rate difficulty: And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

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


rate difficulty: Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

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


rate difficulty: And immediately, having come forth out of the synagogue, they went to the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John,

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


rate difficulty: But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

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


rate difficulty: And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:


rate difficulty: And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.


rate difficulty: And Kore son of Imnah the Levite, the gatekeeper at the east, <FI>is<Fi> over the willing-offerings of God, to give the heave-offering of Jehovah, and the most holy things.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind; but thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Do not put a curse on those who have no hearing, or put a cause of falling in the way of the blind, but keep the fear of your God before you: I am the Lord.


simplify: The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her.


simplify: And when Tou king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadarezer king of Zobah,

Now when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,


simplify: And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.

But shaking off the beast into the fire, he got no damage.


simplify: If the men of my tent have not said, Who can find one that hath not been filled with his meat?

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The Lord liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.

And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.


simplify: The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.

This girl followed Paul and the rest of us, calling: “These men are servants of the most high God, and they are bringing you news of a way to salvation.”


simplify: And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against Jehovah, and against thee; pray unto Jehovah, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.


rate difficulty: And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.


simplify: Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach thou it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

Make then this song for yourselves, teaching it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.


simplify: Do we begin again to recommend ourselves, except we need, as some, letters of recommendation unto you, or from you?

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or are we like some who need letters of commendation to you, or from you?


simplify: These were the chief officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, who bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.


simplify: He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.

And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.


rate difficulty: And he saith unto Balak, `Station thyself here by thy burnt-offering, and I--I meet <FI>Him<Fi> there;'

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


simplify: for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, <FI>it is<Fi> evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him,

for God has placed all things under Christ’s feet. (But, when it is said that all things have been placed under Christ, it is plain that God is excepted who placed everything under him.)


rate difficulty: And Jehovah called to Moses and spoke to him out of the tent of meeting, saying,

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


rate difficulty: In the fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.

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


simplify: Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

Ahiam, the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal, the son of Ur,


rate difficulty: I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?


rate difficulty: For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

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


simplify: After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.


rate difficulty: But the wicked are like the troubled sea, which cannot rest, and whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

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


simplify: and if any one doth think <FI>it<Fi> to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin--let him marry.

If, however, a father thinks that he is not acting fairly by his unmarried daughter, when she is past her youth, and if under these circumstances her marriage ought to take place, let him act as he thinks right. He is doing nothing wrong — let the marriage take place.


rate difficulty: And the men whom Moses hath sent to spy the land, and they turn back and cause all the company to murmur against him, by bringing out an evil account concerning the land,

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


rate difficulty: And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

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


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

You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.


simplify: And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;

Then Festus said: “King Agrippa, and all here present, you see before you the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly asserting that he ought not to be allowed to live.


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

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


simplify: And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.

What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.


simplify: no longer be drinking water, but a little wine be using, because of thy stomach and of thine often infirmities;

Do not continue to drink water only, but take a little wine because of the weakness of your stomach, and your frequent ailments.


simplify: And when the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

And the five lords of the Philistines, having seen it, went back to Ekron the same day.


rate difficulty: In the year of the death of king Uzziah--I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.

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


simplify: And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;


rate difficulty: But again Pharaoh made his heart hard and did not let the people go.

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


simplify: Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.


rate difficulty: And great crowds were gathered together to him, so that going on board ship himself he sat down, and the whole crowd stood on the shore.

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


simplify: Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Anything in the water which has no special parts for swimming and no thin plates on its skin is disgusting to you.


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, in the spirit of <FI>sadness from<Fi> God being on Saul, that David hath taken the harp, and played with his hand, and Saul hath refreshment and gladness, and the spirit of sadness hath turned aside from off him.

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


simplify: So David checked his men with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. And Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

So with these words David kept his servants back, and did not let them make an attack on Saul. And Saul got up and went on his way.


simplify: And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

And the building of this house was complete on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the rule of Darius the king.


rate difficulty: praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.


simplify: Which was the son of Simeon, which was the son of Juda, which was the son of Joseph, which was the son of Jonan, which was the son of Eliakim,


simplify: So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.

So the man went, and came to David, and gave him all the news which Joab had sent him to give; then David was angry with Joab and said, Why did you go so near the town for the fight? was it not certain that their archers would be on the wall? who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall?


simplify: For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

For the Spirit which God gave us was not a spirit of cowardice, but a spirit of power, love, and self-control.


rate difficulty: And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land.

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


simplify: And it shall be, that he that is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.

Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.


simplify: Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

So then, as the effect of one act of wrongdoing was that punishment came on all men, even so the effect of one act of righteousness was righteousness of life for all men.


rate difficulty: Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Revile not the king, no, not in thy thought; and revile not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the heavens shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.


simplify: And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.

And they came to Capernaum; and on the Sabbath he went into the Synagogue and gave teaching.


Do not put anyone to death without cause.


rate difficulty: Over against the twentycubitswhich belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to her, Because I spoke to Naboth the Jizreelite and said to him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee a vineyard for it; and he said, I will not give thee my vineyard.

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


rate difficulty: And besides this, most of our fellow followers have gained confidence in the Lord through my chains, and now venture with far greater freedom to speak of God’s message fearlessly.


simplify: and began to salute him, `Hail, King of the Jews.'

and then began to salute him. “Long life to you, king of the Jews!” they said.


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

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


simplify: Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the Lord our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.


rate difficulty: and thou hast beheld an adversary <FI>in My<Fi> habitation, in all that He doth good with Israel, and there is not an old man in thy house all the days.

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


rate difficulty: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

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


simplify: and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,

and from Jesus Christ, ‘the faithful witness, the first-born from the dead, and the Ruler of all the kings of the earth.’ To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his own blood —


simplify: But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.

And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.


simplify: As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities thereof, saith Jehovah, no man shall dwell there, neither shall any son of man sojourn therein.

As at the downfall of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighbouring towns, says the Lord, no man will be living in it, no son of man will have a resting-place there.


simplify: And Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

And Solomon sent back word to Hiram, saying,


simplify: And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

“All these I will give you, if you will fall at my feet and worship me.”


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


simplify: and Hukok with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;

And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts;


simplify: And the young men arose and wrapped him round, and they carried him out and buried him.

And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.


rate difficulty: And having crucified him, they parted his clothes amongst [themselves], casting lots.

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


simplify: and suddenly, having looked around, they saw no one any more, but Jesus only with themselves.

And suddenly, on looking around, they saw that there was now no one with them but Jesus alone.


rate difficulty: It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.

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


simplify: And there arose a reasoning among them, which of them was the greatest.

Now there was a discussion among them about which of them would be the greatest.


rate difficulty: And on the north side, a hundred cubits; their pillars twenty, and their bases twenty, of copper; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver.

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


rate difficulty: And Peleg was thirty years old when he became the father of Reu:


rate difficulty: But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.


simplify: And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made.

And Jeroboam gave orders for a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast which is kept in Judah, and he went up to the altar. And in the same way, in Beth-el, he gave offerings to the oxen which he had made, placing in Beth-el the priests of the high places he had made.


simplify: But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.


simplify: And immediately there fell from his eyes as it were scales, he saw again also presently, and having risen, was baptized,

Instantly it seemed as if a film fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized,


rate difficulty: Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?


rate difficulty: But thou, O Lord, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

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


simplify: But the high places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with Jehovah all his days.

The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.


simplify: Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

Eat anything that is sold in the market, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples;


simplify: And he washed his face, and came out; and he refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

Then, after washing his face, he came out, and controlling his feelings said, Put food before us.


rate difficulty: And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.

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


simplify: Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Come quickly, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of spice.


rate difficulty: For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him.

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


simplify: I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

“To you I say, Get up, take up your mat, and return to your home.”


rate difficulty: Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the lier-in-wait by the way.

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


rate difficulty: When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift that was in their hand, into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Abishai, Now will Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.

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


rate difficulty: And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him,


rate difficulty: In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:

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


simplify: And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah.

And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God.


simplify: Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

See, I have been testing you for myself like silver; I have put you through the fire of trouble.


simplify: Then Job answered the Lord, and said,


rate difficulty: by which also ye are saved, if ye hold fast the word which I preached unto you, except ye believed in vain.

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


rate difficulty: And the porch of the pillars he hath made; fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its breadth, and the porch <FI>is<Fi> before them, and pillars and a thick place <FI>are<Fi> before them.

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


simplify: For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.

If you love only those who love you, what thanks will be due to you? Why, even the outcast love those who love them!


rate difficulty: Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.

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


simplify: And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

He was the maker of three thousand wise sayings, and of songs to the number of a thousand and five.


rate difficulty: And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring man in the street of the city: and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

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


simplify: The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

You may not take your sister, the daughter of your father or of your mother, wherever her birth took place, among you or in another country.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This shall be the border, whereby ye shall divide the land for inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.

This is what the Lord has said: These are the limits by which you will take up your heritage in the land among the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph is to have two parts.


rate difficulty: And he reinstated the altar of Jehovah, and sacrificed on it peace-offerings and thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah theGod of Israel.

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


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

“You do not know what you are asking,” was Jesus’ answer. “Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?” “Yes,” they exclaimed, “we can.”


rate difficulty: But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.

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


simplify: Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:


simplify: According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.

Whatever number you make ready, so you are to do for every one.


rate difficulty: Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.

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


simplify: Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

Then Ahithophel said to Absalom, Let me take out twelve thousand men and this very night I will go after David:


simplify: but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

But I say to you, Have love for those who are against you, and make prayer for those who are cruel to you;


rate difficulty: And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'


simplify: and if through victuals thy brother is grieved, no more dost thou walk according to love; do not with thy victuals destroy that one for whom Christ died.

If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower’s feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!


rate difficulty: But if ye will not hearken to the voice of Jehovah, and if ye rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, then will the hand of Jehovah be against you, as against your fathers.

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


simplify: And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute and ordinance, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And if his father has no brothers, then give it to his nearest relation in the family, as his heritage: this is to be a decision made by law for the children of Israel, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,


simplify: Yet I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.

But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.


simplify: And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.


simplify: The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.

The brother of Micah, Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.


rate difficulty: And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.

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simplify: And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

And he said, I have been burning for the honour of the Lord, the God of armies; for the children of Israel have not kept your agreement; they have had your altars broken down, and have put your prophets to death with the sword: till I, even I, am the only one living; and now they are attempting to take away my life.


simplify: We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.


simplify: Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;

but rebuke offenders publicly, so that others may take warning.


simplify: And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy:


rate difficulty: and from Heshbon unto Ramath-Mispeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir,

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


simplify: Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

Crying out, Men of Israel, come to our help: this is the man who is teaching all men everywhere against the people and the law and this place: and in addition, he has taken Greeks into the Temple, and made this holy place unclean.


simplify: (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

and has revealed at his own time in his message, with the proclamation of which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior.


rate difficulty: And he returned after a time to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion; and behold, [there was] a swarm of bees in the carcase of the lion, and honey;

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


simplify: And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.

And when they put themselves against him, and said evil words, he said, shaking his clothing, Your blood be on your heads, I am clean: from now I will go to the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

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


simplify: And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;


simplify: And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto Jehovah thy God with a tribute of a freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as Jehovah thy God blesseth thee:

Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:


rate difficulty: That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?


simplify: And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord:

And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.


simplify: But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.

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


simplify: And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

The man’s ears were opened, the string of his tongue was freed, and he began to talk plainly.


simplify: Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.


rate difficulty: Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and oblations in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

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


rate difficulty: For this cause the Jews seized me in the temple, and assayed to kill me.


simplify: And the children of Israel fled before Judah: and God delivered them into their hand.

And the children of Israel went in flight before Judah, and God gave them up into their hands.


simplify: for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;

For, to him who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but, as for him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away from him.


rate difficulty: See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.

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


rate difficulty: Then the children of Ammon came together and put their army in position in Gilead. And the children of Israel came together and put their army in position in Mizpah.

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rate difficulty: And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

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


rate difficulty: After him was Eleazar, the son of Dodai the Ahohite, one of the three great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight,

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simplify: And he said unto them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.

And he said to them, Do not make an attempt to get more money than the right amount.


rate difficulty: Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was:

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rate difficulty: And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

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


rate difficulty: There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

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


simplify: And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

and, when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”


rate difficulty: And an angel appeared to him from heaven strengthening him.


simplify: and they did cast dust upon their heads, and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, saying, Woe, woe, the great city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her costliness--for in one hour was she made waste.

They threw dust on their heads, and, as they wept and wailed, they cried — ‘Alas! Alas! Great city! All who have ships on the sea grew rich through her magnificence. In a single hour it has vanished.’


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with your spirit, brethren! Amen.

May the blessing of Jesus Christ, our Lord, rest on your souls, friends. Amen.


simplify: And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you.


simplify: And these are their names: Ben-hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;

And these are their names: ... the son of Hur in the hill country of Ephraim;


rate difficulty: And there stand up on the ascent, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, Chenani, and they cry with a loud voice unto Jehovah their God.

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


simplify: So he called every one of his lord’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

One by one he called up his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked of the first.


rate difficulty: Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

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


rate difficulty: And he settled his countenance stedfastly upon him, until he was ashamed: and the man of God wept.

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


rate difficulty: Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:


simplify: And after all this Jehovah smote him in his bowels with an incurable disease.

And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.


rate difficulty: 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 out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.


simplify: and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;

And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;


rate difficulty: All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

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


rate difficulty: All that openeth the womb is mine; and all thy cattle that is male, the firstlings of cow and sheep.

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


simplify: In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.

In the year of Jubilee the field will go back to him from whom he got it, that is, to him whose heritage it was.


rate difficulty: who bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched as a wick):

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


rate difficulty: And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

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


simplify: Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.


simplify: and at the season he sent unto the husbandmen a servant, that from the fruit of the vineyard they may give to him, but the husbandmen having beat him, did send <FI>him<Fi> away empty.

At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they could give him a share of the produce of the vineyard. The tenants, however, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.


simplify: Inquire, I pray thee, of Jehovah for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us: peradventure Jehovah will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.

Will you get directions from the Lord for us; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, is making war against us; it may be that the Lord will do something for us like all the wonders he has done, and make him go away from us.


simplify: And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.


rate difficulty: And to Caleb son of Jephunneh hath he given a portion in the midst of the sons of Judah, according to the command of Jehovah to Joshua, <FI>even<Fi> the city of Arba, father of Anak--it <FI>is<Fi> Hebron.

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rate difficulty: A prudent [man] seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.


rate difficulty: But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

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


rate difficulty: All the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon’s servants, were three hundred ninety and two.

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


rate difficulty: and forty years having been fulfilled, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai a messenger of the Lord, in a flame of fire of a bush,

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rate difficulty: And Elisha said to her, What shall I do for thee? Tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thy handmaid has not anything at all in the house but a pot of oil.

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


rate difficulty: And also now--an affirmation of Jehovah, Turn ye back unto Me with all your heart, And with fasting, and with weeping, And with lamentation.

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


rate difficulty: hereby ye shall be proved: by the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

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


rate difficulty: Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

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simplify: For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.


simplify: And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.

And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey.


rate difficulty: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

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


rate difficulty: So Jeremiah abode in the court of the guard until the day that Jerusalem was taken. And it came to pass when Jerusalem was taken


rate difficulty: And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorifiedGod, saying, Then indeedGod has to the nations also granted repentance to life.

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simplify: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am He’, and will lead many astray.


simplify: And he awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

And he came out of his sleep, and gave strong orders to the wind, and said to the sea, Peace, be at rest. And the wind went down, and there was a great calm.


rate difficulty: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

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rate difficulty: But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the fixed feasts, he who comes in by the north doorway to give worship is to go out by the south doorway; and he who comes in by the south doorway is to go out by the north doorway: he is not to come back by the doorway through which he went in, but is to go straight before him.


simplify: And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,

And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said — ‘Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,


rate difficulty: And David brought not the ark home unto himself into the city of David, but he carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

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


rate difficulty: That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.

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


rate difficulty: And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.


simplify: And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I?

They were sad, and said to him one by one, Is it I?


simplify: For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.

For Pekah, the son of Remaliah, in one day put to death a hundred and twenty thousand men of Judah, all of them good fighting-men; because they had given up the Lord, the God of their fathers.


simplify: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.


simplify: Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,

And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;


simplify: Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;

Ho! land of the sounding of wings, on the other side of the rivers of Ethiopia:


simplify: for first, indeed, ye coming together in an assembly, I hear of divisions being among you, and partly I believe <FI>it<Fi> ,

To begin with, I hear you and, to some extent, I believe it.


rate difficulty: This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:

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


simplify: And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.

And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.


simplify: They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.


rate difficulty: Shortly afterwards, Jesus went on a journey through the towns and villages, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. With him went the Twelve,


rate difficulty: and the king of Babylon smiteth them, and putteth them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeth Judah from off its land.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having been given baptism, straight away went up from the water; and, the heavens opening, he saw the Spirit of God coming down on him as a dove;

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


rate difficulty: And moving from there, he went into the house of a man named Titus Justus, a God-fearing man, whose house was very near the Synagogue.

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


simplify: After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places.

After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.


rate difficulty: And the fortress of the high defences of thy walls will he bring down, lay low, bring to the ground, into the dust.

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


simplify: And Pekah the son of Remaliah, his captain, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the castle of the king’s house, with Argob and Arieh; and with him were fifty men of the Gileadites: and he slew him, and reigned in his stead.

And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place.


simplify: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?


simplify: And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.


rate difficulty: I John, your brother and fellow-partaker in the tribulation and kingdom and patience, in Jesus, was in the island called Patmos, for the word ofGod, and for the testimony of Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom is before the face of him that hath understanding; But the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.

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


simplify: And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.


rate difficulty: And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?

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


rate difficulty: He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

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


simplify: If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.


rate difficulty: I the Lord have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord God.

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


simplify: and the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:


simplify: And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En-rogel; and he called all his brethren, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants:

Then Adonijah put to death sheep and oxen and fat beasts by the stone of Zoheleth, by En-rogel; and he sent for all his brothers, the king's sons, and all the men of Judah, the king's servants, to come to him:


simplify: And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;


rate difficulty: For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.

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


rate difficulty: one kid of the goats to make atonement for you;

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


simplify: Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

And has given out his money at interest and taken great profits: he will certainly not go on living: he has done all these disgusting things: death will certainly be his fate; his blood will be on him.


simplify: And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have seen, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold, with its bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are upon the top thereof;

And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;


rate difficulty: Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus also with me.

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


simplify: The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, giving the good news of peace through Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all)--


simplify: Say not unto thy neighbor, Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give; When thou hast it by thee.

Say not to your neighbour, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give; when you have it by you at the time.


rate difficulty: And they brought him on horses: and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.


simplify: As they went out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed with a devil.

And while they were going away, there came to him a man without the power of talking, and with an evil spirit.


simplify: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:

For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.

And the Lord was angry with Moses, and said, Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? To my knowledge he is good at talking. And now he is coming out to you: and when he sees you he will be glad in his heart.


rate difficulty: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.


simplify: And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

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


simplify: Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

Saying to them, Go into the little town in front of you, and straight away you will see an ass with a cord round her neck, and a young one with her; let them loose and come with them to me.


simplify: And he gave him no answer, not even to one word: insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

And he gave him no answer, not even a word: so that the ruler was greatly surprised.


rate difficulty: And he fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of victuals, and of oil and wine;

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


simplify: Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

Happy will that servant be whom their master, when he comes home, will find doing this.


simplify: The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.

The keepers who go about the town overtook me; they gave me blows and wounds; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.


rate difficulty: This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.


simplify: But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

But with you it must not be so. No, let the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who leads like him who serves.


simplify: These are the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.

All these were the children of Rachel whom Jacob had by her, fourteen persons.


rate difficulty: And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

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


simplify: In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food.


simplify: Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez became the father of Hezron;


simplify: And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech:

And Methuselah was a hundred and eighty-seven years old when he became the father of Lamech:


rate difficulty: This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

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


simplify: And they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

And they said to the king, As for the man by whom we were wasted, and who made designs against us to have us completely cut off from the land of Israel,


simplify: But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.


simplify: So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.


simplify: And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will perish.

And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.


simplify: And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.


simplify: And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the Lord.

And I will give them up into the hands of those who will take their lives, and into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and into the hands of his servants: and later, it will be peopled as in the past, says the Lord.


simplify: And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

And those of Judah who are still living will again take root in the earth, and give fruit.


simplify: And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.

and at once began in the Synagogues to proclaim Jesus as the Son of God.


rate difficulty: And mine eye shall not spare thee, neither will I have pity: but I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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


simplify: And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.


simplify: while daily I was with you in the temple, ye did stretch forth no hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of the darkness.'

When I was with you day after day in the Temple Courts, you did not lay hands on me; but now your time has come, and the power of darkness.”


simplify: And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.


rate difficulty: for every one with fire shall be salted, and every sacrifice with salt shall be salted.

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


simplify: Be ye imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.


simplify: And returned from the sepulchre, and told all these things unto the eleven, and to all the rest.

And they went away from that place and gave an account of all these things to the eleven disciples and all the others.


simplify: And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up first.

And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.


simplify: for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I--I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

Which is the greater — the master at the table or his servant? Is not it the master at the table? Yet I myself am among you as one who serves.


simplify: Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in justice.

See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.


simplify: He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

He who has more love for his father or mother than for me is not good enough for me; he who has more love for son or daughter than for me is not good enough for me.


simplify: But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.

But others, making sport of them, said, They are full of new wine.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

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


simplify: And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.


rate difficulty: By the seed which fell on the rock are meant those who, as soon as they hear the message, welcome it joyfully; but they have no root, and believe it only for a time, and, when the time of temptation comes, they draw back.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.


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

My lord said to his servants, Have you a father or a brother?


rate difficulty: For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

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


simplify: How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

How dark has the gold become! how changed the best gold! the stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.


simplify: Now Joab was over all the host of Israel; and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and over the Pelethites;

Now Joab was over all the army; and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was at the head of the Cherethites and the Pelethites;


rate difficulty: And they began to beseech him to depart from their borders.


simplify: But Jehovah was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

But the Lord was kind to them and had pity on them, caring for them, because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he would not put them to destruction or send them away from before his face till now.


rate difficulty: Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

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


rate difficulty: Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

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


simplify: For as thou art going with thine adversary before the magistrate, on the way give diligence to be quit of him; lest haply he drag thee unto the judge, and the judge shall deliver thee to the officer, and the officer shall cast thee into prison.

For if anyone has a cause at law against you, and you are going with him before the ruler, make an attempt, on the way, to come to an agreement with him, for if you do not, he may take you before the judge and the judge will give you up to the police, and they will put you in prison.


rate difficulty: And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.


simplify: And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

So Moses made an order and had it given out through all the tents, saying, Let no man or woman make any more offerings for the holy place. So the people were kept from giving more.


simplify: The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.


simplify: Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Happy is the man against whom no sin is recorded by the Lord.


rate difficulty: The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.


simplify: If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?


simplify: it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh, and the priest shall pronounce him unclean: he shall not shut him up; for he is unclean.

It is an old disease in the skin of his flesh, and the priest will say that he is unclean; he will not have to be shut up, for he is clearly unclean.


rate difficulty: Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

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


simplify: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.


simplify: Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Need and shame will be the fate of him who is uncontrolled by training; but he who takes note of teaching will be honoured.


rate difficulty: joining one unto another <FI>are<Fi> their wings, they turn not round in their going, each straight forward they go.

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


simplify: And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and head-tires shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

And for Aaron's sons you are to make coats, and bands, and head-dresses, so that they may be clothed with glory and honour.


simplify: And she said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Tell ye the man that sent you unto me,

And she said to them, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Say to the man who sent you to me,


simplify: Do I lack madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? shall this fellow come into my house?

Are there not enough unbalanced men about me, that you have let this person come and do such tricks before me? is such a man to come into my house?


simplify: And he answered and said, Elijah indeed cometh, and shall restore all things:

And in answer he said, Elijah truly has to come and put all things right:


rate difficulty: And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house of the Lord, silver, and gold, and vessels.

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


simplify: And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

And the Levite said he would make his living-place with the man, and he became to him as one of his sons.


simplify: he, therefore, who is despising--doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

Therefore the person who disregards this warning disregards, not people, but God who gives you his Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: I have a great deal to say to you, but I do not care to trust it to pen and ink in a letter.

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


rate difficulty: Hatred stirreth up strifes; but love covereth all transgressions.

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


rate difficulty: And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.


simplify: And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

And the time when David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah was seven years and six months.


simplify: And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel goeth up, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, to Ramoth-Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: For all thegods of the peoples are idols; But Jehovah made the heavens.

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


simplify: And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

“I am,”replied Jesus, “and you will all see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty; and ‘coming in the clouds of heaven’.”


rate difficulty: Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

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


simplify: Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

Now it came to the ears of Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief in authority in the house of the Lord, that Jeremiah was saying these things;


simplify: And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord.

And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:


simplify: And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

And he said, Lord, let it be for this year, and I will have the earth turned up round it, and put animal waste on it, to make it fertile:


rate difficulty: So with this money they got thirty-two thousand war-carriages, and the help of the king of Maacah and his people, who came and took up their position in front of Medeba. And the children of Ammon came together from their towns for the fight.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still on the high places, although to Jehovah theirGod only.

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Jehovah: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

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


simplify: And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city; in front of the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward in front of the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, answerable unto the portions, it shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.

And the rest is to be for the prince, on this side and on that side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the twenty-five thousand to the east, as far as the east limit, and to the west, in front of the twenty-five thousand, as far as the west limit, and of the same measure as those parts; it will be the property of the prince: and the holy offering and holy place of the house will be in the middle of it.


simplify: Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, at the going out of Moses unto the tent, all the people rise, and have stood, each at the opening of his tent, and have looked expectingly after Moses, until his going into the tent.

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


simplify: In your patience possess ye your souls.

By your endurance you will win yourselves life.


simplify: And the nations shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it.

And the nations will go in its light: and the kings of the earth will take their glory into it.


rate difficulty: And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And Jehovah said unto David, Go up; for I will certainly deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

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


simplify: It shall be accomplished before his time, And his branch shall not be green.

His branch is cut off before its time, and his leaf is no longer green.


simplify: And thou, son of man, set thy face against the daughters of thy people, that prophesy out of their own heart; and prophesy thou against them,

And you, son of man, let your face be turned against the daughters of your people, who are acting the part of prophets at their pleasure; be a prophet against them, and say,


rate difficulty: Now the end has come on you, and I will send my wrath on you, judging you for your ways, I will send punishment on you for all your disgusting acts.

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


rate difficulty: And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

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


simplify: And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: If only you had given ear to my orders, then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

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


simplify: Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.


simplify: inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.


simplify: And He who is sitting upon the throne said, `Lo, new I make all things; and He saith to me, `Write, because these words are true and stedfast;'

And he who was seated on the throne said — ‘See, I make all things new!’ And he said — ‘Write this, for these words may be trusted and are true.’


simplify: And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.

And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations.


simplify: Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

So let us go to Jordan, and let everyone get to work cutting boards, and we will make a living-place for ourselves there. And he said to them, Go, then.


simplify: And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

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


simplify: When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and didst rend all their shoulders; and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.


rate difficulty: and in every province and province, and in every city and city, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, gladness and joy <FI>are<Fi> to the Jews, a banquet, and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land are becoming Jews, for a fear of the Jews hath fallen upon them.

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


simplify: Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.

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


simplify: for I say to you, that yet this that hath been written it behoveth to be fulfilled in me: And with lawless ones he was reckoned, for also the things concerning me have an end.'

For, I tell you, that passage of scripture must be fulfilled in me, which says — ‘He was counted among the godless’; indeed all that refers to me is finding its fulfillment.”


simplify: And I will encamp about my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with mine eyes.

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.


rate difficulty: These were they that waited on the king, besides those whom the king put in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,

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


simplify: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.


simplify: And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Then the Lord came down on to Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain, and the Lord sent for Moses to come up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.


simplify: But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, They will reverence my son.

But after that he sent his son to them, saying, They will have respect for my son.


simplify: And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph’s knees.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.


simplify: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

Therefore my heart was cheered, and my tongue told its delight; Yes, even my body, too, will rest in hope;


rate difficulty: The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Whoever is ashamed of me and of my teaching, in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of them will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”


rate difficulty: And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.

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


rate difficulty: this one God, a Prince and a Saviour, hath exalted with His right hand, to give reformation to Israel, and forgiveness of sins;


rate difficulty: And thou, even of thyself, shalt discontinue from thy heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger which shall burn for ever.

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


simplify: And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.


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


rate difficulty: And Abner said again to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me: wherefore should I smite thee to the ground? how then should I hold up my face to Joab thy brother?

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


rate difficulty: For the punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, which was overturned suddenly without any hand falling on her.

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


simplify: Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.


simplify: Of this man’s seed hath God according to promise brought unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus;

From this man's seed has God given to Israel a Saviour, even Jesus, as he gave his word;


simplify: And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.

Then all the people of the land went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down: its altars and images were all broken to bits, and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars. And the priest put overseers over the Lord's house.


rate difficulty: And all the people have discerned <FI>it<Fi> , and it is good in their eyes, as all that the king hath done is good in the eyes of all the people;

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


rate difficulty: If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

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


simplify: No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.


simplify: Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;


simplify: for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;

For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it, and whoever, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, will lose their life will save it.


rate difficulty: of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

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


simplify: and they said to him, `Grant to us that, one on thy right hand and one on thy left, we may sit in thy glory;'

“Grant us this,” they answered, “to sit, one on your right, and the other on your left, when you come in glory.”


rate difficulty: Because of the wrath of Jehovah she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

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