simplify: And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.

And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.


simplify: Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:


simplify: For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

For his chiefs are at Zoan, and his representatives have come to Hanes.


rate difficulty: Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

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


rate difficulty: Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.

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


simplify: For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

For such people are not servants of the Lord Christ, but of their stomachs; and by their smooth and well-said words the hearts of those who have no knowledge of evil are tricked.


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


simplify: and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;

And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it;


simplify: And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first.

And while she was in the act of giving birth, one of them put out his hand; and the woman who was with her put a red thread round his hand, saying, This one came out first.


simplify: yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.

For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.


rate difficulty: Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:


rate difficulty: forbidding to marry, [bidding] to abstain from meats, whichGod has created for receiving with thanksgiving for them who are faithful and know the truth.

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


simplify: And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.


simplify: And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.

Then, after dismissing the crowds, Jesus got into the boat, and went to the neighborhood of Magadan.


rate difficulty: And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


rate difficulty: You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

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


simplify: All winged creeping things that go upon all fours are an abomination unto you.

Every winged four-footed thing which goes on the earth is disgusting to you;


rate difficulty: That it may be burned by Aaron's sons on the altar, on the burned offering which is on the wood on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.

And anyone who takes another's life is certainly to be put to death.


rate difficulty: The naked they cause to lodge Without clothing. And there is no covering in the cold.

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


rate difficulty: After some stay, they were dismissed with kind farewells from the followers, and returned to those who had sent them.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us;

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


simplify: So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth–el, he and all the people that were with him.

And Jacob came to Luz in the land of Canaan (which is the same as Beth-el), he and all his people.


simplify: and great hail (as of talent weight) doth come down out of the heaven upon men, and men did speak evil of God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague is very great.

Great hailstones, a pound in weight, are falling on men from the heavens. And men blasphemed God because of the curse of the hail, for it was a very terrible curse.


rate difficulty: In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

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


simplify: But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat.

But any person for whom the priest has given money, to make him his, may take of it with him; and those who come to birth in his house may take of his bread.


simplify: And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.

And when Jesus saw her, he said to her, Woman, you are made free from your disease.


rate difficulty: And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the earth in Jerusalem; but they did not put him in the resting-place of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go in unto Pharaoh: and thou hast said unto him, Thus said Jehovah, Send My people away, and they serve Me;

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

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


simplify: Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.

Son of man, the arm of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, has been broken by me, and no band has been put round it to make it well, no band has been twisted round it to make it strong for gripping the sword.


rate difficulty: and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

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


rate difficulty: And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

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


simplify: When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;

When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;


rate difficulty: And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the Lord your God was your king.

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


rate difficulty: And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

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


simplify: how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

And how I kept back nothing which might be of profit to you, teaching you publicly and privately,


rate difficulty: Alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great suffering in the land, and anger against this people.


simplify: And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;

And between the fruits all round the skirt they put gold bells, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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


rate difficulty: Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one a ring of gold.

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


rate difficulty: And they ate, and were all filled: and there was taken up that which remained over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.

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


rate difficulty: When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?


rate difficulty: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

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


simplify: Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of Jehovah stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

Then I got up and went out into the valley; and I saw the glory of the Lord resting there as I had seen it by the river Chebar; and I went down on my face.


simplify: And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went after her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.


simplify: for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.

For the mind of this nation has grown dense, And their ears are dull of hearing, Their eyes also have they closed; Otherwise some day they might see with their eyes, And with their ears they might hear, And in their mind they might understand, and might turn — And I might heal them.’


rate difficulty: Bemoan for him, all ye round about him, And all knowing his name, say ye: How hath it been broken, the staff of strength, The rod of beauty.

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


simplify: He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.


simplify: since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

If you bless God with your spirit only, how can people in the congregation who are without your gift say ‘Amen’ to your thanksgiving? They do not know what you are saying!


rate difficulty: And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt keep far from the cause of falsehood; and the innocent and righteous slay not; for I will not justify the wicked.

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


simplify: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

And my hand will again be on you, washing away what is unclean as with soap, and taking away all your false metal;


simplify: A perverse man scattereth abroad strife; And a whisperer separateth chief friends.

A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.


simplify: Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace with me, and blind as Jehovah’s servant?

Who is blind, but my servant? who has his ears stopped, but he whom I send? who is blind as my true one, or who has his ears shut like the Lord's servant?


simplify: And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, who rode upon camels and fled.

And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.


simplify: Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.


simplify: But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.


rate difficulty: Thou prevailest <FI>over<Fi> him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.

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


simplify: As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.


simplify: And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.

And the dove came back at evening, and in her mouth was an olive-leaf broken off: so Noah was certain that the waters had gone down on the earth.


rate difficulty: and the remnant of the present <FI>is<Fi> for Aaron and for his sons, most holy, of the fire-offerings of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, In what place soever ye enter into an house, there abide till ye depart from that place.

And he said to them, Wherever you go into a house, make that your resting-place till you go away.


rate difficulty: and given a charge unto him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; and he hath not kept that which Jehovah commanded,

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


simplify: And if a man purchase of the Levites, then the house that was sold, and the city of his possession, shall go out in the year of jubile: for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the children of Israel.

And if a Levite does not give money to get back his property, his house in the town which was exchanged for money will come back to him in the year of Jubilee. For the houses of the towns of the Levites are their property among the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long, because of great waters, when he shot forth.

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


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

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


simplify: And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh. Then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah.

And Seth had a son, and he gave him the name of Enosh: at this time men first made use of the name of the Lord in worship.


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

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


rate difficulty: and there the centurion having found a ship of Alexandria, sailing to Italy, did put us into it,

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


rate difficulty: For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.

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


rate difficulty: and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

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


simplify: And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.


rate difficulty: `And I, lo, I am establishing My covenant with you, and with your seed after you,

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


rate difficulty: When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thyGod, thou shalt not delay to perform it; for Jehovah thyGod will certainly require it of thee, and it shall be sin in thee.

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


simplify: And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon.


simplify: Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

You have given me the breastplate of your salvation, and your mercy has made me great.


rate difficulty: The day after we had sailed from there, we arrived off Chios, touched at Samos the following day, and the next day reached Miletus;

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


simplify: their camels, four hundred thirty and five; their asses, six thousand seven hundred and twenty.

Four hundred and thirty-five camels, six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.


simplify: Brought beds, and basons, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and parched corn, and beans, and lentiles, and parched pulse,

Came with beds and basins and pots, and grain and meal, and all sorts of dry foods,


simplify: And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, the brethren appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question.


rate difficulty: And Jonah prayed unto Jehovah hisGod out of the fish's belly;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Isaiah, `Go forth, I pray thee, to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-Jashub thy son, unto the end of the conduit of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fuller's field,

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said Jehovah, Who ransomed Abraham, Concerning the house of Jacob: `Not now ashamed is Jacob, Nor now doth his face become pale,

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


rate difficulty: As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

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


simplify: Repent therefore; or else I come to thee quickly, and I will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.

See, then, that you have a change of heart; or I will come to you quickly, and will make war against them with the sword of my mouth.


rate difficulty: And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

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


rate difficulty: Neither shall Pharaoh with a mighty army and a great assemblage do anything for him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.

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


simplify: Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.

Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.


simplify: that thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto them whensoever they cry unto thee.

Let your eyes be open to your servant's prayer for grace and to the prayer of your people Israel, hearing them when their cry comes to you.


simplify: But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.

But the Lord will make Israel free with an eternal salvation: you will not be put to shame or made low for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The devil is about to throw some of you into prison so that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of life.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, I have sinned; honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thyGod.

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


simplify: But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.


rate difficulty: He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.

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


simplify: saying, `Father, if Thou be counselling to make this cup pass from me--;but, not my will, but Thine be done.' --

“Father,”he said, “if it is your pleasure, spare me this cup; only, not my will but your be done.”


simplify: Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.


rate difficulty: Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?

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


simplify: The comely and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will I cut off.

The fair and delicate one, the daughter of Zion, will be cut off by my hand.


simplify: And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.

The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round.


rate difficulty: And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,

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


simplify: So they sought for a fair damsel throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

So after searching through all the land of Israel for a fair young girl, they saw Abishag the Shunammite, and took her to the king.


simplify: And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.

And he went on his way; but on the road a lion came rushing at him and put him to death; and his dead body was stretched in the road with the ass by its side, and the lion was there by the body.


simplify: And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, worshipping the Lord.

Then Jehoshaphat went down with his face to the earth, and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem gave worship to the Lord, falling down before him.


rate difficulty: And the Ethiopian said to Philip, About whom are these words said by the prophet? about himself, or some other?


rate difficulty: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: when they went into the tent of meeting, and when they came near unto the altar, they washed; as Jehovah commanded Moses.


rate difficulty: The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory <FI>is<Fi> to pass over transgression.


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath mingled in her midst A spirit of perverseness, And they have caused Egypt to err in all its work, As a drunkard erreth in his vomit.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And I said, Let them set a clean mitre upon his head. So they set a clean mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of Jehovah was standing by.

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


simplify: The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.

The sons of Eliphaz: Teman and Omar, Zephi and Gatam, Kenaz and Timna and Amalek.


simplify: Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it done unto you.

Then he put his hand on their eyes, saying, As your faith is, let it be done to you.


rate difficulty: The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels;

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


rate difficulty: And the inhabitants of this coast shall say in that day, Behold, such is our confidence, whither we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and how shall we escape?

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


simplify: and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs,

And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts,


simplify: though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters, but they only should be delivered themselves.

Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves.


rate difficulty: Asaph the head, and his second Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of psalteries, and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals is sounding;

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


rate difficulty: And which of you by taking thought is able to make himself any taller?

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


rate difficulty: The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way — ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men — thieves, rogues, adulterers — or even like this tax-gatherer.

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


rate difficulty: And, if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead lives within you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life even to your mortal bodies, through his Spirit living within you.

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


simplify: Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?


simplify: And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Noah, Lamech went on living for five hundred and ninety-five years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: I have not had rest to my spirit, on my not finding Titus my brother, but having taken leave of them, I went forth to Macedonia;

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rate difficulty: Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.


rate difficulty: And of it let him make his offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,


simplify: Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Be not slow in your work, but be quick in spirit, as the Lord's servants;


rate difficulty: For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

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


simplify: Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.

Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.


simplify: And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

Then Hamor, the father of Shechem, came out to have a talk with Jacob.


simplify: Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.


simplify: Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves 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.


simplify: And his servants spake yet more against Jehovah God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

And his servants said even more against the Lord God and against his servant Hezekiah.


simplify: Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Dear friends, since God loved us in this way, we, surely, ought to love one another.


simplify: Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.

My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.


simplify: and the fat of the ox and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul of the liver:

And as for the fat of the ox and the fat tail of the sheep and the fat covering the inside parts and the kidneys and the fat on the liver;


simplify: And they that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

And those who get away safe from the sword will come back from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, a very small number; and all the rest of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt and are living there, will see whose word has effect, mine or theirs.


rate difficulty: He hired also a hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for a hundred talents of silver.

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


simplify: Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people; and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nought in the power of thy hand.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.


simplify: The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?

The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?


simplify: So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

So, also, will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart.”


rate difficulty: And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

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


simplify: Here is the patience of the saints, they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.


simplify: For thy word’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou wrought all this greatness, to make thy servant know it.

Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.


simplify: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Give, and others will give to you. A generous measure, pressed and shaken down, and running over, will they pour into your lap; For The standard you use will be the standard used for you.”


simplify: `Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.'

“How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food.”


rate difficulty: for we are trying to make arrangements which will be right, not only in the eyes of the Lord, but also in the eyes of people.

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


simplify: And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:


rate difficulty: And as ye wish that men should do to you, do ye also to them in like manner.

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


rate difficulty: and blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and because of their sores; yet they did not repent of what they had done.


simplify: and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.

And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.


simplify: That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.

So that the kingdom might be made low with no power of lifting itself up, but might keep his agreement to be his servants.


simplify: Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.

And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites.


rate difficulty: And thou, take to thee an iron pan, and thou hast made it a wall of iron between thee and the city; and thou hast prepared thy face against it, and it hath been in a siege, yea, thou hast laid siege against it. A sign it <FI>is<Fi> to the house of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And all the Jews who have been with him, with Gedaliah, in Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who have been found there--the men of war--hath Ishmael smitten.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus grew in wisdom as he grew in years, and ‘gained the blessing of God and people.’


simplify: Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.

Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.


simplify: and that which is left of the meal-offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of Jehovah made by fire.

And the rest of the meal offering will be for Aaron and his sons; it is most holy among the Lord's fire offerings.


simplify: And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, seeing it, got up from among the people and took a spear in his hand,


simplify: Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.


simplify: a tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;


rate difficulty: Now I say, As long as the heir is a child, he differs nothing from a bondman, though he be lord of all;

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


rate difficulty: The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes.

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


simplify: And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul upon the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar.

And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar;


simplify: And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.

And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.


rate difficulty: and four faces <FI>are<Fi> to each, and four wings <FI>are<Fi> to each of them,


simplify: Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.


simplify: They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.

The people of Togarmah gave horses and war-horses and transport beasts for your goods.


simplify: And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.

And the children of Israel were moved with pity for Benjamin their brother, saying, Today one tribe has been cut off from Israel.


rate difficulty: They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, As thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, As the way of Beer-sheba liveth; they shall fall, and never rise up again.

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


rate difficulty: But you are to be guided by my decisions and keep my rules, and be guided by them: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan;


rate difficulty: and his concubine, who <FI>is<Fi> in Shechem, hath born to him--even she--a son, and he appointeth his name Abimelech.

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


simplify: `He who is not with me is against me, and he who is not gathering with me, doth scatter.

Anyone who is not with me is against me, and the person who does not help me to gather is scattering.


simplify: Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.


simplify: And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,


rate difficulty: Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

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


rate difficulty: And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp.

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


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

At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.


simplify: Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.

Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!


simplify: In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

In that day there will be a great weeping in Jerusalem, like the weeping of Hadad-rimmon in the valley of Megiddon.


simplify: And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.

And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.


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

I plead with you for this child of mine, Onesimus, to whom, in my prison, I have become a father.


simplify: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.


simplify: For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, and hath not another to lift him up.

And if one has a fall, the other will give him a hand; but unhappy is the man who is by himself, because he has no helper.


simplify: Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?


simplify: But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith.

But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.


simplify: And to the others he said in my hearing, Go ye through the city after him, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity;

And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:


rate difficulty: For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

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


rate difficulty: Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

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


rate difficulty: For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

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


simplify: Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thy hand.

You have gone in the way of your sister; and I will give her cup into your hand.


simplify: We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

Friends, it is our duty always to thank God about you, as is but right, considering the wonderful growth of your faith, and because, without exception, your love for one another is continually increasing.


rate difficulty: And he sent for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people, you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have said.

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


simplify: And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

And while Samuel was offering the burned offering, the Philistines came near for the attack on Israel; but at the thunder of the Lord's voice that day the Philistines were overcome with fear, and they gave way before Israel.


simplify: and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse <FI>him<Fi> , saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,

and, when the hearing came on, Tertullus began his speech for the prosecution.


rate difficulty: A voice of howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.


simplify: And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest:

And while Peter was down in the open square of the building, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came;


simplify: Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan,

Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

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


rate difficulty: (There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

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


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath turned back on the seventh day, and hath seen, and lo, the plague hath spread in the walls of the house,

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


simplify: And Jehovah visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before Jehovah.

And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it was so, that the father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery: unto whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laying his hands on him healed him.

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


simplify: But I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? then hath the stumbling-block of the cross been done away.

But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.


rate difficulty: And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;

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


rate difficulty: Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

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


simplify: From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

From there he is watching for food; his eye sees it far off.


rate difficulty: So keep my rules and my decisions and do them, and you will be safe in your land.

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


rate difficulty: Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.

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


rate difficulty: He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

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


simplify: I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.


rate difficulty: In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram, king of Judah, began to reign.


rate difficulty: And Jesus went from there and came to the sea of Galilee; and he went up into the mountain, and took his seat there.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue;


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, in the coming up of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon unto the land, that we say, Come, and we enter Jerusalem, because of the force of the Chaldeans, and because of the force of Aram--and we dwell in Jerusalem.'

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


simplify: He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.

The person who believes in the Son of God has that testimony within them. The person who does not believe God has made God a liar, by refusing to believe in that testimony which he has borne about his Son.


simplify: Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.

He who was near to falling has been lifted up by your words, and you have given strength to bent knees.


rate difficulty: Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.


simplify: As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

Like sheep for the offerings, like the sheep of Jerusalem at her fixed feasts, so the unpeopled towns will be made full of men: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And to that the high priest himself and all the Council can testify. For I had letters of introduction from them to our fellow Jews at Damascus, and I was on my way to that place, to bring those whom I might find there prisoners to Jerusalem for punishment.

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


simplify: Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and hath done all these things, he shall not escape.

For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe.


rate difficulty: And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.


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 anybody asks you ‘Why are you untying it?,’ you are to say this — ‘The Master wants it.’”


rate difficulty: Also, from the day that he appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the thirty and second year of Artaxerxes the king--twelve years--I, and my brethren, the bread of the governor have not eaten:

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


rate difficulty: And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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


simplify: And the men of Ephraim said unto him, Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites? And they did chide with him sharply.

And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.


simplify: When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.


simplify: All the days of the afflicted are evil; But he that is of a cheerful heart hath a continual feast.

All the days of the troubled are evil; but he whose heart is glad has an unending feast.


simplify: And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

And Jesus, answering, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.


simplify: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

And that is why God raised him to the very highest place, and gave him the name which stands above all other names,


simplify: and I appoint to you, as my Father did appoint to me, a kingdom,

and, just as my Father has assigned me a kingdom, I assign you places,


simplify: And the people shouted, saying, The voice of a god, and not of a man.

And the people, with loud cries, said, It is the voice of a god, not of a man.


simplify: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, crushed down, full and running over, they will give to you. For in the same measure as you give, it will be given to you again.


rate difficulty: And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.

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


simplify: Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

And he went inside and took the measure of the uprights of the door-opening, two cubits: and the door-opening, six cubits; and the side-walls of the door-opening were seven cubits on one side and seven cubits on the other.


simplify: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

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


rate difficulty: Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

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


rate difficulty: Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

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


simplify: And when the townclerk had quieted the multitude, he saith, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there who knoweth not that the city of the Ephesians is temple-keeper of the great Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?

And when the chief secretary had got the people quiet, he said, Men of Ephesus, is any man without knowledge that the town of Ephesus is the keeper of the holy place of the great Diana, who was sent down from Jupiter?


simplify: And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?

Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?


rate difficulty: And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans.

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


rate difficulty: It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of my son, as every tree.

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


simplify: Jehovah is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with justice and righteousness.

The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion.


simplify: Even the dust from your city, that cleaveth to our feet, we wipe off against you: nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh.

Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.


rate difficulty: He will come and put them to destruction and give the garden to others. And when he said this, they said, May it not be so.

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


rate difficulty: And they tremble, and rise--all those called who <FI>are<Fi> for Adonijah--and go, each on his way;

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands

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


rate difficulty: And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, when it was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks, your daily tasks.

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


rate difficulty: And seven days went past, after the Lord had put his hand on the Nile.


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

Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.


rate difficulty: In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.


rate difficulty: Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.

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


simplify: And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,

Some days later King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea, and paid a visit of congratulation to Festus;


rate difficulty: For they had seen him before in the town with Trophimus of Ephesus, and had the idea that Paul had taken him with him into the Temple.

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


simplify: And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me.

and, if it appears to be worth while for me to go also, they will go with me.


rate difficulty: And the people contended with Moses, and said, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do ye dispute with me? Why do ye tempt Jehovah?

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the Plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot dwelt.

So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.


simplify: and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;

And the ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them;


rate difficulty: Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

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


simplify: Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

And you are to say all these words to them, but they will not give ear to you: you will send out your voice to them, but they will give no answer.


rate difficulty: And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

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


simplify: Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

Now David, the son of Jesse, was king over all Israel.


rate difficulty: And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today?

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


rate difficulty: And at their words, the spirit of God came on Saul with power, and he became very angry.


simplify: For thou, O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a 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.


rate difficulty: He brought down the mighty from thrones, And He exalted the lowly,


rate difficulty: and now, let us make a covenant with our God, to cause all the women to go out, and that which is born of them, by the counsel of the Lord, and of those trembling at the command of our God, and according to law it is done;


simplify: And they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.

And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.


rate difficulty: O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

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


simplify: And the cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their cattle, and for their substance, and for all their beasts.

These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,


simplify: And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

And turning away from him to one of the other men, he said the same words: and the people gave him the same answer.


simplify: Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do; and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar–haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.


rate difficulty: As well as Hamath, which is by its limit, and Tyre and Zidon, because they are very wise.


simplify: Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.

He was of the sons of Perez, and the chief of all the captains of the army for the first month.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: `When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

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


simplify: Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

Let the nations be awake, and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there I will be seated as judge of all the nations round about.


rate difficulty: And His kindness <FI>is<Fi> to generations of generations, To those fearing Him,

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


simplify: And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring <FI>them<Fi> to the populace,

But the Jewish leaders, becoming jealous, engaged some worthless fellows from the streets, and, getting a mob together, kept the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, with the intention of bringing Paul and Silas before the Popular Assembly;


rate difficulty: Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

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


rate difficulty: So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years; for they walked three years in the way of David and Solomon.

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


simplify: Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:


simplify: And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.

‘Well done, good servant!’ exclaimed the master. ‘As you have proved trustworthy in a very small matter, I appoint you governor over ten towns.’


simplify: And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations.

And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.


rate difficulty: In those days hath Hezekiah been sick unto death, and come unto him doth Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, and saith unto him, `Thus said Jehovah: Give a charge to thy house, for thou art dying, and dost not live.'

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For these are the words of the Lord to the children of Israel: Let your hearts be turned to me, so that you may have life:

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


simplify: And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

And when the people saw that Aaron was dead, all the children of Israel gave themselves up to weeping for him for thirty days.


rate difficulty: And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

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


rate difficulty: For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.


rate difficulty: The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah: that year was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

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


rate difficulty: And we--we have seen and do testify, that the Father hath sent the Son--Saviour of the world;

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


simplify: And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.


rate difficulty: And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And Hadad died. And the chiefs of Edom were: chief Timna, chief Aliah, chief Jetheth,

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


simplify: and thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates;

And you will say, I will go up to the land of small unwalled towns; I will go to those who are quiet, living, all of them, without fear of danger, without walls or locks or doors:


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations — [it is] an everlasting covenant.

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


rate difficulty: For you see God's design for you, my brothers, that he has not taken a great number of the wise after the flesh, not the strong, not the noble:

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


simplify: These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty.

These are the families of the Reubenites: their number was forty-three thousand, seven hundred and thirty.


rate difficulty: For I would have you know what combat I have for you, and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in flesh;

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


rate difficulty: But the word of the Lord came to me saying, You have taken lives without number and made great wars; I will not let you be the builder of a house for my name, because of the lives you have taken on the earth before my eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?

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


rate difficulty: Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

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


simplify: Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

You went stepping through the land in wrath, crushing the nations in your passion.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath;

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


simplify: And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

And Abraham got up and gave honour to the children of Heth, the people of that land.


rate difficulty: the eleventh for Eliashib, the twelfth for Jakim,

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


simplify: For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.


simplify: The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of Sheol with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie still, even the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

The strong among the great ones will say to him from the underworld, Are you more beautiful than any? go down, you and your helpers, and take your rest among those without circumcision, and those who have been put to the sword.


rate difficulty: Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?


simplify: And he entered and was passing through Jericho.

And he went into Jericho, and when he was going through it,


rate difficulty: Thou wilt say then, Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

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


simplify: They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

Their mouths are open wide against me; the blows of his bitter words are falling on my face; all of them come together in a mass against me.


simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

And you will be hated by all men, because of me.


simplify: and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, `Thou art My Son--the Beloved, in thee I did delight.'

and the Holy Spirit came down on him in the form of a dove, and from the heavens came a voice — “You are my dearly loved son; you bring me great joy.”


simplify: There was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a captain in the regiment known as the ‘Italian Regiment,’


simplify: And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.


rate difficulty: And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired what these things might be.


simplify: Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

reassuring the minds of the disciples, urging them to remain true to the faith, and showing that it is only through many troubles that we can enter the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: Truly in vain [is salvation looked for] from the hills, [and] the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah ourGod is the salvation of Israel.

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


simplify: The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.


rate difficulty: But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.

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


simplify: So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

So Heman, the son of Joel, and, of his brothers, Asaph, the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan, the son of Kushaiah, were put in position by the Levites;


simplify: Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

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


simplify: And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

And he kept his eyes fixed on him till he was shamed, and the man of God was overcome with weeping.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.


rate difficulty: Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.


simplify: If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

So, when the whole church meets, if all present use the gift of ‘tongues,’ and some people who are without the gift, or who are unbelievers, come in, will not they say that you are mad?


simplify: And straightway, when they were come out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

And when they came out of the Synagogue, they went into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.


simplify: And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just.

Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.


simplify: Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!


simplify: For from the top of the rocks I see him, And from the hills I behold him: Lo, it is a people that dwelleth alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

From the top of the rocks I see him, looking down on him from the hills: it is a people made separate, not to be numbered among the nations.


simplify: He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

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


rate difficulty: No one who has received the new life from God lives sinfully, because the nature of God dwells within them; and they cannot live in sin, because they have received the new life from God.

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


simplify: And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.

And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect.


simplify: Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.


rate difficulty: And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him.

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


simplify: And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

And he made the ten gold supports for the lights, as directions had been given for them, and he put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left.


simplify: And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit.

And there will come a rod out of the broken tree of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will give fruit.


rate difficulty: And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: Also the foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast my covenant;

And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:


simplify: And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

But those who went with Paul took him as far as Athens, and then went away, with orders from him to Silas and Timothy to come to him quickly.


simplify: But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

In their case is seen the truth of the proverb — ‘A dog returns to what it has vomited’ and ‘A sow after washing to her wallowing-place in the mud.’


simplify: But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,

But what comparison may I make of this generation? It is like children seated in the market-places, crying out to one another,


rate difficulty: And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,

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


simplify: Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.

Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.


simplify: Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

However I have received help from God to this very day, and so stand here, and bear my testimony to high and low alike — without adding a word to what the prophets, as well as Moses, declared should happen —


rate difficulty: say, We have piped to you, and ye have not danced: we have mourned to you, and ye have not wailed.

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


simplify: Now these are the last words of David.  David the son of Jesse saith, And the man who was raised on high saith, The anointed of the God of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel:

Now these are the last words of David. David, the son of Jesse, says, the man who was lifted up on high, the man on whom the God of Jacob put the holy oil, the loved one of Israel's songs, says:


simplify: And he cried as a lion: O Lord, I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the day-time, and am set in my ward whole nights;

And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:


simplify: And they shall answer, Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil.

And their answer will be, Because they were turned away from the Lord their God, who took their fathers out of the land of Egypt; they took for themselves other gods and gave them worship and became their servants: that is why the Lord has sent all this evil on them.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.


rate difficulty: Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: People will come from East and West, and from North and South, and take their places at the banquet in the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all fours, or whatsoever hath many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.

Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.


simplify: As many, therefore, as <FI>are<Fi> perfect--let us think this, and if <FI>in<Fi> anything ye think otherwise, this also shall God reveal to you,

Let all of us, then, whose faith is mature, think this way. Then, if on any matter you think otherwise, God will make that also plain to you.


simplify: There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:

There are three things, the wonder of which overcomes me, even four things outside my knowledge:


simplify: And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

But Naomi said, Go back, my daughters; why will you come with me? Have I more sons in my body, to become your husbands?


simplify: And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.

And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.


simplify: Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.


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


simplify: Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.

not indeed to everyone, but to witnesses chosen beforehand by God — to us, who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.

The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.


rate difficulty: Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,

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simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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?


rate difficulty: Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.

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simplify: and having come near, he touched the bier, and those bearing <FI>it<Fi> stood still, and he said, `Young man, to thee I say, Arise;'

Then he went up and touched the bier, and the bearers stopped; and Jesus said: “Young man, I am speaking to you — Rise!”


simplify: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

Your dead bodies will be stretched out in this waste land; and of all your number, all those of twenty years old and over who have been crying out against me,


rate difficulty: So I spake unto you, and ye hearkened not; but ye rebelled against the commandment of Jehovah, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill-country.

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simplify: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;


simplify: Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.


simplify: Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.

But we will be sent on to a certain island.


simplify: Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.


simplify: And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.

And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.


simplify: And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.

The flocks were in the care of Jaziz the Hagarite. All these were the controllers of King David's property.


rate difficulty: and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

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rate difficulty: And it came about that when Jesus had come to the end of giving these orders to his twelve disciples, he went away from there, teaching and preaching in their towns.

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rate difficulty: Behold, they may gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall because of thee.

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rate difficulty: This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; I will judge you in the border of Israel;

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simplify: And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh–naphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the Lord God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?


simplify: And he said, `To what may we liken the reign of God, or in what simile may we compare it?

Jesus also said: “To what can we liken the kingdom of God?


simplify: Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

of two women grinding grain together, one will be taken and the other left.”


simplify: I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.


simplify: And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.

And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.