simplify: And Araunah looked forth, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

And Araunah, looking out, saw the king and his servants coming to him: and Araunah went out, and went down on his face to the earth before the king.


rate difficulty: and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

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


simplify: And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them.


simplify: And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.

And if you go into a house, let that house be your resting-place till you go away.


rate difficulty: and ye have given it unto Eleazar the priest, and he hath brought it out unto the outside of the camp, and hath slaughtered it before him.

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


simplify: Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?


rate difficulty: And those that were numbered of the sons of Gershon, throughout their families, and by the house of their fathers,

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rate difficulty: And when I went past you and saw you stretched out in your blood, I said to you, Though you are stretched out in your blood, have life;

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


rate difficulty: I took note and gave ear, but no one said what is right: no man had regret for his evil-doing, saying, What have I done? everyone goes off on his way like a horse rushing to the fight.


simplify: that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.


rate difficulty: and said, Jehovah,God of Israel! there is noGod like thee, in the heavens or on the earth, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart;

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


rate difficulty: And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, `Tabitha, arise;' and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up,

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


rate difficulty: Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

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


simplify: And it shall be, that, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.

And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.


simplify: And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.


simplify: And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parables.

And when he was by himself, those who were round him with the twelve put questions to him about the purpose of the stories.


simplify: because also Christ once for sin did suffer--righteous for unrighteous--that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,

For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all — the good on behalf of the bad — that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering on new life.


simplify: for he was teaching his disciples, and he said to them, `The Son of Man is being delivered to the hands of men, and they shall kill him, and having been killed the third day he shall rise,'

for he was instructing his disciples, and telling them — “The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of his fellow men, and they will put him to death, but, when he has been put to death, he will rise again after three days.”


simplify: A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.


rate difficulty: And Job answereth and saith: --

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel, and Shimei. And sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister,

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


simplify: That winketh with his eyes, that speaketh with his feet, That maketh signs with his fingers;

Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;


simplify: What? was it from you that the word of God went forth? or came it unto you alone?

What? was it from you that the word of God went out? or did it only come in to you?


simplify: Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.

“Get up, take the child and his mother, and go into the Land of Israel, for those who sought to take the child’s life are dead.”


simplify: To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.


rate difficulty: But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

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


simplify: (and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)

and still larger numbers, both of men and women, as they became believers in the Lord, were added to their number.


simplify: And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;


simplify: `And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

Immediately after the distress of those days, ‘the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the heavens,’ and ‘the forces of the heavens will be convulsed.’


simplify: There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for the glory of one star is different from that of another.


simplify: Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.


simplify: Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.


simplify: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

But they will have to give an account of themselves to him who is ready to be the judge of the living and the dead.


rate difficulty: So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

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


simplify: And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

And you will say to your son in that day, It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.


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

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


simplify: and ye shall say, Moreover, behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept me.

And you are to say further, Jacob, your servant, is coming after us. For he said to himself, I will take away his wrath by the offering which I have sent on, and then I will come before him: it may be that I will have grace in his eyes.


rate difficulty: `And when a man doth eat of a holy thing through ignorance, then he hath added its fifth part to it, and hath given <FI>it<Fi> to the priest, with the holy thing;

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


rate difficulty: And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.


rate difficulty: Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud:


rate difficulty: And he said, What have they seen in thy house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in my house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not showed them.

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


simplify: Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

Dan, Joseph and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad and Asher.


rate difficulty: And this is the number of them: there were thirty gold plates, a thousand silver plates, twenty-nine knives,

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


rate difficulty: and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.

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


simplify: He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.

He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.


simplify: Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.


rate difficulty: for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

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


simplify: Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.


rate difficulty: I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.

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


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Oppressed are the sons of Israel, And the sons of Judah together, And all their captors have kept hold on them, They have refused to send them away.

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


simplify: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

But I say to you that anyone who is angry at their brother or sister will be brought to trial; and whoever insults their brother or sister will be brought before the High Council, while whoever calls them a fool will be in danger of the fires of Gehenna.


rate difficulty: Now it fell upon a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over to the Philistines’ garrison, that is on yonder side. But he told not his father.

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


simplify: And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

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


rate difficulty: And Rechab and his brother Baanah got in without being seen.

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


rate difficulty: And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;

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


simplify: Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.


simplify: But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified: for these things must first come to pass; but the end is not by and by.

And when news of wars and troubled times comes to your ears, have no fear; for these things have to be, but the end will not be now.


rate difficulty: The meeting of a bereaved bear by a man, And--not a fool in his folly.


simplify: So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.


rate difficulty: Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken.

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


simplify: But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

But early on the morning after, God made ready a worm for the destruction of the vine, and it became dry and dead.


rate difficulty: for my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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


simplify: And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.


rate difficulty: And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;


simplify: so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another.

So we, though we are a number of persons, are one body in Christ, and are dependent on one another;


simplify: your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.


simplify: For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

For this wins God’s approval when, because conscious of God’s presence, a person who is suffering unjustly bears their troubles patiently.


rate difficulty: These are the set feasts of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons:

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


simplify: And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

And take in your hand this rod with which you will do the signs.


rate difficulty: In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared.

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


simplify: Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.


simplify: Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast it out?

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?


rate difficulty: Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

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


rate difficulty: But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:


rate difficulty: And the two wives of David have been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite;

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;


rate difficulty: rise, for on thee <FI>is<Fi> the matter, and we <FI>are<Fi> with thee; be strong, and do.'

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


rate difficulty: But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.


rate difficulty: Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

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


simplify: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

For the Son of man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he will give to every man the reward of his works.


simplify: And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:

And Adoram was overseer of the forced work; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was the recorder;


simplify: And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.


simplify: Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts; and they set forward.

This was the order in which the children of Israel were journeying by armies; so they went forward.


rate difficulty: And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment of Jehovah, seeing it shall not prosper?

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


simplify: For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

For who has knowledge of the things of a man but the spirit of the man which is in him? in the same way, no one has knowledge of the things of God but the Spirit of God.


simplify: and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.


rate difficulty: The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.


simplify: And they said unto him, We neither received letters from Judæa concerning thee, nor did any of the brethren come hither and report or speak any harm of thee.

And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.


rate difficulty: And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.


rate difficulty: the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;

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


simplify: saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.


rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

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


rate difficulty: For a portion he sheweth friendship, And the eyes of his sons are consumed.

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


simplify: for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand,

It was not David who went up into heaven; for he himself says —  ‘The Lord said to my master: “Sit on my right hand,


simplify: But I wrought for my name’s sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.


simplify: In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.


simplify: and these things beginning to happen bend yourselves back, and lift up your heads, because your redemption doth draw nigh.'

And, when these things begin to occur, look upwards and lift your heads, for your deliverance will be at hand.”


simplify: But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.


simplify: Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the responsible men among those who had been taken away, and to the priests and the prophets and to all the rest of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon;


simplify: Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore.

But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.


rate difficulty: and they brought up the lad alive, and were comforted in no ordinary measure.

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


rate difficulty: “Do not you understand now?”he repeated.

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


simplify: From heaven fought the stars, From their courses they fought against Sisera.

The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.


simplify: I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.


simplify: And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth thine handmaid: spread therefore thy skirt over thine handmaid; for thou art a near kinsman.

And he said, Who are you? And she answering said, I am your servant Ruth: take your servant as wife, for you are a near relation.


simplify: And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

So the Lord let himself be turned from his purpose of sending punishment on his people.


rate difficulty: Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.

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


simplify: And all the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over: and the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned unto his own place.

Then all the people went over Jordan, and the king went over: and the king gave Barzillai a kiss, with his blessing; and he went back to his place.


simplify: And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all Jehovah’s people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them!

And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!


rate difficulty: All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the Lord, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.

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


simplify: And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.


simplify: Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: slay and utterly destroy after them, saith Jehovah, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the people of Pekod; put them to death and send destruction after them, says the Lord, and do everything I have given you orders to do.


rate difficulty: And looking up, they saw that the stone was rolled back; and it was of great size.

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


simplify: And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of Jehovah, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

Solomon became the son-in-law of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter as his wife, keeping her in the town of David, till the house he was building for himself, and the house of the Lord and the wall round Jerusalem, were complete.


rate difficulty: Now if the good news says that Christ came back from the dead, how do some of you say that there is no coming back from the dead?

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


rate difficulty: Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

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


rate difficulty: Close by the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


simplify: And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death.

But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.


simplify: Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;

since God deems it just to inflict suffering on those who are now inflicting suffering on you,


rate difficulty: Jesus went up to her and, grasping her hand, raised her up; the fever left her, and she began to take care of them.

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rate difficulty: But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.

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simplify: but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven,

But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:


simplify: And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.

So Moses put their cause before the Lord.


simplify: and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him.

And they watched Jesus closely, to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, so that they might have a charge to bring against him.


rate difficulty: And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall present them before Jehovah, and shall offer his sin-offering and his burnt-offering:


rate difficulty: Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.


simplify: whereunto I was appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher.

Of which I was made a preacher and an Apostle and a teacher;


rate difficulty: Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

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rate difficulty: about whom, when I came to Jerusalem, the Jewish chief priest and the councillors laid an information, demanding judgment against him.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.

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


simplify: These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests which were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest’s office.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests, on whom the holy oil was put, who were marked out as priests.


simplify: Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.

Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.


simplify: For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.


rate difficulty: For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:


rate difficulty: and for a woman who is sick in her separation, and for him that hath his flux; for the man and for the woman, and for him that lieth with her that is unclean.

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


simplify: Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;


simplify: And they found written in the law, how that Jehovah had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;

And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:


rate difficulty: For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.

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


simplify: And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken unto Moses.

And the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.


rate difficulty: and afterwards have the Levites gone in to do their service in the tent of meeting, before Aaron and before his sons; as Jehovah hath commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they have done to them.

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


simplify: But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.


rate difficulty: And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was entreated for the land.

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


simplify: And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations,

And say to the uncontrolled children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: O you children of Israel, let it be enough for you, among the disgusting things which you have done,


simplify: And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Jehovah shall be witness between us; surely according to thy word so will we do.

And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.


simplify: And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.


rate difficulty: So now, I have come here with the first of the fruits of the earth which you, O Lord, have given me. Then you will put it down before the Lord your God and give him worship:


simplify: And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

Six months later the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,


simplify: I will greatly rejoice in Jehovah, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with a garland, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

I will be full of joy in the Lord, my soul will be glad in my God; for he has put on me the clothing of salvation, covering me with the robe of righteousness, as the husband puts on a fair head-dress, and the bride makes herself beautiful with jewels.


simplify: and <FI>as<Fi> a recompense of the same kind, (as to children I say <FI>it<Fi> ,) be ye enlarged--also ye!

Can you not in return — I appeal to you as I should to children — open your hearts to us?


rate difficulty: Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.

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


rate difficulty: so that I also walked contrary unto them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

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


simplify: Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.


rate difficulty: The lamp of thy body is thine eye: when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when it is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

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


rate difficulty: And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

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


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

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


simplify: Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.


simplify: And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

Then Moses took out all the rods from before the Lord, and gave them back to the children of Israel: and they saw them, and every man took his rod.


simplify: For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.


simplify: And Paul and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and proclaiming good news--with many others also--the word of the Lord;

Paul and Barnabas, however, remained in Antioch, where they taught and, with the help of many others, told the good news of the Lord’s message.


simplify: I counsel thee, Keep the king’s command, and that in regard of the oath of God.

I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.


rate difficulty: So Moses took the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.


rate difficulty: And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.


rate difficulty: Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with two kinds of seed: neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together.

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


rate difficulty: The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?


rate difficulty: Put on the panoply ofGod, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

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


simplify: And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

So Philip ran up, and he heard the Abyssinian reading the prophet Isaiah.   “Do you understand what you are reading?” he asked.


rate difficulty: Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.


rate difficulty: `And the second lamb thou dost prepare between the evenings; as the present of the morning, and as its libation thou preparest--a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance to Jehovah.

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


simplify: and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

But his reply has been — ‘My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.’  Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me.


simplify: Grace unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night:


rate difficulty: So the priest gave him holy bread; for there was no bread there but the showbread, that was taken from before Jehovah, to put hot bread in the day when it was taken away.

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


simplify: I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.

And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.


simplify: One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

There is but one God and Father of all — the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all.


simplify: and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

But you are ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, God’s own people,’ entrusted with the proclamation of the goodness of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.


simplify: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:


simplify: And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.

And he said to him, O son of the king, why are you getting thinner day by day? will you not say what your trouble is? And Amnon said to him, I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister.


rate difficulty: be strong and strengthen thyself for our people, and for the cities of our God, and Jehovah doth that which is good in His eyes.'

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


simplify: `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted in the cause of righteousness,  for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God.

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


simplify: For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

For his heart was fixed on the Lord, not turning from his ways, and he did his orders which the Lord gave to Moses.


simplify: Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.


simplify: Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

recalling continually before our God and Father the efforts that have resulted from your faith, the toil prompted by your love, and the patient endurance sustained by your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;


rate difficulty: Then his brother's wife is to come to him, before the responsible men of the town, and take his shoe off his foot, and put shame on him, and say, So let it be done to the man who will not take care of his brother's name.

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


simplify: Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?

If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?


rate difficulty: according as I did exhort thee to remain in Ephesus--I going on to Macedonia--that thou mightest charge certain not to teach any other thing,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?


rate difficulty: Come now, go to King David and say to him, Did you not, O my lord, take an oath to me, your servant, saying, Truly Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom? why then is Adonijah acting as king?

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


rate difficulty: be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,


rate difficulty: Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the church, and gave himself for her,

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


rate difficulty: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, --and all the people have said, Amen.

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


simplify: And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them.

And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.


simplify: while they see for thee false visions, while they divine lies unto thee, to lay thee upon the necks of the wicked that are deadly wounded, whose day is come in the time of the iniquity of the end.

Your vision is to no purpose, your use of secret arts gives a false answer, to put it on the necks of evil-doers who are wounded to death, whose day has come, in the time of the last punishment.


simplify: What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.

What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.


simplify: Therefore hear ye the counsel of Jehovah, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

For this cause give ear to the decision of the Lord which he has made against Edom, and to his purposes designed against the people of Teman: Truly, they will be pulled away by the smallest of the flock; truly, he will make waste their fields with them.


rate difficulty: and Edom revolteth from under the hand of Judah unto this day; then doth Libnah revolt at that time from under his hand, because he hath forsaken Jehovah, God of his fathers,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.


simplify: And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

And Israel said to Joseph, Are not your brothers with the flock in Shechem? come, I will send you to them. And he said to him, Here am I.


simplify: And Ahimaaz called, and said unto the king, All is well. And he bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said, Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who hath delivered up the men that lifted up their hand against my lord the king.

And Ahimaaz, crying out to the king, said, It is well. And falling down before the king, with his face to the earth, he said, May the Lord your God be praised, who has given up the men who took up arms against my lord the king!


simplify: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?


rate difficulty: And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.

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


rate difficulty: leave there thy gift before the altar, and go--first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

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


simplify: and Joel, and Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,


simplify: And the king said unto Ziba, What meanest thou by these? And Ziba said, The asses be for the king’s household to ride on; and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat; and the wine, that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink.

And David said to Ziba, What is your reason for this? And Ziba said, The asses are for the use of the king's people, and the bread and the fruit are food for the young men; and the wine is for drink for those who are overcome by weariness in the waste land.


rate difficulty: But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

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


simplify: and threescore and one thousand asses,


simplify: And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

The next day we put in to Sidon, where Julius treated Paul in a friendly manner, and allowed him to go to see his friends and receive their hospitality.


simplify: So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.


simplify: and it shall be for Aaron and his sons as their portion for ever from the children of Israel; for it is a heave-offering: and it shall be a heave-offering from the children of Israel of the sacrifices of their peace-offerings, even their heave-offering unto Jehovah.

And it will be their part as a right for ever from the children of Israel, it is a special offering from the children of Israel, made from their peace-offerings, a special offering lifted up to the Lord.


rate difficulty: The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin:

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


rate difficulty: From thence they removed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites. For the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.


simplify: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband.


rate difficulty: I will myself feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: For a day of noise, and of treading down, And of perplexity, <FI>is<Fi> to the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In the valley of vision, digging down a wall, And crying unto the mountain.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Arah, seven hundred seventy and five.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.


simplify: and said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us.

And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:


simplify: Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him.

He who makes a hole in the earth will himself go falling into it: and on him by whom a stone is rolled the stone will come back again.


simplify: For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.

And said to the servant, Who is that man coming to us through the field? And the servant said, It is my master: then she took her veil, covering her face with it.


simplify: And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the feet: but Gehazi came near to thrust her away. And the man of God said, Let her alone; for her soul is vexed within her: and the Lord hath hid it from me, and hath not told me.

And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.


simplify: And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.

And Azel had five sons, whose names are: Azrikam, his oldest son, and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.


simplify: Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.

Any man who keeps his head covered, when praying or preaching in public, dishonors him who is his head;


rate difficulty: And he gave them special orders that they were not to say anything of this; and he said that some food was to be given to her.

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


simplify: And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

And the king of the children of Ammon said to the men sent by Jephthah, Because Israel, when he came up out of Egypt, took away my land, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and as far as Jordan: so now, give me back those lands quietly.


simplify: And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)

But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.)


simplify: for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

For this is God’s purpose — that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;


simplify: And I commanded you at that time, saying, Jehovah your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

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


simplify: for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

I do not regard myself as in any way inferior to the most eminent apostles!


simplify: And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.

And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.


rate difficulty: See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

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


rate difficulty: And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

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


simplify: He shall be rooted out of his tent wherein he trusteth; And he shall be brought to the king of terrors.

He is pulled out of his tent where he was safe, and he is taken away to the king of fears.


simplify: Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?


rate difficulty: And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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


simplify: and returned from the tomb, and told all these things to 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: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,


rate difficulty: And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

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


rate difficulty: Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.

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


simplify: Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's life secretly. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: And a throne shall be established in lovingkindness; and one shall sit thereon in truth, in the tent of David, judging, and seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.

Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.


simplify: Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master’s sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time. Now the king’s sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, which brought them up.

Then he sent them a second letter, saying, If you are on my side, and if you will do my orders, come to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow, with the heads of your master's sons. Now the king's seventy sons were with the great men of the town, who had the care of them.


rate difficulty: And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

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


rate difficulty: and saw him saying to me, Make haste and go quickly out of Jerusalem, for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.

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


simplify: Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.

Now, then, my hand is stretched out against you, cutting down your fixed amount, and I have given you up to the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines who are shamed by your loose ways.


rate difficulty: And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and it will be for us to deliver him up into the king's hand.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land of your heritage, you are to put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.


rate difficulty: If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have charge of the affairs, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.

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


rate difficulty: For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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


rate difficulty: And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

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


simplify: Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.


rate difficulty: And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her away,

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


rate difficulty: But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.

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


simplify: As for the earth, out of it cometh bread; And underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.

As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.


simplify: and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the apostles the good news that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of because I was afraid that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.


rate difficulty: Ye men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God unto you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as ye yourselves know;

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


rate difficulty: In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses;

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


simplify: Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the Lord of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

Where, then, are your wise men? let them make clear to you, let them give you knowledge of the purpose of the Lord of armies for Egypt.


simplify: And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous:

You saw that his heart was true to you, and made an agreement with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite and the Girgashite, even to give it to his seed, and you have done what you said; for righteousness is yours:


simplify: And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:

And when a great number of people came together, and men from every town went out to him, he gave them teaching in the form of a story:


simplify: for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

What law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord, This city shall surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, which shall take it.

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


simplify: and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: this Ezra went up from Babylon. And he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah his God upon him.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies round about,

Now when the king was living in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from war on every side;


simplify: For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.

For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done.


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when he lies down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall have lain down, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thyself down; and he will shew thee what thou shalt do.

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


simplify: And Simon answered and said, Pray ye for me to the Lord, that none of the things which ye have spoken come upon me.

And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me.


rate difficulty: that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name.


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

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


simplify: And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

And God — will not he see that his own people, who cry to him night and day, have justice done them — though he holds his hand?


rate difficulty: And as they spake these things, he himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

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


simplify: Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the Lord will appear unto you.

And an ox and a male sheep for peace-offerings, to be put to death before the Lord; and a meal offering mixed with oil: for this day you are to see the Lord.


rate difficulty: Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all.

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


simplify: I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

I give you orders before God and Christ Jesus and the angels of God's selection, to keep these orders without giving thought to one side more than another.


rate difficulty: And he came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee. And he was teaching them on the sabbath day:

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


simplify: And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.


rate difficulty: I was not safe--nor was I quiet--Nor was I at rest--and trouble cometh!

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


simplify: which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,

Which he gave us in full measure in all wisdom and care;


rate difficulty: And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

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


simplify: And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee

And he said to Jeroboam, Take ten of the parts, for this is what the Lord has said: See, I will take the kingdom away from Solomon by force, and will give ten tribes to you;


rate difficulty: `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

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


simplify: and there came suddenly out of the heaven a sound as of a bearing violent breath, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

when suddenly there came from the heavens a noise like a strong wind rushing by; it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.


simplify: And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to the commandment of Jehovah, and encamped in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.

And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.


simplify: And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have polluted yourselves; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed.

And there, at the memory of your ways and of all the things you did to make yourselves unclean, you will have bitter hate for yourselves because of all the evil things you have done.


rate difficulty: Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbor.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

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


rate difficulty: Any food in it, and anything on which water from it comes, will be unclean: any drink taken from such a vessel will be unclean.


simplify: And while he is speaking, lo, a multitude, and he who is called Judas, one of the twelve, was coming before them, and he came nigh to Jesus to kiss him,

While he was still speaking, a crowd appeared in sight, led by the man called Judas, who was one of the Twelve. Judas approached Jesus, to kiss him;


rate difficulty: For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travail: working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

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


rate difficulty: Then Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of grain, and for every man's money to be put back into his bag, and for food to be given them for the journey: which was done.


rate difficulty: And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.


simplify: and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.


simplify: Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:

Of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo, the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel, the son of Abner;


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the flagons thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

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


rate difficulty: therefore behold, I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them against thee on every side, and will uncover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

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


rate difficulty: when they now shoot forth, ye see it and know of your own selves that the summer is now nigh.

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


rate difficulty: And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.

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


rate difficulty: Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

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


simplify: And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.


rate difficulty: And the fourth, Adonijah, the son of Haggith; and the fifth, Shephatiah, the son of Abital;

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


rate difficulty: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the Lord: it is a sin offering.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art with him in the way; lest haply the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Come to an agreement quickly with him who has a cause against you at law, while you are with him on the way, for fear that he may give you up to the judge and the judge may give you to the police and you may be put into prison.


simplify: There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

The praise of Moab has come to an end; as for Heshbon, evil has been designed against her; come, let us put an end to her as a nation. But your mouth will be shut, O Madmen; the sword will go after you.


simplify: so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.

And will not give to any of them the flesh of his children which will be his food because he has no other; in the cruel grip of your haters on all your towns.


rate difficulty: and to all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, the whole congregation of those entered in the register; for in their trust they hallowed themselves to be holy.

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


rate difficulty: And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah, one portion.

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


simplify: And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?


simplify: They come all of them for violence; the set of their faces is forwards; and they gather captives as the sand.

They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.


simplify: And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto Jehovah: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

So Moses went out of the town, and stretching out his hands made prayer to God: and the thunders and the ice-storm came to an end; and the fall of rain was stopped.


simplify: And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers’ houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

So Moses gave these orders to the children of Israel, and all their chiefs gave him rods, one for the head of every family, making twelve rods: and Aaron's rod was among them.


simplify: then--the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power--

Then will come the end — when he surrenders the kingdom to his God and Father, having overthrown all other rule and all other authority and power.


simplify: and number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost, horse for horse, and chariot for chariot; and we will fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And he hearkened unto their voice, and did so.

And get together another army like the one which came to destruction, horse for horse, and carriage for carriage; and let us make war on them in the lowlands, and certainly we will be stronger than they. And he gave ear to what they said, and did so.


rate difficulty: For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

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


simplify: to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband.


rate difficulty: For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.


simplify: Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:


rate difficulty: His remnant in death are buried, And his widows do not weep.


rate difficulty: saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar; and behold,God has granted to thee all those that sail with thee.

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


simplify: And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.


rate difficulty: And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.


rate difficulty: And in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign.

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


simplify: for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?


simplify: For all the first-born among the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.

For every mother's first son among the children of Israel is mine, the first male birth of man or beast: on the day when I sent death on all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I made them mine.


simplify: And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be a desolation; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: and weep over her, and smite themselves for her, shall the kings of the earth, who with her did commit whoredom and did revel, when they may see the smoke of her burning,

All the kings of the earth who had licentious intercourse with her and shared her luxury will weep and lament over her, when they see the smoke from the burning city,


simplify: And now I exhort you to be of good cheer; for there shall be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

But now, I say to you, be of good heart, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.


simplify: The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.


rate difficulty: Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,

Then, after hearing these words, for some days I gave myself up to weeping and sorrow, seated on the earth; and taking no food I made prayer to the God of heaven,


simplify: Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord’s controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

Give ear, O you mountains, to the Lord's cause, and take note, you bases of the earth: for the Lord has a cause against his people, and he will take it up with Israel.


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is?

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God?


simplify: And Jesus having seen great multitudes about him, did command to depart to the other side;

Seeing a crowd around him, Jesus gave orders to go across.


rate difficulty: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

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


rate difficulty: If I tell the good news, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it!

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


simplify: Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.

Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.


simplify: And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

And there were flames and voices and thunders; and there was a great earth-shock so that never, from the time when men were on the earth, had there been so great an earth-shock, so full of power.


simplify: And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder; and we will worship, and come again to you.

Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.


rate difficulty: I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.


rate difficulty: For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

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


simplify: Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the Lord: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.


simplify: Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned the space of a month in Samaria.

Shallum, the son of Jabesh, became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah, king of Judah; and he was ruling in Samaria for the space of one month.


simplify: Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like a vessel of earth plated with silver waste.


rate difficulty: And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said to me also, Thou shalt keep with my young men until they have ended all my harvest.

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


simplify: Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.

Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.


rate difficulty: A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

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


simplify: And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?

And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?


simplify: And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

And he gave the money to Aaron and his sons, as the Lord had said.


simplify: and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:


simplify: With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.


simplify: And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

Then Micah said to him, Make your living-place with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year and your clothing and food.


rate difficulty: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.

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simplify: Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing.


rate difficulty: Jehovah of hosts, him shall ye sanctify; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.

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

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


simplify: There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.


simplify: (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)

(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)


simplify: Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

love is long-suffering, and kind; love is never envious, never boastful, never conceited, never behaves unbecomingly;


simplify: But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

But let them be those of the unseen man of the heart, the ever-shining ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great price in the eyes of God.


simplify: And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.


rate difficulty: So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the house of the king, to the place where the clothing was kept, and got from there old clothing and bits of old cloth, and let them down by cords into the water-hole where Jeremiah was.

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rate difficulty: And he having come to the other side, to the region of the Gergesenes, there met him two demoniacs, coming forth out of the tombs, very fierce, so that no one was able to pass over by that way,

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simplify: so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side. Thus was it made through all the house round about:

So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house.


rate difficulty: A word of Jehovah that hath been unto Hosea, son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel:

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simplify: Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


simplify: Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

Then he gave orders to the disciples to give no man word that he was the Christ.


rate difficulty: Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plowtherewith oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;


simplify: What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of love and not of law? Heaven forbid!


rate difficulty: And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

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