rate difficulty: But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?

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


rate difficulty: Death overtook our father in the waste land; he was not among those who were banded together with Korah against the Lord; but death came to him in his sin; and he had no sons.

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


simplify: Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of Jehovah, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.

Then he said to him, Because you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, straight away when you have gone from me a lion will put you to death. And when he had gone, straight away a lion came rushing at him and put him to death.


rate difficulty: And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall look on him again the seventh day, and behold, the sore is become pale and the sore hath not spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is a scab; and he shall wash his garments and be clean.

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


simplify: And if he that sanctified the field will indeed redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.


simplify: Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.


simplify: said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked.

Said in a loud voice, Get up on your feet. And, jumping up, he went walking about.


rate difficulty: And two boards thou dost make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

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


simplify: Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him.


rate difficulty: But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

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


rate difficulty: `And he who is to be cleansed hath washed his garments, and hath shaved all his hair, and hath bathed with water, and hath been clean, and afterwards he doth come in unto the camp, and hath dwelt at the outside of his tent seven days.

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


simplify: saying with a great voice, Worthy is the Lamb that hath been slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and might, and honor, and glory, and blessing.

Saying with a great voice, It is right to give to the Lamb who was put to death, power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.


simplify: But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:


simplify: The sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah, and Anah.

The sons of Shobal: Alian and Manahath and Ebal, Shephi and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.


simplify: And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and they fought against it:

And Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron, and made an attack on it;


rate difficulty: And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wilderness

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


simplify: And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.

And when Elisha saw it he gave a cry, My father, my father, the carriages of Israel and its horsemen! And he saw him no longer; and he was full of grief.


rate difficulty: Thus were they divided by lot, one sort with another; for there were princes of the sanctuary, and princes of God, both of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons of Ithamar.

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


rate difficulty: Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah: whoever does work on it shall be put to death.

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


simplify: and not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, that is called Euroclydon,

But shortly afterwards a hurricane came down on us off the land — a north-easter, as it is called.


rate difficulty: My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

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


simplify: Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

When the apostles at Jerusalem heard that the Samaritans had welcomed God’s message, they sent Peter and John to them;


rate difficulty: Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Samuel: the first-born, Joel, and the second Abijah.

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


simplify: One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.

One he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the offering for taking away your sin, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.


simplify: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

And by him the hearts of fathers will be turned to their children, and the hearts of children to their fathers; for fear that I may come and put the earth under a curse.


simplify: He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.


simplify: And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.

And they took two women of Moab as their wives: the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth; and they went on living there for about ten years.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Come up to me into the mountain, and be there; and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law, and the commandment that I have written, for their instruction.

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


simplify: But there arose certain of them that were of the synagogue calledthe synagogueof the Libertines, and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and Asia, disputing with Stephen.

But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.


simplify: Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

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


rate difficulty: Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

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


simplify: This is the oblation of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto Jehovah in the day when he is anointed: the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meal-offering perpetually, half of it in the morning, and half thereof in the evening.

This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to make to the Lord on the day when he is made a priest: the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering for ever; half of it in the morning and half in the evening.


rate difficulty: Now that, by your obedience to the truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;

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


simplify: For who knoweth what is good for man in his life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?


simplify: He that denounceth his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.


rate difficulty: Who in your eyes is my equal? or what comparison will you make with me?

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


rate difficulty: I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

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


simplify: For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.


rate difficulty: His father--because he used oppression, Did violently Plunder a brother, And that which <FI>is<Fi> not good did in the midst of his people, And lo, he is dying in his iniquity.

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


simplify: So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all his men of war.


rate difficulty: for so He commanded me by the word of Jehovah, saying, Thou dost not eat bread nor drink water, nor turn back in the way that thou hast come.'

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


rate difficulty: that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thine heart thatGod has raised him from among [the] dead, thou shalt be saved.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.

And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.


simplify: and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: The third, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;


simplify: And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.

And the watchman gave news of it to the king. And the king said, If he is coming by himself, then he has news. And the man was travelling quickly, and came near.


simplify: And as were the days of Noah, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

And as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man.


rate difficulty: These are their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

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


simplify: From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

All those from thirty to fifty years old who did the work in the Tent of meeting,


rate difficulty: Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?


simplify: Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

And they got them together into the place which is named in Hebrew Armageddon.


rate difficulty: but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

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


simplify: And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.

The ten horns that you saw, and the Beast — they will hate the Harlot, and cause her to become deserted and strip her bare; they will eat her flesh and utterly consume her with fire.


simplify: Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

And I took you up out of the land of Egypt, guiding you for forty years in the waste land, so that you might take for your heritage the land of the Amorite.


simplify: Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.


simplify: Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?


rate difficulty: Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work.

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


simplify: And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.


rate difficulty: He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body; Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall: Terrors are upon him.

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


simplify: And certain of them had the charge of the ministering vessels, that they should bring them in and out by tale.

Certain of them had the care of the vessels used in worship, to keep an account of them when they came in and when they were taken out again.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

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


rate difficulty: Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.


simplify: And of Jezebel also spake the Lord, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.

And of Jezebel the Lord said, Jezebel will become food for dogs in the heritage of Jezreel.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he saw her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me; for I have opened my mouth unto Jehovah, and I cannot go back.

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


simplify: `Ye heard that it was said: Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth;

You have heard that it was said — ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’


simplify: and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set <FI>him<Fi>  before them.

On the next day the commanding officer, wishing to find out the real reason why Paul was denounced by the Jewish leaders, had his chains taken off, and directed the chief priests and the whole of the High Council to assemble, and then took Paul down and brought him before them.


rate difficulty: The slothful roasteth not his hunting, And the wealth of a diligent man is precious.

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


simplify: And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead.

And Menahem went to rest with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.


simplify: Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the Lord in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death.


rate difficulty: and Ziklag, and Beth-Marcaboth, and Hazar-Susah,

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


rate difficulty: But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: God withdraweth not his anger; the proud helpers stoop under him:

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


simplify: This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?

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


rate difficulty: And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name:

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


simplify: because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.


rate difficulty: Salute Prisca and Aquila, and the household of Onesiphorus.

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


simplify: Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.

Presently Jesus’ mother and brothers came where he was, but they were not able to join him because of the crowd.


simplify: And thou shalt put them into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and the two rams.

Put these in a basket and take them, with the ox and the two sheep.


simplify: And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the Lord stood by.

And let them put a clean head-dress on his head. So they put a clean head-dress on his head, clothing him with clean robes: and to him he said, See, I have taken your sin away from you.


simplify: For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, Long live king Adonijah.

Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!


rate difficulty: And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

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


simplify: All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

All the hangings were of the best linen.


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and there eat it with the bread that is in the basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat it.

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


rate difficulty: And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:

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


simplify: On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.

But on the day after, desiring to have certain knowledge of what the Jews had to say against him, he made him free, and gave orders for the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and he took Paul and put him before them.


simplify: And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.

And the chief priests and the scribes made attempts to get their hands on him in that very hour; and they were in fear of the people, for they saw that he had made up this story against them.


simplify: And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom.

And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.


simplify: Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.


simplify: And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when my hand is stretched out over Egypt, and I take the children of Israel out from among them.


simplify: And in his teaching he said, Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, andto have salutations in the marketplaces,

And in his teaching he said, Be on your watch against the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes and be respected in the market-places,


simplify: And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.


simplify: And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting:

And on the eighth day let him take to the priest, at the door of the Tent of meeting, two doves or two young pigeons;


rate difficulty: “Give us more faith,” said the apostles to the Master;

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


rate difficulty: One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and they journey from Shittim, and come in unto the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel, and they lodge there before they pass over.

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


rate difficulty: Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:

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


rate difficulty: Wealth he hath swallowed, and doth vomit it. From his belly God driveth it out.

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


simplify: If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.


rate difficulty: But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

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


simplify: And the young man, having heard the word, went away sorrowful, for he had many possessions;

On hearing these words, the young man went away distressed, for he had great possessions.


simplify: Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

Who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure:


rate difficulty: Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.

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


rate difficulty: And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

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


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

All who are in the position of slaves should regard their masters as deserving of the greatest respect, so that the name of God, and our teaching, may not be maligned.


simplify: And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.


simplify: And when many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel together to kill him:

Then, after some days, the Jews made an agreement together to put him to death:


simplify: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

And he will take the living bird and the wood and the red thread and the hyssop and put them in the blood of the bird which was put to death over flowing water.


rate difficulty: And I appoint at the lowest of the places, at the back of the wall, in the clear places, yea, I appoint the people, by their families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the rest of the people he committed into the hand of Abishai his brother; and they put themselves in array against the children of Ammon.


simplify: and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,


simplify: And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

And the second is for a burned offering, in agreement with the law; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.


simplify: And Paul and Barnabas spake out boldly, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you. Seeing ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;


simplify: and a certain maid having seen him sitting at the light, and having earnestly looked at him, she said, `And this one was with him!'

Presently a maidservant saw him sitting near the blaze of the fire. She looked carefully at him and said: “Why, this man was one of his companions!”


rate difficulty: So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And when the people heard this evil word, they mourned; and no man put on his ornaments.

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


simplify: and the rib, which Jehovah God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.


simplify: And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

And the Lord had sorrow because he had made man on the earth, and grief was in his heart.


rate difficulty: And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to dwell with her, let her not leave [her] husband.

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


simplify: Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.

Then great was the men's fear of the Lord; and they made an offering to the Lord and took oaths to him.


simplify: And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.'

“I tell you,”he added, “that some of those who are standing here will not know death until they have seen the kingdom of God come in power.”


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:


simplify: And they found Adoni–bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


simplify: If evil come upon us, the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house, and before thee (for thy name is in this house), and cry unto thee in our affliction, and thou wilt hear and save.

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.


simplify: Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot, somewhat reddish, or white;

Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white,


rate difficulty: Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.

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


simplify: And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech’s head, and all to brake his skull.

But a certain woman sent a great stone, such as is used for crushing grain, on to the head of Abimelech, cracking the bone.


simplify: and your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.


simplify: And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.


simplify: I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

I commend to your care our sister, Phoebe, who is a minister of the church at Cenchreae;


simplify: And Jehovah rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

So the Lord would have nothing to do with all the offspring of Israel, and sent trouble on them, and gave them up into the hands of their attackers, till he had sent them away from before his face.)


simplify: see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

Take care that none of you ever pays back wrong for wrong, but always follow the kindest course with one another and with everyone.


rate difficulty: Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.


simplify: Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Jehovah.

In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Moses and Aaron assemble the assembly unto the front of the rock, and he saith to them, `Hear, I pray you, O rebels, from this rock do we bring out to you water?'

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


simplify: And they, having heard the king, departed, and lo, the star, that they did see in the east, did go before them, till, having come, it stood over where the child was.

The astrologers heard what the king had to say, and then continued their journey. The star which they had seen in the east led them on, until it reached, and stood over, the place where the child was.


simplify: But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be reckoned with the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubilee.

But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.


simplify: then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, to wit, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

Then they came to Gedaliah in Mizpah, even Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah, the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.


simplify: Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.


simplify: And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.

Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.


simplify: Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth–aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.

Do not you, O Israel, come into error; do not you, O Judah, come to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven, or take an oath, By the living Lord.


simplify: And he was there in the wilderness forty days, tempted of Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered unto him.

And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.


simplify: have we not authority a sister--a wife--to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Have not we a right to take a wife with us, if she is a Christian, as the other apostles and the Master’s brothers and Cephas all do?


rate difficulty: But those who were left of humanity, who had not perished through these curses, did not repent and turn away from what their own hands had made; they would not abandon the worship of ‘demons, and of idols made of gold or silver or brass or stone or wood, which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk’;

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


simplify: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.


simplify: And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.


rate difficulty: On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord


rate difficulty: I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

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


simplify: The children of Bigvai, two thousand threescore and seven.

The children of Bigvai, two thousand and sixty-seven.


rate difficulty: When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?

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


rate difficulty: And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; that she may bear upon my knees, and I also may obtain children by her.

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


rate difficulty: And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying,God is with thee in all that thou doest.

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


simplify: And his fellowservant fell down at his feet, and besought him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

His fellow servant threw himself on the ground and begged for mercy. ‘Have patience with me,’ he said, ‘and I will pay you.’


simplify: And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

And the high priest got up in the middle of them, and said to Jesus, Do you say nothing in answer? what is it which these say against you?


rate difficulty: For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: both man and beast are fled; they are gone.


simplify: And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.


simplify: And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people to Ai.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.

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


simplify: Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;


rate difficulty: Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

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


simplify: Neither doth one thrust another; they march every one in his path; and they burst through the weapons, and break not off their course.

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.


rate difficulty: May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.


simplify: And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

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


rate difficulty: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.

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


rate difficulty: for as the lightning that is lightening out of the one <FI>part<Fi> under heaven, to the other part under heaven doth shine, so shall be also the Son of Man in his day;

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


rate difficulty: and Ahithophel was the king’s counsellor: and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend:

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


rate difficulty: Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the peoples, a prince and commander to the peoples.

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


simplify: And others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing; and brought forth, thirtyfold, and sixtyfold, and a hundredfold.

And some, falling on good earth, gave fruit, coming up and increasing, and giving thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.


simplify: Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.

Then Jonathan said, My father has made trouble come on the land: now see how bright my eyes have become because I have taken a little of this honey.


rate difficulty: prophesyings despise not;

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


rate difficulty: So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son.


simplify: and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard <FI>you<Fi> from the evil;

But the Lord will not fail you; he will give you strength, and guard you from evil.


simplify: Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.


simplify: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For the reward of sin is death; but what God freely gives is eternal life in Jesus Christ our Lord.


simplify: Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.

After that, the Governor’s soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government house, and gathered the whole garrison around him.


simplify: It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.


simplify: And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:

“The first,”answered Jesus, “is — ‘Hear, Israel; the Lord our God is the one Lord;


rate difficulty: Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel, and he spied the company of Jehu as he came, and said, I see a company. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Is it peace?

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


simplify: Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

It should be the same with the women in this office. They should be serious, not gossips, sober, and trustworthy in all respects.


simplify: O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

O Lord, you are my God; I will give praise to you, I will give honour to your name; for you have done great acts of power; your purposes in the past have been made true and certain in effect.


rate difficulty: But I will shew you whom ye shall fear: Fear him who after he has killed has authority to cast into hell; yea, I say to you, Fear him.

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


rate difficulty: Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

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


simplify: So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.


simplify: speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,

Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord.


rate difficulty: for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both hearing them and questioning them,

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


simplify: What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?


simplify: for, Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Because, Whoever will give worship to the name of the Lord will get salvation.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And I will raise up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, those that were numbered of them were seven thousand five hundred.

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


simplify: Only fear Jehovah, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider how great things he hath done for you.

Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.


simplify: Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

From these came the nations of the sea-lands, with their different families and languages.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.


simplify: then he took him in his arms, and blessed God, and he said,

Simeon himself took the child in his arms, and blessed God, and said:


simplify: Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard thee.

Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, The prayer which you have made to me against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, has come to my ears.


simplify: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.


rate difficulty: Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

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


simplify: Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto Jehovah your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass that whatsoever thing Jehovah shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.


rate difficulty: The answer of Jesus to the question was — “Go and report to John what you hear and see —

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


rate difficulty: And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.


rate difficulty: And I will magnify myself, and sanctify myself, and I will make myself known in the eyes of many nations; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And Elijah answereth and speaketh unto the head of the fifty, `And if I <FI>am<Fi> a man of God, fire doth come down from the heavens, and consume thee and thy fifty;' and fire cometh down from the heavens, and consumeth him and his fifty.

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


rate difficulty: behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and [I will send] to Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual wastes.

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


simplify: But ye profane it, in that ye say, The table of Jehovah is polluted, and the fruit thereof, even its food, is contemptible.

But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.


rate difficulty: And the destruction of Ahaziah was of God by coming to Joram: for when he was come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had anointed to cut off the house of Ahab.

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


rate difficulty: And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which <FI>is<Fi> round about <FI>each<Fi> city hath he put in its midst;

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


rate difficulty: It was for this reason, and to prevent my thinking too highly of myself, that a thorn was sent to pierce my flesh — an instrument of Satan to discipline me — so that I should not think too highly of myself.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Be it known therefore unto you, that this salvation of God is sent unto the Gentiles: they will also hear.

Be certain, then, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will give hearing.


simplify: Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are the gentle,  for they will inherit the earth.


rate difficulty: For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.

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


rate difficulty: He shall have neither son nor son’s son among his people, Nor any remaining where he sojourned.

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


rate difficulty: And he maketh fifty hooks of gold, and joineth the curtains one unto another by the hooks, and the tabernacle is one.

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


simplify: But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.


rate difficulty: that servant’s master will come on a day when they do not expect him, and at an hour of which they are unaware,

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


rate difficulty: Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

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


simplify: And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

And turning this way and that, and seeing no one, he put the Egyptian to death, covering his body with sand.


rate difficulty: Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.

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


rate difficulty: Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him.

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


simplify: Howbeit on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.


rate difficulty: She lusted after the children of Asshur [her] neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.

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


simplify: Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.


simplify: And the priest shall offer the burnt offering and the meat offering upon the altar: and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and he shall be clean.

And the priest is to have the burned offering and the meal offering burned on the altar; and the priest will take away his sin and he will be clean.


simplify: And he said, Against to-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that there is none like unto Jehovah our God.

And he said, By tomorrow. And he said, Let it be as you say: so that you may see that there is no other like the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

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


simplify: And the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you.

The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you.


rate difficulty: Jesus gave them leave. They came out, and entered into the pigs; and the drove — about two thousand in number — rushed down the steep slope into the Sea and were drowned in the Sea.

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


simplify: But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Saul to whom Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, had given birth; and the five sons of Saul's daughter Merab, whose father was Adriel, the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:


simplify: And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And on the eighth day let her get two doves or two young pigeons and take them to the priest to the door of the Tent of meeting,


rate difficulty: Seek ye out of the book of Jehovah, and read: no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

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


rate difficulty: and Judah begat Pharez and Zarah of Tamar, and Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram,

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


simplify: but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house.

But be a prophet no longer at Beth-el: for it is the holy place of the king, and the king's house.


simplify: The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;

The traders in these things, by which their wealth was increased, will be watching far off for fear of her punishment, weeping and crying;


simplify: And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;

And let the girl's father say to the responsible men, I gave my daughter to this man for his wife, but he has no love for her;


simplify: Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.


rate difficulty: and they <FI>are<Fi> Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm!

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I confess Thee, O Jehovah, among nations. And to Thy name I sing praise.

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


rate difficulty: To Timothy, my true child in the faith: May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.


simplify: And the wave-breast and the heave-thigh shall ye eat in a clean place, thou, and thy sons, and thy daughters with thee: for they are given as thy portion, and thy sons’ portion, out of the sacrifices of the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.

And the breast which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, you are to take as your food in a clean place; you and your sons and your daughters with you: for they are given to you as your right and your sons' right, from the peace-offerings of the children of Israel.


simplify: let no one seek his own--but each another's.

A person must not study their own interests, but the interests of others.


simplify: But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

This treasure we have in these earthen vessels, so that its all-prevailing power may be seen to come from God, and not to be our own.


rate difficulty: And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, him and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed; he let none remain; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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


rate difficulty: only, of the poor that we should be mindful, which also I was diligent--this very thing--to do.

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


rate difficulty: And Samaria has not done half your sins; but you have made the number of your disgusting acts greater than theirs, making your sisters seem more upright than you by all the disgusting things which you have done.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Uzziah, first and last, were recorded by Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

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


simplify: For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.

For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.


simplify: And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.

On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went into Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a severe attack of fever, and they asked Jesus to cure her.


simplify: and in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power:

And you are complete in him, who is the head of all rule and authority:


rate difficulty: And the fountains of the deep and the windows of heaven were closed, and the pour of rain from heaven was stopped.


rate difficulty: Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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


rate difficulty: And he spake also a parable unto them: No man rendeth a piece from a new garment and putteth it upon an old garment; else he will rend the new, and also the piece from the new will not agree with the old.

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


rate difficulty: for where thy treasure is, there will be also thy heart.

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


simplify: And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod.

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.


rate difficulty: Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

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


rate difficulty: See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

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


rate difficulty: With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;


simplify: And he dealt wisely, and dispersed of all his children throughout all the countries of Judah and Benjamin, unto every fenced city: and he gave them victual in abundance. And he desired many wives.

And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.


simplify: and the law is not of faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.

And the law is not of faith; but, He who does them will have life by them.


rate difficulty: and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of thegodless,

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


rate difficulty: and Sheshan gave his daughter to Jarha his servant as wife, and she bore him Attai.


simplify: That is, it is not the children of the flesh that are children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for a seed.

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.


rate difficulty: Am I, in all this, speaking only from the human standpoint? Does not the law also say the same?

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


rate difficulty: These cities are each city and its suburbs round about it; so to all these cities.

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


simplify: And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

And the watchmen's rooms were one rod long and one rod wide; and the space between the rooms was five cubits; the doorstep of the doorway, by the covered way of the doorway inside, was one rod.


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

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


simplify: In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

United in him, every part of the building, closely joined together, will grow into a Temple, consecrated by its union with the Lord.


simplify: And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;


simplify: And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

And word was given to Joab that the king was weeping and sorrowing for Absalom.


rate difficulty: Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

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


simplify: And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

The ‘grapes were trodden in the press’ outside the city; and blood came out of the press, rising as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of two hundred miles.


rate difficulty: “Who is my mother? And who are my brothers?”


simplify: Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear–jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;

Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;


rate difficulty: At that time the king of Edom got Elath back for Edom, and sent the Jews out of Elath; and the Edomites came back to Elath where they are living to this day.


simplify: Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

Do not love the world or what the world can offer. When anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in them;


simplify: And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the law of Jehovah may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath Jehovah brought thee out of Egypt.

And this will be for a sign to you on your hand and for a mark on your brow, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the Lord took you out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting shall be the tabernacle, and the Tent, the covering thereof, and the screen for the door of the tent of meeting,

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


simplify: And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?

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


rate difficulty: Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

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


rate difficulty: There were therefore seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and died childless;

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


simplify: And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.


rate difficulty: And David heard [of it], and he sent Joab, and all the host, the mighty men.


rate difficulty: For we areGod's fellow-workmen; ye areGod's husbandry,God's building.

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


simplify: And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.

Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;


rate difficulty: The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.


rate difficulty: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.


rate difficulty: So his servants took him out of the line of war-carriages, and put him in his second carriage and took him to Jerusalem, where he came to his end, and they put his body in the resting-place of his fathers. And in all Judah and Jerusalem there was great weeping for Josiah.

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


rate difficulty: But if the unbeliever go away, let them go away; a brother or a sister is not bound in such [cases], butGod has called us in peace.

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


simplify: How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

But how will they give worship to him in whom they have no faith? and how will they have faith in him of whom they have not had news? and how will they have news without a preacher?


simplify: even as ye learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow-servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,


rate difficulty: and she saith unto her father, `Let it not be displeasing in the eyes of my lord that I am not able to rise at thy presence, for the way of women <FI>is<Fi> on me;' and he searcheth, and hath not found the teraphim.

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


rate difficulty: for thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep His commands, and His statutes, which are written in the book of this law, for thou turnest back unto Jehovah thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.

And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;


simplify: Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

Of the sons of Hashum, Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.


rate difficulty: For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

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


simplify: I now do rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye were made sorry to reformation, for ye were made sorry toward God, that in nothing ye might receive damage from us;

I am glad now; not because of the sorrow it caused you, but because your sorrow brought you to repentance. For it was God’s will that you should feel sorrow, in order that you should not suffer loss in any way at our hands.


simplify: And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners unto one named Julius, a centurion of Augustus’ band.

As it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were put in charge of a captain of the Augustan Guard, named Julius.


simplify: For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.

For every boot of the man of war with his sounding step, and the clothing rolled in blood, will be for burning, food for the fire.


simplify: let not any one deceive you in any manner, because--if the falling away may not come first, and the man of sin be revealed--the son of the destruction,

Do not let anyone deceive you, whatever he may do. For it will not come until after the Great Apostasy, and the appearing of that Incarnation of Wickedness, that the Lost soul,


simplify: For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.

For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.


rate difficulty: For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

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


simplify: Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

So the Lord his God gave him up into the hands of the king of Aram; and they overcame him, and took away a great number of his people as prisoners to Damascus. Then he was given into the hands of the king of Israel, who sent great destruction on him.


rate difficulty: And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

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


simplify: Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.

And he said to them, But now, he who has a money-bag, or a bag for food, let him take it: and he who has not, let him give his coat for money and get a sword.


simplify: Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee.

Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.


simplify: And he shall cut it into its pieces, with its head and its fat; and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

And the offering is to be cut into its parts, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to put them in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar:


simplify: And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.

And through all the land of Egypt the ice-storm came down on everything which was in the fields, on man and on beast; and every green plant was crushed and every tree of the field broken.


simplify: And they were bringing unto him also their babes, that he should touch them: but when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them.

And they took their children to him, so that he might put his hands on them: but when the disciples saw it, they said sharp words to them


simplify: And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the Lord made by fire by a perpetual statute.

And it will be for Aaron and his sons; they are to take it for food in a holy place: it is the most holy of all the offerings made by fire to the Lord, a rule for ever.


rate difficulty: He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

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


simplify: Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.'

“It is true,” Jesus answered; “Moreover I tell you all that hereafter you will ‘see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty, and coming on the clouds of the heavens.’”


simplify: And the side chambers were three, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which was of the house for the side chambers round about, that they might have hold, but they had not hold in the wall of the house.

And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.


simplify: And the fruits which thy soul lusted after are gone from thee, and all things that were dainty and sumptuous are perished from thee, and men shall find them no more at all.

And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.


simplify: And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meal-offering.

And put oil on it and perfume: it is a meal offering.


rate difficulty: They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not; of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

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


simplify: And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things.

All these events were reported to John by his disciples.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

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


simplify: And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And I saw the dead, great and small, taking their places before the high seat; and the books were open, and another book was open, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by the things which were in the books, even by their works.


rate difficulty: Because that they have done folly in Israel, and commit adultery with the wives of their neighbours, and speak a word in My name falsely that I have not commanded them, and I <FI>am<Fi> He who knoweth and a witness--an affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: For I also am a man set under authority, having under myself soldiers: and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

For I, myself, am a man under authority, having men under me; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.


simplify: And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths unto them; but he bringeth iniquity to remembrance, that they may be taken.

And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.


rate difficulty: And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the Angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.

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


rate difficulty: You are full of shame in place of glory: take your part in the drinking, and let your shame be uncovered: the cup of the Lord's right hand will come round to you and your glory will be covered with shame.

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


rate difficulty: And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 13 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And I have sent a fire against the wall of Tyre, And it hath consumed her palaces.

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


simplify: even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying,

Indeed, you know that, like a father with his own children, we used to encourage and comfort every one of you, and solemnly plead with you;


simplify: 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.

And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.


rate difficulty: and none of the remnant of Judah, that have come into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, so as to return into the land of Judah, whither they have a desire to return to dwell there; for none shall return but such as shall escape.

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


simplify: And when he was come forth upon the land, there met him a certain man out of the city, who had demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and abode not in any house, but in the tombs.

And when he had come to the land, there came to him a certain man from the town who had evil spirits; and for a long time he had had no clothing on, and was not living in a house but in the place of the dead.


rate difficulty: And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

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


simplify: Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to the Lord, O Lord, I am not a man of words; I have never been so, and am not now, even after what you have said to your servant: for talking is hard for me, and I am slow of tongue.

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


rate difficulty: All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

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


rate difficulty: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.


simplify: And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

And wolves will be answering one another in their towers, and jackals in their houses of pleasure: her time is near, and her days of power will quickly be ended.


simplify: When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

While he was still on the Bench, his wife sent this message to him — “Do not have anything to do with that good man, for I have been very unhappy today in a dream because of him.”


rate difficulty: The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.


simplify: And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold for places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

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


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;

For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.


rate difficulty: The more the prophets called them, the more they went from them: they sacrificed unto the Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

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


simplify: Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Then have no care for tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Take the trouble of the day as it comes.


rate difficulty: and we rise, and go up to Bethel, and I make there an altar to God, who is answering me in the day of my distress, and is with me in the way that I have gone.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.

And I said, What have I to do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, Get up, and go into Damascus; and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.


rate difficulty: And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah's people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!'

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


rate difficulty: For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

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


rate difficulty: Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.


simplify: and he said to them, `Why do ye sleep? having risen, pray that ye may not enter into temptation.'

“Why are you asleep?”he asked them. “Rise and pray so that you don't fall into temptation.”


rate difficulty: Only Jonathan, the son of Asahel, and Jahzeiah, the son of Tikvah, were against this, Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.


simplify: Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

Then give ear from heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.


rate difficulty: And a great number were seated round him; and they said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside looking for you.


rate difficulty: Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

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


simplify: Every prudent man worketh with knowledge; But a fool flaunteth his folly.

A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.


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

But when he was giving thought to these things, an angel of the Lord came to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, have no fear of taking Mary as your wife; because that which is in her body is of the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

And he said, Go then. So he sent her away for two months; and she went with her friends to the mountains, weeping for her sad fate.


rate difficulty: and when the sun goeth down, he shall be clean, and may afterwards eat of the holy things; for it is his food.

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


simplify: But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.


simplify: And the multitude rebuked them, that they should hold their peace: but they cried out the more, saying, Lord, have mercy on us, thou son of David.

And the people gave them orders to be quiet; but they went on crying even louder, Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us.


simplify: Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the Lord of armies: and all those who make offerings will come and take them for boiling their offerings: in that day there will be no more traders in the house of the Lord of armies.


simplify: All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.


simplify: For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother.

I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ’s People have been cheered, friend, by you.


rate difficulty: Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

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


simplify: Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:

Whom I have sent back to you, him who is my very heart:


simplify: And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?

“Is not the reason of your mistake,”answered Jesus, “your ignorance of the scriptures and of the power of God?


rate difficulty: And Jacob said, Sell me now thy birthright.

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


simplify: She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.


rate difficulty: I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.

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