseth, and saddleth his ass, and goeth to Gath, unto Achish, to seek his servants, and Shimei goeth and bringeth his servants from Gath.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And if the prophet be deceived and speak a word, I, Jehovah, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

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


simplify: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

so that your faith should be based, not on the human wisdom, but on the power of God.


simplify: For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of glorying? Are not even ye, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?


simplify: `And it came to pass, that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the messengers to the bosom of Abraham--and the rich man also died, and was buried;

After a time the beggar died, and was taken by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.


simplify: `And that sown on the rocky places, this is he who is hearing the word, and immediately with joy is receiving it,

By the seed which was sown on rocky places is meant the person who hears the message, and at once accepts it joyfully;


rate difficulty: And he said to them, What would you have me do for you?

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


simplify: And in the day of the new moon it shall be a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish.

And at the time of the new moon it is to be a young ox of the herd without a mark on him, and six lambs and a male sheep, all without a mark:


rate difficulty: And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

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


rate difficulty: Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

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


rate difficulty: For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.


simplify: Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.


rate difficulty: Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.

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


simplify: Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!

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


rate difficulty: So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal’s wife the Carmelite.

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


rate difficulty: and now, go, lead the people whithersoever I have spoken to thee of; lo, My messenger goeth before thee, and in the day of my charging--then I have charged upon them their sin.'

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


simplify: And the disciples having seen, did wonder, saying, `How did the fig-tree forthwith wither?'

When the disciples saw this, they exclaimed in astonishment: “How suddenly the fig tree withered up!”


simplify: And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

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


rate difficulty: There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.


simplify: For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

for the Lamb that stands in the space before the throne will be their shepherd, and will lead them to life-giving springs of water; and God will wipe away all tears from their eyes.’


rate difficulty: And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent: and their fathers had been over the camp of Jehovah, keepers of the entry.

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


simplify: And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.

And when they saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, It is a spirit; and they gave cries of fear.


rate difficulty: And Moses saith unto them, `Stand ye, and I hear what Jehovah hath commanded concerning you.'

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


simplify: Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,

Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him,


simplify: And he taught them many things in parables, and said unto them in his teaching,

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:


rate difficulty: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in her midst, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.

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


simplify: And when he left off speaking, he said unto Simon, `Put back to the deep, and let down your nets for a draught;'

When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon: “Push off into deep water, and throw out your nets for a haul.”


rate difficulty: Against Moab thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

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


simplify: And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:

When the Lamb opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been killed for the sake of God’s message and for the testimony which they had borne.


rate difficulty: And he told [it] to his father and to his brethren. And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamt? Shall we indeed come, I and thy mother and thy brethren, to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

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


simplify: For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:


simplify: And he said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, that were holy unto Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden upon your shoulders. Now serve Jehovah your God, and his people Israel;

And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel,


rate difficulty: An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

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


simplify: Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.


simplify: The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.


rate difficulty: And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

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


simplify: even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.

About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.


rate difficulty: And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones beforeGod, fell upon their faces, and worshippedGod,

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


simplify: And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.


simplify: and at the second time was Joseph made known to his brethren, and Joseph's kindred became manifest to Pharaoh,

In the course of their second visit, Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.


rate difficulty: Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.

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


simplify: for neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man:

And the man was not made for the woman, but the woman for the man.


simplify: And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal with thee in fury; they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.


simplify: For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:


rate difficulty: And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.


simplify: For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

For as by man came death, so by man there is a coming back from the dead.


simplify: So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.


rate difficulty: And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be Jehovah, who hath not left thee this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.

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


simplify: And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field.

And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, It is better, my daughter, for you to go out with his servant-girls, so that no danger may come to you in another field.


simplify: And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.

And he said, Take an oath to me; and he took an oath to him: and Israel gave worship on the bed's head.


simplify: When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.

When Jesus heard of it, he left privately in a boat to a lonely spot. The people, however, heard of his going, and followed him in crowds from the towns on foot.


simplify: and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)


simplify: And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.


rate difficulty: And he calleth unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and he gave them authority over the unclean spirits;

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


rate difficulty: And a great number went after him; and he made them well there.

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


simplify: But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?


rate difficulty: Get your strength together like a man of war; I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.


rate difficulty: And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLY TO JEHOVAH.

You are to make a plate of the best gold, cutting on it, as on a stamp, these words: HOLY TO THE LORD.


simplify: And, behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou Son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil.

And a woman of Canaan came out from those parts, crying and saying, Have pity on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is greatly troubled with an unclean spirit.


simplify: But the olive-tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honor God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?


simplify: But Abishai the son of Zeruiah succored him, and smote the Philistine, and killed him. Then the men of David sware unto him, saying, Thou shalt go no more out with us to battle, that thou quench not the lamp of Israel.

But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, came to his help, and, turning on the Philistine, gave him his death-blow. Then David's men took an oath, and said, Never again are you to go out with us to the fight, so that you may not put out the light of Israel.


rate difficulty: Of the tribe of Judah were marked twelve thousand: of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand: of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand:

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day,

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


simplify: But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town.


simplify: And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies; my house shall be built in it, saith Jehovah of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem.

So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Will you put a cord into his nose, or take him away with a cord round his tongue?


simplify: I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

I tell you that, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is a friend, yet because of his persistence he will rouse himself and give him what he wants.


simplify: Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate.

Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.


rate difficulty: And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

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


rate difficulty: And now, children, abide in him, that if he be manifested we may have boldness, and not be put to shame from before him at his coming.


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

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


rate difficulty: `This <FI>is<Fi> an offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they bring near to Jehovah in the day of his being anointed; a tenth of the ephah of flour <FI>for<Fi> a continual present, half of it in the morning, and half of it in the evening;


rate difficulty: And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.

This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.


simplify: and Jaareshiah, and Elijah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.

And Jaareshiah and Elijah and Zichri, the sons of Jeremoth.


rate difficulty: and king Solomon sacrificeth the sacrifice of the herd, twenty and two thousand, and of the flock, a hundred and twenty thousand, and the king and all the people dedicate the house of God.

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


simplify: For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.


rate difficulty: and thou hast gone unto the king, and spoken unto him, according to this word;' and Joab putteth the words into her mouth.

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


simplify: Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.

So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.


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

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


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

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


simplify: And after these things he went forth, and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he said unto him, Follow me.

After this, Jesus went out; and he noticed a tax-gatherer, named Levi, sitting in the tax office, and said to him: “Follow me.”


simplify: And the report concerning them came to the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas as far as Antioch:

And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:


rate difficulty: The city is square; the length and the breadth are the same. The angel measured with his rod; it was twelve hundred miles; its length, and breadth, and height are equal.

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


simplify: The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.

The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.


simplify: And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

And I will send punishment on him and on his seed and on his servants for their evil-doing; I will send on them and on the people of Jerusalem and the men of Judah, all the evil which I said against them, but they did not give ear.


rate difficulty: If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;

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


rate difficulty: and I have given no credence to their words, till that I have come, and mine eyes see, and lo, there hath not been declared to me the half of the abundance of thy wisdom--thou hast added unto the report that I heard.