rate difficulty: lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence.

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


simplify: And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.


rate difficulty: until Jehovah have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: nor indeed can they die again, for they are like angels and, having shared in the resurrection, they are God’s children.

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


rate difficulty: And Stephen, full of faith and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people,

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


simplify: And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.


simplify: For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows to and fro, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.

For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.


rate difficulty: And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, [who was] over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren;

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


simplify: Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.


simplify: Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

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


rate difficulty: But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Cesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Aaron, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?

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


simplify: but they were not understanding the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

But the disciples did not understand his meaning and were afraid to question him.


rate difficulty: And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.


simplify: And Jesus said, `Some one did touch me, for I knew power having gone forth from me.'

“Somebody touched me,”said Jesus; “for I felt that power had gone out from me.”


rate difficulty: in order to establish thee to-day to Him for a people, and He Himself is thy God, as He hath spoken to thee, and as He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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


rate difficulty: And having passed through Phrygia and the Galatian country, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia,


rate difficulty: `For a cause of Mine anger, and a cause of My fury, hath this city been to Me, even from the day that they built it, and unto this day--to turn it aside from before My face,

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


simplify: and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

And I will take you to be my people and I will be your God; and you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, who takes you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.


rate difficulty: The noise of a multitude in the mountains, as of a great people! the noise of a tumult of the kingdoms of the nations gathered together! Jehovah of hosts is mustering the host for the battle.


rate difficulty: And after this I saw four angels standing upon the four corners of the earth, holding fast the four winds of the earth, that no wind might blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor upon any tree.

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


simplify: Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, and where they shall bake the meal-offering; that they bring them not forth into the outer court, to sanctify the people.

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


simplify: If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also deal with thee as thou hast done, who hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

For this is what the Lord has said: I will do to you as you have done, you who, putting the oath on one side, have let the agreement be broken.


simplify: Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.


simplify: For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters--guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

For Jesus was commanding the foul spirit to come out of the man. On many occasions it had seized him, and, even when secured with chains and fetters, and watched, he would break through anything that bound him, and be driven by the demon into the Wilds.


simplify: And he shewed us how he had seen an angel in his house, which stood and said unto him, Send men to Joppa, and call for Simon, whose surname is Peter;

And he gave us an account of how he had seen the angel in his house, saying, Send to Joppa, and get Simon, named Peter, to come to you;


rate difficulty: Then was Abner very wroth for the words of Ish–bosheth, and said, Am I a dog’s head, which against Judah do shew kindness this day unto the house of Saul thy father, to his brethren, and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest me to day with a fault concerning this woman?

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another’s characters, as indeed you are doing.

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


simplify: And in the place of the boil there be a white rising, or a bright spot, white, and somewhat reddish, and it be shewed to the priest;

And on the same place there is a white growth of a bright mark, red and white, then let the priest see it;


simplify: And it shall be, if thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.


simplify: And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.

And the open spaces of the town will be full of boys and girls playing in its open spaces.


rate difficulty: And thou, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's son may have food to eat. And Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread at my table continually. Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.

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


simplify: And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.


rate difficulty: And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

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


simplify: We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

We being Jews by birth, and not sinners of the Gentiles,


simplify: Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

Your cords have become loose; they were not able to make strong the support of their sails, the sail was not stretched out: then the blind will take much property, the feeble-footed will make division of the goods of war.


simplify: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him,'

But Jesus rebuked the spirit: “Be silent! Come out from him.”


simplify: And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.


simplify: And there came a man from Baal-shalishah, and brought the man of God bread of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.

Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.


simplify: For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”


simplify: And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.


rate difficulty: For this doth not the land tremble, And mourned hath every dweller in it? And come up as a flood hath all of it. And it hath been cast out, and hath sunk, Like the flood of Egypt.

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


simplify: Salute Rufus the chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.


simplify: And he smote Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. And the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.


simplify: And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

But the man’s face clouded at these words, and he went away distressed, for he had great possessions.


simplify: And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of Jehovah.

Then Samuel, after hearing all the people had to say, went and gave an account of it to the Lord.


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

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


rate difficulty: The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are fused upon him, they cannot be moved.

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


simplify: And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight.


simplify: If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,


rate difficulty: And the scribes and the Pharisees were watching if he would heal on the sabbath, that they might find something of which to accuse him.

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


simplify: And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.

And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.


rate difficulty: `I have heard the murmurings of the sons of Israel; speak unto them, saying, Between the evenings ye eat flesh, and in the morning ye are satisfied <FI>with<Fi> bread, and ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God.'

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


simplify: And thou shalt set the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

And put the gold altar for burning perfumes in front of the ark of the law, hanging the curtain over the doorway of the House.


simplify: And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken;


simplify: He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.


simplify: For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.


simplify: Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

See, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord; this is the day of which I have given word.


rate difficulty: and the men who have not died have been smitten with emerods, and the cry of the city goeth up into the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: and his daughter <FI>is<Fi> Sherah, and she buildeth Beth-Horon, the lower and the upper, and Uzzen-Sherah--

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


simplify: And he answered him, It is I: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

And Elijah in answer said, It is I; now go and say to your lord, Elijah is here.


simplify: The ransom of a man’s life is his riches; But the poor heareth no threatening.

A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.


simplify: Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

And say a kind word to the church which is in their house. Give my love to my dear Epaenetus, who is the first fruit of Asia to Christ.


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

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


rate difficulty: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

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


rate difficulty: Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. What a person sows that they will reap.

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


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah calleth Baruch son of Neriah, and Baruch writeth from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, that He hath spoken unto him, on a roll of a book.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;


rate difficulty: The fifth, for the fifth month, <FI>is<Fi> the prince Shamhuth the Izrahite, and on his course <FI>are<Fi> twenty and four thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said unto him, It appertaineth not unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the Lord, but to the priests the sons of Aaron, that are consecrated to burn incense: go out of the sanctuary; for thou hast trespassed; neither shall it be for thine honour from the Lord God.

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


simplify: Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.


simplify: He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Then everyone among the servants of Pharaoh who had the fear of the Lord, made his servants and his cattle come quickly into the house:


rate difficulty: `Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.


simplify: So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and got the prophets together at Mount Carmel.


simplify: But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.

But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.


simplify: Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

Of every clean beast you will take seven males and seven females, and of the beasts which are not clean, two, the male and his female;


rate difficulty: and the king saith, `Haste ye Haman--to do the word of Esther;' and the king cometh in, and Haman, unto the banquet that Esther hath made.

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


simplify: The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the good news.


simplify: At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of Jehovah, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, unto this day.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.


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

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


simplify: `Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land.

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


rate difficulty: And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

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


simplify: and he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the assemblies.

started on his journey and went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches in the faith.


simplify: And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.

Taking her hand, Jesus said to her: “Taleitha, koum!”— which means ‘little girl, I am speaking to you — Rise!’


simplify: Because thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the Lord done this thing unto thee this day.

Because you did not do what the Lord said, and did not give effect to his burning wrath against Amalek. So the Lord has done this thing to you today.


simplify: And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

And he took two oxen and, cutting them up, sent them through all the land of Israel by the hand of runners, saying, If any man does not come out after Saul and Samuel, this will be done to his oxen. And the fear of the Lord came on the people and they came out like one man.


simplify: Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife);

... the son of Abinadab in all Naphath-dor; his wife was Taphath, the daughter of Solomon.


simplify: Salute Rufus, the choice one in the Lord, and his mother and mine,

to that eminent Christian, Rufus, and to his mother, who has been a mother to me also;


rate difficulty: And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.

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


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

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?


simplify: And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.

And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.


simplify: lo, I have stood at the door, and I knock; if any one may hear my voice, and may open the door, I will come in unto him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will go in, and will feast with them, and they will feast with me.


simplify: And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.


rate difficulty: But certain good-for-nothing persons said, How is this man to be our saviour? And having no respect for him, they gave him no offering.

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


rate difficulty: Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,

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


simplify: For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;


simplify: But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

But be loving to those who are against you and do them good, and give them your money, not giving up hope, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons of the Most High: for he is kind to evil men, and to those who have hard hearts.


rate difficulty: Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

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


rate difficulty: And beware ye of negligence in doing this; why doth the hurt become great to the loss of the kings?'

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


rate difficulty: For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.


rate difficulty: In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.

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


rate difficulty: Here is wisdom. He who has knowledge let him get the number of the beast; because it is the number of a man: and his number is Six hundred and sixty-six.


simplify: And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.

So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.


rate difficulty: but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice--exulting;

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


rate difficulty: And they go round--ten youths bearing weapons of Joab--and smite Absalom, and put him to death.

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


rate difficulty: But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.


rate difficulty: And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke up, and carried all the brass thereof to Babylon.


rate difficulty: A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.


simplify: All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Come together, all of you, and give ear; who among you has given news of these things? the Lord's loved one will do his pleasure with Babylon, and with the seed of the Chaldaeans.


simplify: And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because Jehovah had smitten him.

And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.


simplify: Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.


simplify: And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And you are to make a cover of the best gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.


simplify: but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

But in everything making it clear that we are the servants of God, in quiet strength, in troubles, in need, in sorrow,


rate difficulty: The sons, I say, of Reuben the firstborn of Israel were, Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

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rate difficulty: `But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who <FI>is<Fi> in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

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simplify: And the cities shall be unto you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation for judgment.

In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.


rate difficulty: ‘Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’

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simplify: having known, therefore, the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, and to God we are manifested, and I hope also in your consciences to have been manifested;

Therefore, because we know the fear inspired by the Lord, it is true that we are trying to win people over, but our motives are plain to God; and I hope that in your inmost hearts they are plain to you also.


simplify: And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him.

And he said, What would you have? And she said, Your ring and its cord and the stick in your hand. So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she became with child by him.


simplify: Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:


simplify: and we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.


simplify: A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

But have a true weight and a true measure: so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


simplify: Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in Jehovah their God.

And they did not give ear, but became stiff-necked, like their fathers who had no faith in the Lord their God.


rate difficulty: And two men, Moses and Elijah, were talking with him;

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simplify: And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

And every man who takes part in the sports has self-control in all things. Now they do it to get a crown which is of this world, but we for an eternal crown.


simplify: Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.


rate difficulty: Ask me never so much dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me: but give me the damsel to wife.

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rate difficulty: And he took with him the twelve and said to them, Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and all the things which were said by the prophets will be done to the Son of man.

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simplify: And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.


rate difficulty: And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven [before it].

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to her, Two nations are in thy womb, And two peoples shall be separated from thy bowels; And one people shall be stronger than the other people, And the elder shall serve the younger.

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rate difficulty: And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.


rate difficulty: And He hath lifted up an ensign to nations, And gathereth the driven away of Israel, And the scattered of Judah He assembleth, From the four wings of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore, why hast thou not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who maketh himself a prophet to you,

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simplify: And he lighted the lamps before Jehovah; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Lighting the lights before the Lord, as the Lord had given him orders.


rate difficulty: I was also perfect toward him; And I kept myself from mine iniquity.


rate difficulty: And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.


rate difficulty: and have brought near a burnt-offering, a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance, to Jehovah; thirteen bullocks, sons of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year; perfect ones they are;

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


simplify: And the way before them was like the appearance of the way of the chambers which were toward the north; according to their length so was their breadth: and all their egresses were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.

And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.


simplify: And he said, The Jews have agreed to ask thee to bring down Paul to-morrow unto the council, as though thou wouldest inquire somewhat more exactly concerning him.

And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.


rate difficulty: When a great wind came rushing from the waste land against the four sides of the house, and it came down on the young men, and they are dead; and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.

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


rate difficulty: Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall be held guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

In short, the one who consents to his daughter’s marriage is doing right, and yet the other will be doing better.


simplify: Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,


rate difficulty: There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

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simplify: And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.


rate difficulty: And now, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If Jehovah have moved thee against me, let him accept an oblation; but if the sons of men, cursed be they before Jehovah; for they have driven me out this day from adhering to the inheritance of Jehovah, saying, Go, serve othergods.

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


rate difficulty: And a holiday being come, when Herod, on his birthday, made a supper to his grandees, and to the chiliarchs, and the chief [men] of Galilee;

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simplify: Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.


simplify: Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,

But when this came to the ears of the Apostles, Paul and Barnabas, they went running out among the people, parting their clothing, and crying out,


simplify: It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.


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


simplify: Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.


simplify: but the Pharisees said, `By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'

But the Pharisees said: “He drives out the demons by the help of the chief of the demons.”


rate difficulty: and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.


simplify: and the second took her, and died, leaving no seed behind him; and the third likewise:

And the second took her, and at his death there were no offspring; and the third the same:


simplify: And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:

And Noah went out with his sons and his wife and his sons' wives;


simplify: A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.


simplify: And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministration, taking with them John whose surname was Mark.

And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.


rate difficulty: Go down at once and do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”

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rate difficulty: And he raiseth up the pillars on the front of the temple, one on the right, and one on the left, and calleth the name of that on the right Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.

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simplify: They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.


rate difficulty: And the border went up to Beth–hogla, and passed along by the north of Beth–arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:


simplify: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.


rate difficulty: And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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


simplify: for he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue.

It is right for you to do this for him, because he is a friend to our nation, and himself has put up a Synagogue for us.


simplify: And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of Rehob, and Ish–tob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.


rate difficulty: then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever.

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rate difficulty: Say to those who are full of fear, Be strong and take heart: see, your God will give punishment; the reward of God will come; he himself will come to be your saviour.


rate difficulty: And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.


simplify: and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Lamech, Methuselah went on living for seven hundred and eighty-two years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: Then came the messengers to Gibeah of Saul, and spake these words in the ears of the people: and all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.


rate difficulty: The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge; But the mouth of fools feedeth on folly.

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


rate difficulty: in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

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


simplify: And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.


simplify: Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.


rate difficulty: The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?


rate difficulty: and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother,


simplify: Lest Jehovah see it, and it displease him, And he turn away his wrath from him.

For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.


rate difficulty: And you are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

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


simplify: But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their heart, he took a little child, and set him by his side,

But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their hearts, he took a small child and put him by his side,


simplify: Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.

But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.


rate difficulty: And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him.


simplify: And Jacob loved Rachel; and he said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

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simplify: They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves


rate difficulty: And Araunah said, Why is my lord the king come to his servant? And David said, To buy the threshing-floor of thee, to build an altar to Jehovah, that the plague may be stayed from the people.

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


simplify: And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.

“Some men have agreed,” answered the lad, “to ask you to bring Paul down before the Council tomorrow, on the plea of your making further inquiry into his case.


rate difficulty: And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.


simplify: The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.

And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.


simplify: John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;


simplify: And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:


rate difficulty: but, as they have no root, they stand only for a short time; and so, when trouble or persecution arises because of the message, they fall away at once.


simplify: Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.


rate difficulty: And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: In the way that he cometh in--In it he turneth back, And unto this city he doth not come in, The affirmation of Jehovah--

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


rate difficulty: With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

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rate difficulty: Woe to thee, Moab! Thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: He hath given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

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


simplify: Behold, the name of the Lord cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

See, the name of the Lord is coming from far, burning with his wrath, with thick smoke going up: his lips are full of passion, and his tongue is like a burning fire:


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

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


simplify: And Moses said, Thus saith Jehovah, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:

And Moses said, This is what the Lord says: About the middle of the night I will go out through Egypt:


simplify: Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:


simplify: And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

And how will there be preachers if they are not sent? As it is said, How beautiful are the feet of those who give the glad news of good things.


simplify: And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.

So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.


simplify: And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

And I will make a true priest for myself, one who will do what is in my heart and in my mind: and I will make for him a family which will not come to an end; and his place will be before my holy one for ever.


simplify: a beka a head, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that passed over to them that were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men.

A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.


simplify: The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side by their armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

On the north side will be the flag of the children of Dan, with Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai, as their chief.


rate difficulty: And he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever...!

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


simplify: And Elisha said, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: thus saith Jehovah, To-morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and two hundred.

The number of his army was thirty-two thousand, two hundred.


simplify: And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

And he would not: but went and put him into prison till he had made payment of the debt.


rate difficulty: [And] in like manner the chief priests also, mocking, with the scribes and elders, said,

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

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


simplify: He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

He who keeps a watch on his mouth keeps his life; but he whose lips are open wide will have destruction.


rate difficulty: And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth–horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

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


rate difficulty: and these three men in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--they deliver not sons and daughters, for they alone are delivered.

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simplify: And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.


rate difficulty: Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

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


simplify: And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

On returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went, by way of Sidon, to the Sea of Galilee, across the district of the Ten Towns.


simplify: The sons of Ladan, the sons of the Gershonites belonging to Ladan, the heads of the fathers’ houses belonging to Ladan the Gershonite: Jehieli.

The sons of Ladan: sons of the Gershonites of the family of Ladan, heads of families of Ladan the Gershonite, Jehieli.


simplify: But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

But now, your authority will not go on: the Lord, searching for a man who is pleasing to him in every way, has given him the place of ruler over his people, because you have not done what the Lord gave you orders to do.


simplify: But first must he suffer many things and be rejected of this generation.

But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.


rate difficulty: And he shall come and smite the land of Egypt: such as are for death to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity; and such as are for the sword to the sword.

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


simplify: And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,


simplify: and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.

The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.


simplify: A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.

A whip for the horse, a mouth-bit for the ass, and a rod for the back of the foolish.


simplify: Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

You, then, are to be over my house, and all my people will be ruled by your word: only as king will I be greater than you.


rate difficulty: and thou hast done according to thy wisdom, and dost not let his old age go down in peace to Sheol.

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


rate difficulty: They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

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


rate difficulty: `Take him, and place thine eyes upon him, and do no evil thing to him, but as he speaketh unto thee, so do with him.'


simplify: while Paul said in his defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cæsar, have I sinned at all.

Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.


simplify: And I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Write: Happy are the dead who in the Lord are dying from this time!' `Yes, (saith the Spirit,) That they may rest from their labours--and their works do follow them!'

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying ‘Write — “Blessed are the dead who from this hour die in union with the Lord.”   “Yes,” answers the Spirit, “that they may rest from their toil. Their good deeds go with them.”’


rate difficulty: And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

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


rate difficulty: Then he goes and gets seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they go in, and take their places there: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first.

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


rate difficulty: Sons of the servants of Solomon: sons of Sotai, sons of Sophereth, sons of Peruda,

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


rate difficulty: what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man his own plague and his own sorrow, and shall spread forth his hands toward this house:

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


simplify: Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

offering to them the message of life; and then I will be able at the day of Christ to boast that I did not run my course for nothing, or toil for nothing.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine hath been in the land of Canaan,

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


rate difficulty: but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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


simplify: Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Then Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,


rate difficulty: and she fell down presently at his feet, and expired, and the young men having come in, found her dead, and having carried forth, they buried <FI>her<Fi> by her husband;

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


rate difficulty: That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.


simplify: And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.


rate difficulty: But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben–hadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.


simplify: But if a priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and be returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s bread: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.

But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or parted from her husband, and has no child, and has come back to her father's house as when she was a girl, she may take of her father's bread; but no outside person may do so.


simplify: And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up unto the house of Jehovah the third day?

And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is to be the sign that the Lord will make me well, and that I will go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?


rate difficulty: Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

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


rate difficulty: And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

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


simplify: They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.


rate difficulty: And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.

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


rate difficulty: And Reuben spake unto his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee: deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

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


rate difficulty: And he spoke this parable: A certain [man] had a fig-tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit upon it and did not find [any].


simplify: I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

I have been among you day after day in the Temple Courts teaching, and yet you did not arrest me; but this is in fulfillment of the scriptures.”


rate difficulty: Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.


simplify: Then he brought me through the entry, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there was a place on the hinder part westward.

And he took me through by the way in at the side of the doorway into the holy rooms which are the priests', looking to the north: and I saw a place at the side of them to the west.


rate difficulty: that he might redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

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


simplify: And straightway the second time the cock crew. And Peter called to mind the word, how that Jesus said unto him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And when he thought thereon, he wept.

And in the same minute, the cock gave a second cry. And it came to Peter's mind how Jesus had said to him, Before the cock's second cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And at this thought he was overcome with weeping.


simplify: Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;


simplify: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air — the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.


rate difficulty: And he hath kindled his anger against me, and hath counted me unto him as one of his enemies.

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


rate difficulty: And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

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


simplify: If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.

So, too, if Satan is wholly divided against himself, how can his kingdom last? Yet you say that I drive out demons by the help of Beelzebul.


simplify: and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, <FI>is<Fi> abomination before God;

“You,”said Jesus, “are the ones who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among people may be an abomination in the sight of God.


simplify: And I will make thy pinnacles of rubies, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy border of precious stones.

I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.


simplify: After him repaired the Levites, Rehum the son of Bani. Next unto him repaired Hashabiah, the ruler of the half part of Keilah, in his part.

Then came the Levites, Rehum, the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division.


simplify: Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

Besides, man was not created for the sake of woman, but woman for the sake of man.


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

That, by union with Christ Jesus and through the good news, the Gentiles are coheirs with us and members of one body, and that they share with us in God’s Promise.


simplify: And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.


simplify: And they brought forth the pillars that were in the house of Baal, and burned them.

And they took out the image of Asherah from the house of Baal, and had it burned.


rate difficulty: And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

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


simplify: Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.


rate difficulty: we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

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


simplify: And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.

And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.


rate difficulty: And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.


rate difficulty: Your remembrances <FI>are<Fi> similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him.

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


simplify: The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.


simplify: On the second day Nethaneel the son of Zuar, prince of Issachar, did offer:

On the second day Nethanel, the son of Zuar, chief of Issachar, made his offering:


simplify: The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.


rate difficulty: And if they were all one member, where were the body?


rate difficulty: Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.

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


simplify: Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,

And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,


rate difficulty: And they made way for her, and she went by the way by which the horses entered the king's house, and there was she put to death.

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


simplify: and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.

And take Aaron's robes off him and put them on Eleazar, his son: and death will come to Aaron there, and he will be put to rest with his people.


simplify: and they said, `Not in the feast, lest there shall be a tumult of the people.'

for they said: “Not during the Festival, or the people may riot.”


rate difficulty: And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

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


rate difficulty: and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.

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


rate difficulty: And so a lion from the woods will put them to death, a wolf of the waste land will make them waste, a leopard will keep watch on their towns, and everyone who goes out from them will be food for the beasts; because of the great number of their sins and the increase of their wrongdoing.

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


rate difficulty: He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

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


rate difficulty: And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

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


rate difficulty: For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

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


rate difficulty: `Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel, No person among you doth eat blood, and the sojourner who is sojourning in your midst doth not eat blood;

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


simplify: and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that it is I, Jehovah, who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel.

And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

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


rate difficulty: But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, <FI>are<Fi> in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole <FI>is<Fi> before them.

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


simplify: And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.


simplify: And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;

And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;


simplify: If the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be a hired thing, it came for its hire.

If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.


rate difficulty: For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

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


rate difficulty: And when they had gone away from him, (for he was broken with disease,) his servants made a secret design against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and they put him to death on his bed; and they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.


simplify: Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?


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

“I am sad at heart,” he said, “sad even to death; wait here and watch with me.”


rate difficulty: And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

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


simplify: and Joseph her husband being righteous, and not willing to make her an example, did wish privately to send her away.

Her husband, Joseph, was a religious man and, since he did not want to disgrace her publicly, he resolved to put an end to their engagement privately.


rate difficulty: The word [is] faithful: if any one aspires to exercise oversight, he desires a good work.

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


simplify: But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

But those who preach are speaking to their fellow men and women words that will build up faith, and give them comfort and encouragement.


simplify: But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?


simplify: And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

But, on looking up, they saw that the stone had already been rolled back; it was a very large one.


rate difficulty: And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.


rate difficulty: And they said among themselves, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why did you not have faith in him?

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


simplify: And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

There will be many, too, who will follow their licentious courses, and cause the way of the truth to be maligned.


simplify: and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, saith Jehovah of hosts.

And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: who hast kept with thy servant David my father that which thou didst promise him: yea, thou spakest with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thy hand, as it is this day.

For you have kept the word which you gave to your servant David, my father; with your mouth you said it and with your hand you have made it come true this day.


simplify: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

he appeared among us as a man, and still further humbled himself by submitting even to death — to death on a cross!


simplify: And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;


rate difficulty: `Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, Appointed seasons of Jehovah, which ye proclaim, holy convocations, <FI>are<Fi> these: they <FI>are<Fi> My appointed seasons:

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


simplify: Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place.

Anyone touching the flesh of it will be holy: and if any of the blood is dropped on any clothing, the thing on which the blood has been dropped is to be washed in a holy place.


rate difficulty: For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.


simplify: And the king went forth, and all the people after him; and they tarried in Beth-merhak.

And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.


rate difficulty: and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work--a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

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


rate difficulty: I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

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


simplify: There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

There is Edom, her kings and all her princes, who have been given a resting-place with those who were put to the sword: they will be resting among those without circumcision, even with those who go down to the underworld.


rate difficulty: Now therefore send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that knoweth how to grave all manner of gravings, to be with the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.

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


rate difficulty: And when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the keepers of the sheep said to one another, Let us go now to Beth-lehem, and see this thing which has come about, which the Lord has made clear to us.

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


rate difficulty: And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

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


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

Our boasting, therefore, is not unlimited, nor does it extend to the labors of others; but our hope is that, as your faith grows, our influence among you may be very greatly increased — though still confined to our sphere —


simplify: By thy servants hast thou defied the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.


simplify: And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it.

When the dew came down on the tents at night, the manna came down with it.


rate difficulty: And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

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


rate difficulty: See, I have given you power to put your feet on snakes and evil beasts, and over all the strength of him who is against you: and nothing will do you damage.


simplify: And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, Seest thou aught?

And he took the blind man by the hand, and went with him out of the town; and when he had put water from his mouth on his eyes, and put his hands on him, he said, Do you see anything?


simplify: So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, Let my sister Tamar come, I pray thee, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.

So Amnon went to bed and made himself seem ill: and when the king came to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let my sister Tamar come and make me one or two cakes before my eyes, so that I may take food from her hand.


rate difficulty: And he had a dream, and in his dream he saw steps stretching from earth to heaven, and the angels of God were going up and down on them.

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


rate difficulty: And the skilfully woven band, which is upon it, wherewith to gird it on, shall be like the work thereof and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

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


simplify: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


simplify: and unto Israel He saith, `All the day I did stretch out My hands unto a people unbelieving and gainsaying.'

But of the people of Israel he says — ‘All day long I have stretched out my hands to a people who disobey and contradict.’


simplify: And Jonathan answered Saul, David earnestly asked leave of me to go to Beth–lehem:

And answering Saul, Jonathan said, He made a request to me that he might go to Beth-lehem,


simplify: But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman; for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

But he will say, I am no prophet, but a worker on the land; for I have been an owner of land from the time when I was young.


simplify: Thus did Moses: according to all that Jehovah commanded him, so did he.

And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.


simplify: For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

For you have taken your brother's goods when he was not in your debt, and have taken away the clothing of those who have need of it.


rate difficulty: For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.


simplify: And the people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Jehovah on the sabbaths and on the new moons.

And the people of the land are to give worship at the door of that doorway before the Lord on the Sabbaths and at the new moons.


simplify: Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Yes, salt is good; but, if the salt itself should lose its strength, what will be used to season it?


simplify: And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.


rate difficulty: and let not Hezekiah make you trust unto Jehovah, saying, Jehovah doth certainly deliver us, this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.

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


rate difficulty: For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.

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


rate difficulty: But be certain of this, that in the last days times of trouble will come.

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


simplify: No man, when he hath lighted a lamp, putteth it in a cellar, neither under the bushel, but on the stand, that they which enter in may see the light.

No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.


rate difficulty: and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, [bound] by [the] four corners [and] let down to the earth;


simplify: For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone.


simplify: And Ephraim is like a silly dove, without understanding: they call unto Egypt, they go to Assyria.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.


simplify: Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.


rate difficulty: And they pressed him till he was ashamed, and he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men, and they sought three days, but did not find him.


simplify: The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.

The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.


simplify: And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request,


simplify: Then took I the cup at the Lord’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had sent me:

Then I took the cup from the Lord's hand, and gave a drink from it to all the nations to whom the Lord sent me;


simplify: And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.

Those who were numbered of them, the males of a month old and over, were six thousand, two hundred.


simplify: And Moses numbered them according to the word of Jehovah, as he was commanded.

So Moses did as the Lord said, numbering them as he had been ordered.


rate difficulty: Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

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


simplify: to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to him <FI>be<Fi> glory to the ages. Amen.

to him, I say, the wise and only God, be ascribed, through Jesus Christ, all glory for ever and ever. Amen.


rate difficulty: Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

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


rate difficulty: So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:


rate difficulty: And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.


rate difficulty: And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.

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


simplify: And when thou offerest an oblation of a meal-offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.

And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.


rate difficulty: And the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she had borne to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of [the sister of] Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite;

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


rate difficulty: The commanding officer then dismissed the lad, cautioning him not to mention to anybody that he had given him that information.

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


rate difficulty: And the people come in to Beth-El, and sit there till the evening before God, and lift up their voice, and weep--a great weeping,

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


rate difficulty: For we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning our affliction which befell us in Asia, that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

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


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

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


simplify: These are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.

These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.


simplify: And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;

And those who are living in the towns of Israel will go out and make fires of the instruments of war, burning the body-covers and the breastplates, the bows and the arrows and the sticks and the spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them:


rate difficulty: Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bare ripe almonds.

Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.


simplify: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.

My brothers, I may say to you openly that David came to his death, and was put in the earth, and his resting-place is with us today.


simplify: and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,

And, in the east, I saw another angel, ascending, holding the seal of the living God; and he cried in a loud voice to the four angels, to whom there had been given power to harm the earth and the sea —