simplify: And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

And Moses said to Joshua, Get together a band of men for us and go out, make war on Amalek: tomorrow I will take my place on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.


simplify: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

And this will continue, until we all attain to that unity which is given by faith and by a fuller knowledge of the Son of God; until we reach maturity — the full standard of the perfection of the Christ.


simplify: My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

My loved one is like a roe; see, he is on the other side of our wall, he is looking in at the windows, letting himself be seen through the spaces.


simplify: And the fountain gate repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.

And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps which go down from the town of David.


simplify: And the sons of Shimon: Amnon, and Rinnah, Ben-hanan, and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth, and Ben-zoheth.

And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ...


rate difficulty: these are sons of Ishmael, and these their names, by their villages, and by their towers; twelve princes according to their peoples.

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simplify: three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the candlestick.

Every branch having three cups made like almond flowers, every cup with a bud and a flower on all the branches;


simplify: For through the anger of the Lord it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.


simplify: They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

They are new every morning; great is your good faith.


rate difficulty: And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

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simplify: and God <FI>is<Fi> faithful, that our word unto you became not Yes and No,

As God is true, the message that we brought you does not waver between ‘Yes’ and ‘No’!


rate difficulty: I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

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simplify: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him — those who have received the call in accordance with his purpose.


rate difficulty: Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah; but ye say, What have we been speaking against thee?

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rate difficulty: And of the sons of Adonikam, the last, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.

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simplify: Every day do I die, by the glorying of you that I have in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Daily I face death — I swear it, friends, by the pride in you that I feel through my union with Christ Jesus, our Lord.


simplify: For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the Lord God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.

He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.


rate difficulty: His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.


simplify: Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them without violence: for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned.

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.


simplify: And Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.

And Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim, had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites.


simplify: for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;

A time, I tell you, is coming, when it will be said — ‘Happy are the women who are barren, and those who have never borne children or nursed them!’


rate difficulty: Go up to Gilead and take sweet oil, O virgin daughter of Egypt: there is no help in all your medical arts; nothing will make you well.

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simplify: And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!

True, the Son of Man is passing, by the way ordained for him, yet alas for that man by whom he is being betrayed!”


simplify: Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thine hand;

Because you are sent by the king and his seven wise men, to get knowledge about Judah and Jerusalem, as you are ordered by the law of your God which is in your hand;


simplify: Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

Now when Pharaoh had news of this, he would have put Moses to death. But Moses went in flight from Pharaoh into the land of Midian: and he took his seat by a water-spring.


rate difficulty: And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

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simplify: Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has, in his great mercy, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,


rate difficulty: `Hear, I pray thee, and I--I do speak, I ask thee, and cause thou me to know.'

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


simplify: And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof.

And I saw no Temple there; because the Lord God, the Ruler of all, and the Lamb are its Temple.


rate difficulty: Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

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rate difficulty: You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the good news.

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rate difficulty: `This <FI>is<Fi> that which <FI>is<Fi> the Levites': from a son of five and twenty years and upward he doth go in to serve the host in the service of the tent of meeting,

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rate difficulty: No Passover like it had been kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; and not one of the kings of Israel had ever kept a Passover like the one kept by Josiah and the priests and the Levites and all those of Judah and Israel who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.

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rate difficulty: Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, Unless these abide in the ship ye cannot be saved.


rate difficulty: and it came to pass, as he sowed, some seed fell by the way side, and the birds came and devoured it.

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simplify: And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is acceptable in his own country.

And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.


simplify: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.


simplify: And Moses told his father in law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, and all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.

And Moses gave his father-in-law an account of all the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians because of Israel, and of all the troubles which had come on them by the way, and how the Lord had given them salvation.


simplify: And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

And they said, Have faith in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will have salvation.


rate difficulty: And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.

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


rate difficulty: Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto God.

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rate difficulty: and Solomon built Him an house.

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rate difficulty: for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers’ houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers’ houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:

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rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

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simplify: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

Never again will they be hungry, never again will they be thirsty, nor will the sun smite them, nor any scorching heat;


simplify: then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them to death with stones; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife: so thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Then you are to take the two of them to the doorway of the town, and have them stoned to death; the young virgin, because she gave no cry for help, though it was in the town, and the man, because he has put shame on his neighbour's wife: so you are to put away evil from among you.


simplify: And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

“Were not all the ten made clean?exclaimed Jesus. But the nine — where are they?


simplify: And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

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


simplify: Honour thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


rate difficulty: When Saul got up from the ground, though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So his men led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus;


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, after all thy wickedness, (Woe, woe, to thee--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah),

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


simplify: For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when there was borne such a voice to him by the Majestic Glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased:

For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.


rate difficulty: and looking up to heaven he groaned, and says to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.


rate difficulty: And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly, and for the altar of Jehovah, to this day, in the place which he should choose.


simplify: `Blessed in thee shall be all the nations;' so that those of faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham,

And, therefore, those whose lives are based on faith share the blessings bestowed on the faith of Abraham.


simplify: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

Then give ear in heaven, so that the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, may have forgiveness, when you make clear to them the good way in which they are to go; and send rain on your land which you have given to your people for their heritage.


rate difficulty: Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

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


rate difficulty: And the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played with his hand.

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


simplify: I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him: I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.

I, even I, have given the word; I have sent for him: I have made him come, and have given effect to his undertakings.


rate difficulty: this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

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rate difficulty: because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn asunder by him, and the fetters were shattered; and no one was able to subdue him.


rate difficulty: And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, `What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth--from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?'

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


simplify: The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all of it, it shall be wholly carried away captive.

The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners.


simplify: And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!

And when he was going out of the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, Master, see, what stones and what buildings!


simplify: For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

For as in a thunderstorm the bright light is seen from one end of the sky to the other, so will the Son of man be when his time comes.


simplify: And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

And the smoke of the perfume, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.


simplify: Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.


rate difficulty: And they went on from Mount Shepher, and put up their tents in Haradah.

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rate difficulty: A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.

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rate difficulty: When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

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


simplify: And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was herself a Jewess, and, sending for Paul, listened to what he had to say about faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: and on the next day, leaving the troopers to go on with him, they returned to the Fort.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,


simplify: and there was a certain poor man, by name Lazarus, who was laid at his porch, full of sores,

Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,


simplify: For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:


simplify: And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.


simplify: And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Jehovah, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.


rate difficulty: And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.

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rate difficulty: And after him Gabbai, Sallai, nine hundred twenty and eight.


simplify: And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;


rate difficulty: whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

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simplify: `It behoveth, therefore, of the men who did go with us during all the time in which the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

Therefore, from among the men who have been with us all the time that Jesus, our Master, went in and out among us —


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Let your hands be strong, Ye who are hearing in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, That in the day the house of Jehovah of Hosts Hath been founded, the temple <FI>is<Fi> to be built.

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


rate difficulty: For Herod himself, having sent forth, did lay hold on John, and bound him in the prison, because of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he married her,

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


simplify: And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

And when his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, Lord, may we send fire from heaven and put an end to them?


rate difficulty: In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel; and they shall come together out of the land of the north, to the land which I caused your fathers to inherit.

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simplify: and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, `A measure of wheat for a denary, and three measures of barley for a denary,' and `The oil and the wine thou mayest not injure.'

And I heard what seemed to be a voice, coming from among the four Creatures, crying — ‘A quart of wheat for a silver coin, and three quarts of barley for a silver coin! But do not harm the oil and the wine.’


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites:

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rate difficulty: And there was a voice to him, Rise, Peter, slay and eat.

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rate difficulty: They were a wall to us both by night and day, all the while we were with them feeding the sheep.

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


simplify: And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she rose up and ministered unto them.

He went near her, and with a sharp word he gave orders to the disease and it went away from her; and straight away she got up and took care of their needs.


rate difficulty: And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

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


simplify: and, willing to kill him, he feared the multitude, because as a prophet they were holding him.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief of the tower-house committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the tower-house; and whatever they had to do there he did.


rate difficulty: The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.


simplify: And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

And the Chaldaeans put the king's house on fire, as well as the houses of the people, and had the walls of Jerusalem broken down.


simplify: Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

(Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)


simplify: If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

If others have a part in this right over you, have we not even more? But we did not make use of our right, so that we might put nothing in the way of the good news of Christ.


simplify: And after a while came unto him they that stood by, and said to Peter, Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee.

And after a little time those who were near came and said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; because your talk is witness against you.


rate difficulty: And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.


rate difficulty: And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.

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simplify: And when the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, Certainly this was a righteous man.

And when the captain saw what was done, he gave praise to God, saying, Without doubt this was an upright man.


simplify: And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.

And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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rate difficulty: Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy sojourners that are in thy land within thy gates:

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simplify: Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David in Hebron and said, Truly, we are your bone and your flesh.


simplify: but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.


rate difficulty: And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;

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simplify: And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land,

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,


simplify: And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.

Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.


rate difficulty: And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,

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rate difficulty: I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.


simplify: They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.


simplify: saying, `blessed <FI>is<Fi> he who is coming, a king in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.'

“Blessed is He who comes — Our king — in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, And glory on high.”


simplify: And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the Lord had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.

The support for the lights was of hammered gold work, from its base to its flowers it was of hammered work; from the design which the Lord had given to Moses, he made the support for the lights.


simplify: But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.

But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?


simplify: So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire thereby,

So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,


rate difficulty: Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it.

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rate difficulty: And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up;

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


rate difficulty: and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face--which was being made useless,

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


rate difficulty: And Judah sendeth the kid of the goats by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive the pledge from the hand of the woman, and he hath not found her.

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


rate difficulty: `Only, hear, I pray thee, this word that I am speaking in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people.

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


simplify: When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,


simplify: For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one the child of the slave-woman and the other the child of the free woman.


rate difficulty: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.

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


simplify: His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.

Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.


rate difficulty: And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

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


rate difficulty: And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass that, when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of Jehovah; and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

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


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


simplify: For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest’s office unto Jehovah;

For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;


simplify: Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:

For this cause be a prophet, and say, This is what the Lord has said: Because, even because they have been glad over you and put you to shame on every side, because you have become a heritage for the rest of the nations, and you are taken up on the lips of talkers and in the evil talk of the people:


simplify: and it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it; then shalt thou inquire diligently; and, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,

If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;


rate difficulty: When the priests go in, they may not go out of the holy place into the outer square, and there they are to put the robes in which they do the work of the Lord's house, for they are holy: and they have to put on other clothing before they come near that which has to do with the people.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes.


rate difficulty: And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

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


rate difficulty: They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.

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


simplify: And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

Jesus, at once intuitively aware that they were debating with themselves in this way, said to them: “Why are you debating in your minds about this?


rate difficulty: Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'

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


rate difficulty: Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

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


simplify: But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.

Just now, however, I am on my way to Jerusalem, to take help to Christ’s people there.


simplify: So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

So the Rab-shakeh went back, and when he got there the king of Assyria was making war against Libnah: for it had come to his ears that the king of Assyria had gone away from Lachish.


simplify: the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies.

the mystic meaning of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamps. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamps are the seven churches.


simplify: And ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord Jehovah.

At my table you will have food in full measure, horses and war-carriages, great men and all the men of war, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: But if that servant says to himself, My lord is a long time coming; and goes about giving blows to the men-servants and the women-servants, feasting and taking overmuch wine;

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.


rate difficulty: For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting my name shall be great among the nations; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure oblation: for my name shall be great among the nations, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.


rate difficulty: Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he cometh, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?

And his sisters, are they not all with us? from where, then, has he all these things?


simplify: As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

But Saul began to devastate the church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.


simplify: For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

For the four chief door-keepers, who were Levites, had a special position, looking after the rooms and the store-houses of the house of God.


simplify: And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.

And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.


simplify: And 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.


simplify: But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.

while any woman, who prays or preaches in public bare-headed, dishonors him who is her head; for that is to make herself like one of the shameless women who shave their heads.


rate difficulty: And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant;

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


simplify: verily I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

All this, I tell you, will come home to the present generation.


rate difficulty: And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day,

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


simplify: And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And he measured its wall, a hundred [and] forty-four cubits, [a] man's measure, that is, [the] angel's.

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


simplify: And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount; and he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Jehovah which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:


rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

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


simplify: For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.


rate difficulty: and if this be heard by the governor, we will persuade him, and you keep free from anxiety.'

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


simplify: And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

So the Philistines went to the fight, and Israel was overcome, and every man went in flight to his tent: and great was the destruction, for thirty thousand footmen of Israel were put to the sword.


simplify: where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman--but the all and in all--Christ.

In that new life there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all! — and in all!


simplify: For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.


simplify: If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.

If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.


simplify: Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.


rate difficulty: My glory shall be fresh in me, and my bow be renewed in my hand.

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


rate difficulty: And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.

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


simplify: And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even punish that man and his house.

And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, A word of weight from the Lord! I will send punishment on that man and on his house.


rate difficulty: Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

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


rate difficulty: So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.


simplify: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.


rate difficulty: And king Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel, that were assembled to him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

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


rate difficulty: They are not rightly zealous after you, but desire to shut you out [from us], that ye may be zealous after them.

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


rate difficulty: And out of the half of the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its suburbs, and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs--two cities;

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


rate difficulty: As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

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


simplify: And the Spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet; and I heard him that spake unto me.

And at his words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet; and his voice came to my ears.


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

These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.


rate difficulty: And he made four pillars of acacia[-wood] for it, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.


simplify: The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

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


simplify: Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?


simplify: Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render as bullocks the offering of our lips.

Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.


rate difficulty: Behold, their valiant ones cry without; the messengers of peace weep bitterly.

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


simplify: And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.


rate difficulty: and, now, I have heard that thou hast shearers; now, the shepherds whom thou hast have been with us, we have not put them to shame, nor hath anything been looked after by them, all the days of their being in Carmel.

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


simplify: yet to us <FI>is<Fi> one God, the Father, of whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we to Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom <FI>are<Fi> the all things, and we through Him;

Yet for us there is only one God, the Father, from whom all things come (and for him we live), and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things come (and through him we live).


rate difficulty: And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto them.

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


simplify: And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah. Then for Zechariah his son, a wise counsellor, they cast lots; and his lot came out northward.

And the care of the door on the east came out for Shelemiah. Then the name of Zechariah his son, a man wise in discussion, came out, and the door on the north was given to him.


rate difficulty: then the priest shall cause the woman to swear with the oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, Jehovah make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when Jehovah doth make thy thigh to fall away, and thy body to swell;

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


simplify: If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

If then you will give worship to me, it will all be yours.


rate difficulty: and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;

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


simplify: For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the two houses, the house of Jehovah and the king’s house

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


simplify: We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil;

Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

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


simplify: And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country.

and he begged Jesus again and again not to send them away out of that country.


simplify: The words of a man’s mouth areasdeep waters; The wellspring of wisdom is as a flowing brook.

The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.


simplify: and it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord;

This became known all through Jaffa, and numbers of people came to believe in the Lord.


rate difficulty: two hundred she-goats, and twenty he-goats; two hundred ewes, and twenty rams;

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


simplify: And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.


simplify: And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

It is to be plated inside and out with the best gold, with an edge of gold all round it


simplify: And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.

On one occasion, as Jesus was going, on a Sabbath into the house of one of the leading Pharisees to dine, they were watching him closely.


simplify: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

And do not give grief to the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were marked for the day of salvation.


rate difficulty: Thus did all the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

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


rate difficulty: [then] beware lest thou forget Jehovah who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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


rate difficulty: I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

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


simplify: Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster?

Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?


rate difficulty: `And thou hast taken flour, and hast baked twelve cakes with it, two tenth deals are in the one cake,

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


simplify: Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.


simplify: And he burnt the bones of the priests upon their altars, and purged Judah and Jerusalem.

And he had the bones of the priests burned on their altars, and so he made Judah and Jerusalem clean.


rate difficulty: Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;


simplify: Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,


simplify: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Wives, submit to your husbands, as befits those who belong to the Lord.


simplify: And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,


simplify: And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.

And Saul said, Give your decision between my son Jonathan and me. And Jonathan was taken.


simplify: And I heard another voice out of the heaven, saying, `Come forth out of her, My people, that ye may not partake with her sins, and that ye may not receive of her plagues,

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying — ‘Come out of her, my people, so that you may not participate in her sins, and that you may not suffer from the curses inflicted on her.


simplify: Master, which is the great commandment in the law?

Master, which is the chief rule in the law?


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Benjamin was Abidan the son of Gideoni.

At the head of the army of the children of Benjamin was Abidan, the son of Gideoni.


simplify: And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

And round about the high seat were four and twenty seats: and on them I saw four and twenty rulers seated, clothed in white robes; and on their heads crowns of gold.


rate difficulty: And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

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


rate difficulty: In like manner also there are good works that are evident; and such as are otherwise cannot be hid.

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


simplify: I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.

Thank God, there is deliverance through Jesus Christ, our Lord! Well then, for myself, with my reason I serve the law of God, but with my earthly nature the law of sin.


rate difficulty: And I will pursue them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will give them over to be driven hither and thither into all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I will drive them:

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


simplify: Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.


simplify: God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee.

That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm —  ‘You are my Son; this day I have become your Father.’


simplify: andarenot as Moses, whoput a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away:

And are not like Moses, who put a veil on his face, so that the children of Israel might not see clearly to the end of the present order of things:


simplify: So he brought him into his house, and gave provender unto the asses: and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

So he took them into his house and gave the asses food; and after washing their feet they took food and drink.


simplify: Give us day by day our daily bread.


rate difficulty: and Jibneiah the son of Jeroham, and Elah the son of Uzzi, the son of Michri, and Meshullam the son of Shephatiah, the son of Reuel, the son of Jibnijah;

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


simplify: But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.


simplify: And Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

And death came to Samuel; and all Israel came together, weeping for him, and put his body in its resting-place in his house at Ramah. Then David went down to the waste land of Maon.


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

And this they did, sending it to the officers of the church by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.


simplify: and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.’


rate difficulty: See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.

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simplify: Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and the Saviour Jesus Christ:

Simon Peter, a servant and Apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who with us have a part in the same holy faith in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David, Know thou assuredly, that thou shalt go out with me to battle, thou and thy men.

Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.


rate difficulty: Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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


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

For you, O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, have clearly said to your servant, I will make you the head of a family of kings: and so it has come into your servant's heart to make this prayer to you.


simplify: She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.


rate difficulty: In the shadow of Heshbon stood powerless have fugitives, For fire hath gone forth from Heshbon, And a flame from within Sihon, And it consumeth the corner of Moab, And the crown of the sons of Shaon.

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


simplify: That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

until you are able to appreciate all moral distinctions. And I pray, too, that you may be kept pure and blameless against the day of Christ,


simplify: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

Therefore let the person who thinks that they stand take care that they do not fall.


rate difficulty: For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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


simplify: And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

And if anyone says to you, Why are you taking him? say, The Lord has need of him.


simplify: What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

What is the advantage, then, of being a Jew? Or what is the good of circumcision?


simplify: Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.

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


simplify: And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.


rate difficulty: For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

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


rate difficulty: But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

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


simplify: Gilead abode beyond the Jordan: And Dan, why did he remain in ships? Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, And abode by his creeks.

Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets.


rate difficulty: and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife,


rate difficulty: And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was going on before them; and they were amazed, and were afraid as they followed. And taking the twelve again to [him], he began to tell them what was going to happen to him:


simplify: and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:

and that repentance for forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed on his authority to all the nations — beginning at Jerusalem.


simplify: And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.


simplify: And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto the servant; and he hasted to dress it.

And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;


simplify: I thank God that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius;

I give praise to God that not one of you had baptism from me, but Crispus and Gaius;


rate difficulty: And sons of Jeriah: Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

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


rate difficulty: one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;

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


rate difficulty: And going on thence he saw other two brothers, James the [son] of Zebedee and John his brother, in the ship with Zebedee their father, mending their trawl-nets, and he called them;

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


rate difficulty: then shall his brother's wife come near to him before the eyes of the elders, and draw his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that will not build up his brother's house.

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


rate difficulty: If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

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


rate difficulty: And the heart of the king of Aram is tossed about concerning this thing, and he calleth unto his servants, and saith unto them, `Do ye not declare to me who of us <FI>is<Fi> for the king of Israel?'

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


rate difficulty: And they went away in the boat to a waste place by themselves.


rate difficulty: Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.


rate difficulty: And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.

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


rate difficulty: With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt; the Lubims, the Sukkiims, and the Ethiopians.


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

Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we only just managed to secure the ship’s boat,


rate difficulty: when angels, who are greater in might and power, do not bring against them, before the Lord, an injurious charge.

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


simplify: according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Which may be seen in the good news of the glory of the great God, which was given into my care.


rate difficulty: But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?


rate difficulty: Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the Lord do so: the Lord perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels of the Lord’s house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.

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


simplify: Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Every tree that fails to bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.


simplify: The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;


rate difficulty: [As] I live, saith Jehovah, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, were a signet upon my right hand, yet will I pluck thee thence;

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


simplify: All these of the sons of Obed–edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obed–edom.

All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom.


rate difficulty: And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.

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


rate difficulty: A refining pot <FI>is<Fi> for silver, and a furnace for gold, And a man according to his praise.


rate difficulty: yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

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


simplify: And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.

The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.


simplify: Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.

Then I will give up caring for the seed of Jacob and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will let their fate be changed and will have mercy on them.


simplify: Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

And Jesus, answering, said, O false and foolish generation, how long will I be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come here to me.


rate difficulty: And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

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


simplify: I have heard what the prophets have said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,


rate difficulty: And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? it is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.

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


rate difficulty: He saith also, `Thou art unable to see My face, for man doth not see Me, and live;'

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


rate difficulty: They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices <FI>are<Fi> as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread <FI>is<Fi> for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:


rate difficulty: And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

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


simplify: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly?


rate difficulty: Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite:

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


simplify: So Aaron and his sons did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

And Aaron and his sons did all the things about which the Lord had given orders through Moses.


simplify: but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

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


simplify: and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

And my God, out of the greatness of his wealth, will, in glory, fully satisfy your every need, through your union with Christ Jesus.


simplify: And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went to a city called Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great multitude.

And it came about, after a little time, that he went to a town named Nain; and his disciples went with him, and a great number of people.


simplify: Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.


rate difficulty: And in Jerusalem dwelt some of the children of Judah and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalaleel, of the children of Pherez;

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


simplify: And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;


rate difficulty: And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto Jehovah, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam riseth in the morning, and saith unto the princes of Balak, `Go unto your land, for Jehovah is refusing to suffer me to go with you;'

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


simplify: And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him; but he disappeared from their sight.


rate difficulty: And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people.

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


simplify: And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,


simplify: And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

And Joab said to the king, Whatever the number of the people, may the Lord make it a hundred times as much, and may the eyes of my lord the king see it: but why does my lord the king take pleasure in doing this thing?


rate difficulty: the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

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


simplify: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.


rate difficulty: And there shall be a pavilion for a shade in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain.

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


rate difficulty: And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we should say, Of heaven, he will say, Why [then] have ye not believed him?

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


rate difficulty: And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees.

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


rate difficulty: and thy life hath been hanging in suspense before thee, and thou hast been afraid by night and by day, and dost not believe in thy life;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: therefore, indeed, he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the worshipping persons, and in the market-place every day with those who met with him.

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


simplify: and Eleasah begat Sismai, and Sismai begat Shallum,

And Eleasah was the father of Sismai, and Sismai was the father of Shallum,


simplify: And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.

and, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried.


rate difficulty: So I bought a girdle according to the word of Jehovah, and put it upon my loins.


simplify: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

and, if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is without meaning, and our faith without meaning also!


rate difficulty: Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

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


rate difficulty: And they stayed no little time with the disciples.

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


simplify: But show kindness unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom thy brother.

But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.


simplify: Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?


rate difficulty: `And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder.

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


rate difficulty: and he saith, `Thy sound I have heard in the garden, and I am afraid, for I am naked, and I hide myself.'

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


rate difficulty: For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also passed over unto them their children, whom they bore unto me, to be devoured.

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


simplify: And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

And they said evil things against the God of heaven because of their pain and their wounds; and they were not turned from their evil works.


rate difficulty: And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

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


rate difficulty: For we are given up, I and my people, to destruction and death and to be cut off. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

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


simplify: And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.

The crowd told them to be quiet; but the men only called out the louder: “Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!”


rate difficulty: Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahijah, Hanan, Anan,

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


simplify: And the ill-favored and lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

And the seven thin cows made a meal of the seven fat cows. Then Pharaoh came out of his sleep.


simplify: Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense.

You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.


rate difficulty: Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.


rate difficulty: Also, established is the world, It is not moved! The heavens rejoice, and the earth is glad, And they say among nations: Jehovah hath reigned.

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


simplify: When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

When, then, you see in the holy place the unclean thing which makes destruction, of which word was given by Daniel the prophet (let this be clear to the reader),


simplify: Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass; and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

And he made the great water-vessel of metal, round in form, measuring ten cubits across from edge to edge; it was five cubits high and thirty cubits round.


simplify: and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken;


rate difficulty: Salute Herodion, my kinsman. Salute those who belong to Narcissus, who are in [the] Lord.


simplify: And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

‘Father,’ the son said, ‘I sinned against heaven and against you; I am no longer fit to be called your son; make me one of your hired servants.’


simplify: wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!


simplify: And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

And when Sarah, my master's wife, was old, she gave birth to a son, to whom he has given all he has.


simplify: I caused thee to multiply as that which groweth in the field, and thou didst increase and wax great, and thou attainedst to excellent ornament; thy breasts were fashioned, and thy hair was grown; yet thou wast naked and bare.

And be increased in number like the buds of the field; and you were increased and became great, and you came to the time of love: your breasts were formed and your hair was long; but you were uncovered and without clothing.


simplify: And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.

And a number of false prophets will come, causing error.


rate difficulty: and the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water.


simplify: But the children rebelled against me; they walked not in my statutes, neither kept mine ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.


rate difficulty: And he gave him the copy of the order which had been given out in Shushan for their destruction, ordering him to let Esther see it, and to make it clear to her; and to say to her that she was to go in to the king, requesting his mercy, and making prayer for her people.

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


rate difficulty: According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

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


simplify: and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

With their forty silver bases, two bases for every board.


simplify: And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.

And of the sons of Bebai, Zechariah, the son of Bebai; and with him twenty-eight males.


simplify: Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it:

Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made his army do hard work against Tyre, and the hair came off every head and every arm was rubbed smooth: but he and his army got no payment out of Tyre for the hard work which he had done against it.


rate difficulty: And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.

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


simplify: Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.

And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.


simplify: But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians; so we dwell at Jerusalem.

But when Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came up into the land, we said, Come, let us go to Jerusalem, away from the army of the Chaldaeans and from the army of the Aramaeans: and so we are living in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.

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


rate difficulty: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

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


simplify: Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

The first came up, and said ‘Sir, your ten pounds have made a hundred.’


rate difficulty: They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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


simplify: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Because by grace you have salvation through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is given by God:


rate difficulty: Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,


simplify: And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

And they took Uriah out of Egypt and came back with him to Jehoiakim the king; who put him to death with the sword, and had his dead body put into the resting-place of the bodies of the common people.


rate difficulty: And you are not to give ear to the prophets who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: for what they say is not true.

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


rate difficulty: So the king hearkened not to the people; for it was brought about byGod, that Jehovah might give effect to his word, which he spoke through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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


simplify: For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.


simplify: And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.

At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes.


rate difficulty: And the men who were with him were not able to say anything; hearing the voice, but seeing no one.


simplify: a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.


rate difficulty: For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

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


simplify: Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Bilhah became with child, and gave birth to a son.

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


rate difficulty: So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said unto her, Go up in peace to thy house; see, I have hearkened to thy voice, and have accepted thy person.

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


simplify: He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his father had done.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.


simplify: Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.

Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me:


simplify: And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And we, having finished the course, from Tyre came down to Ptolemais, and having saluted the brethren, we remained one day with them;

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


simplify: Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

His words against God have come to your ears: what is your opinion? And they all said it was right for him to be put to death.


simplify: And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.


rate difficulty: Jehovah will smite thee with the ulcers of Egypt, and with boils, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

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


rate difficulty: And Moab was much afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: `And all who are round about him to help him, and all his bands, I do scatter to every wind, and a sword I draw out after them.

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


rate difficulty: Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.