rate difficulty: But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.

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


simplify: Till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahaziah king of Judah hath seen, and fleeth the way of the garden-house, and Jehu pursueth after him, and saith, `Smite him--also him--in the chariot,' in the going up to Gur, that <FI>is<Fi> Ibleam, and he fleeth to Megiddo, and dieth there,

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


simplify: And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross.

They led Jesus out to crucify him; and they compelled a passer-by, Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them to carry his cross.


simplify: And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.


simplify: And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, You have made trouble for me and given me a bad name among the people of this country, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and because we are small in number they will come together against me and make war on me; and it will be the end of me and all my people.


rate difficulty: `Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

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


simplify: but in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;

But that in every nation he who reverences him and does what is right is acceptable to him.


rate difficulty: And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.

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


simplify: And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.


simplify: Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me.

Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.


simplify: And now it is true that I am a near kinsman; howbeit there is a kinsman nearer than I.

Now it is true that I am a near relation: but there is a relation nearer than I.


simplify: And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.

And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites.


simplify: And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

This is to be the rule for anyone who goes in flight there, after causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate;


simplify: Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over the Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over the Jordan.

So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.


rate difficulty: Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.


rate difficulty: At this the men who tended them ran away and went to the town, carrying the news of all that had occurred, and of what had happened to the possessed men.

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


simplify: And answer did one of the elders, saying to me, `These, who have been arrayed with the white robes--who are they, and whence came they?'

Then one of the councillors turned to me and said ‘Who are these who are robed in white? And where did they come from?’


simplify: Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.


simplify: And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:

And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:


simplify: And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.

And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.


simplify: And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.

And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.


rate difficulty: In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah reigned hath Zechariah son of Jeroboam over Israel, in Samaria, six months,

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


rate difficulty: And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.


rate difficulty: Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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


rate difficulty: Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy traffickers: they traded for thy merchandise wheat of Minnith, and pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.

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


simplify: And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

So the woman got up and did as the man of God said; and she and the people of her house were living in the land of the Philistines for seven years.


rate difficulty: The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

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


simplify: And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

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


rate difficulty: If evil comes on us, the sword, or punishment, or disease, or need of food, we will come to this house and to you, (for your name is in this house,) crying to you in our trouble, and you will give us salvation in answer to our cry.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety.


simplify: these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.


simplify: And the sons of Merari by their families; Mahli, and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to the house of their fathers.

And the sons of Merari by their families: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites in the order of their fathers' houses.


rate difficulty: and to none of them was Elias sent but to Sarepta of Sidonia, to a woman [that was] a widow.

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


simplify: Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled, because he justified himself rather than God.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was angry, burning with wrath against Job, because he seemed to himself more right than God;


rate difficulty: And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

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


simplify: Asthe door turneth upon its hinges, So doth the sluggard upon his bed.

A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.


rate difficulty: And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and saddleth his ass, and taketh two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and he cleaveth the wood of the burnt-offering, and riseth and goeth unto the place of which God hath spoken to him.

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


simplify: But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.

But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him.


rate difficulty: and they, when they heard it, rejoiced, and promised him to give money. And he sought how he could opportunely deliver him up.


rate difficulty: Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?

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


simplify: In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

On that day, if a person is on their house-top and their goods in the house, they must not go down to get them; nor again must one who is on the farm turn back.


simplify: and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

And Herod, with his soldiers, treated Jesus with scorn; he mocked him by throwing a gorgeous robe around him, and then sent him back to Pilate.


simplify: Behold, therefore I am against thee, and against thy rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt utterly waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene even unto the border of Ethiopia.

See, then, I am against you and against your streams, and I will make the land of Egypt an unpeopled waste, from Migdol to Syene, even as far as the edge of Ethiopia.


simplify: The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.

He whose right it is to give punishment for blood, may himself put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.


rate difficulty: And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

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


rate difficulty: especially because thou art expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Merari: after their families, according to their fathers' houses shalt thou number them;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make them linen trousers to cover the flesh of nakedness; from the loins even to the hips shall they reach.

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


rate difficulty: The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.


simplify: And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle’s son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.

And I gave the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, before the eyes of Hanamel, the son of my father's brother, and of the witnesses who had put their names to the paper, and before all the Jews who were seated in the place of the armed watchmen.


simplify: and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, `Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;

Then he called two Captains, and ordered them to have two hundred soldiers ready to go to Caesarea, as well as seventy troopers and two hundred lancers, by nine o’clock that night,


rate difficulty: after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

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


simplify: Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

Then she said, Did I make a request to my lord for a son? did I not say, Do not give me false words?


rate difficulty: And at the completion of these things, drawn nigh unto me have the heads, saying, `The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not been separated from the peoples of the lands, as to their abominations, even the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite,

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


simplify: And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

And the great town was cut into three parts, and the towns of the nations came to destruction: and Babylon the great came into mind before God, to be given the cup of the wine of his wrath.


simplify: And Saul said unto the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them: for ye shewed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

And Saul said to the Kenites, Go away, take yourselves out from among the Amalekites, or destruction will overtake you with them: for you were kind to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. So the Kenites went away from among the Amalekites.


simplify: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;


rate difficulty: for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?

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


rate difficulty: The writing of Hezekiah, king of Judah, after he had been ill, and had got better from his disease.

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


simplify: And this is the law of the Nazirite, when the days of his separation are fulfilled: he shall be brought unto the door of the tent of meeting:

And this is the law for him who is separate, when the necessary days are ended: he is to come to the door of the Tent of meeting,


rate difficulty: The hand of the diligent ruleth, And slothfulness becometh tributary.

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


simplify: When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you; if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:


rate difficulty: a bruised reed he shall not break, and smoking flax he shall not quench, till he may put forth judgment to victory,

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


simplify: And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness.

Immediately afterwards the Spirit drove Jesus out into the wilderness;


rate difficulty: Kedemoth also with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs:

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


simplify: But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child serveth a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the gospel.

But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news.


simplify: And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

And Joseph sent food to them from his table, but he sent five times as much to Benjamin as to any of the others. And they took wine freely with him.


simplify: and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the true God; and we are in union with the true God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and he is eternal life.


simplify: And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there.


rate difficulty: And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus, son of a Jewish believing woman, but [the] father a Greek,

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


simplify: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

for small is the gate, and narrow the road, who leads to life, and those that find it are few.


rate difficulty: What [is] the profit, my brethren, if any one say he have faith, but have not works? can faith save him?

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


simplify: And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?

And, if you have proved untrustworthy with what does not belong to us, who will give you what is really our own?


rate difficulty: but it is not thus among you; but whosoever would be great among you, shall be your minister;

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


rate difficulty: ye do not make with Me gods of silver, even gods of gold ye do not make to yourselves.

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


rate difficulty: And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

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


rate difficulty: But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,

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


rate difficulty: Many seek the ruler's face; but a man's right judgment is from Jehovah.

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


simplify: The children of Binnui, six hundred forty and eight.

The children of Binnui, six hundred and forty-eight.


simplify: Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

Now because Israel was old, his eyes were no longer clear, and he was not able to see. So he made them come near to him, and he gave them a kiss, folding them in his arms.


rate difficulty: And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

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


simplify: As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

And, indeed, you have already partly acknowledged it about us — that you have a right to be proud of us, as we will be proud of you, on the day of our Lord Jesus.


rate difficulty: at the one and twentieth <FI>to<Fi> Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve;

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


rate difficulty: The ephah and the bath are to be of the same measure, so that the bath is equal to a tenth of a homer, and the ephah to a tenth of a homer: the unit of measure is to be a homer.


simplify: Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us, seeing I go whither I may? return thou, and take back thy brethren; mercy and truth be with thee.

It was only yesterday you came to us; why then am I to make you go up and down with us? for I have to go where I may; go back then, and take your countrymen with you, and may the Lord's mercy and good faith be with you.


simplify: Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.

He had still one son, who was very dear to him; and him he sent to them last of all. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.


rate difficulty: And many saw them going, and recognised them, and ran together there on foot, out of all the cities, and got [there] before them.

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


simplify: thou shalt set apart three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

You are to have three towns marked out in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.


rate difficulty: The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who shewed themselves valiant with him in his kingdom, with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of Jehovah concerning Israel.

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


simplify: And he took him by the right hand, and raised him up: and immediately his feet and his ankle-bones received strength.

And he took him by his right hand, lifting him up; and straight away his feet and the bones of his legs became strong,


simplify: then will I also walk contrary unto you; and I will smite you, even I, seven times for your sins.

Then I will go against you, and I will give you punishment, I myself, seven times for all your sins.


simplify: But he went out, and began to publish it much, and to blaze abroad the matter, insomuch that Jesus could no more openly enter into the city, but was without in desert places: and they came to him from every quarter.

But he went out, and made it public, giving an account of it everywhere, so that Jesus was no longer able to go openly into a town, but was outside in the waste land; and they came to him from every part.


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am stretching out My hand against the Philistines, And I have cut off the Cherethim, And destroyed the remnant of the haven of the sea,

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, What advice give ye that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me saying, Lighten the yoke which thy father put upon us?

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


rate difficulty: And Obed–edom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obed–edom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou hast also wrought all our works for us.

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


simplify: Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.


simplify: And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.

He made his burned offering and his meal offering and his drink offering there, draining out the blood of his peace-offerings on the altar.


simplify: in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

In whom you, with the rest, are united together as a living-place of God in the Spirit.


rate difficulty: And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host: and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.

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


rate difficulty: And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

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


rate difficulty: come down from the cross and save yourself!”


simplify: Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.

See, I will put the wool of a sheep on the grain-floor; if there is dew on the wool only, while all the earth is dry, then I will be certain that it is your purpose to give Israel salvation by my hand as you have said.


simplify: And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

And this is the certain faith which we have in God through Christ:


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.


simplify: As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

As surely as I know anything of the truth of Christ, this boast, as far as I am concerned, will not be stopped in any part of Greece.


simplify: Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? and against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: Then said I of her that was old in adulteries, Now will they play the harlot with her, and she with them.

Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.


rate difficulty: And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

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


simplify: And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end,

And you, O evil one, wounded to death, O ruler of Israel, whose day has come in the time of the last punishment;


rate difficulty: If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

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


rate difficulty: So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.

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


simplify: Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.

And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.


rate difficulty: Then Job answered and said,


simplify: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we confess our sins, God may be trusted, in his righteousness, to forgive us our sins and purify us from all wickedness.


rate difficulty: And on the skirts thereof thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, round about the skirts thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:

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


simplify: At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.

At the end of seven years every man is to let go his countryman who is a Hebrew, who has become yours for a price and has been your servant for six years; you are to let him go free: but your fathers gave no attention and did not give ear.


simplify: And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the Lord, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the Lord, he hath also forsaken you.

Then the spirit of God came on Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, and, getting up before the people, he said to them, God has said, Why do you go against the orders of the Lord, so that everything goes badly for you? because you have given up the Lord, he has given you up.


simplify: And they said to him, `We are able;' and Jesus said to them, `Of the cup indeed that I drink of, ye shall drink, and with the baptism that I am baptized with, ye shall be baptized;

“Yes,” they answered, “we can.”   “You will indeed drink the cup that I am to drink,”Jesus said, “and receive the baptism that I am to receive,


simplify: Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the Lord of all the righteous acts of the Lord, which he did to you and to your fathers.

Keep your places now, while I take up the argument with you before the Lord, and give you the story of the righteousness of the Lord, which he has made clear by his acts to you and to your fathers.


simplify: And now hear, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be presented before thee, that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there.

And now be pleased to give ear, O my lord the king; let my prayer for help come before you, and do not make me go back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, for fear that I may come to my death there.


simplify: But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

“I am not mad, your Excellency,” he replied; “on the contrary, the statements that I am making are true and sober.


rate difficulty: lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

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simplify: Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment;

And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

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


simplify: And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.

So, when the crowd went up and began to ask Pilate to follow his usual custom,


rate difficulty: All thy trees and the fruit of thy ground shall the locust possess.

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


rate difficulty: for Thou hast separated them to Thyself for an inheritance, out of all the peoples of the earth, as Thou didst speak by the hand of Moses Thy servant, in Thy bringing out our fathers from Egypt, O Lord Jehovah.'

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


rate difficulty: And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,

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


rate difficulty: And by their hand hath Rephaiah son of Hur, head of the half of the district of Jerusalem, strengthened.

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


simplify: At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

At the end of every three years take a tenth part of all your increase for that year, and put it in store inside your walls:


simplify: And she named the child I–chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.

And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.


rate difficulty: And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-Shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-Baal.

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


simplify: For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Because through him the two of us are able to come near in one Spirit to the Father.


simplify: And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.

And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.


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

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


rate difficulty: and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.'

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


simplify: Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

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


simplify: And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

David was king over Israel for forty years: for seven years he was king in Hebron and for thirty-three years in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And they cry unto Jehovah, and say, `We pray Thee, O Jehovah, let us not, we pray Thee, perish for this man's life, and do not lay on us innocent blood, for Thou, Jehovah, as Thou hast pleased, Thou hast done.'

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


simplify: And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

The man looked up, and said: “I see the people, for, as they walk about, they look to me like trees.”


rate difficulty: Our fathers had the tent of the testimony in the wilderness, as he that spoke to Moses commanded to make it according to the model which he had seen;

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rate difficulty: And next to them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, even over against his house. And next to him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabniah.

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


rate difficulty: And he said,  Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

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


simplify: then they suborned men, saying--`We have heard him speaking evil sayings in regard to Moses and God.'

Then they induced some men to assert that they had heard Stephen saying blasphemous things against Moses, and against God;


simplify: I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

Can it be that there is not one among you wise enough to decide between two of their fellow followers?


simplify: And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.

And a tenth part of the herd and of the flock, whatever goes under the rod of the valuer, will be holy to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And all the princes say unto all the company, `We--we have sworn to them by Jehovah, God of Israel; and now, we are not able to come against them;


rate difficulty: But he will say, Truly, I have no knowledge of you or where you come from; go away from me, you workers of evil.

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


simplify: And I will wait for Jehovah, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.


rate difficulty: and Zadok son of Ahitub, and Abimelech son of Abiathar, <FI>are<Fi> priests, and Shavsha <FI>is<Fi> scribe,

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simplify: And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.

And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.


simplify: And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:

And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:


simplify: Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: and above <FI>are<Fi> precious stone, according to the measures of hewn work, and cedar;

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simplify: How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.

How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.


simplify: Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but are not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.


rate difficulty: Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

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


rate difficulty: for as the woman <FI>is<Fi> of the man, so also the man <FI>is<Fi> through the woman, and the all things <FI>are<Fi> of God.

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


simplify: If he pass through, and shut up, And call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?

If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?


simplify: Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.


rate difficulty: Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord; Say, A sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:

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


rate difficulty: I am sleeping, but my heart is awake; it is the sound of my loved one at the door, saying, Be open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my very beautiful one; my head is wet with dew, and my hair with the drops of the night.

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


simplify: and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;


rate difficulty: He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?


simplify: And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation.

Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;

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


rate difficulty: And they went about from nation to nation, And from one kingdom to another people.

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


rate difficulty: the <FI>son<Fi> of Eli, the <FI>son<Fi> of Matthat, the <FI>son<Fi> of Levi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Melchi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Janna, the <FI>son<Fi> of Joseph,

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


simplify: And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.

I will give the priests their desired fat things, and my people will have a full measure of my good things, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: five lord ships of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwell on mount Lebanon; from mount Baal-Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

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


rate difficulty: So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.


simplify: that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Jehovah; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Jehovah himself require it;

That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;


simplify: Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is:


rate difficulty: Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again.


rate difficulty: And that day Gad came to David and said to him, Go up, and put up an altar to the Lord on the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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


rate difficulty: Being therefore a prophet, and knowing thatGod had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne;


simplify: This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.


rate difficulty: If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,


simplify: He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.


rate difficulty: And king David said to Ornan, No; but I will in any case buy [them] for the full money; for I will not take that which is thine for Jehovah, to offer up a burnt-offering without cost.


simplify: And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

And he said, Is it because he is named Jacob that he has twice taken my place? for he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. And he said, Have you not kept a blessing for me?


simplify: But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

But, after the lapse of two years, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and, wishing to gain popularity with the Jewish leaders, he left Paul a prisoner.


simplify: And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that <FI>it is<Fi> good,

But when I do what I want not to do, I am admitting that the law is right.


rate difficulty: And they said, Your servants have with us here fifty strong men; be pleased to let them go in search of Elijah; for it may be that the spirit of the Lord has taken him up and put him down on some mountain or in some valley. But he said, Do not send them.


simplify: then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward;

Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,


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

Because he says in another Psalm, You will not let your Holy One see destruction.


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

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


simplify: And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun the goats’ hair.

And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.


simplify: And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth–el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.


simplify: And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;

And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;


rate difficulty: This was the first numbering, which was made when Quirinius was ruler of Syria.

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


simplify: And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.


simplify: And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.

And they had fear of putting any more questions to him.


simplify: And the scribe said unto him, Of a truth, Teacher, thou hast well said that he is one; and there is none other but he:

And the scribe said to him, Truly, Master, you have well said that he is one, and there is no other but he:


simplify: And they shall set apart men of continual employment, that shall pass through the land, and, with them that pass through, those that bury them that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.


rate difficulty: Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even gather you from the peoples, and assemble you out of the countries where ye are scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: An appalling and horrible thing is committed in the land:

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


simplify: and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,


simplify: and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

Those who want to be rich fall into the net of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into destruction and ruin.


simplify: For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.


rate difficulty: And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

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


rate difficulty: This is the law for all signs of the leper's disease and for skin diseases;

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


rate difficulty: And now, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and will pray for thee, that thou mayest live. And if thou do not restore [her], know that thou shalt certainly die, thou and all that is thine.

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


rate difficulty: And there arose a great clamor: and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: and what if a spirit hath spoken to him, or an angel?

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


rate difficulty: For as a refractory heifer hath Israel turned aside, Now doth Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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


rate difficulty: And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

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


rate difficulty: My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.


simplify: And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture.

Other seed fell on rock, and, as soon as it began to grow, because it had no moisture, it withered away.


rate difficulty: And after six days Jesus takes with him Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and makes them go up with him into a high mountain by themselves.


rate difficulty: The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations.

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


rate difficulty: And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.


simplify: For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of him that was stronger than he.

For the Lord has given a price for Jacob, and made him free from the hands of him who was stronger than he.


simplify: Of the children of Benjamin, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Benjamin were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


simplify: And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.

And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.


simplify: For, He put all things in subjection under his feet. But when he saith, All things are put in subjection, it is evident that he is excepted who did subject all things unto him.

For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him.


rate difficulty: And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

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


rate difficulty: Having put an end to the handwriting of the law which was against us, taking it out of the way by nailing it to his cross;

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


rate difficulty: Doth it please thee to oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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


rate difficulty: But I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

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


rate difficulty: in all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will make plain thy paths.

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


simplify: Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

Can everyone be an apostle? Can everyone be a preacher? Can everyone be a teacher? Can everyone have supernatural powers?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Therefore shall ye keep my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

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


simplify: Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.

You have knowledge of what the law says: Do not be untrue to your wife, Do not put anyone to death, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Give honour to your father and mother.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: As it was my purpose to do evil to you when your fathers made me angry, says the Lord of armies, and my purpose was not changed:


simplify: The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.

You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And then many lips will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.

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


rate difficulty: And as for thy bondman and thy handmaid whom thou shalt have — of the nations that are round about you, of them shall ye buy bondmen and handmaids.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha.


simplify: The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

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


simplify: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.

Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.


simplify: In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.


simplify: I Paul have written it with mine own hand, I will repay it: albeit I do not say to thee how thou owest unto me even thine own self besides.

I, Paul, put my own hand to it — I will repay you myself. I say nothing about your owing me your self.


simplify: And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

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rate difficulty: And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke to the men of their city, saying,

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


simplify: And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to put David to death.

And Saul, pointing his spear at him, made an attempt to give him a wound: from which it was clear to Jonathan that his father's purpose was to put David to death.


rate difficulty: And seeing that it was pleasing to the Jews, he went on to take Peter also: (and they were the days of unleavened bread:)


rate difficulty: But that ye also may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things:

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


rate difficulty: Whence have I flesh to give to all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give to us flesh, and we eat.

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


simplify: And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together: wherefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

And every one got the other by the head, driving his sword into the other's side, so they all went down together: and that place was named the Field of Sides, and it is in Gibeon.


simplify: And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.


simplify: And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

I gave her time to repent, but she is determined not to turn from her licentiousness.


simplify: Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?


rate difficulty: And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.

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


simplify: and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out her inhabitants.

And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.


rate difficulty: and they have filled thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, which neither thy fathers nor thy father's fathers have seen, since the day of their being on the ground unto this day,' --and he turneth and goeth out from Pharaoh.

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


simplify: And I answered the second time, and said unto him, What are these two olive-branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of themselves?

And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?


rate difficulty: Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

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


rate difficulty: All the best of the oil, and all the best of the new wine, and of the wheat, the firstfruits of them which they give to Jehovah, have I given thee.


simplify: Now when all the captains of the forces which were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;

Now when it came to the ears of all the captains of the forces who were in the field, and their men, that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, ruler in the land, and had put under his care the men and women and children, all the poorest of the land, those who had not been taken away to Babylon;


rate difficulty: for he put his life in hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great salvation for all Israel: thou didst see [it], and didst rejoice; why then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, in slaying David without cause?

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


rate difficulty: And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

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


simplify: There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.


simplify: Then I said unto them, The word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Then I said to them, The word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years:

And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.


rate difficulty: and he saith to him, `Go, I pray thee, see the peace of thy brethren, and the peace of the flock, and bring me back word;' and he sendeth him from the valley of Hebron, and he cometh to Shechem.

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


rate difficulty: And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

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


simplify: She may not eat of anything that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe.

She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.


rate difficulty: And the seven had her, and left no seed: last of all the woman died also.


simplify: and they were silent, and having taken hold of <FI>him<Fi> , he healed him, and let <FI>him<Fi> go;

They remained silent. Jesus took hold of the man and cured him, and sent him away.


simplify: And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem): then up to the top of the mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the farthest point of the valley of Rephaim on the north:


simplify: Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters: and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.


simplify: And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

And about dawn Samuel said to Saul on the roof, Get up so that I may send you away. So Saul got up, and he and Samuel went out together.


rate difficulty: In the multitude of people is the king's glory; but in the lack of people is the ruin of a prince.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Pray not for this people for their good.

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


rate difficulty: only, as the roe and the hart is eaten, so dost thou eat it; the unclean and the clean doth alike eat it.

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


rate difficulty: And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick and at the point of death.

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


rate difficulty: And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trod down the thistle.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take one of the he-lambs, and offer him for a trespass-offering, and the log of oil, and wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah:

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


simplify: And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

And he took butter and milk and the young ox which he had made ready and put it before them, waiting by them under the tree while they took food.


rate difficulty: Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.

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


simplify: And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and the hair of his head shall go loose, and he shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.

And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.


simplify: Now when they were going, behold, some of the watch came into the city, and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done.

While they were still on their way, some of the guard came into the city, and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.


rate difficulty: He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;

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


simplify: But the Levites that went far from me, when Israel went astray, that went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.


simplify: Is my strength the strength of stones? Or is my flesh of brass?

Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?


rate difficulty: And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,


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

For her sins are heaped up to the heavens, and God has not forgotten her misdeeds.


simplify: For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.


simplify: And this shall be the sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they shall die both of them.

And this will be the sign to you, which will come on Hophni and Phinehas, your sons; death will overtake them on the same day.


rate difficulty: And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind [man] lead a blind [man]? shall not both fall into [the] ditch?

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Kenaz; Othniel, and Seraiah: and the sons of Othniel; Hathath.

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


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


simplify: and we--we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, --whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

We are ourselves, too, witnesses to all that he did in Judea and in Jerusalem; yet they put him to death by hanging him on a cross!


rate difficulty: and hast caused him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the company, and hast charged him before their eyes,

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


rate difficulty: O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.


simplify: Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus.

Not as if I had even now got the reward or been made complete: but I go on in the hope that I may come to the knowledge of that for which I was made the servant of Christ Jesus.


simplify: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

And when they had gone, an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a dream, saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into Egypt, and do not go from there till I give you word; for Herod will be searching for the young child to put him to death.


rate difficulty: When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,

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


simplify: When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and the cords, and the staff.

And while she was being taken out, she sent word to her father-in-law, saying, The man whose property these things are, is the father of my child: say then, whose are this ring and this cord and this stick?


simplify: And he sent messengers to Ahab king of Israel, into the city, and said unto him, Thus saith Ben-hadad,

And he sent representatives into the town to Ahab, king of Israel;


rate difficulty: and Jonathan saith to David, `Go in peace, in that we have sworn--we two--in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah is between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed--unto the age;' and he riseth and goeth; and Jonathan hath gone in to the city.

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


rate difficulty: He hath put down princes from their thrones, And hath exalted them of low degree.

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


simplify: Remember his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;


simplify: And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:


rate difficulty: For he hath brought down them that dwell on high, the lofty city: he layeth it low, he layeth it low even to the ground; he bringeth it even to the dust.

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


rate difficulty: Vessels of the sea-lands are waiting for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, so that your sons may come from far, and their silver and gold with them, to the place of the name of the Lord your God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.

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


simplify: through whom also we have had our access by faith into this grace wherein we stand; and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.


rate difficulty: Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.


rate difficulty: And Jacob was wroth, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?

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


rate difficulty: O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who <FI>is<Fi> the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'

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


simplify: And the Lord smote Benjamin before Israel: and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.

Then the Lord sent sudden fear on Benjamin before Israel; and that day the children of Israel put to death twenty-five thousand, one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them swordsmen.


rate difficulty: Lo, it is written before Me: `I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,

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


simplify: And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

And by this agreement, he and his sons after him have the right to be priests for ever; because, by his care for the honour of his God, he took away the sin of the children of Israel.


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

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


simplify: How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,


rate difficulty: Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani took their places on the steps of the Levites, crying in a loud voice to the Lord their God.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

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


rate difficulty: And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself <FI>is<Fi> by them, Whoso is going in the way--even fools err not.

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


simplify: But now are they many members, yet but one body.

But in fact, although it has many parts, there is only one body.


rate difficulty: But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;


rate difficulty: Hath not my hand made all these things?


simplify: and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, upon four sockets of silver.

Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.


simplify: And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.

And they came quickly, and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child in the place where the cattle had their food.


rate difficulty: And when he was come to the house, the blind [men] came to him. And Jesus says to them, Do ye believe that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yea, Lord.

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


simplify: And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them.


simplify: And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.

Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites;


simplify: And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

It was clear to Esau that his father had no love for the women of Canaan,


rate difficulty: The voice of the Lord is crying out to the town: Give ear, you tribes and the meeting of the town.

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


simplify: For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.


simplify: And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

And the Lord went on his way when his talk with Abraham was ended, and Abraham went back to his place.


rate difficulty: And I will put over them one keeper, and he will give them food, even my servant David; he will give them food and be their keeper.

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


rate difficulty: And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.


simplify: So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride upon king David’s mule, and brought him to Gihon.

So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and put Solomon on King David's beast and took him to Gihon.


rate difficulty: Simon! Simon! listen. Satan demanded leave to sift you all like wheat,

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


rate difficulty: Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;

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


simplify: And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.

Talking of the God of Jerusalem as if he was like the gods of the peoples of the earth, the work of men's hands.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand.


rate difficulty: The word that Jehovah spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, through Jeremiah the prophet.

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


simplify: And Balak did as Balaam had spoken; and Balak and Balaam offered on every altar a bullock and a ram.

And Balak did as Balaam had said; and Balak and Balaam made an offering on every altar of an ox and a male sheep.


simplify: What shall therefore the lord of the vineyard do? he will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give the vineyard unto others.

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death, and he will let the vineyard to others.


rate difficulty: When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

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


simplify: And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.)

And he said, Put your hand inside your robe again. (And he put his hand into his robe again, and when he took it out he saw that it had become like his other flesh.)


rate difficulty: and having seen a fig-tree afar off having leaves, he came, if perhaps he shall find anything in it, and having come to it, he found nothing except leaves, for it was not a time of figs,

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


rate difficulty: And everything where upon [any part] of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; oven and hearth shall be broken down: they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.

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


simplify: that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

And to do good, having wealth in good works, being quick to give, taking part with one another;


rate difficulty: I have heard that which the prophets said, Who prophesy in My name falsehood, saying, `I have dreamed, I have dreamed.'

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


simplify: Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.


simplify: saying, `On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

“The teachers of the law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.


rate difficulty: And he said, At this season, when the time cometh round, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid.

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


simplify: then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;

Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;


simplify: And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor.


simplify: And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.

So the men of Benjamin did this, and got wives for themselves for every one of their number, taking them away by force from the dance; then they went back to their heritage, building up their towns and living in them.


simplify: Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Let it not seem to you that one of these little ones is of no value; for I say to you that in heaven their angels see at all times the face of my Father in heaven.


simplify: And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest.

And when you get in the grain from your land, do not let all the grain be cut from the edges of the field, or take up what has been dropped on the earth after the getting in of the grain.


rate difficulty: And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

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


rate difficulty: So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

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


rate difficulty: Then I saw an angel standing on the sun. He cried in a loud voice to all the birds that fly in mid-heaven — ‘Gather and come to the great feast of God,

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


simplify: And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

If among the prisoners you see a beautiful woman and it is your desire to make her your wife;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

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


simplify: For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

For this cause I have sent Timothy to you, who is my dear and true child in the Lord; he will make clear to you my ways in Christ, even as I am teaching everywhere in every church.


rate difficulty: And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.

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


simplify: And they offered great sacrifices that day, and rejoiced; for God had made them rejoice with great joy; and the women also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

And on that day they made great offerings and were glad; for God had made them glad with great joy; and the women and the children were glad with them: so that the joy of Jerusalem came to the ears of those who were far off.


rate difficulty: And it works great signs, that it should cause even fire to come down from heaven to the earth before men.

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


simplify: As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

For the future, find strength in your union with the Lord, and in the power which comes from his might.


simplify: The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:


rate difficulty: Behold, they say unto me, Where is the word of the Lord? let it come now.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

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


rate difficulty: And it was so, when Elisha the man ofGod had heard that the king of Israel had rent his garments, that he sent to the king, saying, Why hast thou rent thy garments? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.


simplify: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.


simplify: And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.


simplify: And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering.

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


simplify: and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.

And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.


simplify: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman.

You may not have sex connection with your mother's sister, for she is your mother's near relation.


simplify: Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words.


simplify: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.


rate difficulty: Once you were ‘not a people,’ but now you are ‘God’s people’; once you ‘had not found mercy,’ but now you ‘have found mercy.’

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


simplify: whom I did send unto you for this very thing, that he might know the things concerning you, and might comfort your hearts,

I send him to you expressly that you may learn our circumstances, and that he may give you encouragement.


simplify: All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.